Tuesday, August 20th

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 took away that opportunities don’t just come. Opportunities are something that you have to work for. The work would be hard, something that you might have to spend late nights and early mornings on. Things that you have to want that success on. The distance that you are willing to travel that is a great amount is the amount of work that you do. Once that the success is achieved with the work then the opportunities might start coming towards you. The opportunities that do come could be a step, because at the last opportunity you should have worked. From there you go and progress till you get to the true success and opportunity that you want. When he said that to be sexy was to be smart, and to be kind, caring, and generous. I agree with that. The person who is the smartest and the most generous will “win” the game of life. They will be the people that come out with the better jobs that make six figures. Out of his whole speech it showed that the work that you do will help in the long, and how generous and nice you are, will end up getting you so far in life.

In the quote, 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," it gives perspective to work hard. It means that smartness isn’t something that you were born with but something you must find on your own. It tell me to never stop reaching, that I won’t have to be the smartest person to achieve success, just be the most persistent and the one that wants it the most, wants it more than the next person. With that want and persistence you then take it and use it to create. With that creation you use it, and then other people will use it, and influence everyone around it. That is what the quote means to me.