my name is Timmy Chang I’m currently a
high school senior who will be
graduating after two days I’m in exactly
June 1st 2017 at exactly 2:00 in the
afternoon I know which college I’m going
I know what major I want to have but I’m
not quite sure why would I become in the
future or perhaps I’ll change a major
because of my sudden change on interest
and this shows that our future is pretty
unpredictable we don’t know what will
happen perhaps in the next instance
second or perhaps for next year decades
but while we can do to deal with this
future this unpredictable this is to
dream to have a goal pursue it and build
that future future that you always
wanted to have I want you now to imagine
closer eyes if you want to and think
what dream would you want to achieve
when you watch to have the family a
successful career or our millions and
billions of dollars now no matter what
you had just dropped off a little just
amazing how much potential we humans
have a building that extraordinary
future but wait there’s something one
question you never consider when you’re
thinking about your future which is
where will this future take place
because not the current global issues
than challenges our future might need to
be held back for sure you might need to
worry about finding a job due to
unemployment and poverty or even warring
going about going outdoors because of
pollution or even moving away from your
homeland because of natural disasters or
terrorism and you might think that nah
that end of the world seen what happened
in my generation or that some green
activists will totally come out and deal
with these challenges one after another
and all you need to do every day is to
wake up rinse eat breakfast go out there
and deal with all these personal
you got well you’re wrong and right at
the same time you’re wrong because that
end of the world scene will happen when
your still life and you’re right because
some activists will definitely show up
to deal with these issues
but you will actually be needing to be
part of that solution activist team
however I’m not sure to terrify you no
no I’m here to tell how great you are
I’m here to tell how important this for
you realize that you won’t be
determining what kind of future you will
have as well as your future generations
our world today is pretty nice to most
of us we have internet Facebook Internet
technology internet cell phones and
Internet which is pretty nice but under
that happiness is the truth that we all
know I bet that you know and I bet that
you know that I know it’s not these
global challenges are not decreasing but
increasing at an extremely high rate and
you must think that this is a really
huge great big deal because I’m telling
you to be part of that activist team and
deal with these global issues however
I’m here to propose to you an idea an
extremely simple concept and way for you
to fight and eradicate that once and for
all to build a future
this concept actually only takes two
words same mindset
imagine if limit our human population
7.5 billion of us in half the exact same
mindset an urge which is to fight global
issues with action do you have that urge
and become that activist team we will
actually might have just decreased the
time to go against these global
challenges perhaps by 50% or even 99
percent and I don’t blame you if you
think this is extremely bizarre because
you might think how is it possible to
have every single citizen across 192
countries you have to exact same thought
and mindset well it is happening today
actually just within perhaps a smaller
scale within a nation or an ethnic group
and this cause I’m talking about here
can be known as global consciousness or
unity this term was introduced to me by
my senior thesis mentor dr. Brian Harman
when I was doing a paper about how to
resolve global issues efficiently so in
short this concept global consciousness
and unity is when as
the evolution stage of nationalism and
patriotism
you might not realize this or the power
of these two factor play a major role in
our history all the way to today since
the 1770s nationalism began to form
people devolve a personal identification
to a country along with the influence of
globalization and markets and in short
this is when the entire citizen of that
country has the exact same spirit and
thought which is to make their country
great again and this is more than just a
generic thought because it is what they
wanted to do and then it’s the urge
style they want so they take actions
from the love and passion from their
homeland and this doesn’t need to be
parallel to the government because
they’re straying for the best not for
the better it means that they have a
possibility to even go revolt and
against the government in order to
become that best state of their own
country one example is the yellow
revolution known as a People Power
Revolution and the Philippines while go
which millions and billions of people
have went on the epifanio De Los Santos
Avenue to protest against President
Marcos harsh assassination and martial
law eventually this actually became one
of the most successful nonviolent
revolution throughout entire history
which kind of shows you the power of
nationalism how much people can actually
have when they are united and have the
same mindset I don’t want you to imagine
if we can take this to a global skill to
bring like unify power to a global level
from the love and identification of a
country to a love and identification as
a global citizen and instead of thinking
about forming new governmental system or
perhaps forming nationwide revolutions
we can start revolutions global at a
global scale
