I recommend reflecting on your experience with this chapter’s exercise before continuing. You can reflect about anything you found relevant, but here are some questions you may want to consider:

Did you feel you inspired people?

If not, do you think you could with practice?

How did people you led this way seem to feel?

How did you feel leading them this way?

How do you think your practice and technique will change with experience?

Where and how might you apply your experience in the rest of your life?

Data from Exercise

Most students do Lead with Empathy tentatively, as if they’re walking barefoot in a dark room, afraid to stub their toes. This chapter’s exercise, Inspire, is to repeat the steps of Lead with Empathy. Experience has shown that repeating Lead with Empathy leads you to perform it as if you are striding into a bright room, confident of each step. Like any skill, if you rehearse, you get it and it looks effortless. If you don’t, you won’t.
The confidence comes from seeing people respond enthusiastically and finding meaning in the task. A leader acting assertively, confidently, and empathetically—based on experience, skill, and awareness, not authority, aggression, or entitlement—is easier to follow. Success with Lead with Empathy will give you that confidence.

Your teammates will feel inspired when you Lead with Empathy with confidence. Inspired people 

• Work harder, more diligently, and longer than uninspired people.
• Work for internal motivations, emotions, and passions.
  Feel like they’re working for themselves, not someone else.
  Feel liberated, like, “Finally, I can work for the reasons I always wanted to”.
  Feel deeply thankful to the person who motivated them.
  Feel the work rewarding in itself.
  Want to do more when their project finishes.
  Look back fondly at the amount of work they did.
  Value missing less-rewarding activities, no matter how fun, not as a sacrifice.
  Care about quality and make it happen.
• Put aside distraction to focus on their tasks.
  Feel like the person who inspired them understands them deeply.
  Want the person who inspired them to lead them again.

Sounds like how Abdul-Jabbar described playing under Wooden to me.