Digital Voices

Philipp’s “This I Believe” podcast

Every day I meet new people who ask me about my home country Germany. All the new people, classmates and my host family are at first so interested and have a lot of good questions. I told them were I came from, what hobbies I have, what my parents are doing and so on and so on. Just what every single person would do to have a good relationship to these people in your, in this case my new community. Even when the new friends I made started asking me about every single thought, I stayed calm and answered every single one in a way it was needed to be nice and friendly and keep them interested. Not a real big deal. I think I tried to answer questions so, that on the one hand I work on my friendship and on the other hand I give them a good picture of what I represent, Germany and its people.

So I come to my point.

I believe that people should be more open and critical at the same time. Today too many are out there who don’t even care about what is going on around them. They live in their own little world separated from the rest, saying: “What I don’t know can’t bother me!” That is right till it is too late. I say we should start looking on our world as a whole. Me, as somebody from somewhere else with maybe a little bit different point view brings new aspects, concerns and ideas to these people.

Good is that People are natural interested in everything, but when you let work by them self they are lazy.

It is like a present. When it is big, heavy and nice wrapped you can’t sit still and wait to open it. You want to know what is in it. You want to know.

So the conclusion is that information has to be delivered in an easy format to the people. Knowledge has to be something what not just sound good; it has to be more than that. There has to be a price. Something you always wanted. If that isn’t there, nobody would put his most effort in it. The way to be good is hard and why make it even harder when you don’t know what you are working for.

I give the information first hand to my friends. They listen carefully and the interest growths.

My job is to learn the most about your culture out of my journey in America, bring a part of my country to the US and share my new knowledge and thoughts with somebody just like you.

I’m open to hear, learn and read about all of your ideas, questions and interest but this is just the next step. This step has to be made by you. The conclusion: Communication which brings the world more and more together to solve our problems with stile and respect to each other. It is more possible than ever before in history. The newest technology, the personal interest of every one of us: We can make a difference. We can make the world a better and safer place to live, if we just believe in it and keep track of what is going on in the world.

It is now up to you. Find ways to let the world now what you thing and be concerned about what the world things.

Pod castings are in may experience like a personal conversation or better a presentation which can influence in a very powerful way the audience. The voice, the story itself and how the person is able to describe his thoughts and things what happened in his life. Basically what I try to say is that emotions and how they are used make the difference between a good and an awful speech.

Imagination plays also a very important role. It is like a book on CD. When you listen to the story you can see a creation of the characters, things and the story made up by your mind.

The essays I listened to were really well made, organized and hade a strong impact on me. I would say they were very alive.