"how to start a movement" Derek Sivers
After watching this video, I realize movements not only need a leader, but it takes 2 people. Basically, this video is about leadership.
Very importantly, a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed. Being confident is one of the most important qualities in being a leader. You must have the courage and confidence to lead other people. Then Derek Sivers showed a video of a man dancing without wearing any shirt in front of many people. But what he’s doing is so easy to follow.So here’s his first follower with a crucial role; he’s going to show everyone else how to follow.
I notice that the leader embraces him as an equal. This is not about the leader anymore, but both of them. Plural. Actually, the first follower is an underestimated form of leadership in itself. And the first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader. After that, more people come to join them dancing. Now it's definitely not many nuts, but a crowd has actually formed. A public movement is formed! Something I learned that I feel it's very important : we should not just show the leader, but the followers, because the followers emulate the new followers, not the leader.
What is the most important lesson? Leadership over glorified. Although it was the shirtless guy who first started, and he would be getting all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. It was him who started the movement with the leader.
So, as we’re told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective. We shouldn't always just try to lead people and be the leaders, but to be courageous to start a movement with your followers. In this over competitive society, if everyone just wants to be the leader, then who are the followers? How are the leaders going to start a movement if there are no followers?
-Yeo Yu Zhen (23) 2E
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