"Amazing what an individual can accomplish, isn't it?"

A group of three persons can achieve better problem solving abilities than the best three or more individuals can accomplish individually.

"Democracy of Groups" explains that "self-constituting groups" of volunteers can create value beyond what the individuals in them could accomplish alone.

And how much, after all, can a single individual accomplish, all the uplift notwithstanding?

Every year the school honors five distinguished individuals who have overcome a learning disability while growing up and gone on to accomplish great achievements in their fields.

To date only five individuals have accomplished this feat.

No individual, not even a President, can accomplish very much without a change of national heart, he said.

Anything that does not involve his "genius mind" and that the "normal individual" can accomplish he calls "grunt work."

"I'm a very strong believer that individuals can't and don't accomplish very much," he said.

One of life's mysteries is why some individuals accomplish so much.