Experience Makes a Leader In order to be a good leader, it is important that you are experienced in what you are fighting for just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sister Rosemary were. A leader is a person who sets examples for others and who shows inspiration, empathy, and passion as well as many other characteristics. When leading a group of people, it is very important that you have experienced the situation, which you are fighting for in order to connect emotionally with your followers, gain global connections, as well as acquire the trust of your companions. Sister Rosemary and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. both lived through the struggles that they were fighting against whereas Wendy Kopp did not. In order to become an excellent leader, …show more content…
People either did not think that it was a good idea or they did not think that she would be able to do it. Her being a young student, just out of college, made it difficult for her to find the supporters she needed in order to get her program going. She too did not have any experience in living in a low-income area or being under educated therefore making it difficult to relate to her future supporters and donors how important this would be. Wendy Kopp had trouble getting people and companies to give her grants because they did not believe she could do it. She also had no experience in the situation so none of her connections had any experience in the situation and therefore they felt no need to help her or donate to her cause. As stated in Wendy Kopp’s novel, One Day, All Children, “Many people could not accept that a young woman with no real-world experience could possibly run such an ambitious, untested enterprise” (Kopp 19). This shows how people are unwilling a lot of times to help those you lack in experience in what they want to accomplish. It makes it a lot easier to gain supporters or people to donate to your cause if you have personal connections or stories of your personal life to tell these people to explain the importance and significance of your