John Herman added something to my life, I think. Because at first, John Herman has a mature face that somehow looks young. He has brown hair without any gray flecks in it yet. And at first, when we were introducing ourselves around the classroom, I predicted that this famous John Herman guy would be bored with what we were saying. I predicted that he wouldn't really care what we were doing, whether we were listening.
To be honest, I predicted he would come to our class and lecture at us about how to be better journalists.
But then he didn't. Instead, he talked about his own life. His eyes were alive with his adventures. He turned his instruction into a story, and went through examples of how he got followers over the Internet, lost them, and then regained an audience. He explained that he's made a name for himself not because he's advertised his products. Instead, he's advertised himself apart from any product.
He's John Herman. He's an actor, writer, teacher, almost went to space, husband, father, and yet he's John Herman. Just John Herman.
Now that you know more about what I remember when I met John Herman, you can also know that I really liked listening to him. He had good stories to tell, and amidst his stories, he looked for feedback.
And he said that the college students in the room had the blankest expressions, and he just had no idea what we were thinking. The whole class laughed.
In a very sincere way, John Herman taught me a lot about himself and myself. By showing me all the things he was doing, had done, and even some of the things he wanted to do, I learned about the things I'm not willing to do and some of the things that I could maybe do but scare me.
Could I really put myself out there the same way that John Herman has? I don't know. But now I know there is a way.
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