“How can groups of small people and ideas motivate such phonomenal achievements?”

Group Think was an interesting essay by Malcolm Gladwell. He explained how working in groups can lead to phonomenal changes in our society, including some that happened in the past.

In one of his examples,”SNL” is a group of comedians who worked together to create an comical piece for audiences to enjoy. Their teamwork and effort led to a epic sucess in our comical society. Group thinking has to be obtained in a comforting environment. Without this comfort, good ideas usually do not exist. The Saturday Night Live crew were all comfortable with each other being around, and this family feeling brought together new ideas which lead to humorous changes.

Gladwell compared the teamwork of the “SNL” crew to the teamwork of people who made a huge impact on our society today, such as Darwin and Watts. Individual ideas can come together to make a impact on something. Working in a group in Writing for College can also branch out ideas that some people have never thought of. As ideas branch together, they eventually lead to something phonomenal achievements. “The Lunar Society” was a gathering of inventors who all wanted to achieve something great. Eventually, their hard work and dedication paid off with their inventions that changed our world today. During their collabrations, they had their own esoteric language, that only they as a group could understand. In a way, this is an inside joke that only the “Lunar Men” could understand. Eventually, more and more people became interested in their inventions and these inventions soon expanded into something better and larger than before.

However, not all group thinking rountines can lead to something famous. In life, there are always obstacles and nothing is never the way that you want it. Failure is always there, like it or not. Failure is a lesson that needs to be learned. Sometimes, failure can lead to even larger and better achievements that before. Also in a group, exists competition. Friends are nice to each other but there are times when one wants to be better than the other. Competition can sometimes lead to something greater than before, or it can lead off the subject into something bad. In one of his examples, Gladwell explained how “Priestly came up with soda water and the rubber eraser, and James Keir was the man who figured out how to mass-produce soap, and eventually building a twenty-acre soapworks. In the end, someone else decides to tell them that all along they were supposed to be fighting slavery.”

In all, Gladwell explains how something so small and unknown can morph into a phonomenal creation that can make a huge difference in life.