Journal - After watching the short clip of Ashton Kutcher's
acceptance speech what did you take away from his advice? What does this quote
mean to you -"Everything around you that you call life was made up by
people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence
it, you can build your own things that other people can use."
I got out of his advice that the
sexiest thing is being smart. In AP Euro yesterday we learned that smart isn’t
how high your IQ is or how good your grades are but smart is how much
background knowledge you have on a subject. If you are competing with somebody
that has an IQ of 105 and as opposed to you with an IQ of 83, and are reading
about baseball but you with the lower IQ knows more about baseball will be smarter
than the person with the high IQ because you understand it better than they do,
you understand the process of a double play better than somebody who is book
smart. Anybody can be smart and being smart is just as much confidence. You
have to be confident in yourself that you know what you are talking about and
confidence is also sexy. Smart isn’t just what you read in books and who has a
better memory to retain what you read.
The
quote to me means that you can add on to things that other people have discovered
or invented. Alexander Bell invented the telephone but somebody else added on
to what he had to say about telephones and after a while, cell phones were
made. Alexander didn’t invent cellphones but people added on to what he had to
say. So you can edit what other people do and make things great. You can also
invent or think of something new so that other people use what you built. Other
people already invented and built things so now it’s your turn to do your part
and add on yourself?
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