Leadership v. Leadersheep

It’s leadership, not leadersheep. Sheep follow, people shouldn’t. Leaders should teach people to think for themselves; not to tell people what they want to hear.

Recent motivational and leadership programs are mostly focused on using fallacies and flawed-logic such as an appeal-to-emotion in order to advance their own self-serving causes and ideologies. Majority of these self-serving causes are for the teachers’ own personal gains, commonly in the form of financial benefits and increased online following. The way this is done, is the oldest technique in persuasion and deception; tell people what they want to hear in order to confirm their feelings and win them over. Due to their own weaknesses and susceptibilities, many who are looking for improvement and betterment are willing subjects to these techniques, because it is easier and quicker to feel good temporarily, than to have to face and fix the problems that are causing us discomfort, pain, and stress.

This is why Theory of Self-Relativity has termed such fallacious yet effectively persuasive tactics in leadership and motivational teachings as “Toxic-Sympathy.”

Toxic-Sympathy: Intentionally nurturing victimhood in order to manipulate and win over the weak and the susceptible.

Susceptible people have throughout history been open to the powers of “emotional” suggestion and persuasion; hence why it is easy to take advantage of the weak and the susceptible, because those in need of improvement just want to feel better. It is for this reason that Theory of Self-Relativity is founded upon the principle of factual-thinking, so that people can minimize emotional-reasoning and can begin turning their lives around by abstaining from bad self-serving advice, and by taking control of their own destiny.

Be the leader that stirs the ship of leadership. Don’t be a sheep that follows the heard of leadersheep. ©