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My group never really made it to the comfort zone stage. I refused to be leader, but never made it known, which I suspected at the time may have been the reason the leader was not really established until the last or near last class. He and I had both been in a same earlier sub-group and so I knew him. He was not particularly bright and thus needed advisors; was a stubborn type convinced in the certainty of many things, which may be the essential quality of a leader, the quality itself based on the necessity of narrow consideration. Too many options muddies the mind.
Advisor to the king or queen was a good theory I thought and I got an A.
The same sort of thing happened and was said to happen every time in one of my media classes. The class was split into two groups and the assignment was to make a TV show. The groups were chosen by the students themselves gravitating to the type of individuals they were comfortable with. The first group was math and science types, practical, button-down, conventional. Apparently they on the first day chose a leader, decided to do a news show and proceeded to implement it. My group was the more radical types, discontents, non-conformists and malcontents. So on the other hand, we fought the whole week, never arrived at an idea, and on the day of the actual simulated telecast, it was decided to burn a candle in front of drapery with maybe a bible and an apple or something ridiculous like that. As for my role in these things, I always acted as an observer never actually initiating anything myself, and that was purposeful.
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