In teambuilding programs, we give teams a set of air-filled balloons along with a set of safety pins. The team with the maximum number of balloons at the end of 5 minutes will be declared the winner.
When the game begins, some open the safety pins and start bursting balloons of the other teams. Within a minute even the resolute ones are out for revenge as their balloons have been attacked. In less than three minutes there are no balloons with any team.
The activity makes a clear point that it is human nature that we want to stand out and be the only winner. We all can be winners if we all decided to raise our balloons in the air after the game started.
The approach of ‘I win when you lose’ leads to lose-lose situation. In the bargain we turn a ‘safety’ pin into a dangerous thing. Walter Hunt who invented the safety pin, will never have imagined that his creation could have such destructive implications.
Today on International Safety Pin Day, let’s resolve to have positive intentions and aligned actions. Negative intentions and actions lead to a bloodied battleground and ensuing bad blood between persons. Even the best of tools can turn into weapons.
Surely the Safety Pin is a useful invention
Don’t turn it into a
weapon of destruction!
- Pravin K Sabnis
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