[Music]
he approached us with a topic of
discovery and at first I was kind of
worried because it’s very relieving
topic I’m a teacher working a garage I’m
constantly learning from my job always
meeting new people
I am always discovering so what was I
going to talk about I was getting ready
for my holiday and I decided but I know
maybe I should be thinking about this
topic maybe I should be thinking about
this topic from the perspective of a
teacher maybe I should be thinking of it
from the perspective of a musician but
the big problem here was that I was
always born no person is just one thing
none of you are just one thing I was out
in Tucson on the second night of my trip
and I got lost I went down beach I went
to an alley and I found a rooftop cafe I
thought that the road was gonna bring me
back home but
kind of didn’t but eventually I came
across this stage they had set this up
for the Winter Olympics musicians were
outperforming I was spending all this
time with a bunch of Korean strangers
and I kind of had this quote come to me
I thought AHA I know what I can talk
about at the TED talks
some guy once said all the world’s a
stage and then some guy who’s there with
them wrote it down and they died
that’s exactly how it all played out I
promise
so you’re probably thinking mister
starts more are we talking about the
stage today well I’m up here on a stage
today acting me has a philosopher
somebody with something important to
teach you about but on a regular basis
and a teacher my stage is my classroom
my stage is the hallways my stage is my
office and on that stage I play the role
of a teacher but sometimes they also
find myself playing the role of the
musician my stage is a bar my stage is a
sidewalk my stage can be anywhere I
really like performing but I didn’t come
here to talk about my
so outworlds is a big stage and it asks
us to play all kinds of rules and there
are movies so I’m not going to talk
about all those in ice but I’m gonna
talk to you about the big three and
seeing as I am a mystery to the media I
figured I would talk about this from the
performance side of things the stage
side of things so the first thing I want
to talk about where the stage hands or
the chlorine now these are the group of
people who have the most straightforward
and simple of jobs not a bad thing their
role is specific because their job must
be specific think about a cashier their
job is to receive your money give you
your service he would smile say goodbye
and they have done their job and you
need jobs like this it’s also really
nice to be in a job like this because
you don’t only have to be creative do
your job you’re good you can go home
have energy for other things so it’s
kind of nice to be in this position
the second goal I want to talk about are
the actors the actors also play an
important job but they’re a little bit
different from the stage crew because
they are putting on a performance they
are going in a little bit
selfs teachers our actors in their own
life we come to class every day our job
is to give you a bunch of information
but we gotta make it interesting
otherwise we would just tell you to read
a book and get out of here
so our job as actors is to show
ourselves in our work and that’s really
interesting because we can be creative
we can add we can give you something
more it’s a little bit more work but
it’s also very rewarding the last thing
I’m going to talk about are the
directors or the producers these are the
big ones the ones who have very big
responsibilities but they are also the
group who has a meaning the highest
level of controlling creativity they put
the most out there they create the jobs
that give the roles they are in charge
of the stage basically a good director
is good because they are so good at
giving everybody else their roles and
responsibilities and taking care of
everything else so why why am I talking
about us
well the first thing I wanted to say is
that none of these roles is better than
the other you need all one teacher
cannot run a school maybe one one that
cashier cannot run a business you need
all and I’ve been talking about this
analogy in a world a little sense but we
can also make this a little bit smaller
the other thing I wanted to talk about
here was that each role that we take as
individuals is important to us
my role as a teacher is important to
claim my role as a musician my role as a
prince my role as the son my role as a
brother
all of these roles are important to who
I am as a person because they give me a
variety of skills they give me a variety
of interests they make it easy for me to
relate to other people if I was just one
thing it would be very hard for me to
understand somebody else because they
are on very different thing from English
whatever but you might be asking how
much should a person invests themselves
how much time how much energy should
they put into what they do well it
depends on the person some people like
to give a very little bit to everything
that they do I put a little bit of
energy into being a son today I say good
morning to my mom but a little bit of
energy to being a musician by practicing
before coming out to the TED talk and I
still have energy to do everything else
nothing wrong in event
there are also people who put their
entire selves into what they do into
that role and that’s okay to me
because maybe that job or that role
gives them everything that they could
meet these people are the kind of people
that we would say are doing what they
love and people are very lucky when they
something that they love it usually
feels like is easy it’s fun I just do it
but there also comes the problem of
dependence now this is something that I
can very personally relate to because
sometimes I put a lot of mister start
working to what I do sometimes I put a
lot into what I give to my friends or a
lot into what I give to my students or a
lot to what I do for work and sometimes
it doesn’t give back what I was going to
say is that our rules usually will give
us meaning they will give us something
to do some things are believed in
something to reach for
but we need to be careful sometimes our
roles in our states that we rise to
become much bigger than we could’ve
imagined and when that happens if we’re
not careful our roles can kind of take
over they can consume us and this is
where I come to the big question Who am
I in my my teacher and suddenly I don’t
have a job anymore
am I still mister sorry if I have
somebody bring my guitar my mouth am I
still a musician am I still mister start
