Be Amazed At What Heroes Copywriter Ted Nicholas Says When He Answers the Heroes Question " 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
Ted Nicholas: The first ones that come to mind, since we were just talking about children, are sports heroes. I think sports heroes are tremendous for children. The people that are setting records, breaking homeruns, for example or people that are coming close to it like Sammy Sosa, and others who came here as immigrants. He seems to be a very kind and good person and a good parent. I remember the retired John Elway, the former NFL quarterback and "Hall of Famer." I think he is tremendous.
I have had on occasion a chance to do some things for the Make a Wish Foundation that he was very much a part of and supporting them. He is a terrific hero to look up to as a great NFL Champion. I think the tennis players, some of the top ones, are wonderful heroes like the current number one, Roger Federer and Andrea Agassi who has just been a terrific influence on so many kids, so many young people. So, many of the sports legends I feel are great heroes.
Michael Jordon has of course influenced so many people from lower income backgrounds, because lower income kids tend to play a lot of basketball in neighborhoods and so forth. He is a tremendous hero, but then I think, also of authors again, who I think are terrific heroes.
I think to be a children's author means that you are a special hero, because what I like about children and authors that write for children, like Rowling and others, is that you have to be a person of special integrity. Kids can see through dishonesty better than adults. There's like a dishonesty filter and we adults can be more easily influenced by someone who may not have great integrity, but kids seem to see that.
So the children's writers are terrific heroes for children, I feel. Then of course, the entrepreneurs that are very good in the world are also very good examples in our lives. Individuals who are thinkers along their own path and people who influence so many people are heroes, like Bill Gates for example, Richard Branson, and the publisher heroes that may not be as well known in celebrity status, but, people like my friend Bill Bonner of Agora Publishing, he publishes pro-freedom and pro-entrepreneurial work.
Tom Phillips of Phillips Publishing and Bill Bonner are tremendous heroes who are helping to spread ideas. So the idea spreaders, if you will, are tremendous heroes. Just to name a few that I think are terrific are the people on the stage, who talk from the stage, who influence a lot of people, such as Peter Lowe, who is a seminar attendee of mine.
He does the biggest seminars in America right now. He is the promoter of Zig Ziggler and he is a very good speaker himself. They are terrific heroes bringing heroes like retired General Schwarzkopf, for example to speak at his seminars. I just think those people are tremendous heroes.