WEEK FORTY-FOUR:
INTERDEPENDENCE
"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
- Stephen Covey
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In one of my training sessions, I asked the participants to listen to a three-minute clip. It was a series of different instruments playing random tunes, one at a time and a few seconds in between. I asked them what they thought about it. Some thought a few of the tunes were great and others thought they were annoying.
I then played a different clip - this time all the instruments played at the same time to produce a melody. Everybody liked it and thought all the instruments blended well together. You see, some tunes sound horrible on their own, others sound fine but lacking, but together, they sound great. No man is an island, and just like the beautiful orchestra, we need each other in order to succeed and make something worthwhile.