The Power of Humble Leadership (minisode)

0:00I had a talk yesterday and it was all about seasons. So one of the things that I talked about was everything in life comes in seasons. There's a time for sewing, there's a time for reaping. And more often than not, especially in the time of social media, people don't really want to hear about the process of Baghdata name. Nobody wants to see you doing the hard work. They want to see the sumahum laudataita. They want to see the number one speaker in the Philippines, right? Or number one, bestseller book. Because they know that the process took a lot of time, took a lot of effort, took a lot of energy, and even sacrifices. And I think it's lauded on social media. All of these good things that you achieve. But you process, you don't like to celebrate it. Yeah. But if you're a communicator, you want to manipulate people, it's so easy to social

1:10media. Madaling meloco. You appeal to the instant gratification. Yeah. But that's, that's, and I think when I see leaders who have made an impact on the world, as you said, there's always a pattern, there's humility, there's sacrifice that their level of competence and productivity is there, and they're driven by a higher purpose that they're all constantly looking at. Now I know that there are a lot of young people who watch this podcast, and they're probably listening here going like, okay, wangshort cut mentality, okay, ke langan humbul kan a leader. But how do you actually do that? When you're a young person, you're just going into the workforce, probably you're even an employee, you're trying to figure out how do I lead my life in such a way that I can

2:12be proud of it. I'll fight that tomorrow. How do I do that? That's a great question. For all of you young leaders out there, I'm going to give you a trade secret of speakers. When the speaker says, that's a great question, well, I was going to answer it, but actually, buying time, buying time, no, buying time. The key to understanding this is that if you're starting out in your career, you have to be very, very curious, which normally they are. But for the young people, especially today, you've got to master your moods and emotions. It's simple, when you're starting, you make mistakes. Pak na pak gali tengka. Hindi on dahil, they want your life to be difficult. Two reasons. Number one. Not pressure can power, because your prayer mistake affects that person. I'm pretty sure he did it by a lot of my embossments. Number two, they want you to learn.

3:14So one thing I learned from school is that all the hate that terrors, not professors, they were the ones who helped me a lot. All the professors we love so much, because they don't want, they don't make us work. I never learned anything about them. I have to understand, now at the point I'm going over arching purposes, so is it to make my life difficult, not necessarily, but they want you to learn. Second is you're liable to make mistakes, but mistakes or put a lot of young people not term as failures, they're not as long as you learn from it. If you learn from it, you've got to substitute that word mistake and failure with another helpful word, which is tuition, they're investing in it. That's why you learn it. One more thing is, you have a lot of young people today who are not adept at communicating.

4:19So they're so quiet, they're there, people can read minds, cannot. So you have to be articulate, you have to take the boldness to step up and offer initiatives. There's an idea of which you think can help the company, or can help work, say it, offer it, and then two reasons. Number one, in this lesson I'm going to communicate because of social media and everything else. Another one is, I'm so afraid tomorrow, we also need a, you know, I met, I met a teacher sped, oh, you know, I remember when I started out in my career, I was branded a super sipsi, papil ng papil. So within a long early in my life, I realized that boy, what are you doing? You know, boy, what are you doing, but what are you going to do with my life? I want to expect you to help me, therefore your opinions would never define me.

5:21So in two and a three years time, I became their boss. So good sipsi. So good sipsi, didn't I make them suffer? Yeah, you know, with the vengeance, I lead you with the vengeance, palana. No, that is, that is amazing. I was recently reading something that talked about how, when you know how to express yourself articulately through writing, through speaking, through communicating, you've solved probably 80% of your problem because the 20% is really just equipping yourself so that you can talk about these ideas that you have, the changes that you want to make and the way that you want to lead your team or lead your company. And that's one of the things that most young people struggle with today, when I see the data on illiteracy and the Philippines, it's not even about Hindi maruno mag basa or Hindi maruno magsulat, it's Hindi nila na iintindihan, yung binabasa at sinusulat nila. And that's even more dangerous because it's one thing to be no lead, no right?

6:21It's another to think that you actually understand what you're reading when you don't. So it's so important. I have a, I have somebody who helps us in the whole, connecting the course, see pangraping gali, hmm, there's something wrong. When she was rearranging my books, yung binabalibalik that red flag, second, not hit the hole there, and then I, I, I did not confront her directly, I just asked him because I'm in there. So that's an author read, no, I read it in there. Whenever I find people like this, I would sponsor their education, there's the problem, many of them refuse. Dada ang kadot, para mga no, yung si pagmodlan jende yande, pero if you can just be literate, propels you to a lot higher achievements, Diba. So you're, you're having this podcast, me doing training, me writing books, me being

7:25a columnist for the film star, what is our business, communications, but what is the business behind our communications, persuasion, where in the business of persuading people, selling ideas. So if you're not articulate in that area, you won't be able to sell anything. I'm a little taken aback because it's like you pulled the curtain for people to see that really behind communication is just persuasion. Yeah. It's ability to stand in confidence in what you're trying to communicate to people, which is what really draws them in to pay attention. Correct.