[Music]
it’s not right just someone please take
this I’m sorry no it’s very hard it’s so
cold in this room and right now it’s
just not for me you know what guys I I
have a confession to make I am I I am
just I’m lazy let’s let’s face it guys
I’m lazy you’re lazy everyone in this
room is lazy that’s the truth don’t even
try to deny it but but isn’t that a
shame because there are people out there
people doing amazing things people like
Mozart who can replicate a complex piece
of music in a matter of minutes people
like David Beckham that can kick a ball
and dribble an entire team and score
with pinpoint accuracy human calculators
that can calculate ten string digit
numbers in a matter of seconds the world
is filled with amazing people people
your age people my age Charl magnus
carlsen a chess player won the World
Championship the age of 15 I’m 15 I
don’t know how they do it but what about
us the mediocre everyday people surely
these feats of humanity could not be
performed by the likes of us I mean
let’s face it guys these people were
born with talent you know let me get it
straight they had the genetics to
succeed they were probably gifted it
from it from their parents inherited it
that’s the reason why they’re so amazing
oh wait even better the reason they’re
so amazing it’s probably because they
had the money let’s face it guys they
had them well
to pay for all of these things but this
is that really the case or these factors
everything well in 1991 Anders Ericsson
this guy a psychologist at Florida State
decided to test that with his colleagues
and so he created a study he studied
violinist at the world you know an
academy of West Berlin and he separated
except separated them into three major
groups the MU the most talented those
who were the best of the best creme de
la creme the ones who worn many
competitions as children they were the
best the most talented the one with the
best potential and then he measured the
average those who were good enough to
perform at world-class orchestras and be
able they were good but not that good
and lastly he he researched the least
talented those people that were okay
they came into the college with an easy
entrance exam they could play but not
that amazingly and so after
painstakingly interviewing each one
trying to find what made them tick what
was that one factor that separately
separated the best from the okay he came
to one conclusion one factor and that
was the ARS dedicated to serious
practice it wasn’t the talent it wasn’t
when they started not how many
instruments they had it was ours
dedicated to serious practice and so
this changed the mindset because it was
so controversial and so they had to
check again and when they calculated it
the results showed with no exception
those that were the most talented
accumulated 10,000 hours of practice by
age 20 those who were average had 8,000
hours of practice
and the least had 4000 hours of practice
and there was no exception
no one became the most talented or the
best without ours and ours of practice
and we can see that in a lot of people
people like Tiger Woods who was taught
by his father Earl Woods at a young age
to play golf practicing and practicing
people like Serena Williams and Venus
Williams that in there very very well
not fortunate scenario where they would
even hear gunshots in when they would
practice continued they hit ball after
ball after ball and then we see people
like David Beckham that we call kicking
against the wall making sure that angle
was just right for ours and ours and
that man over there the one that seems
quite out of place that man is
lászló polgár and he believed that
geniuses were raised not born and when
he was and when he was researching it he
made a very bold statement to everyone
he said my three daughters are gonna be
world chess champions and everyone
laughed at him they scoffed they’re like
come on let’s be real you don’t even
play chess ball gar you’re not gonna how
are you gonna do this but those three
women that you see lay on his side those
are three masters a chess Judit Polgar
Susan Polgar all of them became world
you know chess masters and prodigies and
this mindset this idea that people can
change people can grow and that genius
these supernatural beings actually
practice and work really hard it’s
difficult for us to sort of comprehend
and in my experience my life I struggled
with this I have a sister who most of
you in this room would consider to be
musically talented musically gifted she
could easily play whatever instrument
you gave her and
she heard a piece she could just copy it
she was amazing
she was talented and there I was who was
struggling so hard to even try to sing
or do anything and I thought to myself
you know she inherited that from my
parents she got the talent the musical
gene she had the ear for music and I I
probably had something else right like I
was more into sports maybe or other
things but music now just leave that
aside it’s not for me
