How to Expose yourself to Cutral Influences as a Leader

Mackseemoose-alphasexo
3 min readFeb 23, 2023

A few decades ago, Neem Karoli Baba, also known as Maharaj-ji, is a well-known guru who inspired Steve Jobs’ friends Larry Brilliant and Robert Friedland as well as other searchers. Steve Jobs reportedly travelled to India in the hopes of meeting Maharaj-ji. To Steve’s abiding regret, Maharaj-ji passed away just before he arrived. As scattershot as the quest of many young people seeking a wider perspective than the one they were given as children, Steve’s time in India was fragmented. He went to a religious gathering where ten million other pilgrims also attended. He ate odd foods, wore flowing cotton robes, and got his head shaved by an enigmatic guru. Dysentery struck him. Life is sometimes compared as an ever-changing river in Buddhist philosophy. It seems as though everything and everyone is perpetually changing and evolving. Perfection is a goal that can never truly be realized in this worldview, and it is also a process that is ongoing. That kind of concept would eventually fit Steve’s meticulous personality. One thing Steve Jobs did in then 1970s was considered seeking a paradigm shifts. Our childhood cutral influences, impact most of the values we have, which in end can impact the decisions we make as leaders. There is a reason why you see Jack Ma talk about rivers in Chinese tradition, but discusses both America’s and China’s role in the world from both perspectives. Obama stated in a speech that “ There isn’t the red state or blue states, their is only the United States of America”. So these questions are determined by our cutral…

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