cờ nhích vô ảnh để nghe nè ~ Đây là một trong những ghi âm mình sưu tầm được của Debbie Millman - một nhà văn nữ, một designer, một nhà giáo nổi tiếng. Đây là phần transcript do mình nghe và chép lại. "It is just about impossible to talk about the really important stuff in politics without using terms that have become such awful clichés they make your eyes glaze over and are difficult to even hear. One such term is leader which all the big candidates use all the time, as in providing leadership, a proven leader, a new leader for new century,.... And have reduced to such a platitude that it is hard to try to think about what 'leader' really means and whether indeed what today’s young voters want, is a leader. The weird thing is that the word 'leader' itself is cliché and boring. But when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t boring at all. In fact he’s the opposite of boring. Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with nor is it just somebody you happen to believe is a good guy, a real leader is somebody who, because of his own particular power and charisma and example, is able to inspire people, with inspire being used here in a serious and non-cliché way. A real leader can somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good and want to be able to do but usually can’t get ourselves to do on our own. It’s a mysterious quality, hard to define but we always know it when we see it even as kids. You can probably remember seeing it in certain really great coaches or teachers or some extremely cool older kid you looked up to, interesting phrase, and wanted to be just like. Some of us remember seeing the quality as kids in a minister or rabbi or a scoutmaster or a parent or a friend’s parent or a boss in some summer jobs. And yes, all these are authority figures but it’s a special kind of authority. If you’ve ever spent time in the military, you know how incredibly easy it is to tell which of your superiors are real leaders and which aren’t and how little rank has to do with it. A leader’s true authority is a power you voluntarily give him and you grant him this authority not in a resigned or resentful way but happily. It feels right. Deep down you almost always like how a real leader makes you feel: how you find yourself working harder and pushing yourself and thinking in ways you wouldn't be able to if there wasn't this person you respected and believed in and wanted to please. In other words, a real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own."
