PASSING IT ON

in #esteem6 years ago

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Every vision is generational. No matter how great your talent is, when you don’t pass it to the next generation, it becomes useless as it would die with you.

No wonder people say the grave yard is the richest place in the world. A lot of people think it is so because in there lies a lot of wasted talents, some that were developed and others that were not.

Having a talent and keeping it is not the best as you need to be able to pass it on so that others can learn from it and take over when your strength fails you.

I was privileged to watch a documentary on wild animals, and I saw the way a lioness taught her cub how to hunt. She took them hunting, and when she saw a prey, she kept them behind her and devoured the prey.

Her cubs watched her do it and I am sure they would learn how to hunt on their own from her.

I also remember the story I was told when I was very young, about the way the mother hawk trains her chicks. She would keep them in a nest, and when she sees that they are getting old, she would break their nests so that they can learn how to fly.

The vision is always greater than the visionary. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t believe in this.

Some people who are skilled at some particular things don’t like teaching people because they believe that those people could become as good or even better than them in that field, but that is myopic, as they fail to take the future into consideration.

For leaders, leadership success is measured by what you have transferred to your followers. People remember great people based on the legacy they have left. So if as a leader, you don’t leave anything meaningful behind, you would be forgotten.

Every true leader should leave something in place. Something that would last his followers for a very long time because success without a successor is failure.

Indeed, if you don’t transfer some of the things you know and you leave during that period, there would be a lot of trouble for the next leader. Your contribution is what would determine your profit at the end of the day.

In conclusion, it is your contribution to humanity that would determine your reward at the end of the day. If you have helped people, you would be remembered for it, but it would not speak well for you to be there while your successor is making mistakes.

It could subject your generation to slavery under the leadership of your enemy. It would make you limitless when you don’t live in others. That way, you would fail your generation and yourself.

Take a look at the biblical allusion below:

Moses
He was a visionary and an intercessor. He did not allow everything to die with him. He got someone to assist him, in person of Joshua.

Joseph
He was a great man, yet he did not chose his successors, those that would take over after him. That is the reason why many years after his death, they made his people, the Israelites slaves in Egypt. All this would have been avoided if he had a replacement.

His history got wiped off because he was not living in other people.


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