Have you ever experienced a crazy, seemingly irrational drive to believe you are destined to do something GREAT?
Last month at the Dream Chicago conference, autoresponder king John Fancher belted out a riff, a tribute to a man who shared that same [fantasy?] [reality?].
Totally unexpected and utterly captivating.
In just 4 minutes and 35 seconds, John pinpoints what made an extraordinary Influential Writer influential, like no one else I’ve ever heard.
Maybe the titan that John describes here has a few things in common with you:
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48 – LEAVES OF GRASS – Walt Whitman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Here a great personal deed has room,
(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and
mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
Here is the test of wisdom,
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another
not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things,
and the excellence of things;
Something there is in the float of the sight of things
that provokes it out of the soul.
Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at
all under the spacious clouds and along the land-
scape and flowing currents.
Here is realization,
Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in
him,
The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant
of you, you are vacant of them.
Only the kernel of every object nourishes;
Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
YES—WHERE IS HE (OR SHE—AS THE CASE MAY BE) ??
FIND SUCH PEOPLE—
LEARN FROM SUCH PEOPLE—
BECOME SUCH A PERSON—YOURSELF
Thanks for sharing this Perry
Craig
excellent. Words are powerful. Sounds become words, words become thoughts and thoughts manifest into reality. U are doing great work perry in bringing the best to us..
John’s words about Whitman are inspiring. But what I love even more is Pat’s synthesis of it all (above). I just copied and pasted that and am going to hand write to my whiteboard to view every day. If we combine Whitman’s confidence and belief in self with that kind of deep abiding love – a real desire to give love – who can stop us?
Without the people there’s no point.
Excellent! What a great example of living your dream every day and never giving up.
Beautiful thoughts.
Love humanity. Love life. Love yourself. Love the moment. Love your chance to make a difference in the next moment to the next person. Love wins. Love loses. Love triumphs. Love setbacks. Love getting back up.
Wonderful. John nails it and made my day. Thank you
John Fancher tells us that Walt Whitman loved people. Each of us, every person on this Earth, has art within them. Their potential, their dreams, their desires, their needs, their wants, their fears. Is it crazy to believe that, as marketers, we might just be able to help other people to get what they want? This is what drives me passionately each day!