The application of Washington's law of cooperation

Smart Americans like to sum up simple principles into laws, so the Chinese version of the story of "three monks" becomes the American version of "Washington's law of cooperation": one person is perfunctory, two people pass the buck, and three people will never succeed. People who have caught crabs may know that crabs can't climb out of the basket without covering them. Because as long as one wants to climb up, other crabs will cling to it one after another and pull it down. In the end, none of them can go out.

Similar to this is Bonnie's law of manpower: "one person can dig a hole in a minute, and sixty people can't dig a hole in a second."

The cooperation between people is not a simple sum of strength, the relationship is much more subtle and complex. In the cooperation between people, assuming that everyone's energy is 1, then the energy of 10 people may be much larger than 10, or even smaller than 1. Because human cooperation is not static, it is more like energy with different directions. When people push each other, they will get twice the result with half the effort. When they conflict with each other, they will achieve nothing.

It's very important to work effectively with people. In modern society, those who are isolated will fail; if they persist in isolation after failure, they will only have a lifetime of companionship with failure, and there is no possibility of success. This is by no means alarmist. After all, in this ever-changing era, in this rapidly changing society, the power of the individual is insignificant and insignificant. In modern society, silence is no longer gold, but asking for help and cooperation is gold!

Everyone's ability has a certain limit. Only those who are good at cooperating with others can make up for their own lack of ability and achieve the goal that they could not achieve.