Hi everyone, I'm Luke. First, I want to confess something. I spent the last whole week going through this talk again and again.Every word, every slide because honestly, I'm afraid of failing. One sentence that kept appearing in my mind was, "You are not good enough to stand here." For a long time, I always cheated this kind of feeling like an enemy, something to hide. But now, I've learned something important.Feeling inadequate isn't a problem. Hiding it is. On the surface, it may looks harmless.You feel be ...

I'm pretty good at goodbyes. Some might say I'm a professional. By the age of 16, I have attended five different schools in three different cities.From kindergarten in Hong Kong to a private school in Shenzhen, from the rigid discipline of a Shenzhen public school to an international academy and finally to Hanjo here at Otia. For a long time, I carried a ghost in my pocket. Tucked behind the blast plastic on my old school card was a blurry polarade.A photo of my basketball team during the sports meet. I was ...

Before I begin, allow me to describe to you a scene. Imagine yourself out in a field of grass that expanded far beyond the horizon, seemingly never ending. The spring breeze blew past you as the flowers at your feet gently glazed upon your skin as if to give you a shower of kisses.The sun above shone down in an attempt to saturate all the colors it touches. And out in the distance, you see a faint solitary cabin just as lonely as you are in the vast plane of green. It seems to be smiling at you with a disti ...

Good afternoon everyone. Talent is a word we often use, but how would you define the word talent. Is this something we're naturally good at or is this something we're born to do.Well, that's how someone would usually define it. This one line I always hear it goes talent is something you're born with. You either have it or not.It implies that having talent is fixed. Having talent is out of your control. Having talent is something you can't change.So does that mean talent is innate. Well, wait. Let's step bac ...

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I remember the first time I had to speak in front of a crowd. My hands were shaking.My heart was absolutely racing and my mind, well, let's just say that went completely blank. I felt frozen stiff, like I couldn't move or talk at all. In that very moment, I realized something that I believe many people today are already aware of.Stage fright is real and sometimes it may feel some almost impossible to overcome. For a long time, I thought me being afraid of speaking meant ...

How many of you check your phone within the first 5 minutes of waking up this morning. Some of you are pretending you didn't, but your screen time knows the truth. No, I'm just kidding.But if you really think about it, it's kind of scary because before we even say good morning to the world, before we even fully wake up, we're already scrolling. Which brings me to this question. Do you know which part of your body knows the most about other people's lives.It's not your brain. It's not your eyes. It's your th ...

Quando pronunciamo la parola cura tutti pensiamo a qualcosa di morbido. ovattato, un cuscino di piume, una tisana calda, un lettino dallo psicologo, un libro aperto. Certo, la cura può essere anche questo, la cura di se stessi, per esempio, ma ci arriveremo.Adesso voglio parlarvi di un atto di cura che ha l'odore di pannolini bagnati, il nome di farmaci antiepilettici e acronimi tipo PEG, gastrostomia endoscopica percutanea che indica un tubicino che entra e esce dalla pancia per somministrare cibo. Sto par ...

Guys, we are not truly aware of our breath and breath is such a powerful tool. I am a free diver and I do the breath hold on a daily basis right now. Imagine this breath hold that you did right now. You can close your eyes right now.Imagine you are sinking in a deep blue sea while holding this breath. This is what free diving is and this is what brought me peace. This is what I'm doing now.Okay. Let me tell you the story of a simple girl who decided to flow with the waves without resisting and it brought he ...

A very good afternoon. Hope you have fabulous lunch. And she is good.I'm Marinola. Um stuck by this polio when I was just 14 months old. It was severely affected down to my neck. Only my neck was functioning.Let's say everything was totally paralyzed. We hailed from a very small village near Kota uri that is Dakshina South Kra. We migrated to Bangalore for our livelihood and my father started with a small hotel business.We were suffering to have even one time meal also that time. I'm the youngest child of f ...

Life has come full circle. William Shakespeare, King Leard. Act five, scene three.Edmund says, "Life has come full circle. I'm here." Well, well, well. I'm not here to talk about William Shakespeare. I'm here to discuss the ark of accordance.Think of the circle of life and imagine the wheel of fortune. Life is indeed cyclical. Those at the top may hit the rock bottom and those who are ignored may become unforgettable.The circle of life, my friends, consists of two arcs. The first ark is the one that you do ...