Don t tread on me.
Rugged individualism for you and me.
A culture of rugged individualism is great except when you re fighting a pandemic.
Attracting the right people.
If rugged individualism is your growth ceiling teamwork is the hammer that will break through it.
But it will get some of us killed right now.
Published july 17 2020 updated july 17 2020.
We are inculcated to love mavericks and we want to be one too.
What s more when you adopt this mentality of me plus you equals more you attract other people with that same mindset and everyone grows together.
It s a win win scenario.
So rugged individualism even today relies on that very constitutional system for protection.
In the thirty years i ve spent becoming one of you i ve come to recognize this as a distinctly american phenomenon this rugged individualism in so many things.