Dream, Dare, Do
47 year old Susan Boyle, a name that nobody knew until 15 days ago has taken the world by storm when she decided to dream of becoming a professional singer, get on stage and perform despite knowing she was facing a hostile audience at the Britain’s got Talent show.
Over 100 million views in two weeks, more clicks as the clock ticks. Yes, that is the status of Susan’s video on you tube since 11th of April 2009 when her talent was first broadcast to the world.
Her plump figure, curly hair and presumably clumsy appearance was received with laughter and cynical reactions from the judges and the audience as she walked on stage. One could see contempt in that voice of Simon Cowell – one of the judges when he asked ,”What is your name darling?”. Susan’s response of becoming a professional singer to the likes of Elaine Paige only got more eyes rolling and frowns when she was asked “What’s the dream?”.
However as she started to sing “I dreamed a dream” from Les Miserables in an angelic voice as sweet as nectar from heaven, everyone at the Clyde auditorium in Glasgow Scotland was stunned, filled with remorse and felt ashamed for mocking based on her looks. Then they stood and applauded the biggest suprise that even the judges have seen in the 3 years since this show began.
Watch Susan at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY before you read further.
I choose to highlight four statements as lessons for all of us:
- One local newspaper which I was reading yesterday had an article about Susan Boyle with the headline “Some dreams begin at forty seven”.
- I know what they were thinking, but why should it matter as long as I can sing? It’s not a beauty contest. – Susan Boyle, The Sunday Times.
- After the performance, Amanda Holden, another Judge said, “I am so thrilled because I know that everybody was against you. I honestly think that we were all being very cynical, and I think that’s the biggest wake-up call ever. And I just want to say that it was a complete privilege listening to that.”
- Walt Disney coined “Dream, dare, do” as his business philosophy and since the time his team started believing in these three words, disney has achieved unparalleled success. Susan is an example of how this is so true in any individual’s life as well.
