Kierkegaard sets the agenda. In the middle of the 19th century, he sits in the King’s City and writes furiously, book after book. Philosophy and thinking will never be the same after the Dane’s writing frenzy. He influences Sartre, Woody Allen and King Harald.
The message is clear, liberating and frightening. There is no recipe for a proper life, a good marriage or supreme leadership. If that were the case, then tell me the recipe for how to fall in love? Or how to die well? No, what it is to be a human being must be experienced for oneself. The goal is not to become like everyone else, or to march in step with what is hip, cool and politically correct. If you slip unnoticed and comfortably into everyone’s company, you disappear into nothingness. So don’t think that the answer is to become a unique know-it-all. The goal is to become subjective, to dare to be yourself. The easiest thing is, however, the most difficult. The journey is not like a brisk mountain hike to the highest peak. The journey goes up and down. The journey goes through anxiety and despair.
This message is crucial for leadership. It touches on themes of wholeness and authenticity. But it also weighs in on the foundation of your own leadership and why you have chosen to take it on. Above all, Kierkegaard’s writings are about understanding yourself. As a human being, not as an ideal. As in motion, not as something static. As a choice, not as fate.
The simplest thing is, however, the most difficult.
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