Jerry Colonna | Heeding the Call to Adulthood: Lessons on Life and Leadership
Hidden Forces
Demetri Kofinas
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 94 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with author of REBOOT, Jerry Colonna about leadership and the art of growing up.
This is a deeply personal conversation, but it is also one that draws upon the common wellspring of human experience. Learning to be a great leader is also about learning how to become an adult, and this requires that we learn how to embrace life in all of its beauty, suffering, and grace.
The introduction to this week's episode retells the story of Minos, King of Knossos after whom the great Minoan civilization is named. The Minoans populated the islands of the eastern Mediterranean during the second millennium, and are thought by some modern scholars of antiquity to have provided the substance for Plato's Atlantis reference in Timaeus and Critias.
As is often the case, this week's episode overtime rivals the full episode in quality and depth, as both Jerry and Demetri share personal stories of suffering, grace, and transformation. You can access this part of the recording, along with our entire library of subscription content on the Hidden Forces Patreon page at http://patreon.com/hiddenforces.
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| 0:36.0 | Long ago, during the second millennium BC, before Agamemnon and his long-haired |
| 0:45.4 | ekeans would plunder the stronghold on the proud height of Troy, they're ruled a |
| 0:50.4 | king by the name of Minus, child of Europa, son of Zeus. His capital was the commercial |
| 0:59.0 | center of the civilized world, a naval superpower with ships that were said to have sailed |
| 1:05.0 | through the gates of Hercules, navigating the open seas of the forbidden |
| 1:10.4 | unknown ocean waters of the Atlantic that formed the enormous river that encircled the earth. |
| 1:17.0 | But Minos' kingship came at a cost. |
| 1:21.0 | Long before his reign, while contending for the throne, he prayed to Poseidon to send |
| 1:26.4 | out of the Mediterranean a bull as a sign of the God's favor, vowing its immediate sacrifice as an offering to his uncle Poseidon, God of the sea. |
| 1:37.0 | Poseidon answered, the bull appeared and Meinos took his throne, but in a moment of weakness he hesitated. |
| 1:45.0 | Beholding the beautiful beast that the sea god had sent him, |
| 1:49.0 | Minos refused to honor his pledge, |
| 1:52.0 | believing that he could trick the God by offering him another |
| 1:55.6 | bull to sacrifice while leaving the Herald to breed in his own herd, thus converting |
| 2:01.2 | a heavenly boon into his own private benefit. |
| 2:05.0 | But Poseidon was not fooled. |
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