for what happens when you lose that Bowl
when it’s taken away from you or when
things change and this is where the big
conversation I’m having with you comes
back around to the theme of discovery
today I am actually talking to you about
self-discovery it’s important to be
trying these things to be trying new
roles to be a teacher today a musician
tomorrow a guidance counselor
Thursday because it teaches you skills
that you never even have it gives you
opportunities to learn new things from
the people you interact with moving out
to China has been a huge new role for me
and one thing that you need to realize
is that you’ve been doing this your
whole life maybe you’ve never been
thinking about it but you should
sometimes it’s very easy to get lost in
or to try something new but do we always
stop and kind of reflect on what happens
think about it did we learn from what we
try we’re always thrilled there’s no
stopping them too bad your yells it’s
okay
gaze to it less are we always going are
we always maturing only are we always
learning from these things I want you to
understand that it’s important that we
are always celebrating our successes but
also learning from our failures it’s
good to make mistakes it’s good to keep
trying just like we were talking about
earlier with risks risks are king be
smart about it
but risks are okay and all of you with
it it’s important to note that the tools
to growing the tools to becoming better
you are being curious are being
ambitious and being good and reflecting
being good at reflecting on who you are
what you’ve done
where are you gone and where you want to
go again I’m with to China and I email a
lot and coming to China was not fun when
I first got here it wasn’t easy
I left behind my friends and my family I
left behind a lot of life
I had a problem where I left my bag
behind in my music and I was like Who am
I left a relationship behind Who am I
but it’s important that we keep moving
that we keep trying that we keep putting
ourselves out there because otherwise
we’re stuck we’re stuck not knowing what
could have been what we could have been
what we could have become and I’m glad
to have had this opportunity so as I was
writing all of this very dramatic stuff
on my vacation a boat took me to Japan a
bunch of trains took me around the
different cities where I met new people
I had new friendships they told me
stories stories about their lives about
their circumstances I also got to meet
my old friends and we got to visit some
places we saw last year we got to share
some old stories but we also made new
ones we also got a lot of new
experiences out of our trip I came back
to China to do what I was doing before I
left but something was different
I learned something and I experienced
something new I had changed so at the
end of it a speech and once reiterates
some guy once said that all the world’s
a stage and then some guy wrote that
down and then you die and one day will
die too but a lot of the way what rules
are we going to play what chances are we
going to take what risks will lead us to
groaning learn
becoming something much bigger than we
ever would have expected so as lead
today I want you to think who are you and who do you want to become
he approached us with a topic of
discovery and at first I was kind of
worried because it’s very relieving
topic I’m a teacher working a garage I’m
constantly learning from my job always
meeting new people
I am always discovering so what was I
going to talk about I was getting ready
for my holiday and I decided but I know
maybe I should be thinking about this
topic maybe I should be thinking about
this topic from the perspective of a
teacher maybe I should be thinking of it
from the perspective of a musician but
the big problem here was that I was
always born no person is just one thing
none of you are just one thing I was out
in Tucson on the second night of my trip
and I got lost I went down beach I went
to an alley and I found a rooftop cafe I
thought that the road was gonna bring me
back home but
kind of didn’t but eventually I came
across this stage they had set this up
for the Winter Olympics musicians were
outperforming I was spending all this
time with a bunch of Korean strangers
and I kind of had this quote come to me
I thought AHA I know what I can talk
about at the TED talks
some guy once said all the world’s a
stage and then some guy who’s there with
them wrote it down and they died
that’s exactly how it all played out I
promise
so you’re probably thinking mister
starts more are we talking about the
stage today well I’m up here on a stage
today acting me has a philosopher
somebody with something important to
teach you about but on a regular basis
and a teacher my stage is my classroom
my stage is the hallways my stage is my
office and on that stage I play the role
of a teacher but sometimes they also
find myself playing the role of the
musician my stage is a bar my stage is a
sidewalk my stage can be anywhere I
really like performing but I didn’t come
here to talk about my
so outworlds is a big stage and it asks
us to play all kinds of rules and there
are movies so I’m not going to talk
about all those in ice but I’m gonna
talk to you about the big three and
seeing as I am a mystery to the media I
figured I would talk about this from the
performance side of things the stage
side of things so the first thing I want
to talk about where the stage hands or
the chlorine now these are the group of
people who have the most straightforward
and simple of jobs not a bad thing their
role is specific because their job must
be specific think about a cashier their
job is to receive your money give you
your service he would smile say goodbye
and they have done their job and you
need jobs like this it’s also really
nice to be in a job like this because
you don’t only have to be creative do
your job you’re good you can go home
have energy for other things so it’s
kind of nice to be in this position
the second goal I want to talk about are
the actors the actors also play an
important job but they’re a little bit
different from the stage crew because
they are putting on a performance they
are going in a little bit
selfs teachers our actors in their own
life we come to class every day our job
is to give you a bunch of information
but we gotta make it interesting
otherwise we would just tell you to read
a book and get out of here
so our job as actors is to show
ourselves in our work and that’s really
interesting because we can be creative
