Monologue

I decided to speak about leadership, to satisfy the Freshman Seminar staff (not that any one of my free-writes had anything to do with leadership, sorry) So what is a leader? In my opinion, someone who will stand up for what’s right, even if he is completely alone. Which means that no, a leader is not based on who his followers are, because otherwise Lady Gaga would be our dictator by now. A leader does not have to be too great of a speaker either, which is something that may come off as a surprise to most. Some of the greatest leaders in the world, actually, are not great speakers; it’s what they have to say that is what people enjoy hearing, and if you come to listen to someone speak you won’t care if he’s not the greatest speaker out there. You want to hear him speak, or read what he has to say because you truly believe that he’s right. A good leader based on how well he speaks but whose views are completely wrong, yet manages to accumulate followers is nothing but a manipulator and a liar; there is nothing worse than scamming people into believing what they don’t believe in by telling them what they want to hear in the way their subconscious will accept it. There’s nothing more to it. So don’t decide who to follow based on his or her followers, or how well they express their views, because then you’ll just be a follower. A leader is someone who knows what’s right and follows what he truly believes in.