Welcome to another post on my blog. After watching Denzel Washington's motivational speech and life advice in Wānanga today, I thought to use that for the reflection section for today.
Source title: Denzel Washington's Life Advice Will Leave You Speechless
Source: Motivation Madness
Speaker: Denzel Washington
Source purpose: To motivate viewers about Denzel Washington's life and how he showed resilience in his life.
Critical literacy question: What views of the world is the text presenting?
Date: 21 May 2021
Denzel Washington explains that we should show resilience by never giving up and always keep on trying no matter what. Washington first talks about falling forward with given examples of former Baseball player Reggie Jackson who got struck out 2600 times in his career, the most in the history of baseball. But, you don't hear about the strikeouts, but people remember the home runs.
Another example he gave was Thomas Edison, who conducted 1,000 failed experiments and the one thousand and first was the light bulb. Washington quotes that, "every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You need to take risks."
Denzel says, "at first, we all will fail at some point in our lives. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something."
Later, he talked about his earlier life on how he did many acting auditions, but he failed and kept on failing. In 2019, he did a play called Fence's on Broadway. Washington also won the Tony Award. The play was held at the Court Theatre, it was the same theatre that Denzel Washington failed that first audition 30 years prior.
