I’ve attached a ted talk called “Everyday Leadership.”  Drew Dudley starts off by talking about how not enough people feel comfortable calling themselves leaders because we as a society we have started celebrating really great things that only a few people can accomplish and fail to acknowledge and celebrate.  This reminded me of one of our most recent readings and how we have a much larger impact than we give ourselves credit for, sometimes.  He tells a story about a girl who was nervous about going to college and almost didn’t go because she was so nervous, but he was advertising for a student group he worked with and came over to her and her parents and joked with them and she immediately felt more comfortable and decided to stay.  Dudley comments about how he doesn’t remember this moment at all, but it was so important to this girl, that she found him before he graduated and thanked him for what he did.  Dudley had also been joking with the boy standing in line behind the girl and they ended up dating all four years of college and getting married due to how they met each other.

For Dudley, this moment was so small and normal that he didn’t even remember it, but for this girl, it meant so much more.  This shows how our smaller actions can have much larger ramifications than we expect them too and that we should take that extra moment to do a small act of kindness because it can go so much farther for the other person than we realize.  Dudley uses this example to show how leaders don’t always have to be doing these big monumental things that we tend to think they do.  Leaders can be normal people who impact other people’s lives, and it is something everyone can do.