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Resilience in the Peruvian Amazon - Leadership in Action Report

In the Peruvian Amazon, I learned that leadership is not urgency or control, but the quiet discipline of restraint practiced daily by forests, fieldwork, and the people who depend on both. Here is my report on my LiA experience where humanity coexists with unfathomable biodiversity
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Sarvesh Prabhu
Student, Cornell University
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This essay reflects on how time in the Peruvian Amazon reshaped my understanding of leadership. What began as ecological fieldwork studying butterflies became an education in patience, restraint, and responsibility. The forest rewarded consistency over speed, and unpredictability demanded adaptation rather than control.

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Sarvesh Prabhu
Student, Cornell University

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