BuzzMachine

Great show. I’ve ordered your book from amazon.com and will recommend it to my write/speak classes (www.howtowriteyourownsuccessstory.com) That’s not a plug, because I’m too busy to teach it in the future.

Can’t wait to get the book. I know you’re right about the ‘give it away free,’ and ‘let people create something for/with you’ but I’m not sure why or how.

One comment you might enjoy is about the younger generation being ahead of the older one these days: Re: The young people have the advantage and become the experts, and older people fall behind, a comment:

This has always been so. The younger generation is always ahead when things change: immigrants always know that their children are the ones who understand the new world: my father at 13 was the go-to guy instead of his Russian father because he was in school, spoke English and knew what was happening. Unlike his elders, who would have been the experts in the ‘old country,’ he, and all the kids his age (and younger), enjoyed the new ways and learned them effortlessly.

I don’t remember where I read this, but during the Renaissance, when clocks replaced sundials and hourglasses, adults couldn’t grasp how they worked, but children had no problem.

Even in my lifetime, this held true: in the early 50’s my father brought home a TV set and none of us — my parents, or my brother and I (10 and 11 years old) — could adjust the TV set’s fine-tuning knob (it was the only knob on the TV set) to get on the channel beam and make the picture sharp. We had to wake up my 4-year old baby brother to come out and fix the fine-tuning, which he would do half asleep, then stumble back to bed. :-)

Barbara Sher