Tag: leadership

Another concept introduced to us by Jim Rohn is “Don’t send your ducks to eagle school.”

“Good people are found, not changed. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. If you want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them. (…) Don’t waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.”¹

As we discussed before, the capoeira group can be considered a leadership and personal development factory that people join voluntarily and stay for various reasons.

In the previous post, I wrote about the “Over the line” concept, where a teacher or a leader has to push people towards the common goal. It’s done through inspiration, motivation, information, teaching, and good leadership. But you alone cannot carry everyone across the line. You need to create a growth culture in your community. And what if you could create a generation of people where they start to help each other?

Momentum (n.)

a strength or force gained by motion or by a series of events.

When a train doesn’t have momentum, even a brick on the rails can stop it. But when the train gains momentum, it can crash into the cement wall, and people in the back won’t even notice it.

In many ways, a capoeira community is a disguised leadership academy. You can play capoeira by yourself, but to manifest capoeira in its full power and full colors, you need a group of people. You need people to play instruments, to sing songs and clap hands, you need people to play in the circle.