We can
succeed only by concert. It is not “Can any of us imagine better?” but “Can we
all do better?”
We can achieve success only through collective effort rather
than as individuals because success needs hard work; a lot of it and an individual
gets crushed bearing its burden. True success also requires a variety of
talents which, for an individual, is quite impossible to provide.
I realized this when I was young and fussed up about doing
things all by myself. I had challenged myself to make a database management
software and then sell it. I was already up to the task when half way through
it I realized that there were some commercial implications also. My code must
be bug free, it needed to deal with invalid inputs and commands in a user
friendly way and above all it had to look pretty; something I was never good
at. I was burdened with so many things to do that I ended with my hands up and recruiting a team of members from different fields of expertise to complete the job. And when it hit the market, it was among the top ten software available
for the database management.
Similarly the experience of a friend and cousin also proved
the same when he claimed to open a tuition center to teach Chemistry, Physics
and Mathematics to students seeking secondary education and found that the
students were to many to be taught by a lone soul managing the clerks desk as
well.
Events in history have revealed the same as well. Before
1947, when the sub-continent was still under British rule, the individual outcry
for rights were dispersed like flies but the continuous processions of Gandhi and
Muhammad Ali Jinnah for the rights of their factions won them their part in the
legislature government.
An individual and his work are far too insignificant to be
noticed by anyone and thus to become successful while continuous and collective work and the synergy of many
different minds has the most probability of success.
