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[Suli Breaks:] Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah, I feel like it’s a bit of an anti-climax, [I am going lots], I mean we had so many talented people here we had so many people do some amazing things. I don’t have that many skills I can’t create different sounds with my voice by pressing different buttons. But what I can do is poetry; I am an spoken word artist.

Last year was a big difficult for me if I’m honest, because I was told to talk about democracy I’m not to engaged when it comes to political terms like that and is difficult to find words that rhyme with democracy actually. (Like) Know you have you know is very difficult democracy, biography, couple ocracies, which they wouldn’t approve of in Parliament.

You guys got – hope I don’t get in trouble for that.

Yes so this year they said I could discuss and talk about leadership and I realized that I actually don’t know that much about leadership as a whole. So everything I’m going to say is my opinion what I think leadership should be will be relevant to some of you may not be relevant some of you, but please don’t come up to me afterwards and give me political statements and manifestos and tell me what’s right and what’s wrong I’m just stating my opinion that’s why I do, “Follow the Leader”.

I have to explain spoken word is basically like poetry, yeah or if you want to sound cool it’s more like rap.

Now I don’t know that much about leadership all I know is that as kids we all wanted to be the ‘red ranger’. Now if you don’t understand a significance of being the ‘red ranger’ I feel very sorry for you. Because it means you were either born way too late to appreciate the birth of one of the world’s greatest legacies or you are born way too early to be born one of the world’s greatest centuries; for those of who you don’t know being the red ranger meant that you are a part of an esteemed group of individuals known as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Now as kids we wanted to be the Red Ranger because not being the red ranger; not only meant that you got the biggest sword, the biggest sword and got to scream it’s Morphin time before every fight. They also meant that you were a leader of the group. Now as kids we all want to be the red ranger, well actually I wanted to be the black ranger for obvious reasons but can we agree that as kids we were unafraid to be Power Rangers, heroes, leaders. As a matter a fact to what eager to be anything more the meager. So can we then agree that mediocrity being average is something that we learn; not learn but taught.

[Suli Breaks:] Source: LYBIO.net
Maybe Socrates can expand more and its for. What is leadership? He defined it as the challenge to be something more than average.

Some people are willing to accept before life put us in the deep end, because as we get older, it starts to deepen.

Most of us only want to be front in line to the pub or the club on the weekend; but is that our fault.

Because when I was young I was told Suli one day you’re going to have to lead your own life, but it was then proceeded by me being taught to follow; in school I learnt to follow the rules.

The first game we ever learnt to play was follow the leader, I always had to make sure I understood the following, my boss always made sure I followed upon everything. My parents taught me how to follow the system, follow religion, follow tradition. And then they said they’ll kill me if I ever followed in their footsteps, but it’s a vary of this never really hit home. Because even in my favorite TV show Dorothy told me to follow the yellow brick road.

Ironically one thing I was never taught to follow was my heart; it was like follow fashion before you follow passion. So you can understand why my mom seemed bitter, when I told I wanted to be in a band especially as I explained I wanted to be the lead singer, also I couldn’t sing.

But the world doesn’t need new leaders because leaders come and go; like common colds.

If you ask me the next leader should be a community guided by a common goal. One which everyone who contribute young and old I never understood why you have to be eighteen to vote. Because that’s way too late to clean up the mess made by the previous generation.

The world doesn’t need new leaders the world needs new ides. Ideas that tell me I don’t have to walk like that or talk like this; that me and you can be different; because listen to this and this is wisdom people die but ideas live forever.
Because great ideas all the greatest leaders everywhere if you look at Abraham Lincoln, quality; Julius Caesar, strength; Mahatma Gandhi, peace; Nelson Mandela, unity; Princess Diana, empathy; Mother Teresa, compassion; and I’m not saying I agree with all their actions; but I agree with their ideas.

Maybe the scariest reality is that we are all leaders because we all have ideas, but somewhere in between our adult lives and 9 to 5’s, we’re pacified to believe that we’re satisfied.

When deep down inside you, you, you, you, you there is a red ranger fully suited up ready to swing out whenever life throws up; don’t get distracted by the noise; the world froze to blind you. Because deep down there is a voice inside you wondering why you haven’t spoken to it. In years because you know I realize we don’t always get wiser with age, society just breeds us to forget or remember things that we already knew, were true in the first place.

[Suli Breaks:] Source: LYBIO.net
That’s not that much more I need to say, just that you’ll be red tomorrow and let me be green today. And we can change the world either way as long as we’re unafraid to make mistakes and keen to play.

And then you can see as long as we stop looking for others to lead the way that creating a better world it’s a piece of cake. We don’t need leaders we need ideas. Thank you very much.