to create a new system to deal with
these issues and Radek 8 the ones that
for all and you might think this is
still quite overwhelming because how can
we actually have the same thought when
you might think is already quite
difficult for us to persuade our
classmates to persuade our colleagues do
you have the same
ask you I’m here I believe that a
three-step progress plan it’s good
enough for you to form like global unity
and consciousness starting within
yourself and the first step of this
entire progress is targeting our
generation our generation will be facing
the worst consequences of global issues
and global challenges as I say our
future will be hold back and the
interesting fact about our generation is
that we’re anti-political as a conscious
studies of media and The Economist by
both from both US and the United Kingdom
more than half of the young voters are
refused to vote because they believe
that government go in for selfish
reasons they also believe that most
ethnic belief that they’re inefficient
and wasteful therefore they’ve formed a
self-perpetuating hopelessness to the
current political society today another
fact as to how our generation can start
to break the social barriers that a
previous government has created one
example is how the North and South
Korean athletes were actually
socializing and taking photos during the
Rio Olympics this was described by the
media as a most iconic photo and spear
alpha Games which kind of shows that
even the media recognized that our
generation is starting something new
we’re starting to form that
international community within across
different nations and the second step
towards this is to start debate any
child debate activity you might think
why debate why stupid even related to
forming a global consciousness or global
unity and the things that debate is a
very essential step for you to start
understanding about the world today and
I bet half of you here believe that
debate is sort of the thing for nerds or
like it’s a competition a fancy speaking
but if you’re right in a sense because
when I start to talk to people who are
not involved in debate they do can point
out a few advantages and increase your
speaking skills your language ability as
well as your confidence but more of her
they also traced back to an ultimate
point that they believe is a competition
that requires aggressiveness that if you
don’t do fancy metaphors or you cannot
speak powerful
now if you basically lose the entire
thing and this is all a misconception
firstly why can’t debate be a thing for
an earth I’m personally proud to become
a nerd to participate in debate and
actually it is a very basis of
fundamental thinking and learning for
our generation when it comes to the
future firstly it’s important for global
leaders today as mentioned by numerous
debate curriculum creators is also used
in the ancient political society for to
educate the public and for the public to
recognize the government it is also most
Gilson the men when it comes to u.s.
employment market and clean skills such
as communication problem solving
organization as well as teamwork and
when you start practicing debate this
kind of brings you to the very last step
in forming that global unity and
consciousness which is critical thinking
skills and empathy now critical thinking
is often a extreme cliche term and also
common term used in academic but ensured
critical thinking means thinking else I
are beyond the box and whenever we have
a difficult question or a freeze false
question our teacher often referred as a
critical thing in question yet I want to
say that most of the students sitting
here you never actually did critical
thinking before and this reason goes all
the way back when I was still in the
Taiwanese public school whenever I have
the test on the subject of history and
social studies
I often face with free response
questions but later I realized that
these questions have a sterilised answer
on their answer sheet meaning that if I
answer wrong and doesn’t match what’s
expected then I was considered incorrect
and this kind of shows how many teachers
in school does not want us to do actual
critical thinking but to memorize the
curriculum and just simply putting the
curriculum into words itself circling
ABCD any like multiple-choice which
ultimately makes no difference between
them yeah this is so a thing today when
I was in when I’m in high school and
this kind of shows that we’re still
thinking with inside the box within our
knowledge level we’re not thinking
outside we have learned in school
matching it with our experiences and
thinking and
or perspectives which is the thing that
debate can offer us one experience I had
was when I was in toupee competition two
years ago in Malaysia I was faced with
this motion that democracy is overrated
and the thing about this debate is that
I only know the motion when I go inside
that debate room I don’t only have 15
minutes to prepare on it and I go
straight on stage to proclaim my stances
well at that point I kind of freaked out
because I always think that democracy is
the best way of governance Daniel’s
affirmative team I cannot believe how
can I stand on the opposing side
something I always believed that’s not
true but that 15-minute that short time
kind of changed my opinion which is that
I realized democracy fits many countries
today but not every single country
across the globe because of the historic
development or perhaps its economic and
humanitarian development incident such
as the rasp ring also made me realize
that perhaps democracy is not something
that many countries are ready for today
and that is the first moment when I
actually believe that I myself do
