beautiful diversity in this complex
world of today we’ll find ourselves in
various environments where you have
different people and you have to live
with these different people in different
places most of the times we go to places
we don’t know anybody there but we have
to like adjust ourselves and when we
meet in a place like where do our guide
is you have everybody coming in with
different attitudes different with
different customs and different values
but you are supposed to live together in
harmony and in doing so it’s a give and
take situation wherein you have to
compromise something you just have to
give in something some of your will so
that you meet at an equilibrium point of
understanding where both of you can live
together but if you hold firm to those
your values or those your religious ties
you can never be able to accommodate the
next person I’ve been to five continents
in the world I’ve traveled to 15
different countries and I’ve cooled in
four of those five continents and those
15 countries have been to some multiple
times and now I’m studying in Asia but
throughout my journey I’ve actually met
different people with different values
and different attitudes but in this
diverse community that I’ve actually
lived in I’ve always tried to connect
with people live with them and
understand them in a better way so most
of the times you tend to understand that
most of the people you meet might not
understand where you come from I’m from
a country in Africa Mauritania but most
people that I meet will tell me I’ve
never heard of your country and raised
that on the map so you have to explain
these things to tell them that you’re
from this place and this shared values
is what makes us human is what makes
diversity beautiful because you have to
give in something to be able to
accommodate the next person and this
global identity that you find yourself
in of connecting to other people is what
is actually unique
about our human existence throughout my
journey I’ve actually been able to grasp
some few points I want to share with you
today which are solo professional and
some social all it’s two paces one
understanding yourself when you find
yourself in a diverse community like
where the world gathers one of the thing
is you need to understand yourself
because you want to be a positive
reflection of yourself and a positive
reflection of your community and in
being a positive reflection of yourself
and a positive reflection of your
community
you need to understand yourself
understand your inner man and understand
your in a beam in understanding your
inner man you will know how to react and
how to accommodate the next person and
what to give him and what not to give
him for instance I’m doing economics at
the International University of Japan
but I’m not good with numbers and I have
a friend who is actually very good with
numbers so I used to go to the gym
sometimes to exercise I talked him once
to come to the gym he came and I used to
ask him for assistance most of the time
so he came to the gym the other day and
I was doing some running weightlifting
I’m sure he’s not good he’s not used to
the gym actually so I had to talk him
encouraged him to be doing this then he
made a comment that this the gym is not
for intelligent people they don’t like
okay is this actually cultural or is it
inciting or something because I know my
inner self I actually had to keep quiet
at the particular time we worked back to
the Dom we stayed together we loved then
at the end of the day I had to evaluate
it within myself the simple words you
say might not mean much to you who might
mean a lot to the next person so
understanding yourself is key to living
in harmony with the next person general
thing also
smile smile is universal is therapeutic
turn to the person sitting next to you I
just smile how how does it feel
everybody was like tense and looking
concentrated and now because you smile
you actually get that tenseness down
this is true it’s actually telepathic
when you live in a diverse community
where everybody speak different
languages do different things and come
with different beliefs and different
customs one of the language that we all
speak that is very universal a smile
imagine doing a stressful thing
intercourse or at the International
University of Japan and you decide to
walk down the corridors and you have all
the stressful day use so tense you have
in issues with your supervisor or you
have an issues with your coursework that
you cannot finish your assignment or
your thesis and you bump into someone
along the carry dog and this person
gives you this chair for blue some spy
and suddenly you get captivated by the
smile of this puzzle at that particular
time
you forget your words your service
psychologically when you move on they
come back there is our act in your mind
but they might not resurrect back the
same way they we are so just smile it’s
free the therapeutic give it you might
mend somebody’s day by just smiling to
them you might help somebody you might
heal them just by smiling to them on a
professional note on a professional note
your network is your net worth today our
value hinges on the people we know the
people we know around the world you
might be in a specific place and you
interact with different people from
different cultures different backgrounds
and coming from different countries but
your interaction with them and the
relationship you build with them today
you might not know where to take you
tomorrow but it will be very helpful for
you in the future today you might not
value these people but in the future you
would actually understand
that these people are more importance to
you than any other person because of the
connection you create in the diverse
community that you live in you might
make diversity very beautiful imagine
you sitting in Mauritania for example
and invents in a very good product that
you want to market this product to other
places but you’ve been somewhere in a
diverse community where you’ve built
relationship with some people and that
relationship you build with these people
and that’s that this person is in
Bangladesh but this person is in
Indonesia or Sri Lanka and you want to
market your product to Sri Lanka
Indonesia you don’t have to complicate
yourself thinking again that okay can I
