140. Other People's Acceptance

Leaders can't be liked by everybody

For the first 35 years of my life, I wanted everybody to like me. That was my engine - to be liked. Other people’s acceptance was how I judged myself.

My biggest stress lay in the here-say that somebody didn’t think I was a super special fellow. I would fret about what I did, when I did it and how I could make things better so the disliker disliked the…