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Bite Away the Biased Way | 승우 최 | TEDxYouth@MCH


let me turn let me ask you what comes in
your mind when I tell you the word
freedom it could be literally anything
for some of you it could be having no
limit but for some of you it could be
having no work to do
however freedom I want to talk about
today is freedom from your own mold mold
is what I would like to refer to as an
attitude or behavior that is insisted on
a particular style it can also simply be
set as a prejudice you have now I want
you to think about your own molds there
could be anything like there could be
many and I want you to choose one of
those two that are limiting your
development and then finally briefly
that is the idea I want to share with
you today now let me tell you about my
middle school story
I studied based on what the teacher
wrote on the board
I wrote down those writings on my
textbook and I underlined those that the
teacher has emphasized I didn’t ask
twice about what I didn’t know because I
didn’t need it to because all I did for
the test was memorized the writings and
the underlined sentences that were
inside of my textbook I did this for
three consecutive years while being able
to maintain a high rank in my in my
school however everything changed as I
came to this school I had to completely
throw away how I studied in my school
many many presentation projects research
projects essay writing debate classes
and creative cans were pouring in like
crazy and I failed to do well on every
single one of them for example in the
first debate class because that all of
you may have gone through we were given
articles about a topic for preparing the
debate I wrote down the arguments and
the evidence according to the Arts
as you may guess I lost I lost an
opponent who has researched very deeply
about the same topic I was attacked with
new evidences that I didn’t hear about
and strong evidences I couldn’t even do
the reputation however at that moment I
realized that my studying shouldn’t end
at a stage where I only know perfectly
about the given information but to go
more search for two or three more
related ideas about that one topic from
then I started to search for more and
more related data about what I had to
research on for example I had to write
an English today about happiness in the
passage given there were three factors
of happiness happiness regarding money
health and family relationship I however
didn’t want it to be limited those two
those three arguments so I went on
searched on the internet and found out
that without even with these three
factors there are more such as 8
marriage status and self-realization
those also had a big impact on happiness
and I concluded that those examples on
the passage were only a tip of an
iceberg with these experiences I found
about the satisfaction and the promise I
could get and broaden my knowledge
like this knowing to break the limit and
going in further is important and guess
what I have accomplished from this by
getting rid of how I studied before in
middle school I was able to get more
Awards many awards in different subjects
along with broadening my knowledge by
experiencing such benefits of stepping
outside the door of how I studied before
the two words that came out of my mouth
was hell yeah
it has been nearly two years studying in
this school
and for most of those times I spent my
time accumulating profile experience of
diplomacy and world trade thanks to my
past myself for breaking the mold of how
I studied before I was able to I can say
that I was freed from the barriers of
limited learning and started to look
around 360 degrees learn new things that
I couldn’t have seen before now I want
it I brought two quotes that I want to
share with you today these two quotes
contain what I wanted to tell you once
we read our self of traditional thinking
we can get on with creating the future
freedom means the opportunity to be what
we never thought we would be like this
quotes by getting rid of our traditional
thinking we will be able to open our
eyes for broader views and we can get on
with creating our own future also by
being able to be free from your old mold
you will be able to experience what you
couldn’t have experienced before
a whole new world for you guys freeing
oneself from one specific point of view
allows one to see what one couldn’t have
seen before just like stepping outside
the door being free from your old mold
will allow you to enter a whole new
world full of happenings to learn from
so I dare tell you to don’t don’t be
afraid to lose what you have accumulated
until now with the own load
step up step outside and learn new
things that are useful for you and
finally ruthlessly abandon those that
are holding you down thank you [Applause]
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