“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.”
Clarence Day
Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned when you watched an important project fail because members of the group responsible couldn’t place individual interests second.
Fiction writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist must choose between achieving an important individual goal and setting it aside to accomplish a different task that’s important to a group to which s/he belongs.
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