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Achieving with the mind of a child | Shashaa Tirupati | TEDxBITSHyderabad


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smell like you everyday discovering
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having a child’s mind and imagination it
was never a conscious decision for me
it’s not something that I’d read in a
book or it wasn’t advice that I took a
little too seriously from someone it’s
how I’ve always been
and it’s presumably how I’m gonna stay
for the rest of my life this is me my
talk today will be about the biggest
moment in my life and before we get to
that I’d like to introduce you all to
the four childlike characteristics in my
personality which kind of helped me get
where I am in my journey number one
innocent curiosity I love this one
children are curious all day every day
it’s like they explore the world through
all their senses and their questions
never stop who’s wise what swears
they’re always always full of questions
and these questions are never asked with
any sort of fear or apprehension of
being judged or being laughed at I was a
very inquisitive person continued to
view and my friends would know me or
rather they call me a walking bag of
question marks because I just have a
question about everything and just like
kids like to do it they ask questions in
order to sate their curiosity I think I
come from a similar
mindset and the thing is that me asking
questions has actually led me to the
point where I ended up learning a lot of
new languages I learned new musical
instruments I learned and rather took a
chance at music production and
composition and anywhere from that to
say learning and finding out about
various moral and spiritual perspectives
or finding out about new unexplored
places around the world or just figuring
out new cuisines all of this was driven
by my curiosity now how does this helped
me
I’m Josh MIDI I speak Hindi and English
at home maybe a little bit of Punjabi
but I was born and raised in Canada and
then India and then I ended up singing
it around like the languages you just
saw me singing and say somewhere around
12 languages but whoever I meet I’ve
I’ve always been told that my diction
and my feel are extremely authentic so
to me that that’s a product of my
curiosity the next facet that I’d like
to talk to you about is a vivid
imagination a child can fly a paper
plane but that’s not the point the point
is them flying a paper plane thinking
that the breath that they’re gonna
breathe into it is the fuel which is a
great thought I mean if you think about
it write something like so that was good
thank you I made that paper plane by the
way yeah thank you and kids can do that
even better than I can and this is a
product of their imagination and their
imaginations they run wild enough to
make them realize a larger than life
world in their minds that outwardly we
can never gate for me I used to imagine
going to a movie theater and watching
shadowkhan on the screen
and seeing him dancing with Kajol and I
would imagine Kajol lip singing to my
songs
I mean Kajol on his secondary fire is me
and then and then God rose slowly she
faded away after the 90s Priyanka Chopra
came into the picture then Deepika then
recently it’s been Katrina but I would
constantly imagine them lip singing to
my voice slowly that kind of took a
backseat and I came to the point where I
would see myself on a stage like this
and probably a little bigger I would see
thousands of people I would hear a
thundering applause and I would picture
the spotlight on me the way it is right
now
and for me this world created in my mind
it was so beautiful it was so powerful
that it led me to start moving towards
fulfilling that dream and this is what
helped me with the third facet which is
fearlessness it is only when kids
indulge in their antics and they get
hurt that they learn so all the matter
of trial and error I remember filling my
mouth with water which I was supposed to
drink and I go to an electrical socket
and I squirt the water into the socket I
was shocked
literally that was that was ridiculous
just what I did there and I don’t think
I would ever do that again but I think I
learned from that one experience so
similarly children will try their hand
at anything in everything and what I
love so most about that is that they
want to do everything on their own I had
that Gita let me rewind to a few years
back I was 19 I was living in this
beautiful suburb in Vancouver Canada
with beautiful parents and two brothers
who I would die for I was pursuing my
pre-medical studies
I was on one major entrance scholarship
of $24,000 and then I had six other
scholarships that I was on and I was
working my way towards becoming a
neurosurgeon and people who would see me
you know common friends family friends
relatives neethu sasha is sorted then I
heard this tune these lyrics this aura
this vibe this was it I died and I was
resurrected that day I decided to pack
my bags I left a very comfortable life I
flew down to Mumbai and all of that with
no money with no contact and with no
house to stay in I was fearless I
