Faces behind a face.

We all have our role models. People whom we greatly admire and want to become like. But do we ever think about the fact that there were several people without the help of whom this person wouldn’t be where he is at today.

Consider Nobel prize winners. The scientists who win this prize almost always have a team working on the discovery/invention.

But it is the individual who gets awarded. It is the individual who gets to be our role model, not the whole team. It’s time we start acknowledging that a person can’t achieve much on his own without any assistance from someone else or a team.

The one thing we never take away from our role models is the importance of collective work. The ability to work with people to achieve better results.

It is one extremely important skill you should know in order to be called successful someday.

We celebrate individual successes and hence even our role models are individuals. While what needs to be admired about them all is their skill to work with a team to achieve what they have achieved now.

Don’t fall into the trap of know it all and and do it all. Find the right people to work with you on a mission. Because individuals fight small battles, if you are in for a big fight then you’ll need an army.

Remember that there are several faces behind every face that we know and admire. Just a handful of them get acknowledged. All those faces are important because without them the few faces that we look up to won’t be there.

-ChoubeySahab