{"id":450,"date":"2012-01-08T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=450"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T17:17:25","slug":"three-minute-leadership-learnings-from-lifes-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2012\/01\/three-minute-leadership-learnings-from-lifes-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Learnings from Life&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/ch1prd0102.outlook.com\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=bmjb5DpeDEmaXo1I3RqWwmxEM03Aoc4IHfPdxfVtS9FOX0NEeLla68F5tvSOl8r7Q9iSDSpv5tw.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.dartmouth.edu%2f%7ecommence%2fspeeches%2f2011%2fobrien-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\">June 2011 Commencement Address at Dartmouth University<\/a>, Conan O&#8217;Brien, TV host and writer, with an introduction filled with fun and humor, shared a lesson that he had learned the year before when he experienced &#8220;a very profound and public disappointment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He had failed.\u00a0 He said: &#8220;I did not get what I wanted, and I left a system that had nurtured and helped define me for the better part of 17 years. I went from being in the center of the grid to not only off the grid&#8230;.&#8221; He spent the next year wandering, doing things that were &#8220;silly, unconventional, spontaneous and seemingly irrational.&#8221;\u00a0 His commitment to his purpose in life was being redefined and he felt liberated.\u00a0 From this he realized:\u00a0 &#8220;There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He spoke of Johnny Carson who wanted to be a Jack Benny, famous 1940\u2019s and 1950\u2019s comedian, and failed; of David Letterman who wanted to be a Johnny Carson, and failed; and of comedians of his own generation who wanted to be David Letterman, and who failed.\u00a0 Of this he said: \u201cIt is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It&#8217;s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention\u2026.The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>What magnificent rewards that disappointment offers: the clarity to see one\u2019s purpose more clearly, the conviction to have a greater commitment to accomplish it and the gaining a greater realization and understand of our own beautify uniqueness.\u00a0 Eliza Tabor, author, writes: \u201cDisappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.\u201d\u00a0 May your disappointments be few, but when they come, may you treasure the beautiful gifts they give and become greater with their departure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a fantastic week!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning &nbsp; In his June 2011 Commencement Address at Dartmouth University, Conan O&#8217;Brien, TV host and writer, with an introduction&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,78,80,81],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership","tag-conan-obrien","tag-dartmouth-university","tag-disappointment","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}