Climbing Lessons Learned is a concise, end-of-month peek at the childhood roots of unhelpful leadership patterns. The science of human development reveals your early curriculum in “how to lead” and how its lessons show up today.
Your leadership joy is innate.
The earliest version leaked tiny bubbles from your pursed, well-fed, newborn lips. Months later, joy burst from those lips as gleeful laughter.
By age three, language development met joy. Thousands of words burbled from those lips each day. You were the most fun you’ve ever been.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~Eleonora Duse, legendary Italian stage actor
From four to six, you focused on logic, loving the reliability of cause and effect in the physical world. Kick a ball, it rolls. Pull one block from the foundation and the tower falls.
Also during these preschool years, life taught social dynamics, where logic’s reliability failed.
Seven years young: the Big Moment of baseline for future Leadership Joy. But those social dynamics lessons…woof! Unlike blocks and balls, humans behave always uniquely and often unpredictably.
Maybe you accepted the uncertainty of social interactions and learned to work with it. Or maybe you turned away from joy for decades.
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