[Music]
my name is Yasha to lather and I’m going
to be talking about positivity I’m going
to start this a little different I’m
going to start with a scenario that
might sound familiar to a lot of you
since most of you are high school
students so one day you walk into class
and you didn’t do the homework before
for whatever reason maybe you had a
sport or a party or maybe you just fell
asleep any case you’re unprepared for
class and everything’s fine until the
teacher decides to pull out a pop quiz
and this is when you realize there’s no
way you are going to pass this because
you absolutely haven’t touched the
textbook since like the beginning of the
year in moments like this when our lives
are challenged by obstacles that we
cannot see or change a sliver of fear
strikes within us there’s no way out and
you begin to become nervous and panic
because in situations without supposedly
any chance to change it you are caught
among the millions of consequences that
you’ve already created in your head and
you are in a cycle but why is this
humans fear the unknown humans fear what
they cannot control or when they are not
in control so what do you do when
everyday is a free space of
unpredictable and uncontrollable
scenarios well that’s what I’m here to
talk about no I do not have all the
answers to your problems I can barely
solve my own but I am here to tell you
about the first of many crucial steps
and that is going in with whatever
scenario or whatever situation you have
with a sense of optimism and being
positive now I know you hear this a lot
you hear oh be an optimist be a little
more like bright look on the bright side
but it’s harder said than done because
there are moments in life when you can’t
even see the bright side for many
seniors and many high school students in
general college processes are going to
be a part of your academic life it’s
nerve-wracking and insane and you feel
like you’re in control for the first
time in your life you’re – you’re
choosing your future you work hard you
apply and then you wait to hear back
it’s an unforgettable process
but what happens when you do hear back
most elite colleges will accept less
than 30% of their applicant pools and so
what do you do when you don’t hear what
you like or worse you do hear what you
like but you can’t go to your dream
school for whatever reason what happens
now when you can’t control the future
and you can’t see the light all you can
think about is the bad all you can think
about is the amount of work you put in
that seems as a waste now you get
swallowed up by negativity and that is
the dangerous part being negative is
comfortable being negative is numbing
because you don’t care about anything
and you don’t care that you care that
you don’t care being positive on the
other hand is a climb in an experiment
run by Barbara Fredrickson a
psychologist from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
she ran an experiment where she tested
20 participants she gathered people from
different personalities and different
moods people who were angry people who
were calm neutral happy and she gave
them all a slip of paper and asked them
questions about their dreams how are
they’re feeling and just future plans
she noticed that people with a more
positive vibe to them more cheerfulness
in their personality wrote a lot twice
as much as people who did not she found
out that positive people had more ideas
bigger dreams and she quote said that
negative emotions narrow your mind and
minimize your opinions I’m not saying
that positivity is butterflies and
daisies when you’re having a flat tire
you’re not going to sit on the sidewalk
and smile at your tire expecting it to
fix itself just like when you come into
an obstacle that you might have created
positive thinking isn’t the only way out
it is not a solution but it is a start
back to the pop quiz example instead of
doing anything about the fact that you
are unprepared you are frozen in your
negative mindset you are consumed with
thoughts of how you’re not going to pass
you but in this time you could have
borrowed someone else’s notes you could
have crammed last minute or maybe like
the most of us try to convince the
teacher to move the test the next day
instead of trying to find a solution
your brain is encompassed with things
that will only bring you down because
that is all you can think about
you can think about is how you are going
to fail and it impacts all your actions
from there on and point Henry Ford once
said if you think you can do a thing or
think you can’t do a thing you are right
the only thing you have in life is not
your ability to change it but how it
changes you which inevitably changes
your actions in the future and your life
around it so as you can see it’s a cycle
and it’s important that when you start
in the cycle you start on the right path
Huffington Post if you still don’t
believe me has made an article about how
scientists who are using quantum physics
to reach the conclusion that wants
perceptions and beliefs about reality
actually alter reality to fit that
perspective and if you don’t believe
quantum physics I don’t know what you
need to believe in in relation of the
world today as many of you know this
world is stricken with poverty politics
corruption and everything bad do you
