What Trying To Help Others Has Taught Me About Life.

About a week ago, I embarked on a journey trying to walk in the footsteps of the greats before me.

I had been blessed by their kindness and benevolence so much so that I felt the strong urge to replicate their feats - or at least try.

So off I went to assemble a group of people I was going to try and help grow. It was going to be a fun experience - or was it? I had no idea what to expect.

Seven days after, here are the lessons I've learned :

- You need to understand people as individuals and this could take some time.

Yeah, grouping people might make the dissemination of information a lot faster but understanding what makes each individual unique will go a long way in making the dissemination of information a lot more effective. It's why custom made anything is always more expensive than their mass produced counterparts.

- Interaction is the major key in growing a community.

This is also linked to the point above. When you interact with people, you get to know them. There's this sense of calm that familiarity tends to bring and once this has been established early on, the atmosphere becomes a very comfortable one for everyone involved.

- People could be scared of airing their opinions.

The main reason being that nobody wants to hurt anyone's feelings. So the easier route of only praising the good and overlooking the bad becomes the order of the day.

- Sometimes you need to take the tough stance.

This is also inline with the "not wanting to hurt their feelings" intention but the truth is, sometimes (many times), the truth needs to be heard and someone needs to stand up to that responsibility. The funny thing is that folks that are 100% ready to learn won't take your tough comments as something bad but rather use it to spur themselves on to greater heights.

- There's nothing better than helping people grow.

This feeling is just unlike anything else. The closest feeling to it might be watching your child grow (which i'm yet to experience) but yeah it still involves watching people grow. Even without any monetary reward or acknowledgement of any kind, you still tend to feel fulfilled.

In just over 7 days, I've learned all these and also realized that like every other thing you do in life, you have to love what you do.

You should try it!

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