Reflection

Derek sivers: How to start a movement 

The video is about leadership and how to make a movement. From the video, the leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed. A video is shown where a shirtless man starts dancing randomly. He appears to be the leader in this situation. Before long, a follower appears and starts dancing with him. The leader treats him as an equal. The first follower then asks people to join them in dancing. This first follower now acts as a leader, because he has the guts to stand out. After that, more and more people join the dancing, which forms a movement. Those who decide to stick with the crowd on the floor, not joining in the movement will eventually be ridiculed for not joining. So this is how you make a movement.

I learnt that even though most people would say that the shirtless man who started dancing alone would be the most important leader, in actual fact, the first follower was the one who transformed the shirtless man into a leader. I learnt that if you really start a movement,  have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. So it takes two to really start a movement.

-Gwen Su(18)

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