Individuality and Accomplishment

One cannot achieve in any field without some individuality since accomplishment requires initiative, creativity, persistence and courage, all of which are traits that go with individuality. Early settlers in America survived and prospered mainly because they were courageous men with lots of initiative and persistence. Without such individualistic traits they would have failed to accomplish anything in the new world and might have remained paupers there as they had been in the old world that they left behind.

Churchill succeeded in his aim of defeating Nazi Germany due to his extraordinary courage that inspired the Allied forces to put up a stiff resistance to Nazi aggression. Henry Ford revolutionized auto production because he was an individual who had a keen eye that sensed the opportunity for assembly line production with division of labor. Without that individualistic streak he might not have even noticed such a possibility.

Leonardo da Vinci was an individual who had a far-ranging vision of the type of machinery that will come in the future and was able to draw sketches of what looked like a helicopter. Visionary ideas come to individualistic people since they are not satisfied with existing state of affairs and want to create something new.