custody i’m gerry just was fine a bit
your voice is trusting here in her voice
last week we have a mystical ceremony
spots I could ask him classic 2015 but
as I was assuming you’re watching all
these seniors come across the stage I
knew deep in my heart they’re going to
come secular college country there’s
three words that they are all wanna hear
full ride scholarship when it comes to a
college choice there’s three words that
they hate to say I don’t know and it
seems one more we are pushing and
pushing it push it push our kids to grow
up so fast all right middle school kids
if you were to think about what college
of my house you better make your choice
all right Tom entry school what are you
doing when you can do that the type of
look good on your console application
little Johnny he was he was
potty-trained way earlier you were so I
look this idea of economy get people to
really be able to lose the Iowa level
and to be able to you know sort of find
an inspiration to me because you ask any
vinegar you know what do you want to do
is your life and they’ve got already
handsome all right I’m gonna be a flake
later boys that well my dad mom put
that’s creative are you going to be over
in football player well that’s also why
i would put bowl right what do you want
to do I want to work with the animals
because i like my cake here awesome but
then suddenly something starts to happen
is the kids start getting older also
only detractors start jumping in there
saying well something you wouldn’t be
very good either because you heat pipes
time lapse another guy who wants to be
you’re playing with animals well no you
want to do that that’s up competing and
you can never pick up after your dog in
the arts particularly good very good
reviews monastery and those detractors
sort of cheese people away for those
initial inspirations that they have so
then suddenly they’re heading in high
school and now I what is found in a gig
got some of you choice of introducing
bebé choices what’s it going to be and
they have a voice voice and sign that’s
oftentimes having a screen running
conversation you’ve seen some of these
people w grocery store talking away and
you realize well where’s fallen take
blame as you really hasn’t really don’t
all right I’m not talking about those
kind of it I’m talk about the petty
people who inside or saddle questioning
and talking about inner world it was
this friends from right as little kids
we started first are very gay employees
and all the times when we’re about to do
something really bad no don’t I posed by
your parents the cast hail it won’t be
nice but of course we do with any of
these then we get spanked more we
realized okay it refers specifically be
the truth but then suddenly as we go
along and go along for some reason we
stopped trust amendments and now instead
we listen to the detractors and in the
World War II today the unfortunate
reality is that working imparted by
different courses out there they’re
trying to basically you are our
enterprise don’t listen to what your
conscience tells you know you want to
really truly believe what we tell and
suddenly we go from our media to think
for ourselves and really converse by
ourselves and once Ted being sort of
talked to it dictated to politicians
hold that we don’t want you to think
just we tried advertisers want that
don’t think of the amount of just trust
me it’s good tell me more all right so
we’re high school seems
we’re not trying to step in this world
who’ve lost that ability to sort of
listen there in turquoise to trust their
voice they are kind of left at the mercy
of what’s wrong all right a lot of
pressures are put upon you to you know
make that by choice take that right
color Harry but how do you know you
can’t trust with your voices talent is
the right degree or what is the right
choice for you we have built a society
where everyone’s being dictated to you
must go to college will not succeed in
this world but is that true is that
really true when I first started
teaching here all right I was amazed but
all the programs we had in this bill we
had ahead of time auto shop we had a
metal shop we have wood shop they were
building furniture and selling and all
of a sudden there was this whole move to
sleep women we don’t want these kind of
programs we want everyone going to
college instead so you had all these
kids who are like behind really want to
be a carpenter with which was Tom you
should be a carpenter but you know I’m
being told that I dated before your
college to earn a degree in something
couple years back I asked Mike lesson is
that how you you could nice to say your
parents are unhappy with their job and I
would say seventy five or seven is there
even shut up that’s devastating do you
want to over that same calf lillico know
what are you gonna do that well i’m
going to michigan like my parents told
me to and i’m going to be a free man but
my parents Bobi to and then i’m going to
be about is that what you’re not or not
I’m gonna be able spaceship commander my
