[applause] When Kunal invited me to speak today on outthinking, I bet he doesn't know that I eloped and married my wife at the age of 18. So clearly Kunal is outthinking today by inviting me here. As a younger me, I took a bold and maybe a wild decision.But later in life it kind of became a habit for me. Today I'm here to share some of the learnings with you. So let's dive in.Sachin Tendulkar the greatest batsman the world has ever seen won only 43% of the ODIs he ever played. Roger Fedra, he won just 54% o ...

This summer I had my chin set up high. This sentiment that all I had ever longed for could be mine invaded my body. Adventure, friendship, and learning.They were all mine to take. After all, I felt ready to explore the best of Vancouver, a foreign city I had always dreamed of and had made amazing new friends on my first day there. Some were from different states, others from many different countries.I truly felt like nothing could ever deter me from enjoying my summer to the fullest. Except there was someth ...

Think about the last time you laughed so hard you couldn't catch your breath. What happened in that moment. The tension in the room softened.People leaned in. Barriers disappeared. That wasn't just a reaction.That was strategy at work, whether you knew it or not. Think about the word strategy. Strategy means a deliberate reaction designed to elicit a specific outcome.So why do we use laughter as a reaction just as something to that's funny. Why don't we use laughter intentionally. Laughter is a strategy.Neu ...

So, I raced down the hallway. I raced I ran into my classroom and I jumped. I I literally jumped up on the desk. I mean, for real, I jumped up there and went, "This is going to be a great day. " And then I said our mantra for the year is character. The ability to persist against constant opposition. The ability to choose to choose courage over comfort. To do the right thing instead of the easy thing. I said character is believing that life is happening not to us but for us. And then all of a sudden it happe ...

Hello everyone. I'm excited to be here and share my perspective with you. Uh understand our limits and maybe break the limits.So I'll start with my own story. The wind was sharp, the air thin, and each breath felt borrowed. At over 4,000 meters on Mount Tubul, the highest peak in North Africa, your world narrows to one simple question.Why are you here. My legs achd. My lungs burned.Every cell, every cell in my body screamed, "Stop. Just stop." And yet somewhere between the snow and the sky, another voice th ...

Weiri strive, persist, insist, become. Okay, we even manifest it in red dripping colors. Scary, isn't it.But my insistence today is that quiri does not have to end in the negative. It must be a positive ending. Easily the earliest recorded incidents of quicher might be when Jacob was going back.I hope all of you know the story of Jacob with his two wives and he had to pass through where his brother Esau was holding forth. He sent his wives across the river Jabok. You can verify it.Genesis 32:22-32. And he w ...

Every year at least two or three of my students come back to me in the month of May with their long faces their IIA projects that they've put months into thinking about and working just didn't work. One of them tried testing the antibacterial effects of garlic oil on E. coli.The bacteria refused to cooperate and another one wanted to test the effect of music on the growth of plants. Unfortunately, the plants seemed unimpressed. And at that point of time, the student is usually panicked.Ma'am, what do I do. ...

Good morning everyone. If someone had told me fresh out of my masters in pharmaceutical sciences that one day I would be standing under the stage lights not in a lap coat but in costume. I would have laughed.But life as it turns out to be has a flare for drama and I leaned into it. I started my career in the world of molecules and formulations. It was safe, secure, and logical.But deep down inside me, there was a quiet yearning, a whisper that spoke to me of characters, stories, and emotions. I didn't know ...

Welcome to the game of life where the prize is your dream and the twist you don't always first try. Hi, I'm Euan, an electrical engineering student. And if rejection were a contestant scorecard, well, I'd be a finalist.I have been told no, not yet, sorry, but more times that I can count. But what I learned is rejection is feedback from the world, but often from ourselves. One of the most painful rejection I've ever got was from something I really, really wanted.A scholarship I had prayed for, worked for, an ...

[Music] Life can change in an instant. For anyone who's been to Wildadi, you'll definitely know the JRA Sierra ride. You climb up a giant tower, step into a narrow tube, and in an instant, the ground disappears beneath your feet.You plummet over a 100 ft almost vertically, landing in a shallow pool, dazed as though you've just been spun in a washing machine. That was me. On an ordinary Friday night three years ago, I was casually lounging on my couch, my husband snoring not so gently beside me.I began to sc ...