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2024-11-16 | 🤔 Qualities 👥

🤔 What’s the most valuable quality a person can have?

• 🧠 Intelligence is nice
  • 🤔 but it doesn’t get things done on its own
  • ⚔️ and difference can breed violence. 😔 Too much intelligence can lead to bullying, for example.
• ❤️ Kindness is nice
  • 🥰 literally
  • 😃 and it tends to be infectious, which is even better
  • 🌎 but its value is still context dependent
    • 🚨 all the kindness in the world may not help during a mugging
• 🤸 Flexibility
  • ⚙️ is useful in many contexts
  • 😴 but it’s passive
• 🐒 Adaptability
  • 💪 seems like flexibility with an active component
  • 🧬 it is the trait that chases survival in evolution
  • 😥 but is survival all we can hope for?
• 🎨 Creativity
  • ✨ allows us to do more than adapt to our environment
  • 🌈 we can envision a better world and work to create it
  • 🎭 but many creative individuals working on their own may have different visions, which may produce conflict
• 🤝 Collaborativity
  • 🕊️ resolves the potential conflict when multiple people create
  • 🔨 but building together doesn’t necessarily mean building good things together
• 🧭 Leadership
  • 👨‍✈️ is like guiding a collaborative effort
  • ❓ but how do you ensure you’re leading in a good direction?

It feels like these qualities may combine to form a lattice…🕸️

flowchart  
Intelligence --> Creativity  
Industry --> Creativity  
Communication --> Cooperation  
Creativity --> Collaboration  
Empathy --> Cooperation  
Flexibility --> Cooperation  
Cooperation --> Collaboration  
Reliability --> Cooperation  
Influence --> Leadership  
Collaboration --> Leadership  
Judgement -->   
Wisdom --> ?  
Leadership --> ?  
Benevolence --> ?  

Note: this graph is definitely not complete. Just a partial, initial, quick sketch of an idea

🤔 Is there a word for wise, benevolent leadership?