Seeing Possibilities... in People.

If you have 20 minutes to do anything good for yourself, watch this video.  Heck, just watch the first 5 minutes, and if you don't like it, you can stop, and I will buy you coffee for your troubles.


But if you do like it...  It is a talk given by Ben Zander at a previous TED conference.  I rather not explain it too much, but here is an excerpt.

"Now, I had an amazing experience. I was 45 years old, I'd been conducting for 20 years, and I suddenly had a realization. The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound. My picture appears on the front of the CD -- (Laughter) -- but the conductor doesn't make a sound. He depends for his power on his ability to make other people powerful. And that changed everything for me. It was totally life-changing. People in my orchestra came up to me and said, "Ben, what happened?" That's what happened. I realized my job was to awaken possibility in other people. And of course, I wanted to know whether I was doing that. And you know how you find out? You look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. You could light up a village with this guy's eyes. (Laughter) Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question. And this is the question: Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining? We can do that with our children too. Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining? That's a totally different world."


Did you catch that? "The conductor doesn't make sound.  He depends for his power on his ability to make other people powerful." Implications abound for what we do as preachers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, artists, businessmen, etc..


Anyways, WATCH THE VIDEO!