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Ashton Kutcher Reveals Real Name and Gives Great Speech on Opportunity [video]

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Rich, good looking actor suggests he got to where he is today by working some menial jobs as a teenager, continues to give trite motivational speech where he equates sexiness with intelligence and generosity, suggests the constraints of life all imaginary.

How would his speech look if he instead was never successful in acting (this is essentially a lottery), wasn't born good looking, didn't have the money to live life free of the constraints that poor people do?

Then I'd ask you, Would it be better for him to go up on stage and say, "It's not worth trying. I got to where I am purely through luck"?

Aside from that simply not being true — luck is never that powerful — it doesn't achieve anything. He's encouraging his young fans to work hard and value things not often valued in the media. I don't see what's wrong with that.

How I felt while watching this speech: 1) Motivation to work harder at my job. 2) Relief that people do develop better tastes in people as they age (i.e. generosity over coolness) 3) Hope that the system isn't as rigid as it seems. That I can find my own success through my own solutions.

Wow, this implies that he's smarter than he behaves in the parts he plays. We need more of this in the media. More people generally need to be "REAL" and let the younger generation know they should strive to be better for not just themselves but the world they live in in general.

I've seen this on numerous sites now and each has 'Reveals Real Name' in the title. His name wasn't some big secret beforehand (it was on his wiki page) and using this link bait in the title defers from the quality of his speech.

I suspect that Kutcher himself used the part about his real name as link bait.

With that said, it was crucial to the point he was making: he learned these things before he "changed" his name at the age of 19.

That is actually an amazing (short) speech. It's too bad most of the audience may not have been able to hear with all the screaming going on.

This guy just went up a few spots in my book

I strongly dislike Kutcher, but this was good. I wonder who wrote it for him?

Are you basing your dislike on the roles he plays on TV?

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