think that’s sitting here and thinking
about the doom of the world is going to
do anything about it do you think that
letting everything pass will solve
anything the answer is no however do you
think just being positive about
everything will solve anything either
automatically the answer is still no
however the moment you allow yourself to
become positive you are allowing your
mind to expand with this ideas are
created these ideas big or small will
have their own snowball effects and
create actions actions create impact and
impact is change the thing about
positivity is that it is contagious
based off of a psychology today says
people are we copy everyone we see
humans are one on mimicry if you are
positive the people around you will
adapt to your behavior and become
positive too if you become negative you
are going to become a beacon of
negativity as a personal example I moved
to the town of Burlington Massachusetts
when I was in eighth grade when I first
moved I didn’t ultimately fit in it was
a very direct change from my life in the
past and I had a real big moment of my
negativity where I’ve lost myself and
lost what I thought was the meaning of
life
but instead I decided to find an outlet
and I decided to write and in this
writing not only did help me become
positive but people who read my writing
as I tend to write like light things and
humorous things tended to get happier
from it and instead of just dwelling on
my sadness I began to speak up and speak
out and just like this positively works
in a cycle where if you take negative
and you change it and you change your
life on it you will begin to not only
change your life but how others perceive
you and how others perceive their own
lives it is a big dynamic process that
anyone can participate in my message
from this is don’t feel disheartened by
negative things let it empower you don’t
let life take you by its hands let life
know that you can take it by your hands
to take a look around you look at the
world we created this our powerful
complicated Minds created this buildings
education language humans have invented
nearly everything we know and everything
we are in a world where we are daring
brilliant hungry creatures for more a
world where we set the boundaries and we
see the unlimited why restrict yourself
with negativity if we can do this if we
can create physical life changes from
our head we can why can’t we do this
with positive mindsets what can we do
with positive mindsets now life will
always be full of adversity the first
step is over overcoming adversity of any
size is simply believing you can in the
first place thank you
[Applause]
my name is Yasha to lather and I’m going
to be talking about positivity I’m going
to start this a little different I’m
going to start with a scenario that
might sound familiar to a lot of you
since most of you are high school
students so one day you walk into class
and you didn’t do the homework before
for whatever reason maybe you had a
sport or a party or maybe you just fell
asleep any case you’re unprepared for
class and everything’s fine until the
teacher decides to pull out a pop quiz
and this is when you realize there’s no
way you are going to pass this because
you absolutely haven’t touched the
textbook since like the beginning of the
year in moments like this when our lives
are challenged by obstacles that we
cannot see or change a sliver of fear
strikes within us there’s no way out and
you begin to become nervous and panic
because in situations without supposedly
any chance to change it you are caught
among the millions of consequences that
you’ve already created in your head and
you are in a cycle but why is this
humans fear the unknown humans fear what
they cannot control or when they are not
in control so what do you do when
everyday is a free space of
unpredictable and uncontrollable
scenarios well that’s what I’m here to
talk about no I do not have all the
answers to your problems I can barely
solve my own but I am here to tell you
about the first of many crucial steps
and that is going in with whatever
scenario or whatever situation you have
with a sense of optimism and being
positive now I know you hear this a lot
you hear oh be an optimist be a little
more like bright look on the bright side
but it’s harder said than done because
there are moments in life when you can’t
even see the bright side for many
seniors and many high school students in
general college processes are going to
be a part of your academic life it’s
nerve-wracking and insane and you feel
like you’re in control for the first
time in your life you’re – you’re
choosing your future you work hard you
apply and then you wait to hear back
it’s an unforgettable process
but what happens when you do hear back
most elite colleges will accept less
than 30% of their applicant pools and so
what do you do when you don’t hear what
you like or worse you do hear what you
like but you can’t go to your dream
school for whatever reason what happens
now when you can’t control the future
and you can’t see the light all you can
think about is the bad all you can think
about is the amount of work you put in
that seems as a waste now you get
swallowed up by negativity and that is
the dangerous part being negative is
comfortable being negative is numbing
because you don’t care about anything
