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An Ode To A Remarkable Man

Sometimes time is too soon..

Sven Vandenberghe
6 min readJan 8, 2022
Angel statue to present a star of a person

We all have someone in our middle or within our family, a person who is highly liked, a person who is funny, a person who enjoys life, a great husband, a great father, a person who influences people in a positive way.

Walter Isaacson’s innovators made us understand that innovation often comes true improvement or adjustment upon already made inventions. Why? Because the great of history were looking up to greats which lived among them at those times as well. To become great yourself, you need a certain step to climb up the ladder high enough.

The fact that I say this is because we don’t need to be the greatest persons in history to reap rewards from this principle.

We had a person like this in our middle, and I am sure you will have a person like this in your middle as well. A person where you looked up to in a way, a mentor a-like figure, someone who influences people. Influencing people isn’t always well understood by the influencer himself, That is just what makes an influencer great in my opinion.

Eric Dezutter or Noenkeltje (Small Uncle translated literally from the Flemish dialect),

He was that person within our family. He was the first one to grab a drink, the first one to make every story funny, the clown at the…

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Sven Vandenberghe
Sven Vandenberghe

Written by Sven Vandenberghe

The Wirting Philomath - Absorb, Read, Write, Sleep, Exercise, Thrive!

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