Presented to the Saskatchewan Foster Families Association annual conference in Saskatoon, SK June 16th, 2018. You don't have to match your socks, you don't have to do what you're told. Life can be a wonderful thing if you're alright with uncertainty. Think differently. Act like a superhero. We can change our brain. No one is born with courage. Trying new things is how we learn. What’s your next moonshot?

1. You don’t have
to match your
socks

2. Think differently.
Act like a superhero.
We can change our brain.
No one is born with courage.
Trying new things is how we learn.
What’s your next moonshot?

8. Mom: Everyone is special
Dash
Dash: Which is another way
of saying no one is!

9. Things I don’t
believe in…

10. • Washing your car
• Cutlery organizers
• Matching socks
• Pealing a kiwi
• Using shaving cream
• Lawns in general
• Standardized Tests

11. We must unlearn bad
habits from school

12. Is this going to be on
the test?

14. You can change the
makeup of your brain

15. 1960 Rosenthal-
Jacobson study

18. You have a
superpower

22. Nothing is actually
impossible, we just
haven’t figured out
how to yet.

24. (In 1987 they were completely crazy)

25. Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics

27. No one is born with
courage,
you earn it.

29. Degas
Cézanne
Monet
Renoir
Pissaro
Sisley

30. who are your
heroes?

36. “but jeph, i’m not
talented at
anything I don’t
have a
superpower!”

37. The Talent
Myth

42. There are no
prodigies,just people who work
harder than other people.

43. Pygmalian in
management

44. The Galatea effect

45. if you don’t feel dumb every day
you probably aren’t
doing much.

48. Trying new ways
of doing things is
how we learn

50. We don’t
accept
resumes

52. What’s your
moonshot?

56. “Cooperatition”
is your new strategy

60. Think differently.
Act like a superhero.
We can change our brain.
No one is born with courage.
Trying new things is how we learn.
What’s your next moonshot?

61. You don’t have to match your socks.

62. In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a
position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.
We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the
bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the
average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism
designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and
that is in the discovery and defense of the *new*. The world is often unkind to
new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced
something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source.
To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions
about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my
core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's
famous motto, "Anyone can cook." But I realize, only now do I truly
understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a
great artist *can* come from *anywhere*. It is difficult to imagine more
humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in
this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be
returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more. -Ratatouille

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