Ari thinks about leadership while doing dishes
(Go figure.)
There's a quote I've come across a few times, about any person who wants a leadership position being unsuitable for it. (That's not it exactly, obviously.) And I think that's somehow become my default assumption - or at least that there should be this sort of resigned "Oh, if I *have* to, ok - see how reluctant I am - please put the yellow robe on me at swordpoint, thanks." (The last bit being a reference to a Chinese emperor - T'ang dynasty maybe? Sheesh I'm vague in my references tonight.) The problem with this attitude is, at least in me, it makes *genuine* reluctance hard to pick out. "Oh, I *should* help organize public rituals - hmmm, something just exploded." (To be fair, I did honestly want to at first, and mostly figured out the reluctance afterwards.)
Wanting to run/organize/lead/have some sort of office can be a "ooh shiny power!" thing, but I think it can be something else. It can be knowing that something needs to be done or that you have skills for a particular role. You might be the one who had the idea. It could be *gasp* taking responsibility.
(Which comes back to a discussion we had on the Cauldron about warrior paths and this sort of thing. "Doing what is necessary" - yeah, that.)
There's a quote I've come across a few times, about any person who wants a leadership position being unsuitable for it. (That's not it exactly, obviously.) And I think that's somehow become my default assumption - or at least that there should be this sort of resigned "Oh, if I *have* to, ok - see how reluctant I am - please put the yellow robe on me at swordpoint, thanks." (The last bit being a reference to a Chinese emperor - T'ang dynasty maybe? Sheesh I'm vague in my references tonight.) The problem with this attitude is, at least in me, it makes *genuine* reluctance hard to pick out. "Oh, I *should* help organize public rituals - hmmm, something just exploded." (To be fair, I did honestly want to at first, and mostly figured out the reluctance afterwards.)
Wanting to run/organize/lead/have some sort of office can be a "ooh shiny power!" thing, but I think it can be something else. It can be knowing that something needs to be done or that you have skills for a particular role. You might be the one who had the idea. It could be *gasp* taking responsibility.
(Which comes back to a discussion we had on the Cauldron about warrior paths and this sort of thing. "Doing what is necessary" - yeah, that.)