The sound of living trees (how marketing could make or break your starting professional career)

My mother used to brag about how smart of a child I used to be. How I walked before others crawled, talked before other babbled. And other nonsense only a Loving mother would tell about her run-of-the-mill child, nonsense that will do him no good except feeding his ego at the expense of his skills. All these stories and others -told in family gatherings- used to bypass my mind and heart, except one. And it goes like this:

"When Ahmed was starting to be a little expressive with language, and while watching some old English movie, his father noticed him laughing a little, then staring blankly at the screen, alternating between laughter and stares, synchronizing with some plot points and punchlines. So he wanted to test some theory in his mind.

Father: you are laughing at random aren't you?

Ahmed: No.

Father: you don't understand what are you seeing.

Ahmed: I understand.

Father: prove it. Tell me what is so funny about this movie.

And for the next 15 minutes, he tried -with his limited vocabulary- to explain the whole plot of the movie with the smallest details.

Father: did you learn to read the subtitles without my help?

Ahmed: No, it moves fast.

He taught himself English before he could read Arabic"

Actually I don't ensure the credibility of this story but in my childhood and teenage years after that, I Was the hero of many other stories all driven by my love for movies and cinema.

Over the years my mother story and others seeped to my ego and our small closed town with all eyes on me didn't help either.

Until I moved to the big city, the dream crusher, Cairo.

There, I found young men and women with talent far greater than mine, and love for the craft, that exceeds any material love.
And one after the other. I saw there dreams coming crushing down, and the ones who didn't abandon there dreams completely, compromised.

Leaving only couple of individuals. Not the most talented, not the most passionate, but the ones who could market there talent and focus there passion with the least compromise possible.

So that's why I enrolled in this digital Marketing Course and many others to come
As a wise man once said:

"If a tree falls in the forest with no ears to hear ....who gives a damn what sound it makes"

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finally, I can't be thankful enough for my amazing and talented wife Nada Nasser for being there for me at every step of my study,
and my friend Ahmed Atef for suggesting this course.