and you don’t care that you care that
you don’t care being positive on the
other hand is a climb in an experiment
run by Barbara Fredrickson a
psychologist from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
she ran an experiment where she tested
20 participants she gathered people from
different personalities and different
moods people who were angry people who
were calm neutral happy and she gave
them all a slip of paper and asked them
questions about their dreams how are
they’re feeling and just future plans
she noticed that people with a more
positive vibe to them more cheerfulness
in their personality wrote a lot twice
as much as people who did not she found
out that positive people had more ideas
bigger dreams and she quote said that
negative emotions narrow your mind and
minimize your opinions I’m not saying
that positivity is butterflies and
daisies when you’re having a flat tire
you’re not going to sit on the sidewalk
and smile at your tire expecting it to
fix itself just like when you come into
an obstacle that you might have created
positive thinking isn’t the only way out
it is not a solution but it is a start
back to the pop quiz example instead of
doing anything about the fact that you
are unprepared you are frozen in your
negative mindset you are consumed with
thoughts of how you’re not going to pass
you but in this time you could have
borrowed someone else’s notes you could
have crammed last minute or maybe like
the most of us try to convince the
teacher to move the test the next day
instead of trying to find a solution
your brain is encompassed with things
that will only bring you down because
that is all you can think about
you can think about is how you are going
to fail and it impacts all your actions
from there on and point Henry Ford once
said if you think you can do a thing or
think you can’t do a thing you are right
the only thing you have in life is not
your ability to change it but how it
changes you which inevitably changes
your actions in the future and your life
around it so as you can see it’s a cycle
and it’s important that when you start
in the cycle you start on the right path
Huffington Post if you still don’t
believe me has made an article about how
scientists who are using quantum physics
to reach the conclusion that wants
perceptions and beliefs about reality
actually alter reality to fit that
perspective and if you don’t believe
quantum physics I don’t know what you
need to believe in in relation of the
world today as many of you know this
world is stricken with poverty politics
corruption and everything bad do you
think that’s sitting here and thinking
about the doom of the world is going to
do anything about it do you think that
letting everything pass will solve
anything the answer is no however do you
think just being positive about
everything will solve anything either
automatically the answer is still no
however the moment you allow yourself to
become positive you are allowing your
mind to expand with this ideas are
created these ideas big or small will
have their own snowball effects and
create actions actions create impact and
impact is change the thing about
positivity is that it is contagious
based off of a psychology today says
people are we copy everyone we see
humans are one on mimicry if you are
positive the people around you will
adapt to your behavior and become
positive too if you become negative you
are going to become a beacon of
negativity as a personal example I moved
to the town of Burlington Massachusetts
when I was in eighth grade when I first
moved I didn’t ultimately fit in it was
a very direct change from my life in the
past and I had a real big moment of my
negativity where I’ve lost myself and
lost what I thought was the meaning of
life
but instead I decided to find an outlet
and I decided to write and in this
writing not only did help me become
positive but people who read my writing
as I tend to write like light things and
humorous things tended to get happier
from it and instead of just dwelling on
my sadness I began to speak up and speak
out and just like this positively works
in a cycle where if you take negative
and you change it and you change your
life on it you will begin to not only
change your life but how others perceive
you and how others perceive their own
lives it is a big dynamic process that
anyone can participate in my message
from this is don’t feel disheartened by
negative things let it empower you don’t
let life take you by its hands let life
know that you can take it by your hands
to take a look around you look at the
world we created this our powerful
complicated Minds created this buildings
education language humans have invented
nearly everything we know and everything
we are in a world where we are daring
brilliant hungry creatures for more a
world where we set the boundaries and we
see the unlimited why restrict yourself
with negativity if we can do this if we
can create physical life changes from
our head we can why can’t we do this
with positive mindsets what can we do
with positive mindsets now life will
always be full of adversity the first
step is over overcoming adversity of any
size is simply believing you can in the
first place thank you
[Applause]
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