Success By Performing Without An Audience – Is Anyone Listening?
To achieve success it can be important to keep going even if no one seems to be appreciating or even noticing what you are doing. Some people are not appreciated until after they have passed on into the next life. Hopefully, it won’t take that long for the rest of us.
“A Night To Remember” is a 1958 film which tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic in a powerful and moving way. It stars Kenneth More as the dedicated officer who does his duty in putting women and children only into the life boats as the Titanic starts to sink and then manages to save a group of men who were amongst the last survivors.
As the boat is sinking, a legendary act of heroism takes place. The musicians keep playing on deck rather than taking care of their own survival.
One of them says “What’s the use? No one is listening.” Another comments “Well, no one is listening when we play at meals.”
Even the Beatles must have thought no one was listening. In 1962, four years after the Titanic film was made, Decca recording turned them...