Sometimes you motivate with an inspiring picture. And sometimes you motivate with a clever turn of phrase. For example, did you know the Chinese ideogram for 'crisis' is the same as the one for 'opportunity'? If so, you went to business school.
But sometimes, you motivate by shoving children to the ground. Great leaders throughout history including Alexander the Great, Martin Luther King, and Abraham Lincoln have known this little understood fact about leadership. In fact, Admiral Lord Nelson was about to lose the Battle of Trafalgar before he body-checked sulky 12-year-old boatswain off the bridge of the HMS Victory.
We cannot emphasize enough how good it makes a grown man feel to berate a 14-year-old. Yea, it is a nigh-Godlike rush one receives when, with the full weight of the law behind you, you may tackle said 14-year-old to the ground.
What's that "Erik", if that is indeed your real name? You didn't do anything wrong you say? Perhaps you didn't realize referring to an officer of the law as 'Man' is punishable by (according to the Patriot Act) death by electrocution, so just shut your damn mouth and let the gentleman in the day-glo yellow shirt and shorts scream at you until he gets his sense of self-worth returns. Really, what are they teaching kids these days?
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