If you have ever second guess yourself in a presentation, performance, or game, could you please raise your hand. If you're not raising your hands right now, that's okay. It'll settle on the car ride home.But if it feels awkward to admit, that's because we all know it's true. According to my survey, over 85% of athletes at Brainham High School share this experience. Overthinking is real in sports, in school, and at work.And today we are going to break it down. As an athlete myself, I have overthought in gam ...

I have a toxic relationship with my brain. This time it was during a math test just 3 months ago. I confidently wrote the cube of three as nine.Feeling pretty good about my life choices and telling everyone that I was going to ace the test. Then I got my paper back. Turns out that the cube of three is 27.My answer was way off. I didn't even get one mark for working. So, let me introduce you to this evil criminal that made me write nine instead of 27.The brain. It only weighs about three pounds, which is rou ...

What if you had run just now when your teacher told you to file into the theater and take a seat, but instead you ran. Now, I know someone must have thought about it, but what if you actually had. Would you have looked both ways when crossing the street.And if you hadn't, would you have gotten hit by a car. Would you get to know the person behind the wheel. And would they become your next best friend or your new mortal enemy.Or would they have just driven off and left you in the street. Now, it's strange be ...

Have you ever read a book, but after a few days you realize that you didn't understand anything. You can't read the words perfectly, but you can't process the information. It feels like your brain just skips the meaning for a long time.I thought I did not like reading. I believed the most were boring just because I didn't understand what was I reading. There was a text but no because of this study was very difficult for me.I spent more time reading and rereading and rereading. I still forgot my reads. My vo ...

Good morning everyone. Today I want to start with something a little unusual, a confession. I'm not the kind of person who feels comfortable standing on a stage. In fact, I'm the kind of person who usually avoids being the center of attention at all costs.I'm more at ease in the back row quietly observing than up here talking to you. And yet here I am. Why.Because sometimes the very things that scare us the most are also the things that teach us the most. So that's why I've decided to panic later. And today ...

My name is Isabella Santos and I'm in 10th grade and I've been a student athlete at AOSR for about four years. Hi, my name is Julie Goulis. I'm also in 10th grade and I've been an AOSR student athlete for 3 years.Our topic for AOSR TEDx youth is about playing with purpose and not fear. What really happens when fear takes over our brain. I still remember that moment like it happened yesterday.I was sprinting my heart out, every breath loud in my ears. 10 seconds left in the clock. The score was tied 22 and i ...

“Overthinking” is an excuse for inaction. ...

[Music] I'm Vive Katray and I'm delighted to be speaking on the portrait of a mind. It's a great event. It's been put together very well.Young minds at work. What about older minds. They get tired, but they're also working hard.And minds are cluttered. They're cluttered. Is life cluttered. Life is cluttered.Life would be nothing if it were not so busy, so engaging, so entertaining. We think that the mind is disturbed, but if someone else is watching, it's all a comedy show. A person sitting on the ceiling h ...

Hello everyone. Let me ask you a quick question. How many of you have ever had a great idea, wanted to talk to someone you've never spoken to before, or wanted to try something new, but then you paused.That little voice inside you start asking, "What if I fail? What if they think I'm strange?" Yeah, I know that voice well. But what if I told you there's a way to silence that voice. A simple tool for not a book, but on Sportfield.I call it the 3C rule. Some of my experience with the rule was the cur and the ...

[Music] [Music] An existential philosopher Jean Paul Sart once said, "Nothing in life is more paralyzing than the burden of infinite possibilities. " I didn't understand what this quote meant until I realized I was living it every day inside my own head. As I began working on this talk, I looked at the name TEDex ideas worth sharing. When put like that, it makes it sound like not necessarily every idea deserves an audience. a listening ear to hear what value it brings to the table. Of course, barring ideas ...