One of my friends who works in the entertainment industry was telling me about a time when she first moved to L.A. A friend of hers from out of town came to visit and they decided to go watch the red carpet for the grammies.<\/p>\n
She wouldn’t have chosen to go if her friend hadn’t been all excited to go.<\/p>\n
“Your out-of-town friend was excited to see all the glamour of Hollywood? To see all the movie stars, huh?”<\/p>\n
She made\u00a0a face and said\u00a0she regretted going. “I didn’t think it would make me feel so much like they were stars and I was NOT.”<\/p>\n
There are superstars everywhere you look. Every time I turn around I am running into the same people getting interviewed or quoted.<\/p>\n
I dig Steve Jobs, Seth Godin and Mark Twain. But I get inspired by my own little collection of wise people.<\/p>\n
As I crawl around the internet, I find this and that link and then I find someone I to\u00a0follow for a long time.<\/p>\n
Sometimes they are famous. Sometimes they are not.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I have no idea if anybody else anywhere knows about my favorites.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided to start championing the people that matter\u00a0to me. It makes me feel special for discovering them, and like I get to give a gift to all my friends and followers of a new discovery.<\/p>\n
The popular people can keep saying their popular stuff. I’ve never hung out with the popular kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my friends who works in the entertainment industry was telling me about a time when she first moved to L.A. A friend of hers from out of town came to visit and they decided to go watch the … Continue reading