but then I force I know this might seem
weird but when I got out of my comfort
zone when my parents pushed me a bit to
try learning saxophone or child learning
an instrument I had to practice I had to
learn and to be honest guys it was not
easy it was not easy at all there were
times where it felt really annoying to
compare yourself to someone who’s just
got it in a few minutes
and it just felt so hard impossible for
me to even play or reach a level but
eventually I took a step I made that
step forward I decided to practice I
decided to work and right now I stand
before you being able to play and let’s
face it guys I’m not the best there are
many people who can play way better than
me and if anybody plays saxophone out
there you know you know what I’m talking
about but in the end I was able to play
with my sister in her graduation and
that guy over there and even accompanied
by my dad the one with the guitar and
that was an experience that I never
believed I could achieve because it
wasn’t for me if you asked me ten years
ago or a few years ago hey Earl do you
think you’d even be able to play an
instrument I would say no I hated music
it wasn’t for me but now I can play
guitar I can play ukulele I can play a
little bit of piano and a lot of sack
and this has inspired me this showed me
that we can do something but it also
made me realize how our society is just
in love with talent and sadly I’m sorry
but it has seeped into our educational
system phrases like oh you’re like oh
you learned that so quickly you’re so
smart or wow you’re so brilliant you got
an a star without really studying I mean
I’m sure a lot of us have you heard this
and it seems like a very encouraging and
fine way to help someone ever flatter
them but in reality it has it can have a
very negative interpretation and it is
shown in Dweck’s books mindset if you
say oh you learn that so quickly you’re
so smart it can be taken as well if I
don’t learn something quickly I’m not
smart or if you say oh you’re so
brilliant you got an a star without
really studying it can show that well I
better stop studying or they won’t think
I’m smart and so we raise ourselves with
this idea that we have to be talented
that it’s supposed to come naturally and
we forget the hard work that comes and
frankly I find it saddening the most
because as students as students young
people we still have time we are
privileged we have access to libraries
of information YouTube tutorials online
you can learn languages of come an app
we live in an age of amazement of just
opportunities lying at our feet but are
we going to take them are we willing to
step out of this comfort zone this
circle and try and fail or are we just
gonna be really comfortable
our own little shells and never take
that step well regardless of that let me
start with from the beginning I’m lazy
you’re lazy
we all are lazy regardless of what I
said I know that after this I will
eventually go into my laptop and watch
my shows and enjoy a bit of videogames
it’s too but the idea that we can change
the idea that we can become better the
idea that we can grow each day no matter
how small no matter how we think it’s
insignificant or impossible we can take
that step forward we can move towards a
future where we become amazing because
amazing people to amazing things so let
us make this our age of amazement the
time where we become the amazing I wish you all the best thank you
it’s not right just someone please take
this I’m sorry no it’s very hard it’s so
cold in this room and right now it’s
just not for me you know what guys I I
have a confession to make I am I I am
just I’m lazy let’s let’s face it guys
I’m lazy you’re lazy everyone in this
room is lazy that’s the truth don’t even
try to deny it but but isn’t that a
shame because there are people out there
people doing amazing things people like
Mozart who can replicate a complex piece
of music in a matter of minutes people
like David Beckham that can kick a ball
and dribble an entire team and score
with pinpoint accuracy human calculators
that can calculate ten string digit
numbers in a matter of seconds the world
is filled with amazing people people
your age people my age Charl magnus
carlsen a chess player won the World
Championship the age of 15 I’m 15 I
don’t know how they do it but what about
us the mediocre everyday people surely
these feats of humanity could not be
performed by the likes of us I mean
let’s face it guys these people were
born with talent you know let me get it
straight they had the genetics to
succeed they were probably gifted it
from it from their parents inherited it
that’s the reason why they’re so amazing
oh wait even better the reason they’re
so amazing it’s probably because they
had the money let’s face it guys they
had them well
to pay for all of these things but this
is that really the case or these factors
everything well in 1991 Anders Ericsson
this guy a psychologist at Florida State
decided to test that with his colleagues
