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Originally Posted by Sam988

Can a True Leader be made or is he just born being one?

Think of True Leaders as Jesus, Buddha, Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Jeanne d'Arc, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.

Boldness:

Can it be Learned? Hardly.

I know some people who were very risk-adverse and are now very bold. In my own life I have substantially increased my boldness over a period of years, so I see Boldness as something completely learneable. It takes a lot of paradigm shifts, but completely possible to become quite bold.

Gook Looks: A true leader has good looks. He is tall and handsome (there are exceptions; napoleon was very short, joan of arc was a woman -commanding armies in the middle age-, and winston churchill wasn't exactly the model of beauty). But it has already been proved by studies that people that are tall and handsome do better in politics than those who aren't. Fact.

I personally don't feel good looks matters for a true leader. We're talking true leaders here - people like Gandhi, Winston (quite obese), Adolf Hitler (who looked very different from the German view of perfection), Napoleon (short), Benjamin Franklin (have you seen his paintings? hardly flattering at all) and Franklin Roosevelt (in his wheelchair) could not be said to have good looks (basically all those you named whom we've seen pictures or accurate drawing of). Yes, good looks stastically gets you promoted and gets you elected, but we're talking true leaders, not average leaders. Not to mention, you can take someone ugly, give em all the great qualities, charisma, boldness, self-confidence and people will be attracted to them no matter what their physical characterstics are.

Intelligence: This is one of the most important aspects of a true leader. He has high both IQ and EQ. The true leader must have a high IQ.

For me, intelligence is pretty far down on important aspect of a true leader. Joan of Arc didn't need a high IQ, and neither did Gandhi. They followed their intuition and their principles. You just need to know a tremendous amount and be a natural at the area as a true leader you specialize in.

So, in my view, true leaders can and are made. But actually, I don't like the term "true leader" because it implies there is a "fake leader". I prefer the term "great leader" to distinguish them from average leader.