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pwyoutube.wordpress.com pwyoutube.wordpress.com Imran Khan answering questions in public forum with university students and faculty - TV One - Apr 11, 2009. Imran Khan's great talent is in picking the challenges that he CAN do and NOT doing the ones he cannot. For example given the chance to join various governments as minister, he has avoided the complication those jobs would entail for him. The good this is that this allows him to do some things at a high level of quality. The bad thing is it also limits the impact he can have on society. For instance if he had joined Zia-ul-Haq's government as minister of education for instance, he MIGHT have instituted some changes which may have remained to this day and created a 10% improvement over ALL these years. It is this focus on excellence which thus deprives him of the ability to participate in a wider (albeit more diluted) improvement of things in Pakistan. In this he is starkly different from a person like Edhi, who is primarily focused on serving the people without regard for payback or acclaim. A wider net is also cast and thus a lower quality is achieved also. With Imran Khan one of the problems he has - which limits his leadership quality to not go beyond schoolboy-level show off-ness - is that he cannot do something that is good for the nation but is bad for his image. And in this respect he is also different from Musharraf - who has taken decisions which would be unpopular but were required for that time. Because of ...