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The_Edwards_Notebook-What_Are_You_Worth071425 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: On January twelve, two thousand and seven, a mysterious violinist
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  Speaker 1: played for forty five minutes on the New York subway.
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  Speaker 1: A few people cheered, others clapped, and he raked in
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  Speaker 1: a whopping thirty dollars for his subway performance. Hello, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ron Edwards on Today's page from the Ever's Notebook. No
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  Speaker 1: one in the New York subway, but the violinists knew
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  Speaker 1: they were enjoying one of the best musicians in all
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  Speaker 1: the world. In that subway, he played one of the
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  Speaker 1: most complex musical compositions ever written on a three point
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  Speaker 1: five million dollar violin. Two days before, he sold out
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  Speaker 1: two thousand tickets in a theater in Boston where the
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  Speaker 1: tickets averaged one hundred dollars apiece. He was paid about
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  Speaker 1: a thousand dollars for each moment of his performance by
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  Speaker 1: the organizers. Joshua bell Is, a violinist in this story.
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  Speaker 1: One of the world's great violinists listened to this. A
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water may be fifty cents at the grocery market,
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  Speaker 1: two dollars at the gym, three dollars at cinema, and
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  Speaker 1: six dollars on an airplane. The only thing that changed
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  Speaker 1: its value is its place. So the next time you
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  Speaker 1: feel your worth is nothing, maybe you're in the wrong place.
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  Speaker 1: Remember this. Go to where you are appreciated and go
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  Speaker 1: to a place that understands your value. I'm Ron Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: Join me live weekdays three pm Eastern to find out
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  Speaker 1: where go to thee ron Edwards dot com ron Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: the new Voice of America.