Audio/Video tips and ressources by a family videographer

This video has been posted by Kathy Sierra on the 14 March 2010. Kathy loves horses and she loves teaching. She is what she calls “a passionate user”.
If you don’t know Kathy Sierra you can learn more about her philosophy on her blog Ceating passionate users to get a glimpse about this incredible “sacrée bonne femme! ”.

As if feeling tearful was one of our greatest emotion (it’s not but it’s a very strong one), Kathy Sierra in this video cut present a tremendous talent of showing us her story.
The effectiveness of her cut is simple because it doesn’t tell, it shows.
By giving us all the clues to identify ourselves with the protagonist journey, we can start having emotions.

The story doesn’t tell us how to solve the fact Kathy cannot control Vafi.
The second half could have shown tips, secrets, never seen before, etc.
Instead Kathy decide to show her and Vafi success (remember, there is two heroes here : Kathy and Vafi)
It only shows us it was possible because she did not give up.

And by extension: if we don’t give up, everything is possible.

Which is the real message of this video.

The fact the message is repeated at the end is a teacher skill: tell it once, show/prove and then repeat it again.

Anything else is left to discussion as Kathy’s reply to a comment proves it :

I think about you a lot, Susan. And even though the video says, “I did not give up”, the truth is… I came so close many times. I had to stop listening to the way everyone was telling me to do things (“get his respect!”) and start listening to what HE was telling me (“respect ME!”) and then faith and patience in the process. But with Vafi, it was always clear I was the problem. That’s not so with your Andi.. but it does seem like the same approach (no pressure / focus on joy) is working!

Those thoughts put into the film would have made her message much less effective (they are also much more harder to show).

But, to me, the real reason why this video is inspirational is the fact “her message is well delivered because of the experience she had and her surrounding passion”.
It’s a kind of work that just happen that way because there is no other way. And it turns out to be the best way.
It took one year to produce, maybe an hour to cut.
That, to me, is sharing.

Sidenote:

This video has been posted posted about a month after Kathy Sierra closed her twitter account.
It’s too bad we can go back the history of her tweets as Kathy have so much insights about creating passionate users and teaching in general.
But for some it’s not an issue because tweets are not deleted when you close your twitter account.

On the meantime, she still know how to tweet, note the description of the video:

My first ride without the bridle on Vafi. We were not partners at first — my fault, not his, and I had to learn to trust this fabulous horse.

Oh my! 142 characters

Thanks for reading,
Thibault

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