similar age who when of them just
graduated and are working now I hear a
lot of complaints about their work they
complain about the hash boss they
complain about the long working hour
they complain about a heavy workload and
so when they’re working they spend half
of the time working and the other half
of their time on jobsdb so literally the
boss just hired them to search for jobs
so so I think that I am very very lucky
to be able to do what I love and wake up
every day very excited about what I’m
going to do today and this is a picture
taken for molecular she just shows the
technology we’re developing to improve
the quality of omega-3 fatty acids and I
think that being able to do what you
love is very important not just for your
own happiness but for the whole human
society and I was bling I will explain
that in a biological point of view it’s
quite strange that my biology professor
is not a talk about biology but I’m
where is the first step to challenge
conformity so there is a very
interesting and important theory in
bhauji called evolution it was from
Charles Darwin back in 18th century that
explains how life originated from a very
simple organism and improved and
transformed over time and become who we
are the dog and cats you and me there
are few cool ideas of this theory that I
want to share with you first it states
that every in a population every
individual is a little bit different
because of natural mutations so taking
take a population of tears here as
example we log into that the length of
the neck the tail length will be
different and
the number of trades will follow a
normal distribution that means most of
them would tend to be normal tend to
have the length of their neck close to
average but a minority of them will be
at the free sort of a long and a magical
thing happens here that the net that the
nature selects for the outlying trades
because they get higher chance to adapt
to changes in environment so in this
case the theory of longer neck links are
able to eat hi hang leaves when other
foods are scarce as scarce so that they
get high chance of survival they get
high chance of breathing so they started
dominate the population and the species
evolves evolution is so important
because it continuously improve the
productivity of life and makes the world
a better place but sadly in human
society there is one thing against rebel
against evolution preventing us to
improve that is expectation from others
expectations are generated from
collective norms in every aspect of your
life for example how much you should
earn what education you should get and
in Hong Kong in what age to you buy a
property this is what I call the
ordinarily quite good projection of
oneself because once you are within it
you feel safe you with the majority and
you think that your ordinary but you are
quite good many people try very hard to
squeeze themselves into others
expectations being what others think
that they should be instead of being
themselves and their and that is a very
sad thing because they seem to forget
what evolution has taught us that what
is the Treasury what’s beautiful is the
outlying regions these are the unique
traits of you these are unique character
characteristics of you that make you
stand out from the population and often
make you successful so some of the
greatest biologists proved that nub of
experiments but with their own life
experience so
recomendo is the father of genetics we
were taught in high school how his three
laws of inheritance shaped the modern
genetics but very few people know about
his life manda was raised in a very poor
family so in order to get better
education and a better life he was sent
to the church and trained to be a priest
and teacher we lost we got it as a and
ordinarily quite good job at that time
because the salary is okay the job is
stable so after some hard work he talked
that the test to become a certified
teacher and he failed in our test but
never mind he didn’t he didn’t regret he
didn’t regret and didn’t give up he then
went to the University of Vienna and try
to get a diploma in education again so
after some good some hard work guess
what he felt in the old get old has
again his teacher said that he lacks the
insight and knowledge to become a
teacher Oh what has comment but it is
really clear that Mendel’s oral
teachings Q is down here sorry to say
that men do so after this fielder he
kept himself in the garden of the church
and did what he long wanted to do the
study of mean of inheritance he planted
read it and analyzed 28,000 plans and
finally came up with three law of
inheritance that changed how the world
field genetics to do this it takes this
amount of curiosity in science very
great deal of systematic analysis and
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unbelievable patience because imagine
turn to 8,000 plans I even feel bored
helping my mom to water her cactus but
it was so great at Mendel finally
embraced what what his true uniqueness
is and did it for us so that doctors now
can predict your child of having
so in order to be successful we need to
embrace our own uniqueness but the
problem is do we know what your
uniqueness is do you get have you found
your unique strings yet if your answer
is no please don’t worry because you are
not alone in my generation I found that
many people cannot find cannot find a
true calling they cannot find their true
uniqueness when I ask my friends if you
have all the money you need you don’t
have to worry about other things what
you love to do what is the dream many of
them cannot keep a solid answer and it
is because expectations were late on us
free heavily when since we were very
young so people talk about winning at a
starting line right and some people even
talk about winning before the magical
moment so as soon as we learn how to
walk we were arranged with different
interests classes and in primary school
we need to study well in the regular
subjects don’t forget to learn a musical
instrument because it gets you better
chance to go into a good secondary
school in a secondary school when we are
choosing the subjects choosing our
elective subjects we advise to choose
the one step and show you can get better
mark in the university entrance exam so
we saw ads no religious studies screw it
so what happens when we get to
university we again advised to choose a
true the right major what is the right
major the right matrix is what answer
you get a good job and you get a stable
job so all planted and we are left with
no space to explore our own uniqueness
have you ever wondered why there were so
many genius at the past take Mozart his
father discovered that he is very
talented in music at the age of four and
after that he spends all of his life
they’re studying the music composing and
playing masterpieces Oh imagine what
would it become if Mozart were forced
to study the subjects tech magnitude
exams get a good looking degree that we
so that’s important we cannot follow
follow what others just plainly follow
what others teach us to do I truly think
that we have as many talents as we had
in the past but the growing environment
just didn’t favor us to find them in
such a directed and planted education
system it is quite hard to break totally
break free but we can still make some
changes what we can do is to keep our
minds open to possibilities and keep
finding our uniqueness for example if
you are studying accounting science or
something like that but you don’t feel
that is your true calling you don’t say
that is your unique strength then don’t
get the thing that you already bound on
that career path keep your mind open to
different possibilities and keep looking
for your uniqueness as if stops pooted
keep looking don’t settle so how about
after we have found our uniqueness then
we facing yet another problem we have
fears we are free of embracing it we are
free of making mistakes we by not
following what others expects us to do
but in our but in many cases that fear
is not necessary and if we learn to how
to live with live with the mistakes it
can even turn into a great success so
this guy is a professor in microbiology
he’s known to have a messy untidy lab or
she at this aspect I told you it don’t
lose to him so anyway in one summer he
went to vacation with his family and
just left all of his bacterial samples
at the corner of his Spanish holiday
mood we all know that right so after he
come back one month later he discovers
something bad he found that one of his
positives is contaminated with fungi let
me walk you through this a bit
the time the wrong spot up there are the
bacteria that he wanted to grow and the
last white pass here is the fungi the
contamination that can be a very bad
mistake for microbiologist because this
can ruin her whole months work your
samples just destroyed but he managed to
turn this mistake into a miracle because
he found that while it’s interesting
that the bacteria cannot grow near the
fungi contamination you see that it gets
smaller and smaller and disappearing
around the fungi so after some
investigations he found that the fungi
produces a substance that kills the
bacteria and he later named it
penicillin which is the very first
antibiotics discovery in the world and
saved millions of life the name of this
man is Alexander Fleming and this
discovery one human no boob Nobel Prize
so if you if you ask me do I fear of
making mistakes in my own work surely I
do is especially heavy when you have a
team relying on you and you need to be
responsible for the investors of your
company but instead of fearing of making
mistakes I’m more fear of not doing it
because life is two swords just leaving
under others expectations so I want to
end this by asking you a question people
love to ask what is the tree what you
love to do but instead I want to ask you
if you stop doing what you’re doing now
if you stop doing what you’re doing now
what would the world lose if answer is
simply that the world would pretty much
be the same it won’t change then
probably you are not doing the right
thing and you should keep looking for
unique strength because I truly believe
that by finding your unique strengths
and working on that everyone can create
huge impacts and change the world and
that’s how the future human society evolves thank