Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Looking Stupid

My father and brothers should have been cavemen. If they don’t catch it or hunt it and kill it they don’t eat it. Well maybe not that bad! But we have had wild turkey for the past three Thanksgiving meals. One day in off-season they set out to capture bears on video. So early in the morning they hid in some tall grass. They waited. Finally a mother bear and her cub begin walking through the tall grass field. With the video running my brother was able to capture the bear and her cubs in there natural environment. What my brother didn’t suspect though was somehow he and my father came between the mama bear and her cub. Mama wasn’t happy! She let out a growl and the chase was on. On video all you see is tall grass falling and two feet moving at the speed of light.
Besides the image of four legs knocking down grass, the video is really cool as it shows a bear in its natural habitat. There is an important lesson in this video. It takes courage to look stupid and to be successful we have to be willing to look stupid. So go ahead and do something that makes you look stupid. Take ball-room dance lessons even if you can’t dance. Sing along with karaoke even if you can’t sing. Ask that person out on a date even if you think she is out of your league. Be willing to be wrong, to fail, or to make a mistake and you might just learn to succeed. And if not, at least you have made the world an entertaining place.

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