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Please share your experience how do you affected other people or were affected by them?
Mark Bezos gives us a lesson: Don't wait to be a hero! Use every day to affect lives of other people and to help them. So here I want you to tell your stories about role that you played in other people's lifes. What useful did you make for them or what do you plan to do? And how other people affected your life? What did you learn from them and what are thankful for?
Jimmy Strobl 30+
*Her Story*
"When I first heard of TED, I was curious but the most skeptical.
There is already so much time-consuming activity online that just steal attention.
My friend (you) recommended me to start looking at the TED talks.
A little distracted as I was, I clicked only on the first best clips with no major expectations of what I would see.
The clip was about a robot skeleton costume that would help the military to carry more weights, but the most astounding was that it also could help the paralyzed to walk! I was stunned and thought that's just amazing, why is not this top news?
With a more compliments attitude to TED, I continued checking through more Talks, after a while it was my understanding that this is only for the more intellectual people, people who are already up at the top.
But so wrong I was!
By pure chance I happened to click onto Themes, and mini-hippie who I am, I came soon into the link environment, "A Greener Future".
Again, my prejudices shattered, this time by a 11 years boy with character and a cruel truth lecture.
I felt I was rebellious, how I, which is just an ordinary person without wealth or university studies behind me can make my thoughts heard.
I feel possitivt driven to want to share with you my daily thoughts and ideas, get the facts to the arguments I could not put into words before.
And by the time I realize this I see the little text beside TEDs Logotype
"Ideas worth spreading" Well how about that! HA!
Took me long enough to figure that out! ;)
To be continued...
Yours"
Younus Ali
Cheers
Younus Ali
Cheers
Jimmy Strobl 30+
So I told her about TED, about how TED made me be everything that I could be and how for the first time in my life i felt that it was possible to truly accomplish something great!
She could not stop thanking me for sharing this information and experience with her and I felt equally grateful for letting me influence her. she asked if there was some way in which she could repay me and I told her that her participation in something important was quite enough.
But then I thought of the idea of letting her report to me how TED affected her and that she would write me such a report by the end of the week, stating what was good and inspiring and what was lacking for first time users at TED.
So I'm really excited about reading it when it arrives on Sunday.
That is the most recent story I have to tell.