Stephen Semple at Ted-X - The Monday Morning Memo

Stephen Semple is director of Canadian operations for Wizard of Ads, Inc. and a stunningly good ad man. This is the email Stephen sent the wizard a few days ago:

Roy,

I am really excited to share my TEDx video with you. I believe you will see and feel your influence in this talk.

It would mean a lot to me if you were able to watch to the end (10 min long) and post a comment. This will really help me to boost the content.

I think you will like it.

Thank you in advance.

NOTE from Indy Beagle – Help a brother out. If you start the video, then move your cursor over the video and click the YouTube logo that will appear at the bottom of the screen, it will take you to Stephen’s insightful 10-minute talk at YouTube. Give the brother 10 minutes, then post a comment. This is how you and me can help him get to the BIG TED stage. Wouldn’t that be cool?

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When I was 15 I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.’

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them!’

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘Win’ at them.

God bless you all!”

- Kurt Vonnegut

Stephen Semple is director of Canadian operations for Wizard of Ads, Inc. and a stunningly good ad man. This is the email Stephen sent the wizard a few days ago:

Roy,

I am really excited to share my TEDx video with you. I believe you will see and feel your influence in this talk.

It would mean a lot to me if you were able to watch to the end (10 min long) and post a comment. This will really help me to boost the content.

I think you will like it.

Thank you in advance.

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