Dave Eggers

As Dave Eggers said, helping one kid, leads to helping a numerous amount of kids, which helps the schools that they go to which helps the neighborhoods which helps the communities which helps the cities which eventually leads to helping the world. When Dave realized that he had the ability to help these kids with their English and reading homework, he seemed to get really excited. From then on he did everything he could to get kids to go to his after school study center. He even created a pirate shop.

If we put in the same amount of energy and passion into our everyday lives as he did into his study center, I believe that not only will our lives be better, but the entire world will be a better place to live. If a bunch of people were passionate about recycling and put in recycling bins in every public place, the amount of garbage people create could probably be reduced by a startling amount. Or if people from all around the world put in a ton of passion and time into creating trying to create world peace, it might actually happen. It can't just be one person or one country trying to have world peace, it has to be all the countries working together.

Another thing that can be taken away from this video is it takes one person to light a spark. Dave showed some other after school study centers during his TED Talk that took after his own. One example was having a superhero shop in front of the study center instead of a pirate shop. This just goes to show that if you start out doing something by yourself, other people will see you and want to join because you are making the world a better place.