Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our o…

David Foster Wallace
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Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2005). Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, p.137, Hachette UK
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