Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

TURN TOWARD DANGER
On the Serengeti Plain of Africa, zoologists have developed a sim-
ple technique to determine which one of the animals in the herd is
the leader.
When a predator—a lion or cheetah—approaches a herd of
grazing animals, the members of the herd pick up the scent in the
wind and begin drifting away in the opposite direction. At this time,
the leader of the herd will emerge. The leader will be the animal that
places himself between the predator and the herd while the herd be-
gins to flee. The leader, risking his life facing the lion or cheetah that
is moving in on the herd, will nonetheless stand his ground to buy
time for the others to escape.
The leader always “turns toward danger.” This is as true for hu-
man beings as it is for animals. You become a leader to the degree
to which you force yourself to turn toward danger as well. You
identify the areas in your life that cause you fear and stress, and in-
stead of avoiding them and hoping that they will go away, you con-
front them directly.