Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker
One million+ people globally while at Disney Institute.
Midlife Celebration is a website, Baby Boomer blog, and midlife think tank. Founder jeff noel is driven to help others think, smile and be grateful. And by driven, think in terms of the passion Walt Disney harnessed to innovate cartoons.
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As Walt Disney said in 1928, “I was all alone back then, I didn’t even have a mouse”.
I said something similar in 1981. Having a mouse is good for your soul.
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Looking at where I started and comparing it to today’s art, a huge growth opportunity. Every single over-night success looked amateurish in the early days. It’s a right of passage with only rare exceptions.
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Gone are the bucket brigades. The fire hydrant revolutionized fire protection. And then rather than make a better hydrant, others thought about prevention versus “cure”. Safer building materials, building codes and inspections. Smoke detectors.
Rather than move from reactive to proactive, some continued thinking about the “cure”: sprinklers, fire extinguishers, better alarms. Faster trucks.
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At the time, breakthroughs are exactly that, cutting edge. Later, relics. What this fact does for me is help me realize that dreaming big may seem crazy, but it’s the only thing that leads to making a difference.
We should rejoice at the countless failures dreamers encountered because we must follow the same path. Fall down seven times, get up eight.
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