  In 'Seekers and Scalers: The Future Leaders' (Training & Development, 1997), Randall White listed six scales of leadership development: couch potatoes, spectators, passengers, travellers, explorers and adventurers. On that basis, I position myself in the middle of transforming from a passenger to a traveler.Being a traveller, I possess a risk-taking and can-do attitude.
During my working with Ernst &amp; Young Vietnam as a Recruitment Consultant, I always thought to myself that 'nothing is impossible' to self-motivate and sustain confidence. I used to be exposed to circumstances which I had to choose either happily accepting more responsibilities and perform the job that I had never experienced before or jeopardizing losing my job. I decided to take risks with a 'can-do' attitude. I also learnt that mistakes/failures are as equally important as success from my Senior Manager.
I was trained the attitude of not fear for mistakes. Likewise, I am fully aware that difficult-learning would create a sustainable advantage against others as well. I studied Japanese at the age of fifteen when Japanese was perceived one of the most difficult languages in Asia or even in the world. My hope was to easily win a scholarship to go to Japan when competition was low as not many Vietnamese could master its language.
One more thing, I'm always on the move of seeking and creating new opportunities with a strong ambition and a well-planned direction.However, I'm so far still a passenger and haven't fully developed to be a traveler. It is because I haven't proactively exposed myself to new experiences. Sometimes, I am afraid of uncertainty and prefer safety to risk as I tend to be perfectionist. I recognize the importance of difficult-learning and that 'easy solutions are fool's gold' but I at times give up in the middle of action. I have a clear direction where to go but for now and then I'm very confused with new factors happening on the way.
Last but not least, at crucial moments, I often lose the trust in my ability. For those reasons, I think I haven't reached the level of travellers.I think I have gone half of the road on the exploration to leadership when I know my strengths and weaknesses and where I position in the exploration scale. The only action I have to do is to practice, practice and practice the skills of a traveller to make them mine. 
