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Dec 16, 2007
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." --John W. Gardener
The Salesman Who Sang Opera
He was an unlikely opera singer: by day Paul Potts sold cell phones in South Wales and confessed that summoning self-confidence was "always difficult." But Paul persevered. "My dream is to spend my life doing what I was born to do," he said simply. Watch him defy expectations on a June 2007 episode of "Britain's Got Talent" -- and in the course earn a standing ovation from an audience of over two thousand.
BE THE CHANGE
The next time you find yourself making an assumption about someone else, take a moment to reflect on its possible roots.
