[Music]
one of the questions that people ask me
when they first find out that I’m a
debater is what do you think of the way
President Trump debates well president
Trump according to analysis given by CNN
uses fourth-grade level language but to
be honest as a debater I actually think
that he’s a pretty clever speaker he
uses worse his advantage so that he can
plant the emotion he wants people to
feel in their minds his words are mostly
laden and cunningly disguised he isn’t
lying but at the same time the truth
seems somehow shady he may seem extreme
and radical at times but that’s what
brought him the position of the
President of the United States and this
stays unique way of how lecture works
but putting that aside there are times
in life where we have to face people
like him who are cunning who are devious
who are extreme maybe you’ve already
have had too and you felt that you
couldn’t confront other people or you
didn’t know how to for that matter well
I stand up here to tell you that you can
because in all of us lies a debater
debate is something that isn’t far away
from our lives utilize the debater side
of us and you can achieve great success
all of us have the ability to question
our surroundings we are all questioners
whether it be about the credibility of
the news the reliability of the book or
illogicality behind an argument I
previously mentioned that President
Trump is a pretty clever speaker he
knows how to play with our
unconsciousness he utilizes tools like
social media eyes or fake news to in
conscious LaPlante in the u.s. citizens
Minds the picture that he wanted to
paint in the elections here’s an example
the issue of fake news and social media
as has been on the rise ever since
President Tom came into office and
himself also directly addressed this
issue and its ongoing never-ending one
and only daily journal called Twitter
we’re fooled by these fake news or
social media eyes and some people say
that because we know the existence of
fake news that we should be skeptical
and that we shouldn’t
leave everything Denise tells us but at
the same time there are people who feel
reluctant because of the way social
media and the information deceives us
and therefore feel powerless when
confronting it when we have to be
critical there needs to be a line and
what’s important is that we are all
naturally trained to ask these wise or
what’s why is this information important
to us or what is this important
information implying for us or what is a
purpose behind this person ad and there
are times when we have to ask those
questions and our lifelong journey of
asking and acquiring these knowledge
have started ever since when we were
young when we started to play at the Y
game with our parents so we used to ask
the questions like mommy why is the sky
blue or daddy why is a snow cold now
what’s important is that when we ask
these wise or what’s and when you
question the information that is
presented to us that we are not only
solely skeptical reasonable suspicion
this means that we know when to believe
and when not to believe when to be
skeptical and when not to be skeptical
so I urge you to find that curious side
of you where you want to logically
analyze and information where you want
to critically explore the information
that lies in front of you but also
what’s important is that we’re not only
reasonably suspicious but when we feel
that something is fishy or suspicious
that we are actually comfort enough to
voice that opinion to other people this
may be to a group of your friends but it
may also be to a larger audience like
how I’m addressing you all right now
eight years ago I was a girl who had an
extreme fear of public speaking and to
be honest this is something that I would
never have a bit imagine trying when I
was 10 years old but yet here I stand in
front of all of you I remember when I
first started to beitung it was in
Canada and my first topic ever was about
banning junk food in schools now when I
went up to the podium I was so afraid of
speaking and debating that I stood up
there for four solid minutes without
saying a word and I was silent
whole time afterwards I ran off to
Chuckie Cheese stood in the corner
hiding and crying that night I told my
mom that I never wanted to go back to
debate again but what really changed me
was my tutor I was studying in the
library and she came up to me look me in
the eye and told me that she believed in
me and also that I need to realize that
the power and the key to stand back up
again lies solely in myself she also
told me a tip that when I’m nervous and
too nervous that I can’t confront the
audience that stands in front of me that
I should picture everyone in their
underwears now this tip really did help
me but it’s not only about the underwear
that counts but what was more important
for me was that she said that she
believed in me and afterwards when I
started to do bait on and on I decided
to be more confident in myself because I
realized that if I don’t believe in
myself no one ever will now to be honest
there are although this fear of public
speaking did pass away from me there are
always times when it occasionally comes
back and you know what I do I try to
picture every one of you in your
underwear but that’s not the only thing
I do first and foremost I try to
remember that again the key to standing
back up lies in myself and this
confidence of believing believing in
myself has always had my back throughout
my life I urge you again to be confident
to find that confident debater that lies
inside of you because if you don’t
believe in yourself no one ever will
Socrates once said that humans by nature
are social beings and in the age of
developing technology and in the age
where we’re surrounded by thousands of
people some of them who we know and some
of them who we don’t know it’s
practically impossible to isolate
ourselves from other people and we have
to continuously interact with other
people when doing so and while we’re
interacting with what other people why
don’t we help other people because I
know that we all have experiences of
helping other people and also being
helped by others a few months ago I went
to a debate workshop in Singapore where
I pressure myself a lot i pressure
myself to be the best
and I pressure myself to do really well
now don’t get me wrong pressure isn’t a
bad thing because it makes you to
stretch out of your comfort zone and to
strive for the better but when that
pressure becomes so extreme that it
