Individualism.

What I love about staying and living in Hanoi would be the personal 10 minutes relationships I can easily build across the dinner table. From total strangers to acquaintances with similar interests and views. Yesternight was the perfect example, where I met someone with an interesting mindset, with a great knowledge on the social mind vs the scientific mind, telling me all about the cartesian-newtonian model, paradigm shifts and the difficulties in the path I have chosen.

What seems like a group or organisation is founded by individuals, and regardless of how connected the networks and relationships are within the people of the organisation, it is indubitably explained by the role of the individual. Every worldview and overarching mindset is ultimately practiced by the individual, and hence emulates the importance of the person. This may seem like a whole bunch of bull crap with no significant part to play in your life, yet it is crucially useful as an understanding of how things work in this world.

Individualism can therefore and should therefore be studied as the building blocks of relationships in life. And we should not continuously give too much credit to teamwork and start celebrating the individual.