I want to begin with a question.

The question is, would you be willing to do something crazy

if you knew it was a part of your calling?

Don't answer that, just think about it.

Would you be willing to do something deemed by people

around you at large and even in your own heart

that felt crazy if you knew it was a part of your calling?

The truth is that as we look at history

and we see pioneers that pop up,

they oftentimes are dark horses

who were deemed dumb by the quote unquote experts.

They were called crazy in their time.

A few examples on the screen is Theodore Geisel.

Theodore Geisel had written a book.

The book title was, I think,

and to think I saw it on Mulberry Street

and he wanted to get his book published.

And so he went to publishers as one does.

And the publishers read his book and said,

eh, your book's stupid.

In fact, literally one of the letters back,

he said, your book is rubbish.

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