What’s Up Guy: Inspiration From Ben Dunlap

What’s reckless about condescension?

But no matter. Ben Dunlap’s TED lecture is remarkable. He tosses a clutch of disparate ideas out in the first five minutes of his lecture, and then stitches them back together, building to a breathtaking conclusion. Ben Dunlap is a master story teller, and his tale inspires.

There is beautiful subtlety with along the way. For example, Ben Dunlap’s mentor, Mr. Teszler, invented double knit fabric, and also devoted himself to the integration of the notoriously segregated textile industry of South Carolina. Maybe those two story elements - double knit and integration - were pure coincidence, but a great story teller has an amazing ability to find coincidences.

He works in music - Bartok. Music is a force of story telling, well used in this lecture.

He uses great words with great success - ‘perforce,’ ‘skein,’ and even ‘risible.’ He alludes to Mothra and Godzilla.

His inspiration: learn as if you will live forever.
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