Move along

[aroraborealis]

In any social trend, there are phases and groups. There are the groundbreakers, the early adopters, the mainstream adopters, the sticks-in-the-mud. The average person probably spends most of his or her time in the middle groups, but probably also has areas of interest or disinterest that swing them into groundbreaking and sticking in the mud.

It's easy for me to see places where I'm a stick in the mud, but harder to see any where I'm a groundbreaker. Is this common? Do you see yourself as a groundbreaker about anything? If so, what? If almost-but-not-quite, what keeps you from it? What about stick-in-the-mud-ness? Is that easier or harder for you to see?

Comments

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I think I'm generally a stick-in-the-mud: change, after all, is bad! :)

I can think of places where I think of myself as being innovative, but I'm not sure about ground-breaking: as dbang said, that implies to me that my choice will turn out to be important for other people, and I'm not sure I have the perspective to tell. Most of the places where I feel sure that I'm doing something important are also places where other people are doing it (that's part of how I know it's important), which makes it easier, I think, to tell what you're doing in cases of being an early adopter.