Everyone has an idea that can make a lasting difference, problem is they are not given a chance, not to do it, but just to be heard! If only they were listened to you will be amazed how those ideas can actually change lives.

./Ok3ch

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Watchman <skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone there have an idea of such proportions that can make a lasting difference?

The W.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:35 AM, saich <saiched@gmail.com> wrote:

 Let’s draw parallels if Steve Jobs were a Kenyan. He did call the Intel CEO when he was 12 years old, explaining that he had a technical invention that he thought would be of help to the company. And the Intel CEO bought into his idea, and gave him a space and lab and equipment to bring his ideas to light. Let’s fictionalize how the conversation might have gone if he were a Kenyan.

 

So, let’s assume that he is Mc'Dubious here and the Intel CEO would be  a CEO of a telecommunications/media company.


here is how the conversation would play out

 

Mc'Dubious: Hi, Sir, I’m Mc'Dubious. I have an amazing technology that I believe would be of help to your company.

 

CEO:  And where did you develop the technology. Who helped you? 

 

Mc'Dubious: No, I developed it myself, after the school classes. 

 
CEO: So, you are still in school?

 

Mc'Dubious: Yes Sir.

 

CEO: Don’t you think it would have been better if you had finished school and then bring up the idea when you are through with school.

Mc'Dubious: No, but I already figured out the problem, so it makes no difference.

 

CEO: Listen, young man, or boy, finish school first, and then we’ll talk when you can come with the appropriate qualification and papers.

 

Mc'Dubious: But won’t you give me a chance sir, just to demonstrate it?

CEO: Listen, I will not enter into discussions with a kid. What do you know anyway.*hangs the phone quickly.*

 

Mc'Dubious: But, but…but….
 

 

And the dream would have died like that. And young Mc'Dubious would have been subsumed into the system, learning to adopt and stay afloat and twenty or thirty years, is a creative ghost of his former self. 

I know this has happened or is bound to happen to many of you out there....

 

 

 

 


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