The unexamined life is not worth living

Or is it ?

I believe in balance and rarely in set answers, in yes or no, either/or, binary choice etc.

Being human is complex.

We are rational and yet also driven by emotion, by what we sense, what we feel.

So, absolutely let us look at what Socrates meant and then consider what it means for leadership in business and organisations then consider the value of balance.

Fundamentally, Socrates meant this to reference the inherent nobility of a life lived conscious of our purpose in life.

As John Calvin, Protestant reformed said in the 16th century:

As another well known quote goes (as often, attributed to Mark Twain, but in reality of no known provenance):

“The two most important days in your life
are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

As Brian Rice puts it in a well-considered blog:

“In the ancient philosophical traditions of Greece and Rome, true happiness was a matter of discovering the ways of purpose, personal development of one’s…