Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

I feel like sharing my favorite TEDx talk with you today. This talk I saw it before coming to Croatia as a EVS volunteer and it really opened my mind a bit .  

When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naive. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you're trying to help, and tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. His advice on what works will help any entrepreneur.

 “I decided when I was 27 years old to only respond to people, and I invented a system called Enterprise Facilitation, where you never initiate anything, you never motivate anybody, but you become a servant of the local passion, the servant of local people who have a dream to become a better person. So what you do -- you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas, and you sit with the local people. We don't work from offices. We meet at the cafe. We meet at the pub. We have zero infrastructure. And what we do, we become friends, and we find out what that person wants to do.“

Watch the whole video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXsLtHqfdM&list=PLRErot00B6d6bmfOg4_osxBtiiQ0V0ntm