Today in class our guest speaker was Mr. Ritchie. It was obvious to me that he is a natural leader and a talented speaker. A lot of the material he used in his presentation was influenced by Ed Thomas. A lot of what he said reminded me of the message that Aaron Thomas had during his talk to our school. The themes of not forgetting where you came from and doing what you believe is right were his main points. My favorite thing that he said was that he was a positive person because there was already enough negative people in the world. It's true that showing a lot of negativity all the time doesn't really help anyone and only hurts you. Overall, I thought his talk was pretty well done and I think everyone could take something away from it.