Thursday, September 15, 2011

Why President Obama is Failing - He doesn't know how to fail

President Obama;s biggest problem is that his life experience hasn't prepared him with the mechanisms for dealing with failure. Most people who reach the age of 50 have the benefit of scraping their knees on the hard realities of life. Most people learn not to take those things personally, but to recognize a failure when we see it, and do something about it (first step – admit you have a problem!). Our President hasn't had the benefit of these character building events.

Before being President, he hadn't experienced failure. both of his autobiographies make it clear, that this is the mercurial career and life of a man in a hurry. The result of life pattern is that we now have a man who mistakes failures for personal attacks by his opponents. Rather than take corrective steps ( sometimes called in military strategy a ‘retreat’) he doubles down, because he cant accept the idea of the “other side winning”.

Where that puts us as a society is that we are in the position of being led by someone who simply can't back away from a bad idea because if he did, then someone might notice that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, and we simply can't have that now can we?

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