Unshakable People

What is the only characteristic of a person who does not shake? 

The bottom line is that those who have made "hardship and adversity a driving force for growth". He is the one who can further say that "hardship and adversity are blessings." 

Nietzsche said. "The pain that can't kill me just makes me stronger" 

The person who realize this word not only in the head but also in the mind and body becomes a person who does not shake. These confessions are never made in one day. Not a month or a year. It takes at least 3 to 5 years for my idea. 

There may be some examples of hardship, adversity, and how to overcome it, but there is one of the most effective ways. It is a meaningful re-enactment of a person who has already lived such a life in history.

Franklin Roosevelt

As a result, the image of a person who regards adversity as a path of blessing becomes clearer and clearer in yourself. An abstract image of a person who does not shake is materialized. It is engraved deep inside the heart and brain. Anyone who reads about it will obviously look like that person.

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There is one good book that makes all this possible. It is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Leadership: In Turbulent Times" There are four people in this book. Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. Looking at the resulting appearance of the president as a title, you could think that most people simply liked them. 

But it is not true. As one, they through a painful process unbearable to man; A dirty spoon, not a soil spoon. And one of them lived with lower-body paralysis until he died.

The book is composed of three parts in total, and the second part left a deep impression on me. (Part 2: Adversity, growth, and adversity affect the growth of leadership)

Abraham Lincoln

Let's take a closer look at suffering and adversity. 

Lincoln fell into depression and tried to commit suicide. Although he was elected president, his joy didn't last long. He went through the Civil War, the conflict of liberation of slaves, and the biggest split in U.S. history. And he was assassinated

Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson took the lead when social confusion was serious about the assassination of the senior president. The opposite chapter spread the fear that anyone could be assassinated.

Theodore lost his beautiful wife and mother at the same time on the same day. Lyndon Johnson, who stood at the threshold of death in a heart attack, was reborn.

The personally most impressive story was a story of Franklin Roosevelt. He became a paralyzed lower body after swimming at the age of 39. After receiving a polio decision, he spends his entire life with his paralysis from waist down. After being elected president, he had to survive a serious crisis that doubted the US's economic survival and the sustainability of democracy itself. Having experienced the Great Depression and World War II. 

The author, Doris Goodwin, has tracked each of these four person's history through articles, research material, memoirs, and interviews with thousands of years of historical material. For fifty years, she struggled to capture the subject of this book.

"The lives and times of the four presidents were of interest to me for half a century.
In the morning he slept with them in the night, and went to bed, but kept the strings of those thoughts."

Is anyone really worried about something like this? No matter how much interest you lose, you've consistently made a reason over 50 years? A book full of trust. Warren Buffett, whom I respect, strongly recommended this book. 

The extreme situation of the four person's experience mixes dramaticly like a movie, giving us great excitement. A true story that gives a deeper impression than a movie. 

Doris says there is one point that readers should never miss and talk.

These overcoming and growing things did not happen with a special gift of sky, a gift of talent. There was not a single easy day to solve in the course of many crises. It was a week, a month, a year, and more than five years old.

It was just huge for them that unexpected good luck and close colleagues and a few supporters came together with them at the moment of the crisis.

 

"You must never lose faith in yourself. 

It may be somewhat weak, but you should never blow out the candle of faith."

Lyndon Johnson

They are also human. There is nothing different from the feelings of ordinary people. The notebook records his dissatisfaction, disappointment, and desire to give up. The story of the president is our story soon. 

I am lucky if I don't die -Lincoln 
Hope vanished in my life -Theodore 
I will give it a try once again -Franklin 
This is the worst part of my life -Lyndon Johnson 

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After reading this book, you will be able to answer the following questions: 

Are leaders born or created?
Where does ambition come from?
How does adversity affect leadership growth?
Does the age make the leader or does the leader make the age?
How do leaders impart purpose and duty to people's lives?
How are power and leadership different?
Is leadership possible without a greater purpose than personal ambition?


The four presidents were all different. Innate qualities, intellect, vitality, empathy, linguistics, and the ability to handle people were all different. However, they did great things in the end, expressing their unique characteristics.

Through this book you can capture your own unique. 

"Adversity and hardship are really a path of blessing." 

Realizing the true breadth and depth of this verse, you will be able to get one step closer to those who won't be shaken.