TV video games are so big now they never
leader with a relative but no we have to
be able to a lot of people to trust that
inner voice once again alright and be
able to have that conversation with
themselves to say
what this is what I really want to do is
wherever it might be or this is where
I’m going to be happy happy oh wait a
minute whether I did that come to the
point are we supposed to be happy in our
lives come on answer my question yes no
yes yes where’s the same we can’t be
happy that’s great the pharmaceutical
companies don’t want us can’t be how
those for taking a daily grill so yes
that’s the problem we face now part of
me will I jump in here just make sure
i’m heading online vital notes all right
yes as we move on we see ourselves sort
of finding all these obstacles that
prevent us from really being able to
sort of listen to this going on here all
right and then suddenly we lose their
that as a result we love enemies like i
say those those high school seniors were
the idols for the most seniors who are
going into college and say yep I know
that code I’m doing I’ve got my total
career path visited occupation I’m gonna
get married to 15 children great
congratulations but the reality of our
overall it is that are you going to end
up where you think you’re going and the
answer is no because I’ll first people
get into college mostly realize whoo
there’s so many more possibilities here
or the temptations are thrown at you
know Bokova that past go down this path
I had the opportunity to go to New York
City and meet up with some former HS the
models it was her agency because there
was once to their but I met up with
who’d gone to MIT for I and he with his
goal he was going to be let me nuclear
physicist he was bidding into the lasers
space tournament all that kind of stuff
but as he was nearing graduation and
also he started getting all these
recruiters coming to him from Wall
straightening that all these huge
financial institutions were saying hey
all
mighty kids with like major brains do
you want to like the working on the app
store or do you want to come and work
for us let us use your brain and we will
pay you seen amounts of money he’s now
working for bending America and that’s
what’s happening is there so many forces
that are causing you to not listen to
your voice and are you going to be happy
if you don’t listen to your voice he’s
not he’s struggled he’s going bad and
really able to find here you know I
think he calls great money I am ready
money but I just don’t feel good about
what I’m doing just doesn’t feel right
all right so when you tell a person like
me can be the donation you throw
something excess money I wave really
much cooler right I snoozing about
theater here the brakes price right but
I said hey Bennett earlier still save
some that money to man go do what you
want to do and you wanted to worry about
money he’s gone anything online I never
looked better well obviously did say
that voice was back there tom you
couldn’t make this work ourselves but he
wasn’t willing to trust wasn’t willing
to trust alright i can tell you my name
when I was heading to college I was one
of those item movie I didn’t know for
sure what I want to do I did was hoping
that I would go into like civil engineer
and since that he we did alright but i
don’t know i had worked on construction
sites didn’t seem all that throwing to
me so i end up at all but ended up
taking all sorts of different classes
and I was drawn to english and
literature right and also theater as
well so as I was bouncing around an open
university I coming
earth when they tell you you must concur
beach hopefully some of you will not
have to go through that experience but
they tell you you have to excited now
okay well which was been good to me it
was the good sober relatives or teachers
perhaps that might get away and I had a
voice telling me to think Pat Frank
think back to your teaching experience
my teaching experience began at the
fourth grade we were an utterly fourth
grade class and one day the teacher went
on thought she was not happy and she
said okay well I think you think you do
this better go ahead give us run so I
did what any normal 43 food would do
when the teachers back was turned I
don’t explain and as soon as you turn
around I tell me snicker snicker snicker
but of course there was a little Suzie
Oh miss Evans Frankie braced his knee
hand so suddenly there was casta brought
the room and told okay smart guy teach
us well I look available resident never
enter a classroom without listen it was
not a good experience but every time
something off with my teeth I don’t know
how but voice was saving my place for
you so I added the education program
finished the education program and
they’re going to send me to Pawnee a
girl in high school for my student
teacher now I came from a being
predominantly white suburb the times
he’ll feel alright and going to open
university alright I didn’t experience a
lot of diversity at the time i was there
so I editor I named Gordon first day of
