Lions don’t just ignore the opinions of sheep they eat them. If we follow this advice can we all be lions? Do we need sheep for contrast? Is the lion a metaphor for being brave or being a predator? How does that impact the meaning?Īre you a lion? Does that make everyone else sheep? I’ll leave it to you to provide answers and maybe challenge your first responses. The rest of this article is about questions. Lions don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep. It is the ability to ask questions that when answered, uncover insight you can then use to generate massive success in your business or organization.įreshly inspired by the book, I decided to look at a quote (meme) I’ve seen floating around a lot lately. Critical thinking is not criticizing or complaining. Part of the premise of the book is to challenge commonly held beliefs or what Randy calls critical thinking. I was recently reading a new book by Randy Gage called “ Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs.” (I may even talk to myself when no one is around, but I am not aware of any proof.) Sometimes it is with clients and their beliefs about how their industry works. I’ve been challenging some commonly held beliefs (or memes) for a while. A lion may be hungry while a sheep is fed, but the fattest sheep is the lion’s meal.Does the sheep really care that the lion doesn’t care about his opinion, and other challenges you’ve probably never considered. Though it lacks the comforts of a shepherd’s security, a lion never wishes for the life of a sheep. The lion enjoys no such promises, wandering upon the mountains in search of a meal: hungry, but free. Will you strive for what is easy and safe? To follow close to the multitude? To remain within the fences that protect you from the outside but imprison you within its boundaries? Or will you travel the path you choose, exploring freely in the dangerous forests of life, leading your own way in a planet filled with followers?Īt sunset, the sheep are herded back into their prison and fed until they drift into sleep.
Humans are not born as sheep or lions but must choose a path for themselves.
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Is it the lion’s stupidity that keeps it from a life of leisure? How can so many sheep be wrong as they grow fatter on the shepherd’s food? Why would any creature choose to run free in the dangerous and uncertain wilderness? As human sheep boast of their lives of ease and criticize any who work to better themselves, the shepherds pay no heed. Leaders must have unwavering confidence in their decision to choose effort over leisure.
Though they rebel by day, they always wander home to their cages by night. They scream in protest when they are fenced in and herded - angry that they are not free like the lions - but accept the shepherd’s food nonetheless. They desire freedom but rely on others to provide their comforts, striving for riches but investing little effort to attain it. To those who simply wait for them to arrive. A lion must hunt and chase its meals, but feasts on anything it catches. Though the feeding trough of the sheep is filled, it is only with the grass and grain of its master’s choosing. Though the lion must hunt for its own food and search for its own shelter, it is free to roam where it wishes and requires no one to open its gate. Theirs is a lifetime of servitude - one that is comfortable but ends at the shepherd’s whim. The sheep are bred to be weaker of mind and body, to require the shepherd’s protection so greatly that they can be free of physical chains but never stray. They fatten themselves on the shepherd’s food, thriving into a multitude that outnumbers the lions.īut these comforts bind the sheep into slavery.
Sheep are given food and water freely by their shepherd, and are protected from predators by shelters they did not build. The life of a sheep is easier than the life of a lion.
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