Many of you know Allen Roland’s phenomenal work: the supremely talented author and therapist who wrote the seminal book, Radical Therapy (and a great friend). His very popular blog had a great quote today apropos of the unfortunate situation that Tiger Woods has created.
“The true test of a person’s character is not how they handle adversity. It’s how they handle power.”
Allen’s sentence (and the entire blog) caused me to consider how diversity and power are related. Adversity can cause people to steal and hurt others, and so can power. Both adversity and power can be met with good or poor intentions. I think Allen is right that power is far more likely to test one’s character than adversity.
What is the distinction between your experience of adversity and power as tests of your own character? How have others treated you when they had the power and you perceived you had little to none?
Stay close !
Hutt
P.S.: You can find Allen’s original post here:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/12/06.html
The link to his blog is here:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/