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Originality & Creativity: Individual Vs Team

It is true that there are many great innovative ideas arise from individuals in history. But I think it is too absolute to conclude that groups of people cannot bring about innovative ideas. The speaker overemphasizes the good aspects of individuals and negates the goods of the groups. Actually, groups sometimes are beneficial to the innovative ideas in almost every fields even in the art fields, which often be regarded as working individually.

The experiences of persons in the group are different, and thus they can think the same problem from different perspective, which is a crucial factor to create innovative ideas, and moreover help to achieve the innovative idea. For example, the creating courses of the famous violin concerto¨Cthe Butterfly Story. In order to celebrate the anniversary of the People¡¯s Republic of China, the chancellor of the Shanghai Music College decided to organize a group to compose a melody. The group comprised five students form composition department a...

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