"One hears and reads a surprising number of sentences that describe leaders in general as having such and such attributes and behaving in such and such a fashion- as though one could distill out of the spectacular diversity of leaders an idealize picture of The Leader. Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find their strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage (FULLAN, Michael)."

Imagine yourself in the city of your dreams, working as the one thing you have been dreaming off your entire life. What happens if that smile of your face is simply ripped off? Imagine that you have just discovered that one mate of yours was manipulating you. He was using YOUR academic skills for his personal advantage; manipulation – quite a connotative word. You start pondering if that was his actual intention; however, you have to deal with the fact that the human mind is corrupted and can be sometimes evil. Are you alone by yourself? Lets say you are; but, due to past experiences and due to this one class during high school, you are an academically sophisticated, intellectual leader. Acting as such leader, you do not directly attack your “component”; but write about his confusing and how he misunderstood the related concept. This imaged scene has already happened; however, Mitt Romney’s “confusion”, regarding Diamond’s writings, only enriched Jared Diamond’s arguments, leaving a clearer analysis for his audience. “It is not true that my book ‘Guns, Germs and Steel,’ as Mr. Romney describes in a speech in Jerusalem, ‘basically says the physical characteristics of the land account for the differences in the success of the people that live there. There is iron ore on the land and so forth.‘ That is so different from what my book actually says that I have to doubt whether Mr. Romney read it. My focus was mostly on biological features, like plant and animal species (…) (DIAMOND, Jared).” As seen, he was a strong of a leader and was able to keep his arguments together. This skill relates to the ability of interacting to ones community and sometimes the “problems” within it; something that will be explored by the Academic Leadership advisory.

 

"What bring my deliberations on these matters to a close? This book must end sometime- and now  I want to get something to eat. Am I free to resist this feeling? Well, yes, in the sense that no one is going to force me at gunpoint to eat- but I am hungry. Can I resist this feeling a moment longer? Yes, of course - and for an indeterminate number of moments thereafter. But I don't know why I make the effort in this instance and not in others. And why do my efforts cease precisely when they do? No I fell that it really is time for me to leave. I'm hungry, yes, but it also seems that I've made my point. In fact, I can't think of anything else to say on the subject. And where is my freedom in that? (HARRIS, Sam)."

I might be getting too excited about these views, and will slow down my pace; although it is something quite interesting and in which takes my mind away - out of the roof.

Relating back to the our future, this advisory will help capture and work with each's future: one that is designed by each and every one of us, individuals.

"The future is not something that is done to us, but an ongoing process in which we can intervene (2011).” Future; such an easy word to understand, isn’t it? Is ones future already defined? Should we seat and watch time pass by? Or should we sweat and fight for what we want to become? Academic Leadership advisory aims to aid those who want to pursue their dreams and who desire to explore such knowledge and skills, in order to reach what they intend to be and become part of. Don’t we all want to make a difference in the world? Becoming someone well- known; someone happy? Not only will this course strengthen my leadership skills, as well as it will apply the different forms of leaderships and academic courses. You, readers, might be asking yourselves how can pleasurable activities be something academic? One must be aware that everything can interlink with each other. For example, I am really amazed in such argument: do humans have free will? With that, I intend to interview and catch up on people’s opinions about this extremely deep thought. However, important thinker’s thoughts are also going to be presented and added to my portfolio. Take a look at the first minute and thirteen seconds of the following video, in which Sam Harris, an atheist, expresses his feelings:

As Harris wrote on one of his books, Free Will:

“How can we be free as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we don not intend of and which are entirely unaware? We can’t (HARRIS, Sam).”