Want to change the world? Be helpful.

A gapingvoid art print. In your stroke world it means helping your doctor, therapists and stroke hospital see how fucking bad they are at getting you to 100% recovery. Nothing is worse than supposedly smart people being willfully blind to their failures.  Getting you walking is not a success, getting you running might be a success depending on your marathon or triathlon ability.

Are leaders born or are they made?

It doesn't make one fucking whit of difference because we have NO leaders in our stroke associations.

From GapingVoid Art in case you think a poster might help our stroke leaders do something.

Are leaders born or are they made? It's the age old question.

We won't argue which side wins, but we all must agree that made or born, it starts from within. A drive to make a difference to those around you. A simple idea that many people just don't get.

The position of 'leader' is  one of the most powerful positions a person can have.

What motivates the lead? For some people it is about charisma, for others, its thoughts, heroism, talent or these days, a gift of being a stellar communicator.

Regardless, the thing all the greatest leaders have in common is, conviction.

They can lead for good or for evil, but they convince their followers through doing something that they are willing to die for... metaphorically or literally.

Control or resilience - stroke applications

This needs to be applied to stroke. A great discussion from Seth Godin
Since we never will be able to prevent all strokes or TBIs we need to be able to address the problems caused by these events. But our stroke associations continue to go down this route because it is easier. Leaders tackle the tough problems. We have NO leaders in stroke.
1. Knowing exactly how neuroplasticity works and make it repeatable upon command. We currently don't know why and how a neuron takes on a neighbors task and drops it's own task. Until we figure that out neuroplasticity is not really that useful.
2. Knowing how to create neurogenesis. And angiogenesis to support the new neurons.
3. Knowing how to direct neurogenesis to the areas needing help.
4. Stem cells - I don't consider this very useful right now, this is basically a moon shot with almost no hope of success.
Resilience would be working on the first three since we will never be able to control factors enough to prevent all stroke and TBIs.

Anthony Jay once said something like "You can judge a leader by the size of the problems they tackle."

From a Gapingvoid art piece;
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=028de8672d5f9a229f15e9edf&id=a7ffefe972&e=74020f8000
Our stroke associations don't seem to be tackling any problems whatsoever. In fact, my opinion is that they are hiding from stroke survivors. They are afraid to talk to us. CHICKENSHITS!!!
This telling the truth is no way to get them to actually work with us though. I'm looking at you; ASA, NSA, WSO.