Creating Tomorrow

Dear Friends,

 This has been my week for discovering new and inspirational videos online. I’ve already shared Garr Reynolds and Rory Sutherland. To make the magical trio perfect I want to add Richard St. John to the mix.

I especially loved his story of how this particular presentation came to be: Confronted by a question from a high school student that he couldn’t answer, Richard didn’t just let the subject drop. Instead he approached people who should know (and you’ll see what I mean when you watch the video) and asked them what they think.

This presentation - a 3-minute romp through a presentation that normally takes 2 hours - gives us the essential ingredients we need to be(come) successful:

1. Passion
2. Work
3. Focus
4. Persist
5. Ideas
6. Good
7. Push
8. Serve

Like all truly good recipes, however, Richard leaves it up to the individual to figure out just how much of each ingredient s/he’ll need to make it come out perfectly.

Enjoy!

 Trina

P.S.: Maybe it’s because I watched Garr Reynolds yesterday, or maybe it’s because - after watching the  video I forwarded to him - the MD of an ad agency asked me what I thought of Rory Sutherland’s presentation style. In any case, I couldn’t help thinking how this very inspiring presentation would have been even that much more powerful if a smoother technical set-up had allowed Richard to spend all his time ‘talking to’ his audience instead of jumping back and forth to change the slide. Sometimes the tiniest change can mean the difference between simply great and truly stellar!