Live Like a Supertanker, Not a Raft

A note to young leaders.

If the chief aim of your life is to maximise fun – yours will be the life of a tiny raft, adrift on sheltered shores.

You’ll bob up and down with the tides – but you must forever cling to the coastline, for your vessel was not built for distant shores.

But if the chief aim of your life is purpose and growth – you will choose the life of a supertanker, forged for heavy seas.

You’ll venture into deep waters.

Even storms will be strangely enjoyable, for they’ll test your mettle and sharpen your resolve.

To be tested is to be engaged. To be engaged is to be fully alive. Far better this than the half-lived life of leisure and ease.

The purpose of life is not comfort – it is the formation of character. And character is forged in crucibles.

Live the life of a supertanker.