Remember…no one is making you play the “ask for permission” game.
Barbara: (indignant) It is THIS behavior why
we would never let you lead us in a crisis.
Ava: Nobody “lets” me do anything. Yet here I am…
doing things. That’s why I’m a leader.
Abbott Elementary, S3 E 11.
It’s already a great line. With Janelle James’s impeccable delivery and timing, it becomes brilliant.
And because this is LI, there’s a lesson here, too. We all have a lot more latitude than we think to do the things we want to do in the way we want to do them.
Will some amorphous “they” let you be a thought leader? No. Go be one anyway.
Are startup gatekeepers going to let you be a founder? Maybe not. Go do it anyway.
No, you don’t have to. But you can.