Many people think that, in
this competitive society, being patient is an effective way to succeed since they
believe patient makes good result in every group projects. Contrary to the
popular belief, I think that being patient isn’t a wonderful way to succeed
for these reasons; leadership needs charisma, not always listening and
enduring other’s opinion, and being patient may lead to lose one’s
individuality.
First of all, leadership,
which is essential to survive in competitive and complex society, needs
charisma, not a patient. There are lots of group projects both in schools and
companies these days. And it is obvious that, many groups have a conflict
during group projects. At that time, members find leader as a decider. If the
leader of the team act patiently and listen to all member’s opinion trying to
accept every idea, team may need lots of time to solve problem, and sometimes
who did wrong may not understand about his wrong behavior. For example, when
I was in grade 6, I was the leader of my team. One day team members fought
each other since one of the team members didn’t do his duty well, and by him,
every member was angry. At that time, I told strongly to him about other
members feeling, and as a result, he did his duty well after then since he
felt what was his problem. However, my friend’s team who had a similar situation,
just became patient and tried to persuade other members not to fight, finally
got “F” since wrong student didn’t think he was so bad and didn’t change her
behavior. It means that sometimes strongly saying is better than being
patient.
Secondly, being patient may
lead to lose one’s individuality. There is a saying that people have to
reflect their opinion accurately in every situation. If not, they may lose
their personality and just have to follow other’s opinion. For instance,
Steve Jobs, the founder of an Apple, always claimed his idea, if he thought
it was right. I found in the internet that, he could succeed because he never
acted patiently about others opinion. He thought, if other’s idea is wrong,
he should correct it, not just following it. If he always acted patiently, he
couldn’t try to make the “smart phone”, since, no one of his team believed he
could do and no one said he may succeed. But, he believed his idea and
finally succeeded. By this, we can know that, to keep our individuality, we should
not be always patient to others.
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