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[sageprincess]

From: Anonymous
Date: April 26th

What do you believe are the necessary qualities to have in a good leader?

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[sageprincess]

What "little" you have provided suggests you have some amount of experience regarding the matter.

[Which... she is aware of, but hey, we're anon here.]

However, it seems like a contradictory existence. At what point does "excellence" become an "unreachable ideal"? How much fallibility is one allowed before they are considered weak? How thin do you consider that line?

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[towards_okeanos]

Indeed I do.

I don't see any contradiction in what I'm proposing. Excellence and unreachable ideal are not even on the same scale. Excellence is greatness in the execution of anything one does. It would be foolish to assume anyone can keep an untarnished record of succeeding to achieve excellence without any failure. Quite the contrary. One must start with failure and only then they can reach true excellence. Only when one knows failure can one ever learn what must be done to succeed. So I don't quite follow the reason you're equating the fallibility with weakness.

What I do mean by unreachable ideal is when one would put themselves so high above others that it might look as if they have no vices. But then none would see them as human anymore. More of a saint. And if they don't see them as human they wouldn't believe they could be like them. Many would admire them but none envies the saint's thorny path. So they wouldn't even try to emulate them.
Thus one would fail in the greatest purpose which is the betterment of others. All the sacrifices, all the burdens and the loneliness of that place on top. All that will be for naught. And worse, it would be a seed of one's own demise. Because one would lose any connection one had with their people. Would know not of their joys and their sorrows. By doing so one would lose the ability to lead them.