Wanna be famous? Sure... no problem!

My friend said that he wanted to be popular and famous. I’ve promised to help him. So here’s my little story.

My friend’s name is, let’s say, Peter Harryskins or Henry Pottkins (doesn’t really matter… just don’t want to mention his real name. I won’t use my blog to make him famous). Every time I would get on a ski lift with someone I don’t know I would (at some point in conversation) ask if they ever heard of Peter Harryskins. Right after their negative reply (sorry Peter, right now you are so far from reaching your goal), I would say “lots of people today on the lift were talking to me about him. They’ve told me that he is such a good snowboarder.” Their reply would be – “or really? Didn’t know.” I’m sure my mistake was my sampling procedure. I’ve talked only to skiers. How would they know about famous Peter Harryskins-snowboarder?!? But even with lousy methods I was successful. One guy, on my question if he ever heard of that famous snowboarder, said YES. He also told me that this is the guy with red hair, and he is in fact a really good snowboarder. Isn’t that wonderful? My friend is already famous and is with red hair. (still laugh every time I think of something that is somehow related to red hair).

See Peter, my methods worked… there’s at least one person who is sure you are famous, others have just heard of you and learnt that people think you are a good snowboarder. And now they are questioning themselves how come they’ve never heard of you. But I’ve repeated your name several times with every person… just to make sure that they’ll remember.

As one guy said yesterday “our only limit is our imagination”. I’ve imagined that you are famous and you were. So… never stop imagining.

I had so much fun.