critical thinking because I put myself
in a shoe and a site that I had never
expect myself to be in because I never
believed it but starting that I began to
think in a more flexible way I began to
realize that perhaps things are not
always black and white
another example is when I started when I
represented DPRK known as the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea or North
Korea in the Model UN conference I was
faced with a resolution debating topic
of nuclear weaponry well obviously it
did not go well at all because I have to
stand on stage and say that we should
totally develop nuclear weaponry that
that this delegate loves nuclear weapon
and that my contrasted right to nuke
every single country that my holy leader
belief that it’s a threat or he simply
doesn’t like it and obviously that was
not pleasant at all because whenever I
say people don’t agree with me and
whenever I vote something against and
always passes
and this she’ll sent well no matter if I
believe that a opposing side at the end
or not I’d learn my I learned something
which is that I can stand in different
perspectives I enable myself to be
flexible and truly can understand every
side of the situation which before I
always believed that as long as I
believe the thing is right it is nothing
that it is definitely serve as justice
now the last part
besides critical thinking is empathy and
but they literally means understanding
but it’s something that we all lack
today and the reason goes back to when
we’re making decisions think about when
you make a decision you make the most
efficient one meaning you prioritize
yourself and your surrounding needs you
may say that you’re no selfish at all
but you still have that prioritize and
the thing is that if you’re trying to
imagine if we put that in the larger
scale in the government’s position this
puts to the misconception of today’s you
to Larry and society mentioned by
Professor Michael settles from Harvard
University and in this book justice he
mentioned held today there’s well
there’s no wrong when it comes to for me
and you are in society but the point is
the method because they believe that if
we maximize happiness it’s a right thing
meaning that if fifty-one percent
believe that the kind that they are
happy the government ultimately believes
that the entire country is satisfied
they’re in a you tellurian society but
this is incorrect because even if this
forty-nine percent or just 1 percent
citizens still dissent and it cost
numerous revolution and violence today
especially in the Middle East such as
Iraq or perhaps Syria our should that
and the thing is not without empathy we
cannot truly put ourselves in others
shoes understand one another expand our
perspective and form a unified spirit
which is important when it comes to
forming a global consciousness or unity
and this goes back to why debate craze
empathy think about it when you’re doing
debate you have to persuade that just to
be on your site meaning that you have to
do rebuttals in that process you have to
first listen
some opponents meaning that you actually
shift your point to their site think in
their shoes final loop post and you come
back to yourself and proclaim your
stances and persuade the judge and
actually in that process you learn to
listen and understand which is quite
applicable in normal life which
ultimately forms as correct sense of
empathy and moreover it gives a
transformation as when we’re doing a
debate we often face our argumentative
topic which is relate to our society
today and regards massive amount of
research we and then in that process you
actually want to take more about it you
want to evoke a more on it and actually
perhaps become interested in it and this
is actually can fit to my experience
when I was debating in Malaysia as well
as another Mayan conference when I was
representing Kiribati and the topic of
global warming her body as you might not
know it’s a small island in the Pacific
Ocean and because standing in that
position and talking about global
warming I became quite interested about
global issue as well as comparative
government international relation which
Mamie had interest to pursue a senior
thesis paper about rezoning global issue
through debate as well as for me to
stand here right now and give you that
idea that it is possible for us to deal
with this global issue within a shorter
time if we all have the same mindset now
this three progress step that I just
said as possible it is a potential plan
to start building like unity in creating
a better future however there’s one
thing that you must know when it comes
to following this three-step progress
plan which is that individual actions do
matter no matter how cliche it sounds
because you have to believe this cliche
to actually believe that it won’t be
possible to build by unity within every
single one of us they’re really less I
have to say the world is still currently
in our hands at this moment right here
right now and let’s clock is still
ticking meaning that every second I’m
speaking here is an opportunity loss for
a better future I want you to remember
the
thing I told to imagine to start that
dream
remember that think and remembered like
taste-off happiness when you success six
feet in that dream and the potential and
building an extraordinary feature for us
in our generations now never let that go
away because you will need that to build
that global consciousness and unity and
yourself as well as the international
community to change their dreams in a
more wild extraordinary way in a more
potential feature than we never ever
imagined thank you for listening
[Applause]
