Issue141 =美丽G程小组= by petric

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Issue141: Most people recognize the benefits of individuality, but the fact is that personal economic success requires conformity.

Economic success partially reflects the social recognitions to people achieving self-realizations through intelligence and hard work. Through scrutiny of reality, I fundamentally agree with the speaker that conformity along with individuality contributes to individual success, except for some areas in terms of investments, arts, and innovations.

When it comes to arts and investments, individuality seems superior to conformity reflecting average notions and admirations to established authorities, both of which turn out to be confines to inspiration, even the blocking stones to accomplishments. Arts are the manifestations to human spirits, challenging the rules to express individually and notions to beauty freely. Thus more often than not, artists who disobey the so-called mainstreams reap high reputations from the masses. Regarding investments, those who invest for high risk after delicate analysis are more prone to reap higher returns than conformists to crows who cannot afford potential adverse consequences. Similarly, individuality seems to be the originality of innovation. History filled with creations and innovations provided by researchers and scientists who seem unrecognized by their contemporaries.
For example, Henry Fort's assembling line , a revolution to manufacturing areas, not only manipulated numerous workers from traditional inefficient works, but also brought to the masses abundant products with lower costs, as well as blooming wealth to the capitalists. Had Watson followed the centric genetic protein theory, molecular biology would be postponed decades latter, and we could not enjoy the benefits of health care which contribute to individual careers and well-beings to society.

Does that mean individualism have the predominating status nowadays? Certainly not. To the contrary, conformity to certain regulations is emphasized when we encounter sophisticated tasks, as the precondition to cooperation. Under such condition, individuality does not conflict with conformity, but embraces mutually. After all, the roles we play in the society are identical to functions of a program in the entire software, which cannot works without a single one with its unique function and individuality. Yet if none of programs follow certain rules and cooperate with the rests, however perfect a single programs performs, it is meaningless to achieve the ultimate desired objectives. From the comparison above we can concludes that personal success relies on achieving fulfillments of society as a whole. Only through cooperation, struggling for the same destination, would we overcome complicated problems beyond our capabilities. Besides, only through making beneficial contribution to the development of society, would individuals obtain justifiable rewards from the recognitions of our contemporaries. On the other side, whoever drop out of
regulations created for ensuring disciplines of
order and fairness, is doomed to be left behind despite of extraordinary talents. Every realm has its own rules, not all of which are condemned to murder our inspirations. For instance, action or behavior in correspondence with current morality, ethnics, laws etc. is premier to conformity with personal principles. Working in a hierarchy system with the spirit of teamwork and conformity, such as government systems or companies, a person is provided with ample opportunities to personal success.


In conclusion, except certain areas such as arts and investments, teamwork as well as cooperating spirits survives a person in reality. Conformity to regulations does not equate with mediocrity and forsaking pursues to individuality; adversely, we can better implement our talents and ambitions in the recognized field and make more contribution to self-realization and the society.