With regards to leadership, it's making decisions and inviting others to go along with you. You can "lead" others into a happier state, if that's what you want to do. In fact, therapists are paid to do just that, to lead the patient into a mental state that they are unable to get to by themselves.
As Spuck points out, supplication is bad. Having a strong sense of reality and communicating that, "There's a party in my reality and you're invited", is good.
I might choose to cheer someone up if I think they're down. Not because I want something from them, just from compassion. I am choosing to lift them up out of their bad mental state for my own reasons and that's leadership, not supplication. |