30 minutes is more than enough time for Don Draper to prepare an extemp speech.
Extemp often comes down to knowing who the most important and influential players are across the world. From heads of state, to despots and innovators alike, the names and personalities of these individuals are the underpinning of our most important debates…and extemp speeches.
It’s very strange, then, that AskMen’s Most Influential Man of 2009 is, well, not really a man at all. He’s fictional character Don Draper, man’s-man-ladies’-man-man-about-town of the AMC television drama Mad Men.
How exactly does Draper beat out 48 other real-life personages like Usain Bolt, Bararck Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs? Heck, how do you beat a Nobel Peace Prize winner? How is it that a man of the 1960’s is the man of import for the twenty-first century? AskMen.com explains:
It may seem strange, at first, to accept the idea that a fictional character trumped an athlete who embodies our ideals of a timeless Olympian (Bolt) and a politician who personifies mankind’s ongoing fight for equality (Obama), but Don Draper did just that. It’s not that Don Draper, the character, is ultimately more important to the history of the 21st century than Bolt and Obama; it’s that he embodies the character traits that the 21st century man wants to have and, at the same time, he is not without his flaws. He is the Everyman without being an actual man at all.
Read the full story on why Don Draper resonates with modern audiences. Also AskMen.com asks “Why Does Everyone Want to be Don Draper except Don Draper?”
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