Make your life’s work about possibilities
Saturday, November 1st, 2008I’ve been trying to catch up on last week’s Pop!Tech 2008 conference in Camden, Maine and came across this podcast of a lecture by Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic.
It has nothing to do with Web design, but I found it very inspirational.
Zander convincingly demonstrates that success is largely a function of our attitude. He tells of two shoe salesmen sent to Africa. The first phones the home office “Situation hopeless! No one here has heard of shoes!”. The second calls and says “Wonderful news! No one here has shoes - yet!”
One looks at limits, the other possibilities.
So very apropos for Pemaquid right now, where we are taking stock to figure out how we’ll measure success having reached our current level of achievement.
So remember, don’t focus on how inadequately talented you may feel, or how much there is to do; focus on how your talents have made a difference for others and you’ll find the fuel to do more great things.