breaks you down that’s when the problem
occurs so in Singapore I kept failing
and I kept freaking out on the plane to
this thing a to Singapore I had
butterflies in my stomach and the night
before the actual workshop I kept
twisting and turning in my hotel bed
Restless and I’m unable to sleep and
that morning when the debate workshop
did actually happen
I kept panicking and I was thinking to
myself that I shouldn’t be crying but
regardless tears are already welled up
in my eyes now if I story really stopped
here then I don’t think I would be able
to come up here and tell you that you
only define that confidence or that
criticism of a debater that lies inside
of you but that story doesn’t stop there
what’s more important is what happened
next my coach
took me to her room that night sat me
down on her bed and told me that she
wanted me to believe in myself the worst
were sure but that really struck me
because remember that this isn’t the
first time I have heard of such a thing
furthermore there are always teammates
by my side who are comforting me who are
asking me not to freak out who were
trying to go on this debating journey
with me and there I realized that
performance isn’t about pressuring
myself it’s more about sharing their
burdens now all of you or most of you at
least probably lift lot much longer than
me you have more life experiences than I
do
and you’ve been to many more places and
I’ve ever been to but I know that we all
share those experiences or sometimes we
just want to let go and give up where we
want to step down from the thin
tightrope that we’re standing on eagerly
step down and go right go around crying
but what’s important to remember is that
we’re all survivors we all survived up
to this day and I’m sure that we’ll
always continue to do so until the day
we rest we pass all those life’s tests
and what’s important is that we all did
it together
and we’ll continue to do it together for
the rest of our lives I again through my
experiences of debater realized that
performances and success isn’t solely
about being critical it’s not only about
pushing yourself or pulling yourself
it’s also about realizing when to be
skeptical when not to be skeptical when
to believe and what not to believe but
most importantly I realize that it’s
about sharing your burdens with others
and also being willing to share their
burdens and lift the heaviness of their
shoulders on to yours we are all
debaters and I hope that by now you’ve
all realized that debating isn’t
something that it’s in a faraway freakin
land and I hope that now you feel that
debate is something that lies around all
of you that’s something that’s close to
your hearts and I sincerely hope that
now you feel the urge to find and go
explore the inside of you to find that
hiding the baiter
be critical and be really suspicious be
confident and take care of yourself but
more importantly be willing to share the
burdens with other people remember that
we are all survivors and be part of what
you are and what you have become when
you find that your that form of your own
debater inside of you that’s when life
will give you the power to not only step
up to the base but also to swing the bat and to hit a homerun thank you
one of the questions that people ask me
when they first find out that I’m a
debater is what do you think of the way
President Trump debates well president
Trump according to analysis given by CNN
uses fourth-grade level language but to
be honest as a debater I actually think
that he’s a pretty clever speaker he
uses worse his advantage so that he can
plant the emotion he wants people to
feel in their minds his words are mostly
laden and cunningly disguised he isn’t
lying but at the same time the truth
seems somehow shady he may seem extreme
and radical at times but that’s what
brought him the position of the
President of the United States and this
stays unique way of how lecture works
but putting that aside there are times
in life where we have to face people
like him who are cunning who are devious
who are extreme maybe you’ve already
have had too and you felt that you
couldn’t confront other people or you
didn’t know how to for that matter well
I stand up here to tell you that you can
because in all of us lies a debater
debate is something that isn’t far away
from our lives utilize the debater side
of us and you can achieve great success
all of us have the ability to question
our surroundings we are all questioners
whether it be about the credibility of
the news the reliability of the book or
illogicality behind an argument I
previously mentioned that President
Trump is a pretty clever speaker he
knows how to play with our
unconsciousness he utilizes tools like
social media eyes or fake news to in
conscious LaPlante in the u.s. citizens
Minds the picture that he wanted to
paint in the elections here’s an example
the issue of fake news and social media
as has been on the rise ever since
President Tom came into office and
himself also directly addressed this
issue and its ongoing never-ending one
and only daily journal called Twitter
we’re fooled by these fake news or
social media eyes and some people say
that because we know the existence of
fake news that we should be skeptical
and that we shouldn’t
leave everything Denise tells us but at
the same time there are people who feel
reluctant because of the way social
media and the information deceives us
and therefore feel powerless when
confronting it when we have to be
critical there needs to be a line and
what’s important is that we are all
naturally trained to ask these wise or
what’s why is this information important
to us or what is this important
information implying for us or what is a
purpose behind this person ad and there
are times when we have to ask those
questions and our lifelong journey of
asking and acquiring these knowledge
have started ever since when we were
young when we started to play at the Y
game with our parents so we used to ask
the questions like mommy why is the sky
blue or daddy why is a snow cold now
what’s important is that when we ask
these wise or what’s and when you
question the information that is
presented to us that we are not only
solely skeptical reasonable suspicion
this means that we know when to believe
and when not to believe when to be
skeptical and when not to be skeptical
so I urge you to find that curious side
of you where you want to logically
analyze and information where you want
to critically explore the information
