Why the Lone Fighter Ecosystem will always lose, ultimately?

There's no long-term value creation in isolation. 
A Lone Figther will always lose, eventually and ultimately. 
Long-Term well being comes with a cohesive unit & an ecosystem that protects, sustains & grows togthers beating life's disturbances consistently. 
We have become, as I call it, all of us are Lone-Fighters.         

The Anthropological Perspective:

Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,000-100,000 years ago.

For Eons, Humans are the only known species to have successfully populated, adapted to, and significantly altered a wide variety of land regions across the world, resulting in profound historical and environmental impacts.

When one looks at the deepest trait that led to the successful evolution of humans, surviving the adversities of other species, nature, life, and internal diversities, it is not a complex answer that is built upon the logic of biological, physiological, and psychological superiority.

To look deeper, we need to take our focus away from the specialties of the human species and take a look at the learnings from some other species. Let's pick a rather obscure species that is threatened by far more adversities of life and nature, to the extent that they are declining consistently as a group, still exhibit an overall "Governing Dynamics" that's consistently diminishing as a sustainably demonstrated trait.

So what's the underlying governing dynamics of Orca Whales?

To help?whales hunt?for food, some species?hunt together?in collaborative groups using sophisticated team-oriented?hunting?methods to stalk, isolate and capture their prey. Others rely on their large size and filter-feeding method to capture most of their food. Orcas hunt for herring in Norway’s Andfjorden. Members of the pod coordinate their moves, herding a mass of herring into a manageable ball. They then whip their tails against the ball, stunning or killing the fish.

The Best Core Values are exhibited in the most adverse dynamics. 
        

Despite of global declining numbers of Orca Whales, Inspite of the everyday frustation of survival, they still operate under larger "Governing Dynamics" of operating together for overall being

and not as a lone-fighter!

The Economic Perspective:

When one looks around, it's sheer dismay that as humans we are increasingly more governed by the much revered Adam Smith's Doctrine of Self-interest and increasing our likelihood to survive in an increasingly competitive life.

Quoting Adam Smith "Self-interest is the motivator of economic activity. Competition is?the regulator of economic activity." Together they form what Adam Smith called the invisible hand, which guides resources to their most valued use.

Adam Smith left it grossly incomplete, creating consequentially a humankind driven by self-interest and leaving an army of 7 billion lone-figthers severly lacking the governing dynamics to achieve an overall well-being.

As nations, corporates, societies, communities and even as family units, we are failing everyday individually & together to life's disturbances.

We need to pick up Life's Governing Dynamics on war footing.

Governing Dynamics, first propounded by John Forbes Nash Jr., opened a revolutionary horizon towards achieving a collaboratively coordinated ecosystem that focuses on optimizing overall well-being rather than Adam's Smith self-interest orientated competitive theory. A game-changer in itself, it led to the foundation of modern economics and the effectively powerful Game Theory.

So, What is Governing Dynamics?

When you consider the well-being of the group into individual decision-making, it works much better and deeper to optimize the group's outcomes; much better than the much revered Adam Smith's Self Interest driven decision-making outcomes.

Sadly, everything around, including nations, corporates, communities, societies, even as families, colleagues, and teams still continues to emulate and continues to live in the Adam Smith hangover, demonstrating a deeply entrenched trait of wrongful competitiveness, severely jeopardizing each of our individual outcomes and hence of the group together.

We have become, what I call all of us, the lone-fighters. And eventually & ultimately the Lone Fighter ecosystem will fail.

Why is the Lone-Fighter Ecosystem Failing?

The Nature Perspective:

Ever thought why does a seed sprout, why does a sprout bud leaves, why does a plant grow into a tree despite life's disturbances?

Governing Dynamics.

When you realize you need to nurture, nourish and protect the plants for their life-giving bounties in return for the survival of human beings, your decision-making is more driven by optimizing the group's outcome rather than self-interest. The plant is not a lone-fighter here anymore, in the micro context.

In the macro context when humankind continues to wield ecological imbalances, threatening a sustainable planet, you are being a lone fighter and thus the rotten fruit of the erred Adam Smith tenet. A lone-fighter ecosystem, as you see, will always lose, eventually and ultimately. To break this cycle, we need an original idea.

                    All we need is an Original Idea!!        

Why are you being a Lone-Fighter?

The Sociological Perspective:

Where capitalism builds its strength, the false perspective of sociological mirage weakens individuals!        

Emile Durkheim global & Andre Betellie's Indian sociological construct to view the societal ecosystem deeply entrenched into the caste system, divide groups and communities was a watershed moment to further the discipline of Sociology in the Indian context but failed miserably to bring in the tenets for more sustainable well-being of the communities together as a group.

While Emile Durkheim & Andre Betellie did wonders to further the discipline of sociology, they failed in taking the learnings ahead to make us win together as a unit. They shed more light on its divisive factors rather than contributing towards its cohesive tenets. Subsequently, sociological theories on Capitalism, Labour, Society, the sociology of the sexes added more to the destructively deep divide to keep humankind different, an academic masterstroke of perspective in its time, but the eventual failure of humankind.

Just wondering, what stopped Emile Durkheim, Adam Smith and many other's to spot the united power of governing dynamics of nations, societies, communities and individuals?

The Corporate Perspective:

The last 14 months of Covid-19, has exacerbated the vulnerability of organizations, companies, brands, and businesses. While adversities being Ceteris-Paribus for all, some organizations have suffered more than others, some have been left behind much farther to perish in the uncertainties. Even as individuals, some professionals have suffered more than others. Some families have suffered more than others. Ever wondered why?

We are continually & deeply entrenched in Adam Smith's tenet of optimizing individual positions, rather than that of the bigger group. How?

When was the last you were competing with your colleague? When was the last you had more focus on yourself than the company? When was the last your company had more focus on itself than the community? When was the last your community has more focus on itself than the society? When was the last your society had put its well-being above the nation? When was the last your nation put its supremacy over humankind?

The right answer is : Everytime! But its eventually and ultimately leads to the wrong outcomes everytime. Leading all of us to become lone figthers!

The Individual Perspective:

I am a keen disciple of Sociology, Zen, Shintoism, Buddhism, Mindfulness, and also a hybrid outcome of the competitive sociological construct of Capitalism, Competitiveness, Ego, Victory & Winning! That's certainly an unnatural equation to sustain. But so I believe is everyone's equation differently constructed with varied elements but eventually unsustainably balanced.

And when you look deep, you will realize it's because we all are Lone-Fighters, attempting to optimize individual's outcomes every time, however compromising the overall well-being. A Lone-Figher will eventually and ultimately lose himself and the larger group.

Not being a Lone-Fighter is a simple equation of Compassion, Constructive Collaborations, Persevering to bring the pack together, Being Mindful to push ahead the well being of the one's left behind, Nurture, Build and Protect an ecosystem that binds more together than pushes away, and lastly governing dynamics!

Would you rather still be a Lone-Fighter?

What can you do to not end up becoming the Lone-Fighter?

Disclaimer: The article isn't meant to be conclusive, hence intentionally leaves things open-ended to only lead the way to a deeper introspection, a brighter insight.