The Web of Apollo

So many times we are encouraged by people we admire, respect or take some time to listen to, that we should be competent leaders. That we should learn the key to leadership. That we should embody and partake of the cup of leadership responsibility.

I then make this decidable action, and pose you a question, “who exactly are supposed to lead?”. Which is this flock are we being told to shepherd? Is there a county that has for the longest time lacked a governor, and the constituents seem to be waiting for me?

This are some of the questions that we are going to answer today.

I kindly ask you to indulge yourself in the rhetoric that I call ’The Web of Apollo', [pause] now.

Apollo was not just a man, nor was he ever one. He was and is to some still known as the god of poetry, prophecy, medicine and light.
This man, Apollo represents all aspects of civilisation and order.

I repeat that, civilisation and order. And yet I again, ALL aspects of these two areas of culture and human social organisation.

He was worshiped at the Delphic Oracle where a priestess gave forth his predictions.

This meant that as a god who embodies comforts and conveniences of life in its entirety, he made predictions of things that were to be disseminated and believed to realise and most definitely materialise.

What is a prediction? A prediction is an estimate of something specific that will happen in the future. Not shall or can happen, but WILL happen.

Back to this god, Apollo.

Apollo’s father was Zeus. Let me tell you a little fact about Zeus. Zeus is known as the chief of the the Greek gods. How he became chief is by overthrowing the Titanic gods [who as per the meaning of the meaning were great. Unless you refer to the ironical anti-buoyant situation that stroke on the 10th of April 1912. Enough of Zeus. Apollo also had a sister known as Artemis. She is the goddess of the moon. That means she can cause hurricanes and tsunamis if she wants. Remember monsoon patterns?

A very interesting fact about Apollo is that there was a myth that stated that the sun was Apollo’s chariot.


That myth, just as I’ve narrated, has so many bridges, frame threads, Radius thread and Anchor points that we can connect and weave into our lives as a leader.

I would like to first and importantly state that the flock that we should first lead as leaders of a ‘unspecified’ flock is ourselves. A leader must first lead himself or herself before he goes on to lead others. You are your own prototype. We cannot practise an entity so big as leadership by using others as guinea pigs. We should lead ourselves and accustom ourselves to a certain cultivation and esteem that we are not just leading, ‘just because we can’. We are leading because how we lead ourselves is admirable by others  and craved in the society. We are not only filling a gap, but filling a gap with the rightful filling. For example, it is just uncultured to fill an ice-cream cone with a pint of tequila. That is because as an ice-cream cone doesn’t go with tequila, so does filling hot air in a biliary cultural gap.

Leadership has been present since the said beginning of time. There was always an overall deity over a system of civilisation.

Creativity has always been the side-dish to all of the social aspects of society. Such as education, employment, hospitality, social and economic relations etc. It is not always present, this creativity, but when it is accustomed, included and enjoyed, there is a noticeable, refreshing difference in the society. Just like a side-dish. You don’t have to enjoy Nyama Choma with ugali or French fries, but when the side-dish is presented, there is choice. And with choice, there is the opportunity of variety. And with variety, comes competition. Competition motives and influences quality of life.

Leadership is the main course and creativity is the side-dish. Many are times when we are lead, but fewer times when there is the mesh and visceral concoction of creativity and leadership.

There are two things that ’The Web Of Apollo’ can teach us as we try to lead our individual lives and with the optimum use of creativity.

Number one: Professionalize.

Apollo was a god. And the first person he was god to was himself. He professionalized in four things: poetry, prophecy, medicine and light. To be amazing leaders and indulge creativity, we must professionalize in literature, belief, science and the curiosity of the unknown and reflection. Creativity does not just appear. It needs motivation; a nudge. And how do you do that? By indulging your mental and psychological faculties in material written before you. It must be sensible, debatable, involving and functional. We must belief in something. What can we believe in? Heaven, witches, molecules? Look for something to believe in. It can and should be yourself. The mind is calm in a belief system that it has become accustomed to, so as to fall back to that belief in dire times of doubt and confusion of camaraderie. Indulge yourself in a science. Know how something is built. Know how something exists. Try to understand things. What is the scientific functionality of a smile? Where are the right areas to pet a cat? Why is saliva not irritating? Know things.


Number two: Know your personality by Commit to the appropriate association

Apollo had a huge personality. He was confident, confident enough to make predictions for a society with a straight face, bold in esteem; he was worshiped. Which means that he first worshipped himself. He had belief in himself. And that is what a leader should have; belief in himself. When you believe in yourself, you make people comfortable to believe you. It’s a human comfort. After knowing your personality, associate with people who carry you with your exact esteems. You cannot associate yourself with people who ridicule you or find a hobby from making you feel insignificant! Well, unless you choose that to be how you carry yourself. Apollo had a great father. He had a powerful sister. Even though we do not know how the relationship with each other was, we can acknowledge the fact that hierarchy hails hierarchy. Good vibes infect and mitts or thread good vibes. As is the opposite, bad energy lays bad energy. Commit to a web of socialisation that matches you. Let your friends and clique reflect you in your absence. Those who can handle to take a ride on you sun-shaped chariot. They can take the heat and enjoy the ride.

Creativity in leadership is incubated from a point of individual acknowledgement.

So what have we learnt today?

That to be a leader, you must lead yourself first.
Secondly, to lead yourself you must professionalize and associate with the customised appropriation.
Thirdly, that creativity in leadership is achieved by mastering the different aspects of human social organisation.
Fourth, that Apollo was hella boss for having the sun as his chariot.
And fifth, that we are all leaders by default.