Pittsburgh Arts, Regional Theatre, New Work, Producing, Copyright, Labor Unions,
New Products, Coping Skills, J-O-Bs...
Theatre industry news, University & School of Drama Announcements, plus occasional course support for
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni.
CMU School of Drama
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Do You Need A Collaborator, or a Schemer?
lifehack.org: "Being a Schemer at heart, it’s nice to read an objective comparison between the two and what the difference boils down to. According to Seah, it’s an ‘emotional vs rational duality’."
So then what we really want in a partner is both a schemer and a collaborator. Someone who can bring that same energy as a schemer, but also be able to focus on the whole project and contribute to getting it done. That's hard to find in one person. Probably why we don't usually work in groups of 2.
This is interesting, because my definitions for both of these roles were different than what the article says, but after reading this I think I agree with these definitions better. I agree with candace, it would be great to find one person with both traits.
I think we want too much out of other people and not enough out of ourselves. Why do we need others to bring the energy we had inside us all along? A lot of the time I feel we are just being lazy and looking for the easiest solution. I think however, I'd much rather work with a collaborator because I am confident enough about bringing my own energy into it as necessary.
This goes back to what Joe talked about with making the distinction between collaboration and cooperation. We need to really know how to use words before we do and we need to be careful to not generalise on words that mean close to the same thing but not the same thing.
Intersting definitions. I never thought of any of the two this way. I think that Candace is right in saying the best would be a combination of both though I think thats really hard to find.
6 comments:
So then what we really want in a partner is both a schemer and a collaborator. Someone who can bring that same energy as a schemer, but also be able to focus on the whole project and contribute to getting it done. That's hard to find in one person. Probably why we don't usually work in groups of 2.
This is interesting, because my definitions for both of these roles were different than what the article says, but after reading this I think I agree with these definitions better. I agree with candace, it would be great to find one person with both traits.
I think we want too much out of other people and not enough out of ourselves. Why do we need others to bring the energy we had inside us all along? A lot of the time I feel we are just being lazy and looking for the easiest solution. I think however, I'd much rather work with a collaborator because I am confident enough about bringing my own energy into it as necessary.
interesting way of putting things... i find that these definitions are almost always interchangeable, and often inaccurate in different situations
This goes back to what Joe talked about with making the distinction between collaboration and cooperation. We need to really know how to use words before we do and we need to be careful to not generalise on words that mean close to the same thing but not the same thing.
Intersting definitions. I never thought of any of the two this way. I think that Candace is right in saying the best would be a combination of both though I think thats really hard to find.
Post a Comment