fired do we know he invented fire
without a doubt discovering fire I think
is the biggest turning point of our
humanity it was a boy or a girl
well I think it was a teenager honestly
these young minds are so passionate and
so stubborn and they get bored so easily
and they are really always looking for
an escape from the reality so why not
why shouldn’t they invite you discover
fire by themselves high school you like
it
I think high school is the most exciting
part of our lives I don’t know why it
was for me maybe it is for you but
during this time we grow into our adult
bodies and we realized that soon we’ll
be forced into the real adult world
where of course we have so much freedom
but it’s also responsibility with which
ever so real you know we always want to
escape reality that is for sure
but as adults we have to leave in a real
world well we do escape reality
sometimes we go to a movie we do other
things as adults do but we do follow our
responsibilities we also in high school
have to identify a passion of what we
want to do for the rest of our lives
that means a profession we have to
choose what we wanted to defer the rest
of our lives as she said you know we
have to have some passion inside or we
do it because our mom said or the
society is asking us or there’s a
workforce needed in computers or I don’t
know business it’s hard to choose some
people are so lucky to know from the
get-go what they want and they just
follow it and there’s
stress but some have this turmoil they
still don’t know what to choose they’re
in between arts science business of
course you want to make money you know
why not but you love to paint or you
love to sing and she sings so well but
you do have to choose one single
profession you have to apply to one
university and which one you know it’s
always that huge case in my case it was
not that easy because during communism
we had a few possibilities and one the
main one was mathematics so that’s what
I was studying and what I was studying I
always tried to escape my world and the
only escape was to write it myself
well if you want to pursue a sports
career that is the hardest thing because
what you’re gonna do after the age of 35
you know it’s difficult Olympics from
ancient times the Olympic flame
represents the young spirit of
competition and bravery of pushing the
limits and who else if not teenagers are
in all the Olympics that were watching
every four years or actually every two
years
with during Summer Olympics Nadia
Comaneci was 14 when she impressed the
whole world with her perfect tenth
performance in morale most of the golden
medalists are not older than 18 so this
is it the Olympics of our lives happen
now between 14 and 18 this is when you
are the strongest the most neurons the
scientists discovered that actually our
neurons stop multiplying at age 13 and
that’s scary but you do have to use as
much as you can
this period is empowering and in a way
you feel so self-confident sometimes
sometimes you don’t but believe me
self-confidence is the biggest gift that
you could have your life I would say
sexiest but in the sense that you look
so strong when your self-confidence you
don’t even have to be so beautiful or
wear a beautiful clothes you are
self-confident and you work with these
confidence on the strength or in class
or you delivered great answer for your
teachers in class but not only among
yourselves in the groups some of you
don’t feel very confident and how do you
imagine you are going home tonight and
tomorrow morning you are 45 okay now
bear with me 45 is not that scary but
let’s say you have a career you have a
family you have children of your own and
you’re happy most of your dreams
fulfilled you know you go to work you
come back life is good yet something
from your youthful enthusiasm is gone
it’s just gone
that teenage Olympic that pushes
boundaries and and always wants to
achieve the impossible is gone
unless you’re Elon Musk and you are
still having fun chuckle cars and
rockets and flamethrowers yeah
flamethrowers some voices accuse him for
being too much like the teenager
well how about sixty seven-year-old
enthusiastic teenage spirit Richard
Branson teenagers are not really that
bad we can’t really behave like a
teenager all our lives or can we um for
me
teenage indeed was the most exciting
part of my life I did not love studying
math and physics but I was very good at
at least algebra and I had to apply to a
university which was back then the most
popular politécnica you know math and
physics and I hated it my dream was to
be an actress or at least I thought it
was so during my studies all I did was
trying to escape reality how do you
escape reality you don’t have phones you
don’t have internet you don’t have
anything you’re locked in your room okay
so you could read books but those are
somebody else’s reality and how to
empower your self-confidence by reading
somebody else’s reality you just write
your own I don’t know how much you kids
like to write essays or thanks for
school but writing for yourself at least
for me it was a huge empowering trick so
every piece of paper I had was instantly
filled with something when I was getting
bored and I never dreamed to become a
writer pepper I wanted to reach
Hollywood and other dreams crazy dreams
of course but not writing except what
was I doing every day was writing every
single piece of paper I found and here
it is I mean in a way it’s a bit of a
joke but you know we love to take
