I continued to dislike it right up until my sophomore year in college. I preferred working alone because I wanted to be in control of my own project, and I didn’t trust people to do a good job. Nowadays, I don’t mind it as much and have come to appreciate the value of teamwork. If you do a whole project alone, it takes more effort and it’s more time-consuming. Also, if I am going to be abolutely honest, there have been instances when I was the person who was lacking. It’s not because I didn’t put in effort, but rather because it was a subject in which I wasn’t particularly talented. In this way, I learned from other people, and managed to get a better grade than what I would have gotten if I had insisted on doing the work alone.
As you move forward in your studies, you’ll find that working in groups Iis an inevitable part of your academic and professional lives. In addition, as the world becomes more inter-connected, there is also a high possibility of working with people who come from other countries. This is why flexibility and global fluency are necessary skills that need to be developed. Learning how to work with others is a crucial skill that can determine not only a project’s success, but even yours! Let’s face it, sometimes there are difficult teammates and sometimes it’s hard to work with people. Currently, I have a group project in one of my classes and I am butting heads with one other person. We had different ideas on the direction of the project, so for the longest time, we couldn’t submit our group’s proposal. It was also emotionally taxing because I was spending too much mental energy on something so trivial.
