I thought I had my outline for the POL all crafted out and that I wouldn't get any new ideas, but one can never run out of ideas. For the learning section, I began to replay the entire semester in my mind to make sure I wasn't missing out anything important, which is when I made the realization about the
DOMINO EFFECT
Ever since the beginning of the school year, we have been working as a team; with some independent tasks, but mainly as a team. I thought I had plenty of experience with teamwork before, but now it has a different feeling to it. I feel as if the results of the project/task depend on me. Even though every member of the group might have a different role, they are all connected to the final outcome. All of a sudden, we each began to depend on each other--if I didn't finish my part on time, the entire group would be affected, and I would end up feeling guilty. |
That's what the domino effect is about--one falls and they all fall with you. In my case, this drives motivation because even though you know that mistakes will be made, you try your best to get things done on time, at the least. Something else about working as a team is that I begin to not only worry about my own work, but of every member's as well, which stretches my discipline.
I have begun to see that as the actual beauty of TEAMWORK. It makes one more committed in whatever they do, because it's no longer something independent; fail and everyone pays the price. This is something I began to like about teamwork: since we are all destined to fail, because it's the only way to learn, members of a team tend to become more flexible when their group members fail as the time goes by. With many mistakes from different members, they start to become part of the process, and we begin to prepare for mistakes, rather than avoid them.