[Music] Well, hello all. Uh, I want to talk to you. Uh, not just talk to you, but I want to connect with you. Not as someone who has all the answers, but someone just like you struggled with life's challenges. My name is Jonathan Thomas J. I'm a journalist and I'm a writer and I would love to share my experience with you. In the short 20 years of life I've had not much uh the one thing I realized is change doesn't ask for permission in your life. It comes and it goes. It breaks you and it builds you. And gr ...

[Applause] Hi everybody. What does it mean to be successful as a citizen of the 21st century in Poland. Did you know that over 2 million of poles live in slight poverty and 50% can afford day-to-day luxuries.Does that mean that half of our listeners today here are set up for failure. Does that mean that they won't succeed. Close your eyes and I'll ask you a few questions.What does success mean to you. What do you associate success with. When you have envisioned a truly successful person, who are they.What d ...

[Music] Uh so before I begin, can I humbly request you all to kindly close your eyes and let's settle down and bring our senses to this moment. Can we do that together. It it's not uh it's not an order not in humble ability.If you wish to uh follow it exact. I'm sure there will be a flashes of lot of thoughts coming through your mind but let them come and go and as they go away let's settle down into this moment. of sharing.We all have gathered to share something. The last word I'm brea Thank you so much. T ...

थैंक यू वेरी मच। सो वी आर टॉकिंग अबाउट इल्यूजन ऑफ़ सक्सेस एंड व्हाट आई वांट टू से फॉर माय ओन एक्सपीरियंस इज़ हाउ वी इन आवर नॉर्मल वर्ल्ड्स यू हैव द इल्लुजन एंड व्हाट इज़ द इलशन ऑफ़ सक्सेस एंड व्हाट इज़ टॉपिंग यू फ्रॉम अचीविंग योर गोल्स। यू नो व्हेन वी सी पीपल अराउंड वी ऑलवेज और ऑन सोशल मीडिया और पीपल योर फ्रेंड्स वी ऑलवेज से दैट ओह गॉड दिस पर्सन हैज़ फिगर इट आउट ऑल यू नो वेदर दे हैव मनी ओर दे लुक्स ओर द बिज़नेस ओर अ ग्रेट जॉब एंड दे ऑलवेज लुक एट देम एंड हैव अ परसेप्शन ऑफ़ दे फ़िगर इट आउट ऑर और दे बी दे आर हैविंग सपो ...

Next we have Linda Zoo. Linda is an alumni for both High School and she's now currently a freshman at MIT. [Applause] Uh hello guys.It's really nice to be back here. Um I would like to first thank the organizers and my parents who have come to see me today. Um as my Each actually starts with them.Okay. Passioning as a tool. As many Asian parents do, my mom filled up my fifth grade summer with various academic interests, hoping that one of them would catch my interest.Week one, robotics camp. Week two, video ...

Next is Yashi Arian and she is an international graduate student pursuing an MS in pharmaceutics at Northeastern University and she is passionate about advancing her technical skills and knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry. She's also the current graduate student ambassador for the pharmaceutics program at Nor Eastern. Please join me in welcoming Yashiarian.just like this. Wow. Okay.I just translate sorry about that. I'm not giving these presentations. Okay.So since the talk is about passion, I'm going ...

[Music] Life's life's greatest ironies often hold its deepest wisdom. Now, take dreams for instance, right. They're the universal truth and the only human experience that do not have a manual, right.We can dream about anything. Dreams are very difficult to be followed because dreams aren't meant to be followed. They're meant to be pursued. They're meant to be pursued with all your heart, all your passion, all your desire, right.Where you have to sacrifice, where you have to you have to give up who you were ...

[Music] Uh so before I begin, can I humbly request you all to kindly close your eyes and let's settle down and bring our senses to this moment. Can we do that together. It's not uh it's not an order, not in humble ability.If you wish to uh follow it, it's totally up to you. We can take deep breath in and breathe out. Double deep breath and breathe out.I'm sure there will be a flashes, a lot of thoughts coming through your mind, but let them come and go. And as they go away, let's settle down to this moment ...

[Music] So actually I had a topic prepared. One life live like a legend. school, university, job, marriage, kids, bills, retirement, regret.We're sort of stuck in this cycle. 80% of our lives, we touch that regret point and then we're like, I think I I wish I did things differently. So, we're stuck in this paradox.How do we get out of it. I've sort of uh listed under four categories. One is illusion of time, breaking the matrix, discipline and disruptive thinking builds legacy.And my last point would be um ...

[Applause] That little girl wouldn't believe a simple word like my two dogs and my teddy bear would reach 2 million views. That little girl wouldn't believe that she would inspire 20 little girls in a small village in India. That little girl wouldn't believe that she was one out of eight women who got selected for the Morin Stanley women in STEM program stepping step up. That little girl wouldn't believe that she is standing here today giving a TED talk.Hi everyone, I'm Abita Chadri and I'm that girl from n ...