The other day I went searching for a new pair of shoes for a TEDx Talk I'll be giving on Tuesday at Bergen Community College. (6 Ways Actors and Artists Can Empower Themselves in a Disempowering Industry)
The "Sale" sign in the front window was encouraging but soon I discovered most of the shoes marked down were not quite my style. The ones I seemed to be eyeing were all full price.
"How about these?" a sales clerk asked. "No thanks. I'm not crazy about the high tops," I told her.
After several minutes of aimlessly pacing back and forth I began to reconsider some of the shoes I'd just deemed "less hip." Moments before I was about to grab a pair of shoes I was less than crazy about, I spotted a pair identical to the ones I had on, just newer.
I ended up buying the shoes which were considerably cheaper than the rest and obviously more my style since I'd bought them several months before.
It dawned on me as I left the shoe store that often times we don't need a new style, or approach. We simply need to upgrade something we already possess.
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