Super Hero Stan Lee
Some of you are wired like me. You are not egocentric, however, you are driven to succeed and feel you can (because you like the challenge) do just about anything. I call it my “ProCon Gift.” I call it that for obvious reasons. Over that last 15-20 years I feel I’ve adapted my weak areas into gifted areas, mostly out of need.
Recently, again, after so many years, I realized I’m not good at a lot, but love to try. The ‘Con’ side of my “ProCon Gift” has gotten the better half of me and, therefore, made a me weaker than I could be. I’ve been reading this book, “Strengths Based Leadership.” I have accepted that fact that I need to work on, emphasis and develop my gifted areas. I also need to purposefully find those who are gifted in my week areas and partner with them. Maybe I’m slow, but I’m excited, I’m finally getting it. I have always had great intentions, but you know what they say about people with great intentions.
I came across this article recapping Stan Lee’s visit to the Dallas Metro area and thought I’d see how it went. While reading, I came across this piece and thought, “There you go, even the mind behind Marvel Superhero’s gets it.” So, here’s a lesson on leadership from Stan Lee:
“How can someone duplicate Lee’s success: ”Listen, I’ve got enough competition,” he told the questioner, eliciting laughs. “First of all, if you want to be someone like me, you’ve got to be smart enough and lucky enough to pick guys like this [motions to Romita, Jr.] to work with. I was reasonably good at what I did, but I promise you, if I didn’t have John Romita, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan….I’d be one of the guys outside buying a ticket to come in and listen to other people talk. All I did was a lot of words. These artists make those words come alive, and make those words look magical.” (Dallas Observer Blogs By Jayme Rutledge, Mon., May 23 2011)
Keep Enjoying The Journey!
Mike