have somebody of Trustee and Sri Lanka
to send my products there can I have a
business partner there you do not have
to start fresh looking for them but you
might just contact the person you know
in these places the network you’ve built
with this person when you really use it
in this diverse community you might just
contact them and say I invented a new
product and I market this product in
your country yes they can help you and
they can help you market your product at
the end of the day you might not know
the global markets that you are actually
imagine also going for tourism trips to
places now go into other countries take
a country where you don’t know anybody
and take a country where you know
someone like in the spring break I went
to the US and last year and I was
studying with a friend at Lincoln
University and I had to stay in his
house when I went to the years he had to
take me around for free take me to
places for free with his car we moved
from one state to another and imagine
also going to London and you don’t know
anybody in this place or maybe you have
relatives who are always busy with their
job and so on but friends can sacrifice
some of their times for you based on the
network that you’ve created while you
live in with them in certain places they
might take you to places that the
tourist guide cannot take you they will
take you to places that your money
cannot take you
your network would make you fail your
network will take you to places that
your money can take you your network
will give you more money your network
take you till you make it
it sounds otherwise yes and it’s an old
adage but it actually works do you want
to be a business leader do you want to
be a public administrator do you want to
be an economist the time is now to start
don’t wait till you sit in front of a
desk in an office that has an
air-conditioned with the computer before
you start doing what you’re supposed to
do it might seem like you’re faking it
now because you’re acting like like a
public administrator or an economist
where while you’re not yet an economist
but if so be it then do it because for
you you’re just working towards your
objective you’re just working towards
achieving your aims and objectives in
life they just practice it what you want
to be in a multicultural environment if
you practice these skills then it builds
you tomorrow to work in a diverse
community we are in you might actually
innovate products that can be marketable
to these places just sacrifice your time
whether it’s through the organizations
that are in the community you live in
what has true institutions that you can
just volunteer your time to understand
to interact with these people and this
might also help you professionally weigh
in you might understand this person’s
perspective of things what is actually
happening in their countries and which
products might work there and which
might not actually work there by acting
like an economist like a public
administrator in a diverse community
where you find yourself this can
actually help us to make diversity very
beautiful thank you very much
[Applause] [Music]
world of today we’ll find ourselves in
various environments where you have
different people and you have to live
with these different people in different
places most of the times we go to places
we don’t know anybody there but we have
to like adjust ourselves and when we
meet in a place like where do our guide
is you have everybody coming in with
different attitudes different with
different customs and different values
but you are supposed to live together in
harmony and in doing so it’s a give and
take situation wherein you have to
compromise something you just have to
give in something some of your will so
that you meet at an equilibrium point of
understanding where both of you can live
together but if you hold firm to those
your values or those your religious ties
you can never be able to accommodate the
next person I’ve been to five continents
in the world I’ve traveled to 15
different countries and I’ve cooled in
four of those five continents and those
15 countries have been to some multiple
times and now I’m studying in Asia but
throughout my journey I’ve actually met
different people with different values
and different attitudes but in this
diverse community that I’ve actually
lived in I’ve always tried to connect
with people live with them and
understand them in a better way so most
of the times you tend to understand that
most of the people you meet might not
understand where you come from I’m from
a country in Africa Mauritania but most
people that I meet will tell me I’ve
never heard of your country and raised
that on the map so you have to explain
these things to tell them that you’re
from this place and this shared values
is what makes us human is what makes
diversity beautiful because you have to
give in something to be able to
accommodate the next person and this
global identity that you find yourself
in of connecting to other people is what
is actually unique
about our human existence throughout my
journey I’ve actually been able to grasp
some few points I want to share with you
today which are solo professional and
some social all it’s two paces one
understanding yourself when you find
yourself in a diverse community like
where the world gathers one of the thing
is you need to understand yourself
because you want to be a positive
reflection of yourself and a positive
reflection of your community and in
being a positive reflection of yourself
and a positive reflection of your
community
you need to understand yourself
understand your inner man and understand
your in a beam in understanding your
inner man you will know how to react and
how to accommodate the next person and
what to give him and what not to give
him for instance I’m doing economics at
the International University of Japan
but I’m not good with numbers and I have
a friend who is actually very good with
numbers so I used to go to the gym
sometimes to exercise I talked him once
to come to the gym he came and I used to
ask him for assistance most of the time
so he came to the gym the other day and
I was doing some running weightlifting
I’m sure he’s not good he’s not used to
the gym actually so I had to talk him
encouraged him to be doing this then he
