Leadership: Nature vs. Nurture

Greetings,

It has been a long time since I've blog. Because of "someone" asked me to blog something, that's why I blog this post. After thinking for a long while on what to blog. I just thought of sharing some experience of mine to you all.

Leadership, this word can be a word of different definitions to different people, egoism, power, guide, motherly, fatherly, money, success...etc. Nevertheless, it is undeniably that leadership does make a SIGNIFICANT IMPACT to one's lives!

In today's world, there is a hot age-old debate on whether Leaders are Born or Formed?

 

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Here are my opinions, it does not matter whether you are born a leader or not. It matter whether you have the desire, the passion to be a leader or not. However, here it comes to the question of: 

Does the "leadership genes" in a person actually contributes to his/her character of becoming a leader? Well, no one (at least that I know of) have that answer. You can say that these genes can be some sort of an initiator for a leader to be slowly formed.

Nonetheless, it has been scientifically shown that a baby when he/she is growing up, pickups majorly from what he/she learns from the environment. That is what babies do and how they learn. The like to play monkey see monkey do~ 

From my own personal experience, I can say that I may have been a "born leader" but I also greatly acknowledge that I pick up my inspiration and passion of being a leader from my dad who is a leader in his field, education. He inspires me from his life as a headmaster with lots of teachers and students under his leadership. 

To me, it is not important whether you are born as a leader or not cause I strongly believe that leadership can be developed within an individual. "Look forward to what you can be and not looking backward on what you could have been."

With that, you may ask what is the importance having leadership? Why do I have to be a leader? Can't others be the leader? Well, leadership is not only about leading a team, it is also about leading yourself. I will share in the next post of what is leading yourself and how can you lead yourself to a better life and towards your goals that you aimed for.

To conclude this post, in leadership, it is 20% nature and 80% nurture. Nature without nurture goes nowhere. So, leaders can be made even if you does not have the "leadership gene". 

Stay tune to my next post- "Leading yourself"

Cheers!

Yours Truly,

-G-