selfies yes how about we take some
selfies with a pen and not with your
phone and these are my self hissing
chocolate boxes they’re as old as I am
and they look like this writing on paper
and I have not millions but thousands of
them so when my own daughter reached
teenage Raven she’s in your school I was
freaking out I’m like oh my god she’s
gonna be a teenager she’s gonna be in
high school soon what do I do
how do I teach her to be confident you
know so I’m like I’m gonna give her
these papers and she’s gonna read them
uh-huh she’s like mom I can’t even read
your writing
oh my god that’s super sad because I
want my daughter to know what I wrote
when I was her age you know and what did
i do I just go and I put them on a
computer and I said okay I’ll type um
and then she’ll read them but there’s a
language barrier
you kids prefer English not Romanian so
I was like what do I do now
I translate them so I start translating
them and here it comes my selfie from my
teenage years is this little book and
the idea to become published was also my
daughter’s she said now that you put
them on a computer and there are such
nice form why don’t you give them to a
editor and just print them and some of
them pass the test and they’re in a book
but yes they’re poems and they’re a
little essays and little stories and
some of them are freakishly not even
some of them are so so so serious and
sad because one of the scariest things
for me back then was the fact that yes
we are mortal you know you’ve come to
your own mortality and realize that
you’re not here forever you just work 90
plus 140 years and that was it I was
angry with time and that was my biggest
enemy so I didn’t write Star Trek but I
wrote a few poems and a few stories and
here it is I actually think it will
empower you in a way to write your own
stories and believe me if you write
anything like okay give yourself ten
minutes or a few minutes by yourself
with no gadgets no internet and I know
sounds terrifying but with a piece of
paper and a pen or whatever and right
you don’t know where that takes you and
it’s not an assignment it’s not for
school it’s just for yourself
it will take you somewhere where in the
future when you go back and see your
selfies and is yourself so young and so
beautiful and you want to also know how
you are thinking you read your selfie
thoughts and self your mind and that
will give you extra juice and just just
tonight when you go home ask your
parents if they have anything hidden in
their drawers and if it’s any value of
you know sharing with you and empower
you from their own writing it will
believe I think fantastic for crossing
from generations thank you so much it
take your own self in peace
[Applause] [Music]
without a doubt discovering fire I think
is the biggest turning point of our
humanity it was a boy or a girl
well I think it was a teenager honestly
these young minds are so passionate and
so stubborn and they get bored so easily
and they are really always looking for
an escape from the reality so why not
why shouldn’t they invite you discover
fire by themselves high school you like
it
I think high school is the most exciting
part of our lives I don’t know why it
was for me maybe it is for you but
during this time we grow into our adult
bodies and we realized that soon we’ll
be forced into the real adult world
where of course we have so much freedom
but it’s also responsibility with which
ever so real you know we always want to
escape reality that is for sure
but as adults we have to leave in a real
world well we do escape reality
sometimes we go to a movie we do other
things as adults do but we do follow our
responsibilities we also in high school
have to identify a passion of what we
want to do for the rest of our lives
that means a profession we have to
choose what we wanted to defer the rest
of our lives as she said you know we
have to have some passion inside or we
do it because our mom said or the
society is asking us or there’s a
workforce needed in computers or I don’t
know business it’s hard to choose some
people are so lucky to know from the
get-go what they want and they just
follow it and there’s
stress but some have this turmoil they
still don’t know what to choose they’re
in between arts science business of
course you want to make money you know
why not but you love to paint or you
love to sing and she sings so well but
you do have to choose one single
profession you have to apply to one
university and which one you know it’s
always that huge case in my case it was
not that easy because during communism
we had a few possibilities and one the
main one was mathematics so that’s what
I was studying and what I was studying I
always tried to escape my world and the
only escape was to write it myself
well if you want to pursue a sports
career that is the hardest thing because
what you’re gonna do after the age of 35
you know it’s difficult Olympics from
ancient times the Olympic flame
represents the young spirit of
competition and bravery of pushing the
limits and who else if not teenagers are
in all the Olympics that were watching
every four years or actually every two
years
with during Summer Olympics Nadia
Comaneci was 14 when she impressed the
whole world with her perfect tenth
performance in morale most of the golden
medalists are not older than 18 so this
is it the Olympics of our lives happen
now between 14 and 18 this is when you
are the strongest the most neurons the
