Is the COVID-19 Threat also an Opportunity?

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ―Aldous Huxley

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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