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ACT1: Larry Brilliant
I have never had any big heroes or role models. If I needed to pick someone it would be probably my uncle or grandfather. But in this case I chose someone who I'm keeping eye on at the moment. I usually have many people who have caught my eye and who need support for their ideas.
Lately I have been watching videos from www.ted.com and there are a lot of great ideas and awesome people who deserve credit. And from there I found also the hero I am going to talk about.
His name is Larry Brilliant. Larry was one of a four people who were in charge of eradicating smallpox in India and South Asia. He also used to be executive director of Google.org. He has been connected with many other organizations and done lot of work helping many people all over the world. He is one of the co-founders and chairman of Seva Foundation which has given sight back to lot of people. For me one of the most interesting parts of his life was when he spent several years in Himalayas studying and living, as this is one of the things that I would like to do also. In a way it shows that it is possible to be spiritually balanced and also be successful, meaning helping people and doing what you like.
I don't use Twitter, but he does.
Also I found one of his latest articles in which he is talking about denominators of global threats: Fortune
I'm sure he will succeed helping many more people and doing lot of great things. Someone to look up to. Real hero.
Lately I have been watching videos from www.ted.com and there are a lot of great ideas and awesome people who deserve credit. And from there I found also the hero I am going to talk about.
His name is Larry Brilliant. Larry was one of a four people who were in charge of eradicating smallpox in India and South Asia. He also used to be executive director of Google.org. He has been connected with many other organizations and done lot of work helping many people all over the world. He is one of the co-founders and chairman of Seva Foundation which has given sight back to lot of people. For me one of the most interesting parts of his life was when he spent several years in Himalayas studying and living, as this is one of the things that I would like to do also. In a way it shows that it is possible to be spiritually balanced and also be successful, meaning helping people and doing what you like.
I don't use Twitter, but he does.
Also I found one of his latest articles in which he is talking about denominators of global threats: Fortune
I'm sure he will succeed helping many more people and doing lot of great things. Someone to look up to. Real hero.
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Comment by Luuk van Rossum on March 20, 2010 at 2:27pm
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I can say I agree with you about Ted.com
That site made me play this game. Very inspiring people with great stories! Everybody should check it out.
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Comment by Michele Baron on March 21, 2010 at 9:10pm
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Welcome to EVOKE. Great site link--lots to learn, celebrate through Ted.com weblink. Thank you
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Comment by Markus-Eerik Mändmets on March 21, 2010 at 9:52pm
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You are welcome Michele, it really is a good site and there's tons of information about everything and probably anyone could find talks about topics they like. Good thing is that more is coming constantly.
And to Luuk, the same thing happened to me too :) I learned about Evoke from there.
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