Alan, what a great story and perfect illustration to help us think about whether leaders are born or made (or both!).

You are reminding me of a book my colleague @JennaAvery just mentioned to me.  It's, *Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,* by Carol Dweck, which talks about the born/made concept as *fixed mindset,* that we have everything we are capable of having from birth, that we cannot improve or increase our skills, vs *growth mindset*, which says that we are capable of more if we focus on learning and applying ourselves.

Now how do we focus on learning and apply ourselves?  That's the tricky part for most of us, and your concepts of desire, belief and support are precisely what we need to *make* ourselves into whatever we want.

Thank you for bringing this up!