class teaching as the students standing
up introducing themselves and saying
something interesting about their son
and the first young man stands up he
says I’m going to tell you how I got
shot this up but I thought to myself
whoo this teaching thing perhaps not but
the voice of science saying
just over you can do this so like Rob
Schneider and any depends upon you’d be
a due date alright so as I started
teaching the pond ignore what i found
very quickly was that i was working with
something profitable I had a in vinegars
I you know kids police records and all
that kind of stuff and what i could do
realize was kind of connected in series
because all they were looking for was
for someone to care and when they
realized that I wasn’t just know there
for a page day not when you’re doing
student teaching you paid crazy things
so they realized okay this guy’s been
apartments with us and I was able to
work with them for an entire semester at
the end of the semester my time was done
and the students put together a this is
your life moment for me they call me
down to do you have to put down to the
small theater here there’s something on
and I come in my plastisol stand there
and they all we’re going to do this is
your life and I was like wow it was
pretty interesting you know scenario
because here comes the single big
kitties well 350 plus you know the thing
was to God okay okay and a CD students
playing my family and you know sharing
all these stories they convey some when
we’re pretty entertaining they said this
is a neat and the voice of sanity was
think this is what you need to do ah but
was I ready to listen to that voice no
so I kind of even graduated to something
here there and one day I can walk you to
rochester on the area and at a time all
right they weren’t hiring or anything
they’re saying oh yeah selling for a
while and then I self rew year anything
a position open that either before I
sorry
you know so then I was something in that
next year when something was theatre
director said album event that was the
building here and all the seniors came
running to be saying huh mr. gone he’s
not going to do the reason you gotta do
the municipal police you can’t do it for
us but I looked at that I said I have
never directed a shovel word but there
was a balls you can do these so I had
some theatrical experience or Donnelly
technical but having all these students
run every city must do this I said okay
and I can remember going through the
whole process the cast list having all
these students wanting to be crying
their eyes out though I didn’t I’m
thinking why did I sign up with this the
voice kept saying trust it’s going to be
okay so we went through all the ways
first we got to performances we got the
closing back and it’s kind of nice as I
was standing right and as the curtain
was closing as I was watching all the
students on stage cheering how to find
him stars of her clothes I said he
and it was tears of joy because of that
moment I realized that my inner voice
was right and I had found what I wanted
to do because I trusted my inner voice
and that was 31 years and they still
hadn’t yet read me so was doing second
so we have to learn that yet sometimes
that poison center her head knows what’s
best for us and we have be willing to
trust it even when this was
earlier what is telling us seems
uncomfortable I don’t know what I can do
that I can’t tell you the number of kids
that I had come through each step
through these doors like I can’t
audition and we grab the materials and
we throw them up there literally and
they’re they’re bouncing on the floor
and getting up okay do something and
they try Utley something realized it yes
something what their them but their
every boys does tell me what’s there you
can do it but for some reason the
detractors kept saying no no no you
can’t stay awake don’t either right
inside a to be young people village
people older people there is that voice
right and what we have to learn to do
learn to trust it it’s not enough to
just listen to that voice and have the
running conversations all right really
looking to have that triple bacon
cheeseburger without company should move
this that would mean I don’t know listen
to it it’s not not to diss listen
because if you listen then you tend to
ignore and when you tend to ignore
intended miss all possibilities that do
exist for you and it’s only when you
take the time to really trust that voice
all right and open yourself to the
possibilities of them possibly
uncomfortable that you’ll drill define
what you are truly going to be happiest
with an act and Here I am today it’s
calling that a bad spot over there I had
that moment because I trusted my voice
that was telling me you can do this so r
each and every one of you if you haven’t
found that moment of your life yet light
goes on tears stream down your face the
realization to a founder in place I hope
you find it student and for those of you
are still searching
it’s there let your inner voice guide
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