Silence The Critics
YouTube recently celebrated it’s 5 year anniversary. By far my two favorite YouTube videos are from Britain’s Got Talent. Susan Boyle who sang I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables & Paul Potts who sang Nessun Dorma. I loved as they each shocked the crowd with their incredible voices. It’s not the talent that I love though, it’s the fact that when both contestants walked onto the stage they had already been written off by the judges and the audience. Based on looks alone people in their mind had made their own conclusions. Once they began to sing and the countenance of everybody changed it gives me goose bumps because the singers never changed. They look at the crowd the same way, their voice remains the same and at that moment they silenced their critics. They were convinced they could do it. The crowds reaction did not change the belief that they had in themselves.
So many times we are quick to judge people without getting to know their story. Who is in your circle of influence right now that you have made an unfair conclusion about? Who do you need to listen to and hear their story?
