[Applause]
that is one hard mic to put on my
thoughts are powerful your thoughts are
powerful I like something I get it if I
don’t like a class item do the homework
you want to be here so you’re sitting
here I am a critical thinker and it is
because of my evaluations as human
behavior that I understand each of you
better thinking is what cultivates ideas
those ideas within turn to actions and
those actions are produces change as
teenagers and even adults at large we
sometimes get trapped in these thoughts
and we are constantly in a state where
other people’s opinions about us hold
weight on our lives to give weight to
something means to give worth or value
think about it social media for example
we can get caught up with Tommy likes
our followers we have that we worry so
much about what other people think about
us
other times we think about ourselves so
much that we forget to and think about
other people but more importantly
thinking has the power to transcend to
manipulate to create change we
experience this every day in English
class when the teacher asks us to
analyze characters from a play or to
create theme statements from a novel we
are forced to think about we are first
think about human experiences we are
forced to think about something beyond
ourselves we are forced to think
critically subjects like love isolation
the problem of evil deception betrayal
greed lust where’s my phone Jack’s house
my flyer this morning like why am I
thinking about these things when
actually thinking about the nature of
the universe or what is the nature of
human beings what if any relationship of
one human turn out
or what is the ocean shipping me
teaching you these thoughts the getting
ideas they inspire me they inform me
they occasionally offend me and in some
cases they change me every Wednesday
night I tuned in to watch one of my
all-time favorite TV shows survivor I am
a super fan of the show and every season
I always analyze each player’s being
strategies and I could come up with a
very accurate prediction of who I think
will win within the first thirty minutes
of the show I am studying human behavior
this is why I’m so passionate about
English because it’s in these classes
that we are forced to think critically
however our thoughts can put us in a
very vulnerable place we all have that
threatening feeling of when the teacher
calls on us in class and asks us what we
think about the book we just read or
movie we just watched we fear that we
might say the wrong thing that we will
mess up that we might offend somebody I
have this fear and maybe some of you do
too this fear holds me back from sharing
and instead of keep quiet to myself
because I fear rejection from my peers
and disappointing the people around me
but more than anything I disappoint
myself however I and all of us need to
learn how to embrace thinking and how
thinking critically will help us to
speak more effectively so we can share
our ideas and passions with other
students and the communities we will be
part of one day as I’m sitting in my
hotel room in Cabo Mexico I flip through
the TV channels which is what you do on
vacation watch TV when I come across the
child a classic Alice in Wonderland
however I don’t want to perceive it as a
cute Disney movie where Alice all sort
of hole into a dream but with a closer
analysis one can see the underlying
messages timbre into pictures audience
only now it becomes a loss of innocence
fairy tale where Burton uses magical
realism to M
besides the physical changes Alice
undergoes or perhaps it’s to show life
as a meaningless puzzle and how it can
frustrate people’s expectations of
reality or perhaps it’s to show life as
um perhaps show death as a menace and
how Alice’s life is threatened by the
Queen of Hearts and how death is
inaudible this is what thinking does to
me as I’m exposed to new ways of
perceiving things my paradigm of the
world shifts and I no longer see things
at surface level by not forced to look
at these things through a new critical
lens in order to perceive the world more
clearly and truthfully I must be open to
a life of continuous self-examination
try one more time and choose to go I
know the world only through my
relationship to it the only way I can be
certain that my map of reality is valid
is to expose it to the criticism and
challenge of Island map makers the more
clearly that I see the reality the world
the better I am to deal with the world
this process requires need to think
critically and the life of wisdom must
be a life slice of life of wisdom is
real life a complication combines
actions this is why I always choose to
reevaluate my ways of thinking because
it’s in these evaluations that I am
being personally challenged and
therefore I choose to live a life fully
dedicated to truth and personal growth
and it’s in these truths that I find
that life is not measured by its gravity
so matter how one approaches it the best
teachers I ever had we’re not the ones
who told me what to think about how to
think and this is simply the art of
thinking by living a reflective life I’m
engaging in the process of continuous
learning we are all learners and we all
have the power to do great things with
this knowledge for example if I told you
that your thoughts shaped the way you
perceive the world would you believe me
yes you probably would but what if I
told you that your thoughts have the
power to start over information become
the next
or win an Oscar for Best Performance
would you believe me then
well think about it
thank you
you
that is one hard mic to put on my
