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Hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of The Five Minute Leader. This is a video that you only get if you are a premium, a paid subscriber to my Substack. So if that's you, thank you so much.
In today’s video, I want to talk about empathy letters, or something called a hot letter. This is actually a pretty cool story that I came across—something that Lincoln, one of our, of course, famous presidents in the States, did.
The idea of this kind of a letter is that there have been several times where, when Lincoln was very upset and frustrated, he would write a letter to one of his generals or to somebody on his team, and it might be pretty scathing and direct—but he would never send it.
Why would he never send this?
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