The power of the words.
Long time ago I was reading an article about an experiment that some scientists were doing about the power of the words. The research was quite simple, the put two bottle of water, one in a environment where people were more friendly and peaceful, and the second one was all the opposite. Surprisingly the one with the negative environment was more dark than the other one after couple weeks. Science or not, I believe that the way we think it's the way we become.
I have been lately looking at my country, and how we should forgive where we have been taught to hate. The last ten year in Colombia have been full of mixed feelings, ones against the FARC and other in favor of forgiveness. I must confess that I was one of those ones who used to say that all of them should pay back for all the bad actions that they have done in the past, but being away have shown me that if we continue thinking like that we are going to live in a frustrated society and most probably we will be stuck again into the feelings that made this people to take the arms and fight. The ends are joined.
The role of leaders driving behaviors are esencial in order to generate the right environment for society's development. Let's imagine for a moment that one of these frustrated persons become a President, what can be the ideal escenario for someone who is always looking for eliminate the enemy at any cost; imagine if in the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60's either John F. Kennedy or Nikita Khrushchev were one of this kind of leaders, most probably the history of the entire world may be other.
We people, consciously or unconsciously decide who we are willing to follow as a leader. This a decision that today along with all technology and access to information must be more conscious, today more than never we should speak out and demand to our leaders what we want. In other words what I mean is, for what we really want to be known, as the society of anger for instance?.
Remember the example of the bottle of water, we can be full of dark thoughts, full of anger, frustrations, etc. We can't pretend to be in peace if we don't have our own bottle clean and full of positive energy towards the future.
Stay positive.
I have been lately looking at my country, and how we should forgive where we have been taught to hate. The last ten year in Colombia have been full of mixed feelings, ones against the FARC and other in favor of forgiveness. I must confess that I was one of those ones who used to say that all of them should pay back for all the bad actions that they have done in the past, but being away have shown me that if we continue thinking like that we are going to live in a frustrated society and most probably we will be stuck again into the feelings that made this people to take the arms and fight. The ends are joined.
The role of leaders driving behaviors are esencial in order to generate the right environment for society's development. Let's imagine for a moment that one of these frustrated persons become a President, what can be the ideal escenario for someone who is always looking for eliminate the enemy at any cost; imagine if in the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60's either John F. Kennedy or Nikita Khrushchev were one of this kind of leaders, most probably the history of the entire world may be other.
We people, consciously or unconsciously decide who we are willing to follow as a leader. This a decision that today along with all technology and access to information must be more conscious, today more than never we should speak out and demand to our leaders what we want. In other words what I mean is, for what we really want to be known, as the society of anger for instance?.
Remember the example of the bottle of water, we can be full of dark thoughts, full of anger, frustrations, etc. We can't pretend to be in peace if we don't have our own bottle clean and full of positive energy towards the future.
Stay positive.
Comentarios