I Strongly Believe That To Be A Great Leader, You Need to Start by Leading Yourself, in my opinion, the first enemy of man is primarily itself. Any success can be achieved if we can discipline our personal qualities and suppress the desires that hinder us from making progress. Human passions and mental laziness can often be the reason for the loss of the greatest talent because only talent in my opinion is not enough for a person to succeed. After personal qualities and the mental world, man becomes unstoppable, and I think in such a situation it can have a profound effect on those around him. The existence of motivated and restless people in various work environments doubles the productivity of Teamwork. But the emotional and mental influence of our team members should not be bosses, I think leadership skills must be devoid of boss stigma, productivity, and motivation doubles when the best player works tirelessly, even if he does not. I have been an athlete since childhood, I remember we had a competition with another team, they were strong, and it was very affected by me and my teammates. I had been thinking for a long time before the competition had a sense of announcement at the competition, but after a lot of discussions, I realized that my team and I had nothing to lose, they were favorites, so there was a lot of pressure on us. I started walking more fun, encouraging my teams at each vicinity and acting as if nothing special, I remember gathering my teams in the dressing room. We will offer a much better performance to the opponent.
We were all motivated and free to do so, with these feelings as if the circumstances contributed to the circumstances.
In the end, in the competition, my team took second place, but no one would say their frustration, on the contrary, it was equivalent to winning.
That is why I believe that it is important to have one’s self-awareness at first, and after self-awareness, it is already possible to acquire the skills you need for a leader.

One death cannot be compared to another. Every life is unique. One life is not equal to another. They killed us and we killed them is the logic of the repetition of violence. Vazha-Pshavela and his character Aluda Ketelauri knew this. Aluda’s cannibalistic dream directly describes a situation where one life can be exchanged for another life. “I was eating, but it hurt my / Man’s hands and feet are bony”, says Aluda. “I was eating, but it hurt me” is exactly the mechanism we live in when we symbolically exchange one life, one crime for another, or write it off. It indeed hurts us, but still, we continue to eat man.

This metaphorical cannibalism is the condition we live in when we justify killing even by relativizing it. If Aluda Ketelauri had lived according to the logic of our Whatabout*, he should have calmly continued to kill his enemies and cut their rights. It is not difficult to justify violence. One always finds an argument for one’s violence, killing or oppressing others. The stomach was always guilty, it “damaged” the chattels, in other cases, the victim might have “cursed the mother”, might have annoyed the abuser by “wearing a short dress” and so on. The reason can be any, and the person standing above says to the person below, “Why are you pouring water on me?” As soon as we justify violence, violence, and death, we enter the space of cannibalism.

When there is one look more than any words, a moment caught in the gaze, a moment that is often equal to eternity, because it is saturated and warmed by love, warmth, and care for each other when you see a ray of happiness in the eyes of someone standing next to you or standing directly, and it fills everything, often with a little present for happiness, but if all this is little, where is more fullness, when I become rare and we multiply, where there are yours around and you feel the heartbeat of each of them as your own, all this is great love, and love needs warning, loyalty, and constant care. When you do a good deed, you should always be prepared so that many will not understand you, some will be surprised, some will laugh at you, some will consider you stupid, and some will repay you with a slap on the back. At this point, the only right answer is to do more good and give more love! Any work a person should do with love, if human relations are not based on love, will not bring anything. And nothing suits love like loyalty and dedication.

