Reflections : How to start a movement

After watching Derek Sivers's TED talk on 'How to start a movement', I understood much more about leadership. Leadership happens in everyday life. From the example that Derek Sivers gave, which was a short video footage featuring a man in an outdoor music festival. The man started to dance in the middle of the crowd, which everyone thought was hilarious and weird. After a short while, another man followed, after time, many people stepped out of their comfort zone to follow the social trend, which was to dance in the middle of the field. As more and more people come together to dance, the people who are sitting and not dancing become not in the trend. The man who started the trend and the first man who followed has become 'leaders'. They led the people at the music festival to come together to dance.

I learnt that, if we want to start a movement or make a change, we can start by doing our part, no matter how small, and when more and more people come together to support, there will be more manpower to be able to make change happen.

-Serena Soo