home I didn’t have time our next speaker
explores common excuses and how to
banish them please give it up for 7th
grader Teresa Tuan Teresa can we see you
there hello there we go I’m really sorry
my lord broke my mom’s car broke down
there’s really heavy traffic look at my
shoes dead it would match I’m swearing
pjs from last night everything is
horrible and isn’t even my fault do you
really believe this do you listen i
myself wouldn’t believe a single word
that just came off my mouth my name is
teresa thuong today I’m going to tell
you why you stopped me excuses it will
only drag you down and making them takes
more time than avoiding them that amalah
G of the word excuse is X which means
out and Cujo which means accusation an
excuse gets you out of being accused or
charged over wrongdoing for example
someone might con sick because he or she
wants to stay home and not going to work
this is how you do maybe hold your nose
at a marsh mall in your mouth or take my
sauce please don’t do this at home whoa
hello I feel terrible today I can’t come
in this is actually how some workers
actually tend to not go to work now how
many people do you think do this five
percent tender set no nearly 40-percent
of workers who con sick are actually not
according to CNN the most popular time
of a year to miss a workday on November
and December so if you are planning to
miss work make sure your supervisor
doesn’t know statistic or your butt off
way into January just just remember on a
daily or staying home and watching
Netflix someone else will be during your
job entering the respect and how the
opportunity that you’re missing out on
nowadays and the 21st century’s
everybody’s very competitive so you
really have to
no colleges are so selective now that if
you apply with the high STD scores of
years ago you’re probably wouldn’t get
on upenn just announced that class of
2018 was in most competitive class ever
yet in 2016 their acceptance rate was 12
four percent this year for the first
time in history a drop below ten percent
it’s nine point nine percent however
however the applicants pull goodbye 14
17 s % now think there are 10 teaching
you throw so if you look to left or
right of you one is the one of these
people have the chances of getting into
upenn colleges are looking for students
who are repairing and inventing jobs for
the future you have to have competitive
edge people will excuse you but that
would start to think that you’re
avoiding responsibility I will not count
you amongst their serious competitors
but if you are going to make excuse
please make a believable one some
workers make excuses that are so silly
and childish they would be a better off
getting children’s book and earning more
money according to Business Insider’s
and times these are two of the cilice
excuses of all time a person said he
couldn’t go to work because his wife
found out that he cheated therefore yes
he had to spend the rest of his day
retrieving stuff from the dumpster
another person said he couldn’t go to
work because his fortune teller told him
that he would die to stop by his house I
wonder how I went to work the next day
now finally there are two things
successful people don’t do give up and
give excuses you want to succeed right
well start now by stopping excuses and
don’t give up thank you [Applause]