Sally Bendersky

I was there in Israel and it was incredible.

He interviewed me in a television program.

And he asked me two questions that I will never forget.

What is the European Union paying you?

I mean, what is your degree of corruption that you're saying no?

And I wasn't saying no.

I was saying, let's wait two or three more weeks.

That's all.

And the other thing is, I can't believe that being a representative of a country, you can say such amount of stupid things.

He said to me, the journalist.

So you see, and when I talk about these things, somebody will say, ah, it's human nature.

No, it's not human nature.

Human nature is the capacities, the capabilities that we are equipped with.

We are equipped with enough capabilities even to suppress the brain's tendency to go first for the negative, you know?

This is probably the... No, that could be just so.

But if you have very highly efficient machines and you're highly stupid, you can do devastating things.

And I think some of us think that we might be somewhere around there.

Yeah.

And that's why I think coaching today for very high leaders is so important because...

I'm sure you can find sensible people who are living in an environment in which, well, they don't have the possibility of seeing certain things.