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Leadership Principles of the Warrior - Series Twelve Leadership Ascendency (Part 4)

        deal with the multiple               gy), human behavior re-              creativity, self-evolution
        manifestations of human              mains a mysterious abyss             becomes stifled. By a mul-
        selfishness. Pitifulness is          of self-indulgence and               tidimensional complex of

        self-loathing and decep-             dangerous arrogance.                 individual deception, ruses
        tive when committed for                                                   abound to avoid experi-               P

        personal self-interests. It          Nonetheless, pitifulness             encing serious devotion to            O
        is a way of turning around  for the “selfie” of amative  personal ascension. De-                                L
        self-reliance, due dili-             mitigation for pretentious           ception, the “d” in stupid,           I

        gence and responsible be-            shortcomings merges into  fosters and foments dis-                         C
        havior, in order to blame            the hallow deceptions of             sension and regression                E

        others for one’s misfor-             “ignorance”. In the “I” of           with the collective frame-
        tune, shortcomings, and              being stupid, one endeav-            work.                                 B
        all the disappointments in  ors to escape into myriad                                                           R

        life.                                schemes of non-creativity  Within the matrix of the                        U
                                             and relentless avoidance             organization, given the               T

        Everyone has problems,               of productivity. An orga-            degree of complexity,                 A
        all of us experience life’s          nization will easily de-             there will always be those            L
        triumphs and tragedies in            teriorate. Why be smart,             who are detrimental to the            I

        unique encounters as per-            inclined toward learning,            operations. Human nature              T
        ceived on an individual              self-evolved and trans-              is intricate and purpose-             Y

        level. For better or for             formed, when others will             ful deception is pervasive.
        worse, each responds ac-             aid and abet the practice            In one way or another, a
        cording to the personnel             of witless obliviousness.            certain percentage will

        juncture at which point he  Done on purpose to es-                        use whatever deceptive
        or she interacts with oth-           cape responsibility, many            means possible to stifle

        ers. All are responsible             contrive the foolishness             or otherwise disrupt op-
        for their actions and each           of playing absentminded,             erational continuity. De-
        must be held accountable.  uninformed and unaware                         ceiving others involves

        There are no excuses. No             intentionally.                       deceiving oneself. If you
        matter what one assumes,                                                  observe closely, you will

        guesses or otherwise pre-            With witless willfulness,            see it every day, from the
        tends to know, concerning  whereby at one point on a  classroom to the news-
        the efficacy of the pseudo- psychic progression, peo-                     room, personal bias often

        sciences (i.e. criminology,  ple avoid inspiring them-                    precludes the necessity of
        psychology and sociolo-              selves with purposeful               getting the facts. Conjec-



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