“I just think its important if you are ‘gifted’ to share that gift with people”

“I just think it’s important, if you are ‘gifted,’ to share that gift with people.” Martin Short responding to Ron Howard’s question on the Netflix program, Marty, Life is Short, on why he keeps doing what he’s doing.

Short said “gifted’ in a tongue in cheek way, so as not to be boasting.

I was 40 years old sitting in my law office when it dawned on me that I may have found my gift. To use my talents as a lawyer and a growing awareness of how the web worked to help people, lawyers and lay people alike. And not just in the three counties around me. 

I felt humbled and blessed. I never tried to show off – or hardly ever.

I know so many lawyers who jumped on the web to do much the same. Share the gift they had with people.

Knowledge in an area of the law. Expressing themselves in writing in only a way they could write. Establishing trust on this new medium we called Web.

There are so many talented lawyers, today. So so gifted.

Such an opportunity to share your gift with people via the net, and now AI.

Not every lawyer is inclined get on the stage. For those willing to try, know there are so many people interested in what you may share, whether they are a consumer, small business person, in-house counsel, fellow lawyer or the media, mainstream or social.

Watching Martin Short, I thought of something Ernie Svenson, a former large law litigator now a gifted and caring consultant to small law firms, wrote yesterday at the end of a post. “I share stuff like this regularly. If it’s useful, follow along.” 

Ernie’s been sharing his stuff, his gift, for over 20 years.

I welcome you, as a lawyer, to share the gift you have with people.