scientists discovered that actually our
neurons stop multiplying at age 13 and
that’s scary but you do have to use as
much as you can
this period is empowering and in a way
you feel so self-confident sometimes
sometimes you don’t but believe me
self-confidence is the biggest gift that
you could have your life I would say
sexiest but in the sense that you look
so strong when your self-confidence you
don’t even have to be so beautiful or
wear a beautiful clothes you are
self-confident and you work with these
confidence on the strength or in class
or you delivered great answer for your
teachers in class but not only among
yourselves in the groups some of you
don’t feel very confident and how do you
imagine you are going home tonight and
tomorrow morning you are 45 okay now
bear with me 45 is not that scary but
let’s say you have a career you have a
family you have children of your own and
you’re happy most of your dreams
fulfilled you know you go to work you
come back life is good yet something
from your youthful enthusiasm is gone
it’s just gone
that teenage Olympic that pushes
boundaries and and always wants to
achieve the impossible is gone
unless you’re Elon Musk and you are
still having fun chuckle cars and
rockets and flamethrowers yeah
flamethrowers some voices accuse him for
being too much like the teenager
well how about sixty seven-year-old
enthusiastic teenage spirit Richard
Branson teenagers are not really that
bad we can’t really behave like a
teenager all our lives or can we um for
me
teenage indeed was the most exciting
part of my life I did not love studying
math and physics but I was very good at
at least algebra and I had to apply to a
university which was back then the most
popular politécnica you know math and
physics and I hated it my dream was to
be an actress or at least I thought it
was so during my studies all I did was
trying to escape reality how do you
escape reality you don’t have phones you
don’t have internet you don’t have
anything you’re locked in your room okay
so you could read books but those are
somebody else’s reality and how to
empower your self-confidence by reading
somebody else’s reality you just write
your own I don’t know how much you kids
like to write essays or thanks for
school but writing for yourself at least
for me it was a huge empowering trick so
every piece of paper I had was instantly
filled with something when I was getting
bored and I never dreamed to become a
writer pepper I wanted to reach
Hollywood and other dreams crazy dreams
of course but not writing except what
was I doing every day was writing every
single piece of paper I found and here
it is I mean in a way it’s a bit of a
joke but you know we love to take
selfies yes how about we take some
selfies with a pen and not with your
phone and these are my self hissing
chocolate boxes they’re as old as I am
and they look like this writing on paper
and I have not millions but thousands of
them so when my own daughter reached
teenage Raven she’s in your school I was
freaking out I’m like oh my god she’s
gonna be a teenager she’s gonna be in
high school soon what do I do
how do I teach her to be confident you
know so I’m like I’m gonna give her
these papers and she’s gonna read them
uh-huh she’s like mom I can’t even read
your writing
oh my god that’s super sad because I
want my daughter to know what I wrote
when I was her age you know and what did
i do I just go and I put them on a
computer and I said okay I’ll type um
and then she’ll read them but there’s a
language barrier
you kids prefer English not Romanian so
I was like what do I do now
I translate them so I start translating
them and here it comes my selfie from my
teenage years is this little book and
the idea to become published was also my
daughter’s she said now that you put
them on a computer and there are such
nice form why don’t you give them to a
editor and just print them and some of
them pass the test and they’re in a book
but yes they’re poems and they’re a
little essays and little stories and
some of them are freakishly not even
some of them are so so so serious and
sad because one of the scariest things
for me back then was the fact that yes
we are mortal you know you’ve come to
your own mortality and realize that
you’re not here forever you just work 90
plus 140 years and that was it I was
angry with time and that was my biggest
enemy so I didn’t write Star Trek but I
wrote a few poems and a few stories and
here it is I actually think it will
empower you in a way to write your own
stories and believe me if you write
anything like okay give yourself ten
minutes or a few minutes by yourself
with no gadgets no internet and I know
sounds terrifying but with a piece of
paper and a pen or whatever and right
you don’t know where that takes you and
it’s not an assignment it’s not for
school it’s just for yourself
it will take you somewhere where in the
future when you go back and see your
selfies and is yourself so young and so
beautiful and you want to also know how
you are thinking you read your selfie
thoughts and self your mind and that
will give you extra juice and just just
tonight when you go home ask your
parents if they have anything hidden in
their drawers and if it’s any value of
you know sharing with you and empower
you from their own writing it will
believe I think fantastic for crossing
from generations thank you so much it
take your own self in peace
[Applause] [Music]
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