we can add we can give you something
more it’s a little bit more work but
it’s also very rewarding the last thing
I’m going to talk about are the
directors or the producers these are the
big ones the ones who have very big
responsibilities but they are also the
group who has a meaning the highest
level of controlling creativity they put
the most out there they create the jobs
that give the roles they are in charge
of the stage basically a good director
is good because they are so good at
giving everybody else their roles and
responsibilities and taking care of
everything else so why why am I talking
about us
well the first thing I wanted to say is
that none of these roles is better than
the other you need all one teacher
cannot run a school maybe one one that
cashier cannot run a business you need
all and I’ve been talking about this
analogy in a world a little sense but we
can also make this a little bit smaller
the other thing I wanted to talk about
here was that each role that we take as
individuals is important to us
my role as a teacher is important to
claim my role as a musician my role as a
prince my role as the son my role as a
brother
all of these roles are important to who
I am as a person because they give me a
variety of skills they give me a variety
of interests they make it easy for me to
relate to other people if I was just one
thing it would be very hard for me to
understand somebody else because they
are on very different thing from English
whatever but you might be asking how
much should a person invests themselves
how much time how much energy should
they put into what they do well it
depends on the person some people like
to give a very little bit to everything
that they do I put a little bit of
energy into being a son today I say good
morning to my mom but a little bit of
energy to being a musician by practicing
before coming out to the TED talk and I
still have energy to do everything else
nothing wrong in event
there are also people who put their
entire selves into what they do into
that role and that’s okay to me
because maybe that job or that role
gives them everything that they could
meet these people are the kind of people
that we would say are doing what they
love and people are very lucky when they
something that they love it usually
feels like is easy it’s fun I just do it
but there also comes the problem of
dependence now this is something that I
can very personally relate to because
sometimes I put a lot of mister start
working to what I do sometimes I put a
lot into what I give to my friends or a
lot into what I give to my students or a
lot to what I do for work and sometimes
it doesn’t give back what I was going to
say is that our rules usually will give
us meaning they will give us something
to do some things are believed in
something to reach for
but we need to be careful sometimes our
roles in our states that we rise to
become much bigger than we could’ve
imagined and when that happens if we’re
not careful our roles can kind of take
over they can consume us and this is
where I come to the big question Who am
I in my my teacher and suddenly I don’t
have a job anymore
am I still mister sorry if I have
somebody bring my guitar my mouth am I
still a musician am I still mister start
for what happens when you lose that Bowl
when it’s taken away from you or when
things change and this is where the big
conversation I’m having with you comes
back around to the theme of discovery
today I am actually talking to you about
self-discovery it’s important to be
trying these things to be trying new
roles to be a teacher today a musician
tomorrow a guidance counselor
Thursday because it teaches you skills
that you never even have it gives you
opportunities to learn new things from
the people you interact with moving out
to China has been a huge new role for me
and one thing that you need to realize
is that you’ve been doing this your
whole life maybe you’ve never been
thinking about it but you should
sometimes it’s very easy to get lost in
or to try something new but do we always
stop and kind of reflect on what happens
think about it did we learn from what we
try we’re always thrilled there’s no
stopping them too bad your yells it’s
okay
gaze to it less are we always going are
we always maturing only are we always
learning from these things I want you to
understand that it’s important that we
are always celebrating our successes but
also learning from our failures it’s
good to make mistakes it’s good to keep
trying just like we were talking about
earlier with risks risks are king be
smart about it
but risks are okay and all of you with
it it’s important to note that the tools
to growing the tools to becoming better
you are being curious are being
ambitious and being good and reflecting
being good at reflecting on who you are
what you’ve done
where are you gone and where you want to
go again I’m with to China and I email a
lot and coming to China was not fun when
I first got here it wasn’t easy
I left behind my friends and my family I
left behind a lot of life
I had a problem where I left my bag
behind in my music and I was like Who am
I left a relationship behind Who am I
but it’s important that we keep moving
that we keep trying that we keep putting
ourselves out there because otherwise
we’re stuck we’re stuck not knowing what
could have been what we could have been
what we could have become and I’m glad
to have had this opportunity so as I was
writing all of this very dramatic stuff
on my vacation a boat took me to Japan a
bunch of trains took me around the
different cities where I met new people
I had new friendships they told me
stories stories about their lives about
their circumstances I also got to meet
my old friends and we got to visit some
places we saw last year we got to share
some old stories but we also made new
ones we also got a lot of new
experiences out of our trip I came back
to China to do what I was doing before I
left but something was different
I learned something and I experienced
something new I had changed so at the
end of it a speech and once reiterates
some guy once said that all the world’s
a stage and then some guy wrote that
down and then you die and one day will
die too but a lot of the way what rules
are we going to play what chances are we
going to take what risks will lead us to
groaning learn
becoming something much bigger than we
ever would have expected so as lead
today I want you to think who are you and who do you want to become
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