thought I’d make it in a year it took me
seven when I’d initially hit Bombay I
was on the railway station for three
nights because I like I said I had no
house so I remember at night I would
keep my suitcases all there and I’d fake
talking on the phone if I’d see someone
crossing by in the moment he’d go I’d be
like holy mother of God my phone was
dead
yeah and then in the daytime I would
keep my luggage in the brokers office
and I’d be house hunting all day and
then at night again I take all that
luggage out I was too proud to tell the
broker that I don’t have a place can you
let me just use your office to sleep
so this happened for three nights and I
finally found a place which is two and a
half hours from Bombay so I used to
commute by train to my house which was
incorporated in a it sounds really funny
as well and I traveled all the way back
to Bombay but there were times when you
know I I didn’t have money I would have
saved three bucks I would walk six
kilometers to save three bucks on a
Volvo and again if I think about it
today maybe not today but at that time I
was definitely very very fearless I was
probably the epitome me of fearlessness
so this was then and so many rejections
but having said that let me go on to my
fourth point which is finding happiness
in the littlest things children find
join laughter in the smallest subtlest
places the struggle I was telling you
about the day I realized rather the day
I actually started coming to terms with
it that you know what bro this is a part
of life I think that’s after which that
was a turning point after which I kind
of realized that you know what let’s
enjoy this let’s enjoy this moment let’s
enjoy the struggle let’s enjoy the pain
it’s not gonna come back when I’m
successful there’s no way I’m gonna sign
them spend the night at condo alley
station that’s for sure
so coming to terms without and enjoying
that little pain that you get in every
step of the way you place a chocolate
cake in front of a kid and if there’s a
tsunami coming from that side the kid
will concentrate on the cake because he
loves it and so will I the tsunami is
gonna come it’s gonna come it’s gonna
take your way might as well enjoy the
cake right right thank you
so I don’t see the point of upsetting
unreasonable thresholds on happiness if
you get what I mean
it’s it’s pointless even in rough times
enjoy that fresh cup of tea in the
morning enjoying that smell of rain you
know enjoying a fans appreciation or
someone just coming up and telling you
that my hair looks
nice today makes my dia and it should
yours too you know enjoy those little
bits of appreciation you get or those
little bits of compliments you get you
know they’re worth a million because the
littlest pleasures are equal to the
biggest pleasures because they
constitute the majority of our lives a
huge chunk of our lives when put
together and speaking of finding
happiness and little things there was a
time when I had left music for three
years I had gone into music production
because someone had told me that ah
Kiowas korabik and I took that very
personally I am a Capricorn I’m very
sentimental such add that to heart and I
discovered a new side to me which was to
be a composer and to be a music producer
and I had compass I sorry I had singers
such as Javed Ali mohit chauhan but look
much I’ll I’m sure you’ve heard of all
these people they would all come and
sing my songs so it was a blessing in
disguise and how this leads into my
journey which is the biggest moment in
my journey and that is ar-rahman sir I
was called for a recording after one
month of auditioning for Coke Studio and
in Coke Studio is part of the choir and
my friend called and he’s like hey Sasha
would you be interested to do choir for
a monster I was like dude I would be
okay sharing just the frame with him so
I I agreed I did it I got selected and I
was happy in that and then a month later
I got called that grand monster would
like to try your voice for a few songs
can you come to Chennai I was like hell
yeah
so then I went to Jenny and today I
think it’s around approximately 36 songs
that I’ve recorded with him with
languages thank you
so
final word on this is that it’s fine to
grow up it’s fine to be mature but
please do not ever ever deep down lose
the child in you it’s very important for
you to know that this child in you is
the oldest part of you
it’s what had initially been there it’s
the purest part of you it’s been there
with you since day one so take it with
you wherever you go and however far you
go and I will do the same and that is my
end note but before that I would like to
say that I I owe everything to ar-rahman
sir it’s so important to have people
like that in in your life and for me erm
unser has been the fuel to my fire and I
have no words I was asked to speak about
my relation with remonster and how
that’s been in terms of my career and I
never have words to say he’s a genius
but beyond that I get overwhelmed gonna
have to talk about him there’s just too
much so thank you and don’t forget the child in you
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