There’s a distinction I make between fake power, big office, for example, lots of money, jets, titles. That’s fake power. True power is Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, he died with under 10 possessions. That’s true power. He did not get his power from who he was in the world and by pleasing people, he got his power by intimacy with his highest nature, that’s true power. So what’s the difference between pleasing and service? Pleasing comes from scarcity and fear, self-loathing, and insecurity.If they don’t like me, then I’m not enough. Well, any great genius, the great women and men of the world stood alone even if they were an army of one, Galileo, Coco Chanel, Catherine Graham, Shakespeare, Jean-Michel Basquiat. If you look at the great producers of the planet, they were ridiculed before they were revered. You can change the world,or you can be liked by everyone, you don’t get to do both. So service comes from, here’s my vision, maybe it’s the internet, maybe it’s Apple, maybe it’s writing a book or a movie. Here’s my vision, and even if the world laughs at me, I am so strong in my vision to serve, to disrupt the field, to bring on value, and to live my truth, that even if they shoot me and take a bullet, I will continue at all costs. That is titan. That’s a legend.
