End of Year Motivational Quotes
Public Speaking Opportunities
If you love public speaking then you have to love Buckminster Fuller quotes like this: ”Everyone is born a genius. Society degeniuses them.” This quote is sadly too true for far too many. We are habitual rule-followers. Both formal education and socialization work together to “drive us along with the herd.” But it needn’t be that way. We can regain our genius. But we can’t achieve it by always following in another’s footsteps. “The man who follows the crowd,” Alan Ashley-Pitts tells us, “will usually get no further than the crowd.” Writing this blog post has led me to request this of you:
Be unique. Develop your own style. Break some rules, even ones that I’ve recommended. I insist! Recapture your genius. And when we couple courage and risk-taking, that genius will manifest itself in our presentations. I like what Neil Postman wrote: “Children enter school as question marks and come out as periods.” Not good but often true. Rid yourself of “periods” and any other conforming punctuation. Dare to be different. Dare to be very different. Dare to be yourself. Read more