Self-Awareness Is the Key to Unleashing Your Potential
The young Prince knocked the poisoned arrow on his bow, pulled back the heavy string and, for a brief moment, held his breath while aiming before shooting it towards his brother’s killer. The arrow Paris released entered the only vulnerable part of his body, the heel, and led to death of the swift-footed, godlike warrior, Achilles. Although Homer, the legendary Greek poet, doesn’t tell us about how Achilles died in Iliad , one of my all-time favorite books, later ancient Greek myths describe the scene similar to the above. Achilles’ heel was his only weak spot because that’s where his mother, Thetis, held him while dipping his body into the river Styx to make him immortal. Had he known this about himself, would Achilles have put on special armor, to shield his only weak spot, Achilles heel ? If we take off from the city of Troy, the modern day Truva in Turkey, fly due southwest, across the beautiful and deep blue Aegean Sea, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus,...
