Solitude and leadership

From William Dere­siewicz at The American Scholar: Lead­ership is what you are here to learn — the qual­ities of char­acter and mind that will make you fit to command a platoon, and beyond that, perhaps, a company, a battalion, or, if you leave the military, a corpo­ration, a foun­dation, a department of government. Solitude is what you have the least of here, espe­cially as plebes. You don’t even have privacy, the oppor­tunity simply to be phys­i­cally alone, never mind solitude, the ability to be alone with your thoughts. And yet I submit to you that solitude is one of the most important neces­sities of true lead­ership. This article will be an attempt to explain why. · Go to Solitude and leadership →