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The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership

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If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts

Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar Skip to content Essays Solitude and Leadership If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts By William Deresiewicz | March 1, 2010 AM Renault/Flickr Listen to a narrated version of this essay: The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem like a contradiction. What can solitude have to do with leadership? Solitude means being alone, and leadership necessitates the presence of others—the people you’re leading. When we think about leade

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