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When working with a group, I’ll often jump to a whiteboard and draw a simple triangle. “What is this?” I’ll ask again and again until we zero in on their internalized views of hierarchy. “And who sits atop this pyramid?” The boss—“el Jefe”—me, the president, our parents, or even God? In dissecting this internalized view, we reveal how we buy into the trap of the pyramid of a classic command-and-control organizational structure out of an attempt to quiet the whispery voices of our perceived inadequacies. But it doesn’t work. The whispery voices in your head know better. They know that, sitting atop the pyramid, pretending to always have it together, always knowing the answers, is a delusion. Moreover, the delusion is a double bind.
But my story doesn’t begin with them, or with the mafia: it goes back to that first day in Bombay. Fate put me in the game there. Luck dealt the cards that led me to Karla Saaranen. And I started to play it out, that hand, from the first moment I looked into her green eyes. So it begins, this story, like everything else—with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Good advice from Plato:
"Never discourage anymore who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
This is also great self-advice.
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