high school senior who will be
graduating after two days I’m in exactly
June 1st 2017 at exactly 2:00 in the
afternoon I know which college I’m going
I know what major I want to have but I’m
not quite sure why would I become in the
future or perhaps I’ll change a major
because of my sudden change on interest
and this shows that our future is pretty
unpredictable we don’t know what will
happen perhaps in the next instance
second or perhaps for next year decades
but while we can do to deal with this
future this unpredictable this is to
dream to have a goal pursue it and build
that future future that you always
wanted to have I want you now to imagine
closer eyes if you want to and think
what dream would you want to achieve
when you watch to have the family a
successful career or our millions and
billions of dollars now no matter what
you had just dropped off a little just
amazing how much potential we humans
have a building that extraordinary
future but wait there’s something one
question you never consider when you’re
thinking about your future which is
where will this future take place
because not the current global issues
than challenges our future might need to
be held back for sure you might need to
worry about finding a job due to
unemployment and poverty or even warring
going about going outdoors because of
pollution or even moving away from your
homeland because of natural disasters or
terrorism and you might think that nah
that end of the world seen what happened
in my generation or that some green
activists will totally come out and deal
with these challenges one after another
and all you need to do every day is to
wake up rinse eat breakfast go out there
and deal with all these personal
you got well you’re wrong and right at
the same time you’re wrong because that
end of the world scene will happen when
your still life and you’re right because
some activists will definitely show up
to deal with these issues
but you will actually be needing to be
part of that solution activist team
however I’m not sure to terrify you no
no I’m here to tell how great you are
I’m here to tell how important this for
you realize that you won’t be
determining what kind of future you will
have as well as your future generations
our world today is pretty nice to most
of us we have internet Facebook Internet
technology internet cell phones and
Internet which is pretty nice but under
that happiness is the truth that we all
know I bet that you know and I bet that
you know that I know it’s not these
global challenges are not decreasing but
increasing at an extremely high rate and
you must think that this is a really
huge great big deal because I’m telling
you to be part of that activist team and
deal with these global issues however
I’m here to propose to you an idea an
extremely simple concept and way for you
to fight and eradicate that once and for
all to build a future
this concept actually only takes two
words same mindset
imagine if limit our human population
7.5 billion of us in half the exact same
mindset an urge which is to fight global
issues with action do you have that urge
and become that activist team we will
actually might have just decreased the
time to go against these global
challenges perhaps by 50% or even 99
percent and I don’t blame you if you
think this is extremely bizarre because
you might think how is it possible to
have every single citizen across 192
countries you have to exact same thought
and mindset well it is happening today
actually just within perhaps a smaller
scale within a nation or an ethnic group
and this cause I’m talking about here
can be known as global consciousness or
unity this term was introduced to me by
my senior thesis mentor dr. Brian Harman
when I was doing a paper about how to
resolve global issues efficiently so in
short this concept global consciousness
and unity is when as
the evolution stage of nationalism and
patriotism
you might not realize this or the power
of these two factor play a major role in
our history all the way to today since
the 1770s nationalism began to form
people devolve a personal identification
to a country along with the influence of
globalization and markets and in short
this is when the entire citizen of that
country has the exact same spirit and
thought which is to make their country
great again and this is more than just a
generic thought because it is what they
wanted to do and then it’s the urge
style they want so they take actions
from the love and passion from their
homeland and this doesn’t need to be
parallel to the government because
they’re straying for the best not for
the better it means that they have a
possibility to even go revolt and
against the government in order to
become that best state of their own
country one example is the yellow
revolution known as a People Power
Revolution and the Philippines while go
which millions and billions of people
have went on the epifanio De Los Santos
Avenue to protest against President
Marcos harsh assassination and martial
law eventually this actually became one
of the most successful nonviolent
revolution throughout entire history
which kind of shows you the power of
nationalism how much people can actually
have when they are united and have the
same mindset I don’t want you to imagine
if we can take this to a global skill to
bring like unify power to a global level
from the love and identification of a
country to a love and identification as
a global citizen and instead of thinking
about forming new governmental system or
perhaps forming nationwide revolutions
we can start revolutions global at a
global scale
to create a new system to deal with
these issues and Radek 8 the ones that
