Being at Home in the World: Cross-Cultural Leadership Lessons to Guide Your Journey

by Laetitia Mizero Hellerud

If your habit is to think on the difficulties too much, practice finding those things you do well and you will start to think more positively because of that new habit. Notice the good things happening to you or going well in your life, no matter how small they are.

Bishop Desmond Tutu, a South African social rights activist and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, summed up his own culture’s interpretation of Ubuntu through the following quote “My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours. I am because you are.” (No Future Without Forgiveness (Image, 2000)).

Cycles of oppression, violence, and persecution can also clutter the understanding of who we truly are. This may affect how we project ourselves to the rest of society and inherently impact our ability to receive and accept love.