I attended a meeting on leadership principles. In this meeting I was asked to come up to the front of the room with 2 other people. While at the front of the room two of us were asked to grab the arms of the third person, one on one side and the second on the other. I obediently grabbed onto the left arm of this man. We were then asked to pull which we did. I may have been a little overzealous and I pulled hard, causing both men to lose balance. It is not as if my goal was to dislodge the arm from the shoulder socket, and yet when I play, I play to win. Pointing to the man in the middle the speaker made this point. He stated that the man the middle represented each of us as we are being constantly pulled in two different directions. He stated that we need to resist and remain on track and focused, and have a constant battle within ourselves in order to make good choices. Obviously he was talking about the conflict that exists between the conscious mind and the unconscious man. In religion it is referred to as…
