Connecting.
The human species is a very fragile and weak creature when are compared to all the other animals on the planet. We do not have thick skin, claws, the ability to run fast, climb, or thrive in environments beyond a very small range of temperatures. Our situation is even more dire when we are first born. The species family unit must maintain hundred percent vigilance for the first couple years of life just to be able to survive. By all rights, the human species should’ve been destroyed by everything else on this planet.
So why are we still here??
From my personal experience, I believe it is because of our ability to collaborate with one another and work towards a common goal through task specialization and delegation.
It is impossible to be all things to all people. Our natural talents and disadvantages automatically make us better at some things and worse at others. Through task specialization we can become more useful to those around us and becomes a key reason why others would want to collaborate with us. If everybody could do everything, we would not need to work together. It would seem that our designed as a species deliberately puts us in a position that we must work together to survive.
Then as we form teams we delegate the tasks to those who would be better suited to perform them. This creates a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It is this whole that is stronger than all the other animals on the planet and allows us to dominate.
The bottom line of the message is that for us individually to do great things we must collaborate with others who also want to do great things and have the skills we are lacking. We must form teams to tackle the problems. We must be willing to reach out to others and share our gifts if we want to thrive.
- Stay Savage
The human species is a very fragile and weak creature when are compared to all the other animals on the planet. We do not have thick skin, claws, the ability to run fast, climb, or thrive in environments beyond a very small range of temperatures. Our situation is even more dire when we are first born. The species family unit must maintain hundred percent vigilance for the first couple years of life just to be able to survive. By all rights, the human species should’ve been destroyed by everything else on this planet.
So why are we still here??
From my personal experience, I believe it is because of our ability to collaborate with one another and work towards a common goal through task specialization and delegation.
It is impossible to be all things to all people. Our natural talents and disadvantages automatically make us better at some things and worse at others. Through task specialization we can become more useful to those around us and becomes a key reason why others would want to collaborate with us. If everybody could do everything, we would not need to work together. It would seem that our designed as a species deliberately puts us in a position that we must work together to survive.
Then as we form teams we delegate the tasks to those who would be better suited to perform them. This creates a situation where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It is this whole that is stronger than all the other animals on the planet and allows us to dominate.
The bottom line of the message is that for us individually to do great things we must collaborate with others who also want to do great things and have the skills we are lacking. We must form teams to tackle the problems. We must be willing to reach out to others and share our gifts if we want to thrive.
- Stay Savage
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