Everyone I know has had this feeling, at one time or another – you’re at the airport waiting in line for a slow ticket agent to help you while the precious minutes before your flight leaves are ticking away. Or how about this one, you’re sitting in a classroom thinking of the overwhelming amount of tasks you need to accomplish while a dithering instructor sucks your time away. Waiting on others when we’re trying to move ahead in life will always make us feel like the exceptional individual we could possibly become is being murdered right in front of our eyes. But whether it feels right or not, grouping together and being dependent on each other is an essential lesson which we all must learn.
Following the ordeal of the 33-trapped Chilean miners over the past several weeks has been at once gripping, heartbreaking, and inspiring. The media devotes much time to superstar experts who have been brought in to increase the survival odds of the miners (NASA scientists, doctors, and, most recently, professional oil well drillers). Yet these outside individuals will not be the deciding factor in whether the miners make it. Instead, survival will depend on the miners’ ability to kill it by grouping and working together; and by appointing the most experienced men to wisely and generously lead the group during this period of extreme endurance. Down in the mine, a stable, organized environment—essential to lasting out what may add up to months underground—is now being maintained by dividing up into groups of three to create a buddy system. While the slow incoming rations of food make their way down the 4″ diameter hole that connects the miners to the surface, it’s an agreed upon rule that no one can eat before everyone has their food in hand—a protocol essential to keeping up morale. The lesson here is that when even when every desire in our body is screaming at us to bust out on our own, the road to success is also completely tied to the success of those around us. There are countless situations where we must act effectively as a group in order to survive as an individual. If you want to kill it at these times, you have to become the top expert at relying on others.
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