Imagine you’re a simple student in the Netherlands. Without making any plans for it, what would you say the chance is that the same afternoon you’d be flying in a private jet with Richard Branson to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington?
That’s right! Zero. Or at least very very very close to zero. Yet this is exactly what Dutch students Omar Kbiri en Lennard Hulsbos achieved last week.
Their secret? They asked.
Mister Branson, we are 2 broke students, can we join you on the plane to DC?
They simply asked Richard Branson if he had two spare seats in his plane, so they could attend the inauguration. Richard Branson was a speaker at the Big Improvement Day convention in Amsterdam. During this event there was the possibility of asking questions by sending a sms to a big screen (that everybody could see). And they plainly asked. And Richard Branson said yes.
Now there were probably a myriad of reasons not to ask such a ‘ridiculous’ question, but none of those reasons would’ve gotten them quite the same result.
Takeaway
If you want something, why not simply ask for it? Who knows, people might just say yes.
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That’s frickin’ awesome.
That is an AWESOME story! I love it, thank you for sharing it. And a very good point, indeed!
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Just go for it but please and there are many reasons to choose not to fly at all. Somehow we have to cure ourselves of the illusion that hopping on a plane is OK and dosn’t matter
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Wow, that’s an encouraging story, that reminds us, that if we want something in life, we won’t get a chance to get it unless we ask! And we shouldn’t be afraid of rejection, because the rewards of a “yes” far out way not doing anything at all!
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