Heroes Copywriters Craig Garber and Troy White and Email List Relationships Master Frank Kern Answer " Who do you feel are the real heroes in our society today that are not getting the recognition and rewards they deserve? by Ralph Zuranski
Frank Garon: I have a friend whose mom is dying and dad is elderly and infirmed himself, but he’s busy taking care of her and trying to keep her home. I mean, it’s inevitable she’s going to go to a hospice or nursing home. It’s just to the point where she really should’ve been in a while ago.
This seventy or eighty year old guy that can barely move himself is keeping his wife home and he’s hurting himself physically and draining himself mentally just to keep his wedding vows. When she goes in somewhere, they're going to take the last fifteen thousand of his money.
That’s going to be it. To me, hey, that guy’s a bigger hero than I am right now. Yet he’s not recognized. He can't get aid, he can't get help, and he can't get support. What’s wrong with this picture?
Craig Garber: You don’t want to see them on the T.V. I would like to but it won’t sell, or maybe it will sell as a tail end of a show; “Tonight’s closing story we have grandma Essy, who is 97 years old and takes care of fifteen kids”. I think that’s too mundane and people discount it.
I think that people don’t acknowledge that that’s the way the world goes round. Whether you have different opinions or similar opinions, that’s the thing that makes the world a great place to live in. It’s to mundane, people want to see sensational stuff. They’re not going to stop and consider stuff like that.
You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
- Edmund Hillary
Troy White: There are a lot of them, and a lot of them are educators. We’ve all had one teacher in our lives, be it at school or a friend or a family friend of something, and it’s funny how all it can take is just one little thing that will stay with you for the rest of your life and drive you to achieve great things.
I had a teacher in university that taught me the power of preparation and visualization and it was because of her that I got a job at Hewlett Packard. I was up against 500 people in the first round and I made it to the final two and got hired. It was because of what she taught me on how to be prepared and then how to visualize that final agreement when they hired me.
It’s people like that who are the true heroes in our lives and it doesn’t take a lot for them to inspire and lead you and take with you the rest of your life. I wish there was some way to get more credit to those people because there’s lots of them out there who have done amazing things for kids.