This book is one of my favorite books in this lesson because it is really usefull point to get better results in every stage of our life. It shows us the way of how to be more succesful.
According to the definition of Wikipedia 'Psitive Dediance is an approach to behavioral and social change based on the observation that in a community, there are people (positive deviants) whose uncommon but succesful behaviors or strategies enable them to find better solutions to a problem than their peers, despite having no special resources or knowledge'. So for my opinion the important thing is to be aware of our positioning and who the positive deviants are.
Despite of similar conditions people can behave different to same situation because of knowledge, sociologic and psychological reasons, personalities... Sometimes we forget to look around to see the positive deviants and we start to spin our wheels to waste time doing things that achieve nothing. Usually people can not going better due to see their self perfect. I think it is the first reason of slow development. Firstly we should be aware of our positioning and then we should analyze the differences of our acts from positive deviant to be able to find best act. I think it is the key of succeed.
Burcin Kucukaytekin
Dear Burcin,
ReplyDeleteI think it is not difficult to see or find positive deviants, it is difficult to start moving for many people. Some say: Ok, I know the way how to help African or Palestinian people, but why should I go there and spend my life(time,money,intellect,heart) for the people who I don't know or for the work that will bring me no profit? Everybody sees but not everybody does.This is the problem,I think.