So leaders learn to keep moving.
But the most demanding roles in public life, whether people admit it or not, are loaded with isolation. There are thousands of people around you, yet very few who can relate to what you carry. The constant attention doesn’t remove loneliness; it reshapes it. The distance between a leader and everyone else grows wider with every decision that affects millions, with every controversy, with every security barrier that becomes routine. Even a former president remains trapped in a kind of permanent spotlight—an identity so large it consumes the person wearing it. Continue reading…