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| 1517.1 | Les Brown is phenomenal! | EMDS::GILLES |  | Tue Aug 06 1991 09:26 | 9 | 
|  |     Great!!
    A few weeks back he was doing a motivational session down the cape,He
    was fired up.He got cassettes and videos. He's terrific!. I personnally
    met him three years ago in Charlotte N.Carolina at a seminar. If you 
    have not seen him on stage,what for his next show.
    			He is Great.
    
    	Frantz.
    
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| 1517.2 |  | SWAM2::BRADLEY_RI | Holoid in a Holonomic Universe | Tue Aug 27 1991 19:42 | 11 | 
|  |     Fred:
    
    I did get a chance to watch Les, last night, on our PBS station in Los
    Angeles.  Les was entertaining and inspirational.  I don't know how you
    could remain a victim after listening to him.  I did not hear enough of
    his program (was this a sampler?) to get a notion of the specific,
    behavior modification or techniques he uses to get people to change
    their behavior.  The example of his own life might be enought to get
    some started, though.
    
    Richard B
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| 1517.3 | More les...;-) | MISERY::WARD_FR | Going HOME---as an Adventurer! | Wed Aug 28 1991 13:12 | 18 | 
|  |     re: .2 (Ric-hard/ric-soft)
    
          Hi, Richard!  A woman friend of man watched him after I
    suggested it and her comments were that she couldn't say she
    cared for the boasting about the manipulations he had managed
    to direct (getting to become a disk-jockey, e.g.) but that she
    enjoyed his enthusiasm and positivism.  What I liked, putting the
    manipulations aside (we all make mistakes, after all) is that
    he was able to overcome adversity and has no room for self-pity,
    etc.  Moreover, his techniques sound quite metaphysical to me.
          As for programs, etc., I am unaware of any.
    
          He had a quote that I liked...enough to write it down:
  "If there's no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm."
      --African proverb related by Les Brown
    
    Frederick
    
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| 1517.4 | did I miss something? | CARTUN::MISTOVICH |  | Fri Aug 30 1991 09:14 | 11 | 
|  |     Hi Frederick,
    
    Les was on east coast channel 2 the other night.  I enjoyed large parts
    of what he had to say.  I'm not sure where the manipulation was in his
    getting to be a DJ.  Showing up every day and asking for a job was
    great!  I don't believe he caused the other DJ to get drunk that day. 
    The only thing he actively did was not be a good boy, follow orders and
    find another DJ to fill in.  That didn't really harm anyone...it just
    gave him the break he very likely would never have gotten otherwise.
    
    Mary
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| 1517.5 | BELIEVE IN YOURSELF | HPSRAD::ZINGARELLI |  | Fri Aug 30 1991 13:04 | 13 | 
|  |     Frederick,  I saw Les last weekend on PBS and he set a fire going
    for me.  I liked his persistence and positive attitude.  Outside
    the "salesman-type" tactics, I saw an underlying belief in someone/
    something greater than himself.  He included subtle references to
    the Bible and direct references to God.
    
    The guy has a lot of "guts" and believes in himself not in the
    opinions of others.  He has the ability to persevere and 
    most most importantly, "TO FIND HUMOR IN EVERYTHING."
    
    Truly refreshing in these times
    
    /Liz 
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