Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Winston Churchill
Power is the ability of one's ability to control its environment, including its behaviour to control the other entitles, as defined in Wikipedia (actually, Greiner & Schein)
Indeed, everyone who understands the necessity of hardships, and have the ability to overcome them, can indeed overcome everything that stands in place in him. But some people just aren't able to internally process power.
With power, the environment can be modified for the benefit of the wider community. Some contribute to the community, some contribute to a disadvantaged group, while others focus on empowering people around the world.
Unfortunately, some things tend to grind more than help people, some ideas distract more than focus the group's common objective, and some people just do not have the ability to make the best use out of everything they have - including the inter-personal relationship dynamics - that could possibly do both good and harm to the individual.
Power dictates that some people who have excess energies can really find a fulfilling life that best fits their career development. I am thinking, from my encounters with various people, several scenarios of success, that involve the use of interpersonal interaction - and hence, the use of power.
For example:
A person-based professional (a catch-all term for people who are involved in sales/banking), genuinely interested in people, may be able to spare some time and energy to join various clubs and societies to his interests, to his career development, and to his connections with people with connections (e.g. community leaders).
Another would be a person who joins clubs and on-line forums, sometimes even contributing to the ideas in school, pertaining to different forms of media, so that he can gain a better foothold in society. He can also understand the needs of society well, by exposing himself to different exposures around the real and virtual world.
However, there are also failures in the use of power.
There are some people who are less able to become as 'powerful' or be in control, as much as their peers. They may not be able to ride on the wave of opportunities they perceive to have, and use them to control other people, due to their own limitations in their ability to 'grab' them. Then there are people who persevere through obstacles, but took a longer time than others, to get to the same destinations as other people.
Perhaps an explanation would be that they also learn to be better, to really be a better person in the end? Or that they need to be trained in being able to improve on not just themselves, but also, in the process of self-improvement, improving the wider community around?
I feel that indeed, power really tests perseverance, focus and leadership. Without power, anyone could get by by their own selves. But with power, it is a test of everyone being more able to do his own best, then with his skills in commanding respect and authority, also being able to attain an objective, and to do it the best he can.
Power is the ability of one's ability to control its environment, including its behaviour to control the other entitles, as defined in Wikipedia (actually, Greiner & Schein)
Indeed, everyone who understands the necessity of hardships, and have the ability to overcome them, can indeed overcome everything that stands in place in him. But some people just aren't able to internally process power.
With power, the environment can be modified for the benefit of the wider community. Some contribute to the community, some contribute to a disadvantaged group, while others focus on empowering people around the world.
Unfortunately, some things tend to grind more than help people, some ideas distract more than focus the group's common objective, and some people just do not have the ability to make the best use out of everything they have - including the inter-personal relationship dynamics - that could possibly do both good and harm to the individual.
Power dictates that some people who have excess energies can really find a fulfilling life that best fits their career development. I am thinking, from my encounters with various people, several scenarios of success, that involve the use of interpersonal interaction - and hence, the use of power.
For example:
A person-based professional (a catch-all term for people who are involved in sales/banking), genuinely interested in people, may be able to spare some time and energy to join various clubs and societies to his interests, to his career development, and to his connections with people with connections (e.g. community leaders).
Another would be a person who joins clubs and on-line forums, sometimes even contributing to the ideas in school, pertaining to different forms of media, so that he can gain a better foothold in society. He can also understand the needs of society well, by exposing himself to different exposures around the real and virtual world.
However, there are also failures in the use of power.
There are some people who are less able to become as 'powerful' or be in control, as much as their peers. They may not be able to ride on the wave of opportunities they perceive to have, and use them to control other people, due to their own limitations in their ability to 'grab' them. Then there are people who persevere through obstacles, but took a longer time than others, to get to the same destinations as other people.
Perhaps an explanation would be that they also learn to be better, to really be a better person in the end? Or that they need to be trained in being able to improve on not just themselves, but also, in the process of self-improvement, improving the wider community around?
I feel that indeed, power really tests perseverance, focus and leadership. Without power, anyone could get by by their own selves. But with power, it is a test of everyone being more able to do his own best, then with his skills in commanding respect and authority, also being able to attain an objective, and to do it the best he can.
