Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.
The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it.
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.
We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.
Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.
I write, I teach, I direct. I sail around the world for Holland America two months out of every year doing a seminar where we discuss film or theater and do improvisations.
I will greet every person who comes to my workshops and seminars.
The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.