Yesterday, March 20, the First Secretary of the People’s Republic of China, SC Jinping, paid a three-day visit to the Russian Federation, the meeting was in a pompous environment, the Russian side was trying its best to make the Chinese delegation as possible. Based on various sources, the visit will be important, in terms of Russian-Chinese military cooperation, this meeting may even be a historical meeting, and a new military block may be formed in front of us, with two authoritarian states with their greatest military potential.
We have seen the Russian military force alone cannot resist the unity of the North Atlantic Alliance, so the Kremlin is trying to see friends in Asia at the expense of everything. At the same time, Putin knows that ” Eastern Experience is a matter ” and the Chinese dragon simply does not deceive himself.
In general, it is very interesting that in history, Russia’s relationship with Asian countries, and yesterday’s dictators, reminded me of the events of April 1941, when Moscow visited Japanese Foreign Minister, Matsuoka. They would not use military force. After the official signature process, Stalin himself came to a Japanese diplomat and said – we, the Asians, have to stand together.
Russia has long refused European identity, there are probably many reasons for it.
As early as the 17th century, Peter, the First’s European choice was as if the future of this enormous state had been decided, for three centuries the Russians were trying to use European integration, what our northern neighbors did not use, starting with aristocratic blood, ending with a simple peasant, though even educated Russia For Europe, it has remained a strange body, with the Russian Empire on the map of Europe, always a wild, wild bear or an octopus that is trying to increase its spheres of influence.
The last Russian emperor Nicholas II should probably be considered the last of ‘European Russia’ ‘, after which the tragic overthrow of Russia and Europe had fallen on the red curtain.
After the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, on the ruins of the former Russian Empire, the so-called “Russian world” emerged, part of which we became part of it.
The Russian world, even before the Bolshevik Revolution, existed, though the king’s time was somewhat under European influence, which would ensure education and at some level of human rights. The Communist Russian world could not last long, though it managed to have a great influence on the cultural and mental state of the countries during the change of generations, managing to create ethnic conflict -causing mines throughout the post-Soviet space, which would allow them to maintain influence in the regions.
After the collapse of the USSR, until the mid -90s of the 10th years, Russia seems to have a complete confrontation with the West, but after 2007 Putin’s speech in Munich, it became clear that Russia was still an empire and that old ambitions were nowhere to be lost.

The Idea of freedom

In the past of any nation, some dates play an important role, not only from a historical point of view, but they have a special role in modern reality or future development. April 9 is such a day in the history of our country, the day when, in 1989, the Soviet Empire once again revealed its true face and dispersed a peaceful rally. Two years later, based on the results of the referendum held in Georgia on March 31, on April 9, Zviad Gamsakhurdia announced the restoration of Georgia’s state independence. It was on this day that modern Georgia was born. Today, 20% of the territory of our country is occupied, there are big problems that must be solved by the joint efforts of the older, middle, and younger generations, despite the difficulties, there is no alternative to independence and state development.
Freedom, and what is freedom anyway?
We have heard a lot of understandings, visions, and opinions about freedom, but at the beginning of the last century, famous Georgian writer Vazha Pshavela wrote in an excellent journalistic letter “What is freedom?” in a completely understandable way:
“What does freedom require from a person? How should a free person behave? – A free person should behave in such a way that his behavior does not harm others, especially society, but his actions should be directed to the happiness of the country. If this condition is not protected by a person, then his action will be a thug, because every thug acts freely only for personal gain. Therefore, freedom is not expressed only in what you want to speak, write, or do, – no! Everyone’s words and actions should be common, public happiness should be pursued as a guarantee, if it is not beneficial to the country, it should not be harmful or detrimental to the country.”

People are always trying to move forward and seek happiness, a paradox, but in this search often lose the most important and the greatest happiness, and most people have become accustomed to the usual story, but our greatest wealth is the simplicity of our will. We say. Unfortunately, we forget that “the human soul is much heavier than the body, so heavy that one person cannot wear it, so as long as we are alive, we must shake hands with each other”…

Yesterday, March 18, 2023, together with the Fermata Arts Foundation, we presented another presentation at the State of Connecticut, in New Britain public library.
I entered the hall of the presentation at 11:47 and started preparing for a hurried tempo, exactly noon we started the presentation event, traditionally, with Mr. Nikolay Synkov’s performance called ‘Civilization’. Initially, the audience was not present in the audience, but a few minutes after the presentation, several people entered the lecture.
As part of the time regulations, I was trying to be as cognitive as possible and at least in the general details I could have some idea of the history of Georgia and the Transcaucasus to attend the audience.
In this case, the public proved to be quite curious, while still presenting, they asked quite a lot of questions, and the questions were mainly about general regional and political geography, as well as some of the ethnic and religious conditions in the region.
In one part of the presentation, I am talking about the old states on the territory of Georgia and naturally, I can’t talk about Iberia. Later, I added all of this to the uniqueness of our historical polyphonic folk songs and of course the story of many millennial histories of wine.
With the facts I have referred to in the Caucasus Iberia, one of the listeners inquired, and after the end of the lecture I explained everything about the existence of two Iberia. Men, of descent, turned out to have Spanish roots, and we talked in a short conversation, about the similarities of our cultures and folk wealth, after the conversation he gave me a hand and told me – we are relatives! We laughed, and at last, we warmly separated from each other as the real Iberians. We can not say anything about ethnical similarities, however, we are close to our Western Sechs. The public was very interested, in Mr. Nikolai Synkov, a post-presentation lecture, and a slideshow analysis. Within the framework of analytical hacking, he spoke about today’s acute problems in Ukraine and around the world, as well as the importance of the American people’s involvement in world problems.
Unfortunately, I saw the library’s staff for only a few minutes, and it was not possible to talk between us, though I think that the event was quite cognitive and interesting, including for me, because I feel that, I gained a huge experience after every presentation.