for all and you might think this is
still quite overwhelming because how can
we actually have the same thought when
you might think is already quite
difficult for us to persuade our
classmates to persuade our colleagues do
you have the same
ask you I’m here I believe that a
three-step progress plan it’s good
enough for you to form like global unity
and consciousness starting within
yourself and the first step of this
entire progress is targeting our
generation our generation will be facing
the worst consequences of global issues
and global challenges as I say our
future will be hold back and the
interesting fact about our generation is
that we’re anti-political as a conscious
studies of media and The Economist by
both from both US and the United Kingdom
more than half of the young voters are
refused to vote because they believe
that government go in for selfish
reasons they also believe that most
ethnic belief that they’re inefficient
and wasteful therefore they’ve formed a
self-perpetuating hopelessness to the
current political society today another
fact as to how our generation can start
to break the social barriers that a
previous government has created one
example is how the North and South
Korean athletes were actually
socializing and taking photos during the
Rio Olympics this was described by the
media as a most iconic photo and spear
alpha Games which kind of shows that
even the media recognized that our
generation is starting something new
we’re starting to form that
international community within across
different nations and the second step
towards this is to start debate any
child debate activity you might think
why debate why stupid even related to
forming a global consciousness or global
unity and the things that debate is a
very essential step for you to start
understanding about the world today and
I bet half of you here believe that
debate is sort of the thing for nerds or
like it’s a competition a fancy speaking
but if you’re right in a sense because
when I start to talk to people who are
not involved in debate they do can point
out a few advantages and increase your
speaking skills your language ability as
well as your confidence but more of her
they also traced back to an ultimate
point that they believe is a competition
that requires aggressiveness that if you
don’t do fancy metaphors or you cannot
speak powerful
now if you basically lose the entire
thing and this is all a misconception
firstly why can’t debate be a thing for
an earth I’m personally proud to become
a nerd to participate in debate and
actually it is a very basis of
fundamental thinking and learning for
our generation when it comes to the
future firstly it’s important for global
leaders today as mentioned by numerous
debate curriculum creators is also used
in the ancient political society for to
educate the public and for the public to
recognize the government it is also most
Gilson the men when it comes to u.s.
employment market and clean skills such
as communication problem solving
organization as well as teamwork and
when you start practicing debate this
kind of brings you to the very last step
in forming that global unity and
consciousness which is critical thinking
skills and empathy now critical thinking
is often a extreme cliche term and also
common term used in academic but ensured
critical thinking means thinking else I
are beyond the box and whenever we have
a difficult question or a freeze false
question our teacher often referred as a
critical thing in question yet I want to
say that most of the students sitting
here you never actually did critical
thinking before and this reason goes all
the way back when I was still in the
Taiwanese public school whenever I have
the test on the subject of history and
social studies
I often face with free response
questions but later I realized that
these questions have a sterilised answer
on their answer sheet meaning that if I
answer wrong and doesn’t match what’s
expected then I was considered incorrect
and this kind of shows how many teachers
in school does not want us to do actual
critical thinking but to memorize the
curriculum and just simply putting the
curriculum into words itself circling
ABCD any like multiple-choice which
ultimately makes no difference between
them yeah this is so a thing today when
I was in when I’m in high school and
this kind of shows that we’re still
thinking with inside the box within our
knowledge level we’re not thinking
outside we have learned in school
matching it with our experiences and
thinking and
or perspectives which is the thing that
debate can offer us one experience I had
was when I was in toupee competition two
years ago in Malaysia I was faced with
this motion that democracy is overrated
and the thing about this debate is that
I only know the motion when I go inside
that debate room I don’t only have 15
minutes to prepare on it and I go
straight on stage to proclaim my stances
well at that point I kind of freaked out
because I always think that democracy is
the best way of governance Daniel’s
affirmative team I cannot believe how
can I stand on the opposing side
something I always believed that’s not
true but that 15-minute that short time
kind of changed my opinion which is that
I realized democracy fits many countries
today but not every single country
across the globe because of the historic
development or perhaps its economic and
humanitarian development incident such
as the rasp ring also made me realize
that perhaps democracy is not something
that many countries are ready for today
and that is the first moment when I
actually believe that I myself do
critical thinking because I put myself
