BYU Devotional

Tuesday's Devotional held at the Joseph Smith Building on campus was televised on BYU-TV. The presenter was Merrill Christensen, professor of Nutritional Science. He used a line from Jeffrey R. Holland's April 2007 General Conference as the basis of his talk, "Our culture's obsession with comparing [and] competing."
He quoted two of President Hinckley's talks, saying, "The world into which you will move will be terribly competitive. You are moving into the most competitive age the world has ever know."
Brother Christensen pointed out that we aren't to seek out the praise of man, but in order to be successful, we need to impress people. "If you don't impress the coach, you don't make the team. If you don't impress an employer, you don't get the job."
He asked Elder Russell M. Nelson about this, to which he got the response, "If you are well prepared in everything you do in school and professionally, and do the highest quality of work of which you are capable, your work will speak for itself and the right people will be impressed."
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Here's a note about my conversation with Brother Christensen before the Devotional.
He worried about taking too much time, as he was told to keep it to 25 minutes. He then said that being a nutritional scientist, he knew the one ingredient needed for talks: shortening.