PART ONE
Understand and Lead Yourself
Imagine this scenario: A researcher brings you into a room with a chair. There are no windows. No pictures. No TV. Just you and the chair. You’re asked to sit down and think. For a time ranging from six to fifteen minutes, you’ll be on your own. Could you sit and be by yourself, or might you prefer painful electric shocks as a distraction?
Astonishingly, this experiment, published in the journal Science, reported that 67 percent of men and 25 percent of women found being alone with themselves so unpleasant that they ended up self-inducing electric shocks.1 One man even shocked himself 190 times. People ...
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