{"id":4443,"date":"2009-04-15T20:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2009-04-17T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:18:42","slug":"lessons-from-britains-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/lessons-from-britains-got-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Britain’s Got Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eugene Cho shares the story of Susan Boyle<\/a> this week on his blog.<\/p>\n

Susan’s a 47 year old charity worker, who’s never been kissed or on a date. She’s currently unemployed and her previous singing experience has been limited to the church choir and karaoke.<\/p>\n

She was starved of oxygen at birth and has learning difficulties as a result. At school she was slow and had frizzy hair. She was bullied, mostly verbally. She told one newspaper that her classmates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 jibes left behind the kind of scars that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet she recently blew folks away with her performance on Britain’s Got Talent.<\/p>\n

Eugene writes:<\/p>\n

Notice the sneers, looks, judgments, and assumptions that nearly everyone makes – including the respective judges. The change of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perception\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (judgment? -> wonder) in the faces of the judges – especially Simon Cowell – are a sight to see. And to be fair to them, I get it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty simple – she isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pretty. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look the part. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like an entertainer. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look charismatic. And so it begs the questions:<\/p>\n