Susan Boyle - Or, Everybody Is a Star
I am one to catch on late to trends and news. It took me a whole week to find out about the now legendary Susan Boyle and her performance on Britain’s Got Talent. More than 35 million people have watched the video on YouTube during this past week, more than 20 million in the first 48 hours alone, making it the biggest video in YouTube history!
As I mentioned in my post about American Idol’s Adam Lambert, I wholeheartedly believe that rather than seeing others fail, we want to see them succeed! We want to be part of their rags to riches stories and their dream come true moment. I also believe that above all, we want to see our own dreams come true. We want to be stars in or own right, and, why not?
In his excellent article What Sells Better: Hope, Fear or Susan Boyle, Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade: How To Make A Living Doing What You Love, makes some interesting points. He says that many of today’s sales strategies are based on the fact that fear motivates people to buy. But what about the aspect of our hopes and dreams? Aren’t they a far greater inspiration to buy something? If I see you do it, doesn’t it encourage me to try it, too?
We are in the middle of a huge transition! The old economy which has been based on fear, greed, competition, fighting for money, scarcity and exploitation is giving way to a new economy based on collaboration, service, playing for money, abundance and trust. In this economy we can all win. We can do what we love for a living, helping others to do the same. In this economy everybody succeeds and everybody can be a star. I like that!
Related post: When Dreams Come True ~ Adam Lambert on American Idol
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