Dr. Ben Carson Opening Convocation Speech

World renown brain surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson delivered the opening convocation speech at Howard University on September 24, 2010. I personally was not able to attend this spectacular event but I later got a chance to listen to this on the Howard website. Dr. Carson started off by telling us about his own history, he told us that he was not the most smart person. So much so that they used to call him "dummy". Dr. Carson said "we should not forget opportunities given to us to excel our self". One important thing i got out of this was that we should learn to speak up for what we believe, and by going to the university we can expand our minds and not let it be contained. This was very inspiring to me because if someone like Dr. Carson who can come up from nothing to something, and if he can do so i can do so. Because no one is smarter than me. Another thing he said was "what is success? cars, tittles, accounts?" no success was taking the talent that God has given you to elevate others. So we should never let any one or anything stand in our way on our road to success.