that lies in front of you but also
what’s important is that we’re not only
reasonably suspicious but when we feel
that something is fishy or suspicious
that we are actually comfort enough to
voice that opinion to other people this
may be to a group of your friends but it
may also be to a larger audience like
how I’m addressing you all right now
eight years ago I was a girl who had an
extreme fear of public speaking and to
be honest this is something that I would
never have a bit imagine trying when I
was 10 years old but yet here I stand in
front of all of you I remember when I
first started to beitung it was in
Canada and my first topic ever was about
banning junk food in schools now when I
went up to the podium I was so afraid of
speaking and debating that I stood up
there for four solid minutes without
saying a word and I was silent
whole time afterwards I ran off to
Chuckie Cheese stood in the corner
hiding and crying that night I told my
mom that I never wanted to go back to
debate again but what really changed me
was my tutor I was studying in the
library and she came up to me look me in
the eye and told me that she believed in
me and also that I need to realize that
the power and the key to stand back up
again lies solely in myself she also
told me a tip that when I’m nervous and
too nervous that I can’t confront the
audience that stands in front of me that
I should picture everyone in their
underwears now this tip really did help
me but it’s not only about the underwear
that counts but what was more important
for me was that she said that she
believed in me and afterwards when I
started to do bait on and on I decided
to be more confident in myself because I
realized that if I don’t believe in
myself no one ever will now to be honest
there are although this fear of public
speaking did pass away from me there are
always times when it occasionally comes
back and you know what I do I try to
picture every one of you in your
underwear but that’s not the only thing
I do first and foremost I try to
remember that again the key to standing
back up lies in myself and this
confidence of believing believing in
myself has always had my back throughout
my life I urge you again to be confident
to find that confident debater that lies
inside of you because if you don’t
believe in yourself no one ever will
Socrates once said that humans by nature
are social beings and in the age of
developing technology and in the age
where we’re surrounded by thousands of
people some of them who we know and some
of them who we don’t know it’s
practically impossible to isolate
ourselves from other people and we have
to continuously interact with other
people when doing so and while we’re
interacting with what other people why
don’t we help other people because I
know that we all have experiences of
helping other people and also being
helped by others a few months ago I went
to a debate workshop in Singapore where
I pressure myself a lot i pressure
myself to be the best
and I pressure myself to do really well
now don’t get me wrong pressure isn’t a
bad thing because it makes you to
stretch out of your comfort zone and to
strive for the better but when that
pressure becomes so extreme that it
breaks you down that’s when the problem
occurs so in Singapore I kept failing
and I kept freaking out on the plane to
this thing a to Singapore I had
butterflies in my stomach and the night
before the actual workshop I kept
twisting and turning in my hotel bed
Restless and I’m unable to sleep and
that morning when the debate workshop
did actually happen
I kept panicking and I was thinking to
myself that I shouldn’t be crying but
regardless tears are already welled up
in my eyes now if I story really stopped
here then I don’t think I would be able
to come up here and tell you that you
only define that confidence or that
criticism of a debater that lies inside
of you but that story doesn’t stop there
what’s more important is what happened
next my coach
took me to her room that night sat me
down on her bed and told me that she
wanted me to believe in myself the worst
were sure but that really struck me
because remember that this isn’t the
first time I have heard of such a thing
furthermore there are always teammates
by my side who are comforting me who are
asking me not to freak out who were
trying to go on this debating journey
with me and there I realized that
performance isn’t about pressuring
myself it’s more about sharing their
burdens now all of you or most of you at
least probably lift lot much longer than
me you have more life experiences than I
do
and you’ve been to many more places and
I’ve ever been to but I know that we all
share those experiences or sometimes we
just want to let go and give up where we
want to step down from the thin
tightrope that we’re standing on eagerly
step down and go right go around crying
but what’s important to remember is that
we’re all survivors we all survived up
to this day and I’m sure that we’ll
always continue to do so until the day
we rest we pass all those life’s tests
and what’s important is that we all did
it together
and we’ll continue to do it together for
the rest of our lives I again through my
experiences of debater realized that
performances and success isn’t solely
about being critical it’s not only about
pushing yourself or pulling yourself
it’s also about realizing when to be
skeptical when not to be skeptical when
to believe and what not to believe but
most importantly I realize that it’s
about sharing your burdens with others
and also being willing to share their
burdens and lift the heaviness of their
shoulders on to yours we are all
debaters and I hope that by now you’ve
all realized that debating isn’t
something that it’s in a faraway freakin
land and I hope that now you feel that
debate is something that lies around all
of you that’s something that’s close to
your hearts and I sincerely hope that
now you feel the urge to find and go
explore the inside of you to find that
hiding the baiter
be critical and be really suspicious be
confident and take care of yourself but
more importantly be willing to share the
burdens with other people remember that
we are all survivors and be part of what
you are and what you have become when
you find that your that form of your own
debater inside of you that’s when life
will give you the power to not only step
up to the base but also to swing the bat and to hit a homerun thank you
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