“We never tell anyone they’re a natural-born leader. ‘Natural born’ means it’s outside your control,” Krulak said. “Instead, we teach them that leadership is learned, it’s the product of effort. We push recruits to experience that thrill of taking control, of feeling the rush of being in charge. Once we get them addicted to that, they’re hooked.”
What happens when this person finds out they are, in fact, not granted full control or agency over their own existence? Much like the concept of illusion of safety, this strikes me as something that would create the illusion, rather than the reality of, the extent to which the person has control over themselves within a given system, especially one as regimented and dependent on hierarchy like the military.
