WEEK 7: TED TALKS

FEED BACK ON CHAPTER 9.

This chapter opens us to a different picture about the poor who are now seen as natural born entrepreneurs. The poor have a greater shot of being an entrepreneur as their ideas are still fresh and have not been tried as well as the fact that they have been ignored by the rich entrepreneurs. Therefore the poor just need the right environment and a little bit of help to start their exit out of poverty. Thus if we are to help them out, we should bring the help down to them where they can get the assistance easily. This could be done by the poor themselves.  Another aspect which supports the fact that the poor are natural entrepreneurs is the fact that despite the things that militate against them, they are still willing to engage in business just as their rich counterparts. Thus given the help, even the poorest people will begin their exit out of poverty.

TED TALK 1: How to Start a Movement, by Derek Sivers.

  According to Derek Sivers, the following tips are of utmost importance when starting a movement;

•         The leader needs to stand out and be ridiculed.    
•    Your first followers must be your equals. You should treat them as equals or partners.

·        A movement must be a public show and not something secret as most people hold it.
·        To start a movement, you must have the courage to follow and teach others how to follow.
·        Your first followers are the ones who transform you into a leader and that leadership is over glorified.

TED TALK 2: Weird or Different, by Derek Sivers.

  Under this section, Derek Sivers encourages us to move out of our area of usual habitation and see how things work in other parts of the world as the opposite of what we hold or assume may tend out to be true. A good example is the case of address in America and Japan. In America, Streets are named not blocks while in Japan, they name blocks rather than streets and houses are numbered according to the order of their construction and not successively. Also, In China, doctors are being paid when people are healthy and not when they are sick, since their duty is to keep you healthy.

For more light, watch the following videos of Derek Sivers!!!!!!