thoughts are powerful your thoughts are
powerful I like something I get it if I
don’t like a class item do the homework
you want to be here so you’re sitting
here I am a critical thinker and it is
because of my evaluations as human
behavior that I understand each of you
better thinking is what cultivates ideas
those ideas within turn to actions and
those actions are produces change as
teenagers and even adults at large we
sometimes get trapped in these thoughts
and we are constantly in a state where
other people’s opinions about us hold
weight on our lives to give weight to
something means to give worth or value
think about it social media for example
we can get caught up with Tommy likes
our followers we have that we worry so
much about what other people think about
us
other times we think about ourselves so
much that we forget to and think about
other people but more importantly
thinking has the power to transcend to
manipulate to create change we
experience this every day in English
class when the teacher asks us to
analyze characters from a play or to
create theme statements from a novel we
are forced to think about we are first
think about human experiences we are
forced to think about something beyond
ourselves we are forced to think
critically subjects like love isolation
the problem of evil deception betrayal
greed lust where’s my phone Jack’s house
my flyer this morning like why am I
thinking about these things when
actually thinking about the nature of
the universe or what is the nature of
human beings what if any relationship of
one human turn out
or what is the ocean shipping me
teaching you these thoughts the getting
ideas they inspire me they inform me
they occasionally offend me and in some
cases they change me every Wednesday
night I tuned in to watch one of my
all-time favorite TV shows survivor I am
a super fan of the show and every season
I always analyze each player’s being
strategies and I could come up with a
very accurate prediction of who I think
will win within the first thirty minutes
of the show I am studying human behavior
this is why I’m so passionate about
English because it’s in these classes
that we are forced to think critically
however our thoughts can put us in a
very vulnerable place we all have that
threatening feeling of when the teacher
calls on us in class and asks us what we
think about the book we just read or
movie we just watched we fear that we
might say the wrong thing that we will
mess up that we might offend somebody I
have this fear and maybe some of you do
too this fear holds me back from sharing
and instead of keep quiet to myself
because I fear rejection from my peers
and disappointing the people around me
but more than anything I disappoint
myself however I and all of us need to
learn how to embrace thinking and how
thinking critically will help us to
speak more effectively so we can share
our ideas and passions with other
students and the communities we will be
part of one day as I’m sitting in my
hotel room in Cabo Mexico I flip through
the TV channels which is what you do on
vacation watch TV when I come across the
child a classic Alice in Wonderland
however I don’t want to perceive it as a
cute Disney movie where Alice all sort
of hole into a dream but with a closer
analysis one can see the underlying
messages timbre into pictures audience
only now it becomes a loss of innocence
fairy tale where Burton uses magical
realism to M
besides the physical changes Alice
undergoes or perhaps it’s to show life
as a meaningless puzzle and how it can
frustrate people’s expectations of
reality or perhaps it’s to show life as
um perhaps show death as a menace and
how Alice’s life is threatened by the
Queen of Hearts and how death is
inaudible this is what thinking does to
me as I’m exposed to new ways of
perceiving things my paradigm of the
world shifts and I no longer see things
at surface level by not forced to look
at these things through a new critical
lens in order to perceive the world more
clearly and truthfully I must be open to
a life of continuous self-examination
try one more time and choose to go I
know the world only through my
relationship to it the only way I can be
certain that my map of reality is valid
is to expose it to the criticism and
challenge of Island map makers the more
clearly that I see the reality the world
the better I am to deal with the world
this process requires need to think
critically and the life of wisdom must
be a life slice of life of wisdom is
real life a complication combines
actions this is why I always choose to
reevaluate my ways of thinking because
it’s in these evaluations that I am
being personally challenged and
therefore I choose to live a life fully
dedicated to truth and personal growth
and it’s in these truths that I find
that life is not measured by its gravity
so matter how one approaches it the best
teachers I ever had we’re not the ones
who told me what to think about how to
think and this is simply the art of
thinking by living a reflective life I’m
engaging in the process of continuous
learning we are all learners and we all
have the power to do great things with
this knowledge for example if I told you
that your thoughts shaped the way you
perceive the world would you believe me
yes you probably would but what if I
told you that your thoughts have the
power to start over information become
the next
or win an Oscar for Best Performance
would you believe me then
well think about it
thank you
you
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