Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
"To live is to choose, but to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for."
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.