[music] >> So, it it's it feels so so pleasant and so proud to be frank because how my life has started versus how my life is right now is I'm I'm privileged and thank very thankful to my parents or teachers. So, let me let me tell let me start with this. So, I recently met one guy, okay.Like 3 years back, I was shooting in my office. Uh so, a courier boy came there. He came to deliver some package to me.Okay, so what should I do. He just gave me that package and he started staring at the shoot because he's ...

Welcome back. What a great program so far, right. Absolutely fantastic.The title of my talk tonight is pivot or polish, survive or thrive. I'm super honored to be here with you. This is my first TEDx experience and to do it at Seebs is a particular honor for me because I I know this university and you should be proud to be associated with it.But this also is giving me a particularly important time for some personal self-reflection. Let me share this one with you. Recently, my wife and I welcomed our new son ...

[music] [music] >> One of the most extraordinary questions we ever ask children is also one of the most common. What do you want to be when you grow up. Think about it.We ask it at family dinners, we ask it at birthday parties, and even at school. And children answer, a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer. It's become such a normal question that nobody has ever stopped to question it, despite the fact that the answer may shape the next 50 years of a child's life.Now, let me tell you my own story. A few years a ...

[applause] >> Hello everyone. I am Prisha Grover and I'm here to talk about what happens when you choose a life at 17. Imagine I hand all of you a pen right now and ask you to draw the perfect life.Go ahead, visualize it. Most of us would draw a straight line. School, university, job, money, success, retirement.Simple, right. But it's actually terrifying because my entire life has been built around straight lines, if you think about it. Get good grades, pick the right extracurriculars, right university, rig ...