made a comment that this the gym is not
for intelligent people they don’t like
okay is this actually cultural or is it
inciting or something because I know my
inner self I actually had to keep quiet
at the particular time we worked back to
the Dom we stayed together we loved then
at the end of the day I had to evaluate
it within myself the simple words you
say might not mean much to you who might
mean a lot to the next person so
understanding yourself is key to living
in harmony with the next person general
thing also
smile smile is universal is therapeutic
turn to the person sitting next to you I
just smile how how does it feel
everybody was like tense and looking
concentrated and now because you smile
you actually get that tenseness down
this is true it’s actually telepathic
when you live in a diverse community
where everybody speak different
languages do different things and come
with different beliefs and different
customs one of the language that we all
speak that is very universal a smile
imagine doing a stressful thing
intercourse or at the International
University of Japan and you decide to
walk down the corridors and you have all
the stressful day use so tense you have
in issues with your supervisor or you
have an issues with your coursework that
you cannot finish your assignment or
your thesis and you bump into someone
along the carry dog and this person
gives you this chair for blue some spy
and suddenly you get captivated by the
smile of this puzzle at that particular
time
you forget your words your service
psychologically when you move on they
come back there is our act in your mind
but they might not resurrect back the
same way they we are so just smile it’s
free the therapeutic give it you might
mend somebody’s day by just smiling to
them you might help somebody you might
heal them just by smiling to them on a
professional note on a professional note
your network is your net worth today our
value hinges on the people we know the
people we know around the world you
might be in a specific place and you
interact with different people from
different cultures different backgrounds
and coming from different countries but
your interaction with them and the
relationship you build with them today
you might not know where to take you
tomorrow but it will be very helpful for
you in the future today you might not
value these people but in the future you
would actually understand
that these people are more importance to
you than any other person because of the
connection you create in the diverse
community that you live in you might
make diversity very beautiful imagine
you sitting in Mauritania for example
and invents in a very good product that
you want to market this product to other
places but you’ve been somewhere in a
diverse community where you’ve built
relationship with some people and that
relationship you build with these people
and that’s that this person is in
Bangladesh but this person is in
Indonesia or Sri Lanka and you want to
market your product to Sri Lanka
Indonesia you don’t have to complicate
yourself thinking again that okay can I
have somebody of Trustee and Sri Lanka
to send my products there can I have a
business partner there you do not have
to start fresh looking for them but you
might just contact the person you know
in these places the network you’ve built
with this person when you really use it
in this diverse community you might just
contact them and say I invented a new
product and I market this product in
your country yes they can help you and
they can help you market your product at
the end of the day you might not know
the global markets that you are actually
imagine also going for tourism trips to
places now go into other countries take
a country where you don’t know anybody
and take a country where you know
someone like in the spring break I went
to the US and last year and I was
studying with a friend at Lincoln
University and I had to stay in his
house when I went to the years he had to
take me around for free take me to
places for free with his car we moved
from one state to another and imagine
also going to London and you don’t know
anybody in this place or maybe you have
relatives who are always busy with their
job and so on but friends can sacrifice
some of their times for you based on the
network that you’ve created while you
live in with them in certain places they
might take you to places that the
tourist guide cannot take you they will
take you to places that your money
cannot take you
your network would make you fail your
network will take you to places that
your money can take you your network
will give you more money your network
take you till you make it
it sounds otherwise yes and it’s an old
adage but it actually works do you want
to be a business leader do you want to
be a public administrator do you want to
be an economist the time is now to start
don’t wait till you sit in front of a
desk in an office that has an
air-conditioned with the computer before
you start doing what you’re supposed to
do it might seem like you’re faking it
now because you’re acting like like a
public administrator or an economist
where while you’re not yet an economist
but if so be it then do it because for
you you’re just working towards your
objective you’re just working towards
achieving your aims and objectives in
life they just practice it what you want
to be in a multicultural environment if
you practice these skills then it builds
you tomorrow to work in a diverse
community we are in you might actually
innovate products that can be marketable
to these places just sacrifice your time
whether it’s through the organizations
that are in the community you live in
what has true institutions that you can
just volunteer your time to understand
to interact with these people and this
might also help you professionally weigh
in you might understand this person’s
perspective of things what is actually
happening in their countries and which
products might work there and which
might not actually work there by acting
like an economist like a public
administrator in a diverse community
where you find yourself this can
actually help us to make diversity very
beautiful thank you very much
[Applause] [Music]
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