Individualism vs Collectivism
"It takes two flints to make a fire." --Louisa May Alcott
The statement above embodies the notion that working together is ideal and efficient when it comes to taking on a very cumbersome or an intensely hard task. Here the division of labor comes into play and in a little time, the intensely hard task is completed and in some cases the benefits of working together supersedes that of working alone, but the whole idea of collectivism or group work is built on the foundation of individualism. Collectivism is defined as the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual however it is the individuality of a person that makes a group work. While many people argue the benefits of working in a …show more content…
I was recently assigned to a group of two people, we were meant to produce a plate and subject this plate to a certain load and then try to identify if the design for the plate was safe and if the design wasn’t, we were to design a new plate that can withstand the load assigned. Like every group project, we quickly distributed the work load and the division of labor began, we had 2 weeks to complete this project so I tried my best to do my part so as to not hold the team back, which is one of the drawback of collectivism or working in groups. While I was on top of my part in the group part and while I was constantly in contact with my team members, I thought they would be as enthused as I was regarding the project little did I know, two days to the presentation of the project, I got a call from my one of my group member asking me what he was supposed to do in the project. Even though I was very much frustrated and annoyed, there was nothing I could do but to either do his part and hope my other group member would do his own part. So I ended up doing my partner’s part and we all managed to pass because of the short period of time we had to complete the project. Basically what I am trying to say is that if we had all been judged based on our individual work, I would have no issue with working in groups, however from the definition of Collectivism more …show more content…
An introvert is described as a person that prefers solitary activities to interacting with people, while an extrovert is the direct opposite of an introvert. Throughout the years, there have been people that have gone against the grain and forced change in the world as we know it, from the invention of super machines to the discovery of what makes us, humans, what we are and what makes each individuals unique in their own way to the introduction of certain theories that govern the world as we know it, if one is to take a guess as to who those engineers of change are and with what team did they accomplish these magnificent things, the answer would be, Introverts and they didn’t work in groups, on the contrary they engineered change in the solitude of their mind. Their dreams were so big that they couldn’t trust that other people could handle such task so they took it upon themselves to make their dreams happen. Example of these people are, Albert Einstein, a world renowned physicist who developed the theory of relativity, he is widely quoted as saying, “the Monotony and solitude of a quite life simulates the creative mind”. It would be crime to leave out Bill Gates, Mahatma Gandhi, Barbra McClintock and so on when talking about introverts that have engineered change in the world as we know
"It takes two flints to make a fire." --Louisa May Alcott
The statement above embodies the notion that working together is ideal and efficient when it comes to taking on a very cumbersome or an intensely hard task. Here the division of labor comes into play and in a little time, the intensely hard task is completed and in some cases the benefits of working together supersedes that of working alone, but the whole idea of collectivism or group work is built on the foundation of individualism. Collectivism is defined as the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual however it is the individuality of a person that makes a group work. While many people argue the benefits of working in a …show more content…
I was recently assigned to a group of two people, we were meant to produce a plate and subject this plate to a certain load and then try to identify if the design for the plate was safe and if the design wasn’t, we were to design a new plate that can withstand the load assigned. Like every group project, we quickly distributed the work load and the division of labor began, we had 2 weeks to complete this project so I tried my best to do my part so as to not hold the team back, which is one of the drawback of collectivism or working in groups. While I was on top of my part in the group part and while I was constantly in contact with my team members, I thought they would be as enthused as I was regarding the project little did I know, two days to the presentation of the project, I got a call from my one of my group member asking me what he was supposed to do in the project. Even though I was very much frustrated and annoyed, there was nothing I could do but to either do his part and hope my other group member would do his own part. So I ended up doing my partner’s part and we all managed to pass because of the short period of time we had to complete the project. Basically what I am trying to say is that if we had all been judged based on our individual work, I would have no issue with working in groups, however from the definition of Collectivism more …show more content…
An introvert is described as a person that prefers solitary activities to interacting with people, while an extrovert is the direct opposite of an introvert. Throughout the years, there have been people that have gone against the grain and forced change in the world as we know it, from the invention of super machines to the discovery of what makes us, humans, what we are and what makes each individuals unique in their own way to the introduction of certain theories that govern the world as we know it, if one is to take a guess as to who those engineers of change are and with what team did they accomplish these magnificent things, the answer would be, Introverts and they didn’t work in groups, on the contrary they engineered change in the solitude of their mind. Their dreams were so big that they couldn’t trust that other people could handle such task so they took it upon themselves to make their dreams happen. Example of these people are, Albert Einstein, a world renowned physicist who developed the theory of relativity, he is widely quoted as saying, “the Monotony and solitude of a quite life simulates the creative mind”. It would be crime to leave out Bill Gates, Mahatma Gandhi, Barbra McClintock and so on when talking about introverts that have engineered change in the world as we know