We have the book “The concise 48 laws of Power” of Robert Green and when I first saw it and read from it I didn’t like it, because power has (still) to me a very negative feeling around it. And most of the book I don’t like, because, well, until now, I had the feeling it’s about the negative, the power from fear kind of power. It is weird thought that the word power has something negative in it, because my core qualities are “Joyful, loving and powerful”. So maybe that’s also one of the reasons i am where i am, as I have resisted, and still do I think, one of my core qualities, one of my core talents.
Anyhow, somehow, yesterday or two or three days ago I opened the book again (I often follow my instinct and just open books if I feel ‘something’) I found a remarkable quote in the book:
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if a man will sue thee at the law, an take away thy coat, let them have their cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 5: 38-41)
So it seems that power is something different than I have in mind. It seems certainly not to be the thing that I thought it was: overruling other people by force. It is something else and even a very useful thing, something people expect, even need as I also found out with my team that expected direction and clarity from me, where I considered those things something like applying my ‘power’.
Something to ponder more about.
And how do you look at power? Do you exercise it? Do you like to follow powerful people? Do you like to have power? How do you use it?.