Crowd leader, follower, or other?

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

CROWD LEADER: You're the one that starts things up. You make the rules that your fellow crowd members stick by. When you go left, they go left. Your personality is large enough that people just flock to you just because it's the cool thing to do.

CROWD FOLLOWER: You're the underling that obeys all or most of the orders of the Crowd Leader. You rarely have your own suggestions because you fear being 'uncool'. The leader goes left and you follow. Simple as that.

OTHER: You're the one that has sat back and watched the rat race and you decided to invent your own path. The Crowd Leader and Followers go left, you go right. Most of the time, you do stuff opposite of what the majority does, almost to the point where it seems like you're doing it on purpose.

I think your view of a "follower" is incorrect here. A follower doesn't fear being "uncool." They are complacent people. They, as everyone else does, have the potential to excell and be ontop of things. But they feel too at ease with how things go now. "Ehh, I'm happy with the current conditions, I'll go with it."

They are almost alike uncaring people. If a store only sold red colored computer cases, and our "follower" individual wanted blue, he'd buy the red one anyway:

1. He's at the store already, they have cases in stock. He probably should be grateful they even had any.

2. He feels he can cope with the difference. Blue computer monitor, blue computer mouse, blue keyboard, red tower case. "It's not so bad."

3. He's not in a fighting mood. Intent was to get a blue case. Red is not the goal here. But he does not feel like going through the trouble to argue and force the store's management to their knees for what he wants.

4. A "Crowd leader" would of gone out of his way to get what he wanted. Whether it meant going on a waiting list for the next shipment or tearing the store apart beam by beam. His concerns and needs are too great to sacrifice for the store's failure to keep such items in stock by variety. The store may be self-satisfied with the fact they even sell some of a certain kind, but a leader wouldn't be. Quickly do you then see followers stir up and be aroused to do the same. They want the same things, but just didn't have the know-how to get it.

Reading what you posted, it seems you based your judgements on how a person acts in a specific case. Such a case being involved with a popularity contest amongst other people. Knowing the existing trend for competition and being able to analyze whether you are someone ahead of the gang, or consistantly falling behind.

A driving leader is everyone's worst enemy. A line follower is everyone's best friend. No one person can be dedicated to one or the other of these types of people. Throughout life we play each role several times. It is only how often we are one type more than the other that shoves our names on one side of a dividing line.

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