Question

Are leaders born or made? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Leaders are made not born. Certain theories such as Great Man theory and Trait theories believe that people inherit certain qualities and traits that eventually leads to building a leader out of them. Every person are born with similar skills, certain traits for some people are special and unique to them but to imbibe qualities and using them appropriately for a proper cause, is something that a person learns over a period of time.

There is a significant difference between learning a skill and mastering one, in the same way that some are born with amazing musical gifts or athletic talents while some has to struggle to reach that point. But a natural prodigy cannot utilize his/her skills that efficiently as one who has learnt it the hard way. These people will become better leaders than the ones born with the talent because they know what it is to be a common person and how the acquired skills can be used in a better manner for all.