A short motivational YouTube talk (uploaded by Larry Weidel) delivered by a speaker named Sam that uses a three-type framework and the pigeons-vs-lions metaphor to urge listeners to be decisive and make a positive, visible impact in their lives and communities rather than passively watching life go by. The talk contrasts “pigeons on the rooftop” (restless, unnoticed watchers) with “lions in the ring” (decisive, attention-commanding doers), reiterates personal choice and agency, and closes with a brief call-to-action to subscribe and visit "White Elle on winning."
One of the great things about being a human being is you can make decisions. You can decide to a large degree who you want to be, where you want to live, what you want to do. Also who you want to do it with, what you want to spend your time, all of these things. But you want to be decisive. You don't want to be limited and miss your chance for greatness because you just went along for the ride, looking at everybody else. Now, you've heard this before, but I'm going to say it again. There's three kinds of people. Are you thinking ahead of me? Three kinds of people. What are they? Can we have a chorus, ladies and gentlemen? First of all, there's the kinds of people who watch things happen. Then you have those that are that wonder. They look around and they wonder what's happening. They can never make any sense. They don't know where they. They don't know what they believe in. They don't know what they think. They don't know. They don't have any frame of reference. See, these are like the pigeons. Pigeons on the rooftop watching the world go by. Restless spirits. Flying here, flying there, never making an impact. No one ever pays any attention. No one ever hears them. The world is full of them. Just a pigeon sitting on the rooftop watching the world go by. See, but the third kind of people are different. These are people that make things happen. These are the lions in the ring. These are the impact people. The people who decide to do something big, powerful. You might not notice that there's a pigeon. You know, you walk outside in your yard, might be a pigeon out there. You might not even notice that pigeon. But, you know, if there's a lion out in your yard, you're going to know the lions out there, and everybody else is going to know the lions out there. Because a lion commands, demands your attention. The lion is serious, substantial, powerful, capable of doing great things. You want to stay out of the lion's way while the lion is doing whatever it's doing. Because there's a problem for messing with a lion. Mess with a pigeon, what are they going to do? What's a pigeon going to do? Attack you? What? Alfred Hitchcock and the Birds. That was a movie that didn't happen in real life. And so lions, pigeons, lions are down in the ring. See, the pigeons are watching other people. The lions are watched because they're doing. They do things that are interesting, are impactful, that make a difference, that are fascinating. See those. That's where the eyeballs go. But the pig, no one's going to watch a pigeon for long because there's nothing happening. You know, feed them something and they fly away. But lion is different. So as you go through your life, you've got a choice in your life but even in every situation, in every phase of your life, to be a pigeon on the rooftop just watching things happen or a lion in the ring making a difference, taking a stand for something positive, taking a stand against the negative things, living a life where people no, you made an impact, a positive impact in other people's lives not only just for yourself and your family, but you make things better. You're only going to get one life to live, folks. You can live it as a pigeon on the rooftop or live it as a lion in the ring. Your choice. Thanks for listening. Subscribe if you haven't already. And if you want to hear more of these, leave me your comments. Come see us over at White Elle on winning we glad to have you over there Sam.
