It was 2:30 a. m. at London Heathro.I was traveling alone, standing at a long immigration line, half asleep, watching passports get stamped and slide across the counter. When my turn came, the officer flipped through my passport. Wait, he said, no reason, no explanation.I stepped back with my backpack, watching everyone behind me pass through. That's when something very simple hit me. In a classroom, when you have a question, you raise your hand.Someone explains you, someone guides you. But here, there was ...

Okay. So, I want to introduce you to someone called Alex. Alex walks into rooms and meetings uh with great energy. She communicates really well. She socializes. People actually compliment her and say, "Wow, Alex, you're so confident. " She nods, plays the part because on the outside she does look confident. When she leaves these rooms, her mind starts to question things. Did I say the right thing? What if they don't actually like me? Maybe that was too assertive. What if they find out I didn't really know m ...

Hi everyone, I'm Jay. Please have a look at the PowerPoint. Which side of the symbol you think you are on? The left side or the right side? I remember when I was in elementary school, our school organizes to participate in the golden m youth selection activity. Each year, fewer than 10 kids in the entire city win this award. However, back then, I approached all competitions and evaluations with curiosity and confidence, convinced I would definitely win. I firmly believed I stood on the left side of the less ...

I was standing on a platform 40 ft in the air. In front of me there was a steel cable that extended more than a 100 feet in front of me. It looked like a zipline, but there was no harness, no equipment.It was just me with my body and my hands. and it was my turn to go next. My heart was beating.My knees were shaking and my hands were trembling. In that moment, I didn't realize that the thing that I feared most was the thing that I most needed to do. I'm 19 years old and I'm standing on an obstacle on the Na ...

Research tells us that in order to get people to change, you need to not start with the attitudes, but with the behaviors associated with those attitudes. When people can see themselves behaving differently, they get then begin to act differently. How would you behave or what could you achieve if you were 10 times more confident.I've had more uncomfortable conversations than I care to recall, but one I'll share with you today, I vividly remember standing on the warning track of the baseball field. 45 minute ...

Hello PSNA. Good afternoon. What a great speech to begin the afternoon with.Wow, how blind have we been. I feel blind at this moment standing in front of you guys. Sir, thank you so much for that inspirational speech.Of all the speeches I've heard, the best one yet. All right, let me see if I can give some of inspiration from my end to you this afternoon. My story begins with my rural roots from the same district if you guys could relate.I am from Parini not far from here. I did all my schooling there. And ...

In his talk, Alejandro explains that the root of your knowledge stems from your passions and interests and that having confidence in them leads to less comparison and more definition of who you are. Student This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx ...

Am I audible. Yes. How are we feeling.A little strange. I know it's not every day that you see a man, an overgrown man walking in a sari on the stage. Um, I'm Pushbot Sen. I'm 30 years old.Mentally, I am Zenaya. In reality, I'm Janea. I work as a fashion creative director.Long story short, I make fashion films for brands. Uh they're not your regular at films. They have a little bit of story.I'm extremely technologically challenged, so I don't know. Uh I couldn't uh play them here. I couldn't put them on my ...

Confidence and momentum don’t require a new title. They’re rebuilt through how you communicate and the actions you take during the transition.https://t.co/kFs20IDDiJ (Photo: Getty Images) https://t.co/Si8a9JdQ9Z ...

So, it was the first day of sophomore year of college, the year everyone said was the most difficult for engineering students. I had that nervous energy that many kids who like school get on the first day of school. fresh notebooks, new pencils, and I'm sitting there in the large computer science lecture with my light pink sorority shirt, white letters across the front, cappa cappa gamma, when the guy sitting next to me leans over and says, "Excuse me, this is CS 205. Do you need help finding your right cla ...