COVID-19
has thrown several threats to humans. The global economy has gone down, there
is growing unemployment and global recession. It has also brought innumerable
opportunities such as connecting with friends and families through technology
and telephone. It has connected all human beings and brought them into one global
platform emphasizing humanity. It has also focused on climate change.
People
started understanding and analyzing themselves currently as they were busy with
the rat race in the past. Now there is enough time to introspect and bring out
the desired improvements in attitude, personality, and behavior. Some leaders
have isolated themselves and imposed self-quarantine in the wake of COVID-19.
There are people who underwent self-quarantine and achieved amazing success. Some eminent personalities including
William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Giovanni Boccaccio, Edward Munch, and Thomas
Nashe leveraged their self-quarantine and produced the best works in the world.
Taking a leaf from them, you can also leverage the current lockdown by
unlocking your creativity and producing the best works in the world. During the
current lockdown, I have become more creative and focused on my intellectual
contributions. I contributed the best manuscripts to international journals and
magazines and I am also authoring a book on COVID-19.
Self-quarantine is an
opportunity for you to slow down, be creative and reinvent yourself. It is an
opportunity for you to take feedback about your strengths and weaknesses and
take inventory of your skills, abilities, and knowledge. You can explore career
transition, follow the neglected hobbies, reconnect with your old friends. To
conclude, convert your current threat into an opportunity. Remember that there
are only opportunities, not threats for leaders.
“Only in solitude do we find
ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in
solitude.” ―Miguel de Unamuno
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Consultants, India
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