Millions have seen on YouTube Susan Boyle's inspirational performance in "Britains Got Talent, 2009." What is it about her performance that moves so many people?
The cynic and skeptic in me would raise doubts that we have been setup and been manipulated to have low expectations before she sang. Wasn't her performance just too good to be real?
She just couldn't be an amateur. Her voice was just too stunning, hitting the high notes perfectly right from the start. She was just too confident and comfortable. Her performance was just completely at odds with her otherwise homely appearance that would speak more of someone not belonging to the glamor and the glitz of the performing stage.
It raised in me a red flag ... "Naw, this can't be true. The TV people have set this up to lure me to buy into the performance...to raise the ratings"
That's the trouble of the thinking mind. Its little suspicious instinct caused me to judge, to look around and took me away from the Now. It robbed me to simply enjoy and appreciate the magical.
In our last Enneagram session we have talked about what is the right mix of trust vs suspicion; when to go with your gut, when with your heart and when with your head. We did not come to a clear answer--which was just as well.
But my sense is that however she had been preparing herself and living her life, Susan Boyle found the right answer in that moment she performed on the show. We witnessed it and were inspired.
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