User blog:Qwertyxp2000 the second/Wisdom: Listen and Follow

In order to be a leader of anything, be it being admin of a wiki or your real life, you must gain enough wisdom to show maturity. You can get wisdom from listening and following. By listening and following, we get knowledge. And from gaining knowledge, we can build up experience and thus grow more wisdom. Today, I would like to tell you all specifically about ideas regarding listening and following. In particular, one does not simply have the power to want everything if they do not have enough experience to have the wisdom necessary to make mature decisions.

Every leader used to be just like all you followers. People always continually learn from each other and from life experience, and those who have the desire to learn from others especially learn from how the leaders show them how to do things correctly. How leaders get their leadership is from maturity. Maturity is something that can only be gained by experience, which can only be done from listening to what leaders need you to do. In my experience of this wiki, I had plenty of ups and downs of this wiki, but because I listened to the admins and did not act like a jerk to them, I was able to show maturity to know what is correct to do and what is not correct to do. Now, with enough experience, I now have enough trust to show that I am deemed showing good character to become a responsible person, so I was able to become an admin. Because I listened to and followed the admins, I have gained a lot of experience of this wiki and have earned enough trust to be recognized as showing responsibility for one's actions.

Leaders do not have to be physical people that simply lead a group; they can be a wiki admin, a real or virtual celebrity (such as notable My Singing Monsters gamer MSMPokeGamer), or even a web-hosting company (such as YouTube). But how you learn from what they instruct you to do and not to do will have an impact on how you will mature to become a more experienced person. With enough experience, you will be able to have the respect to be known to make mature decisions before doing anything. And if you have the respect of making mature decisions, you will become respectable, allowing your respect as a leader to live on. Everyone of us should've been influenced by leaders in some way during our lives, by your parents, your teachers, your bosses. How you look at them, goodly or badly, it will determine your position in the trustable board for that social environment. Blocked users here are lower on the trustable board, while more trusted users here are higher up the trustable board. Because trustable people are respectable, they are known to be approved of by the consensus of the majority, so they have the power to influence the community, more likely in a positive way. Think about how much MSMPokeGamer has made a good influence to the My Singing Monsters community – sharing the latest but relevant My Singing Monsters and Dawn of Fire news, sharing nice Monster information, and sharing any other fun videos surrounding the My Singing Monsters franchise. Since most of the target audience, who usually are current players of My Singing Monsters, approve of his good videos, we respect MSMPokeGamer's positive contributions and thus his value towards the My Singing Monsters community. Because we all trust him, he is more respectable, so he has more responsibility and power for whatever happens in My Singing Monsters. By listening and following a leader, we can learn more from them and can ourselves become better and better.

But more importantly is the willingness to listen and follow. That ability to be able to listen and follow can build up one's ability to be patient. No one is ever an expert from learning from virtually nothing. They are always influenced by something, anything really. Humans have invented paper from how paper wasps made their nests, humans have invented successful aeroplanes from looking at the aerodynamics of birds, humans have even made more inventions via inspirations from accidents than from just purely doing analysis. Alexander Fleming had nearly prevented the world-standard antibiotic penicillin from being made if he had not gained inspiration from how penicillin mould had affected his bacterial sample. He has followed his experience of what happened after the penicillin contamination accident to give himself some ideas of what he research he should do next. He has "listened" by looking closely at the sample and how penicillin had affected his bacterial sample. He did not just throw away the sample completely after getting frustrated about his disaster, he thought for a second and followed the sequence of finding out the penicillin's effect on the bacteria to find some discovery about what can potentially be a new discovery that will reward the fame and respect that one would desire. In the end, with enough research, he has discovered a new useful tool in humans called antibiotics. With enough patience, he has thought carefully about how to listen and follow what had happened in the penicillin accident to find some inspiration to collect new ideas for the community. We too should be able to be willing to listen and follow, and that can be done if we are willing to have the patience to want to learn new things and the patience to get the respect of others.

To conclude, all leaders only deserve to be leaders if they have the willingness to listen and follow in the first place. They always will start off as followers, and they must have the responsibility to do good things for the community in order to be trustable. And if they are trustable, they will have the power to be able to do responsible acts because they are more respected and reliable. And the willingness to be able to listen and follow the leader will allow us to learn to become knowledgeful and full of wisdom, which will allow us to be the best we can be and do any action as best as we can be, and we will finally get more say in what we need to say.