in a shoe and a site that I had never
expect myself to be in because I never
believed it but starting that I began to
think in a more flexible way I began to
realize that perhaps things are not
always black and white
another example is when I started when I
represented DPRK known as the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea or North
Korea in the Model UN conference I was
faced with a resolution debating topic
of nuclear weaponry well obviously it
did not go well at all because I have to
stand on stage and say that we should
totally develop nuclear weaponry that
that this delegate loves nuclear weapon
and that my contrasted right to nuke
every single country that my holy leader
belief that it’s a threat or he simply
doesn’t like it and obviously that was
not pleasant at all because whenever I
say people don’t agree with me and
whenever I vote something against and
always passes
and this she’ll sent well no matter if I
believe that a opposing side at the end
or not I’d learn my I learned something
which is that I can stand in different
perspectives I enable myself to be
flexible and truly can understand every
side of the situation which before I
always believed that as long as I
believe the thing is right it is nothing
that it is definitely serve as justice
now the last part
besides critical thinking is empathy and
but they literally means understanding
but it’s something that we all lack
today and the reason goes back to when
we’re making decisions think about when
you make a decision you make the most
efficient one meaning you prioritize
yourself and your surrounding needs you
may say that you’re no selfish at all
but you still have that prioritize and
the thing is that if you’re trying to
imagine if we put that in the larger
scale in the government’s position this
puts to the misconception of today’s you
to Larry and society mentioned by
Professor Michael settles from Harvard
University and in this book justice he
mentioned held today there’s well
there’s no wrong when it comes to for me
and you are in society but the point is
the method because they believe that if
we maximize happiness it’s a right thing
meaning that if fifty-one percent
believe that the kind that they are
happy the government ultimately believes
that the entire country is satisfied
they’re in a you tellurian society but
this is incorrect because even if this
forty-nine percent or just 1 percent
citizens still dissent and it cost
numerous revolution and violence today
especially in the Middle East such as
Iraq or perhaps Syria our should that
and the thing is not without empathy we
cannot truly put ourselves in others
shoes understand one another expand our
perspective and form a unified spirit
which is important when it comes to
forming a global consciousness or unity
and this goes back to why debate craze
empathy think about it when you’re doing
debate you have to persuade that just to
be on your site meaning that you have to
do rebuttals in that process you have to
first listen
some opponents meaning that you actually
shift your point to their site think in
their shoes final loop post and you come
back to yourself and proclaim your
stances and persuade the judge and
actually in that process you learn to
listen and understand which is quite
applicable in normal life which
ultimately forms as correct sense of
empathy and moreover it gives a
transformation as when we’re doing a
debate we often face our argumentative
topic which is relate to our society
today and regards massive amount of
research we and then in that process you
actually want to take more about it you
want to evoke a more on it and actually
perhaps become interested in it and this
is actually can fit to my experience
when I was debating in Malaysia as well
as another Mayan conference when I was
representing Kiribati and the topic of
global warming her body as you might not
know it’s a small island in the Pacific
Ocean and because standing in that
position and talking about global
warming I became quite interested about
global issue as well as comparative
government international relation which
Mamie had interest to pursue a senior
thesis paper about rezoning global issue
through debate as well as for me to
stand here right now and give you that
idea that it is possible for us to deal
with this global issue within a shorter
time if we all have the same mindset now
this three progress step that I just
said as possible it is a potential plan
to start building like unity in creating
a better future however there’s one
thing that you must know when it comes
to following this three-step progress
plan which is that individual actions do
matter no matter how cliche it sounds
because you have to believe this cliche
to actually believe that it won’t be
possible to build by unity within every
single one of us they’re really less I
have to say the world is still currently
in our hands at this moment right here
right now and let’s clock is still
ticking meaning that every second I’m
speaking here is an opportunity loss for
a better future I want you to remember
the
thing I told to imagine to start that
dream
remember that think and remembered like
taste-off happiness when you success six
feet in that dream and the potential and
building an extraordinary feature for us
in our generations now never let that go
away because you will need that to build
that global consciousness and unity and
yourself as well as the international
community to change their dreams in a
more wild extraordinary way in a more
potential feature than we never ever
imagined thank you for listening
[Applause]
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