Tbilisi is a strange city, it has many faces…
I am ashamed that during the city war, when brothers were killing each other in the center of Tbilisi, people were arguing about the price of walnuts and broth at the desert market, and excitedly preparing to spread the festive table.
Anger chokes me when I remember the war of 2008… I could hear the phrase on television to scare the people of Tbilisi, to achieve their peace of mind: “Don’t be afraid, the tanks have turned to Orchosan”. (Orchosani is a small village near Tbilisi), the main thing is that we are no longer in danger – this was the attitude of Tbilisi snobs…
but…
This is the city where the democrats and revolutionaries who were exiled all over the world found refuge in the Nadzaladevi district.
This is the city where the people of Plekhanov put Kika (a famous person from Tbilisi) dressed in a thrift shop costume in a car to promote Khrushchev and thus expressed their protest against the anti-Georgian hysteria of the General Secretary.
This is the city where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protect their mother tongue without an organizer. The voice spread by itself among the people, the media did not announce the demonstration, and no one could speak about the gathering out loud.
This is the city where the squares were filled to strengthen the environmentalist positions of Professor Levan Asatiani, Professor Merab Aleksidze, Professor Givi Tumanishvili, to save Svaneti (one of the regions of Georgia), to destroy the Transcaucasian railway project.
This is the city where my grandfather didn’t let his children watch the TV, because the next-door neighbor died, and the sound doesn’t come out, it’s a shame; where my grandmother always kept separate chocolates in the chest of drawers (we still knew, we had detectors) and pristine bed linen for guests coming from West Georgia; Where the doctor Koba Petriashvili walked through the darkened and gang-filled city in the middle of the night to calm the nervous mother due to her son’s high temperature and bring medicine to the child.

Georgian Sentiments & Protest Culture

Along with the general history, Georgians also have a great protest culture.
On February 25, 1956, at the meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a speech in which he condemned the cult of Joseph Stalin. Khrushchev’s speech caused concern among many citizens of the Soviet Union. Since March, protests have started in Tbilisi and other cities. Georgian students walked the streets of Tbilisi with portraits of Stalin and Lenin.
The demonstrations in Tbilisi were brutally suppressed in blood.
However, we were left with a way of expressing protest, which was very innovative at that time.
According to the report, the students of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts painted a portrait of Stalin on a balloon in the Tbilisi Air Defense Armament and show their solidarity with the protesters.
Despite the party’s restriction of Georgian nationalism, Khrushchev’s policy of de-Stalinization was, paradoxically, a blow to Georgian national pride. The younger generation of the Georgians, not fully acquainted with the darker side of Stalin’s rule and bred on the panegyrics and permanent praise of the “genius” of Stalin, was proud to consider him a Georgian that ruled over great Russia, and, as believed widely, dominated the world. Now, Stalin’s denigration was seen as a symbol of the mistreatment of Georgian national consciousness at the hands of the Russian/Soviet rulers.
Patriotic sentiment mixed with the political protest was further inflamed by the sarcastic and bitter manner in which Khrushchev ascribed all horrors of the era to the “genial” leader Stalin, whom, as he ironically put it, the Georgians so much enjoyed calling “the great son of the Georgian nation”. Eduard Shevardnadze, then a Komsomol leader in Kutaisi and eventually to become President of post-Soviet Georgia, later recalled that Khrushchev’s ironic remark on Georgians at the end of his speech was particularly hurtful to the pride of Georgian youth.
The painful reaction caused by de-Stalinization in Georgia has been variously interpreted. It has been seen by many as a revival of Stalinism and by others as the first open expression of Georgian nationalism since the abortive revolt in 1924.

It is still col in here

The gray winter of March does not leave us, to warm up from the cold weather, we decided to remove the snow from the driveway.
3:00 pm I started the snow removal operation, first I armed myself with a large snow shovel and began to clear the main roads, my activity coincided with the deterioration of meteorological conditions, a strong cold wind came up, which slowed my progress, but I soon got into line and resumed work, about 3:34 pm The main road and footpath were cleared, then I went about the protocol and started sanding the paths, which took about 15-20 minutes.
Unfortunately, the crappy weather is progressing, but I hope that spring will gather strength and the cold rainy weather will be a thing of the past for a year.