and so he created a study he studied
violinist at the world you know an
academy of West Berlin and he separated
except separated them into three major
groups the MU the most talented those
who were the best of the best creme de
la creme the ones who worn many
competitions as children they were the
best the most talented the one with the
best potential and then he measured the
average those who were good enough to
perform at world-class orchestras and be
able they were good but not that good
and lastly he he researched the least
talented those people that were okay
they came into the college with an easy
entrance exam they could play but not
that amazingly and so after
painstakingly interviewing each one
trying to find what made them tick what
was that one factor that separately
separated the best from the okay he came
to one conclusion one factor and that
was the ARS dedicated to serious
practice it wasn’t the talent it wasn’t
when they started not how many
instruments they had it was ours
dedicated to serious practice and so
this changed the mindset because it was
so controversial and so they had to
check again and when they calculated it
the results showed with no exception
those that were the most talented
accumulated 10,000 hours of practice by
age 20 those who were average had 8,000
hours of practice
and the least had 4000 hours of practice
and there was no exception
no one became the most talented or the
best without ours and ours of practice
and we can see that in a lot of people
people like Tiger Woods who was taught
by his father Earl Woods at a young age
to play golf practicing and practicing
people like Serena Williams and Venus
Williams that in there very very well
not fortunate scenario where they would
even hear gunshots in when they would
practice continued they hit ball after
ball after ball and then we see people
like David Beckham that we call kicking
against the wall making sure that angle
was just right for ours and ours and
that man over there the one that seems
quite out of place that man is
lászló polgár and he believed that
geniuses were raised not born and when
he was and when he was researching it he
made a very bold statement to everyone
he said my three daughters are gonna be
world chess champions and everyone
laughed at him they scoffed they’re like
come on let’s be real you don’t even
play chess ball gar you’re not gonna how
are you gonna do this but those three
women that you see lay on his side those
are three masters a chess Judit Polgar
Susan Polgar all of them became world
you know chess masters and prodigies and
this mindset this idea that people can
change people can grow and that genius
these supernatural beings actually
practice and work really hard it’s
difficult for us to sort of comprehend
and in my experience my life I struggled
with this I have a sister who most of
you in this room would consider to be
musically talented musically gifted she
could easily play whatever instrument
you gave her and
she heard a piece she could just copy it
she was amazing
she was talented and there I was who was
struggling so hard to even try to sing
or do anything and I thought to myself
you know she inherited that from my
parents she got the talent the musical
gene she had the ear for music and I I
probably had something else right like I
was more into sports maybe or other
things but music now just leave that
aside it’s not for me
but then I force I know this might seem
weird but when I got out of my comfort
zone when my parents pushed me a bit to
try learning saxophone or child learning
an instrument I had to practice I had to
learn and to be honest guys it was not
easy it was not easy at all there were
times where it felt really annoying to
compare yourself to someone who’s just
got it in a few minutes
and it just felt so hard impossible for
me to even play or reach a level but
eventually I took a step I made that
step forward I decided to practice I
decided to work and right now I stand
before you being able to play and let’s
face it guys I’m not the best there are
many people who can play way better than
me and if anybody plays saxophone out
there you know you know what I’m talking
about but in the end I was able to play
with my sister in her graduation and
that guy over there and even accompanied
by my dad the one with the guitar and
that was an experience that I never
believed I could achieve because it
wasn’t for me if you asked me ten years
ago or a few years ago hey Earl do you
think you’d even be able to play an
instrument I would say no I hated music
it wasn’t for me but now I can play
guitar I can play ukulele I can play a
little bit of piano and a lot of sack
and this has inspired me this showed me
that we can do something but it also
made me realize how our society is just
in love with talent and sadly I’m sorry
but it has seeped into our educational
system phrases like oh you’re like oh
you learned that so quickly you’re so
smart or wow you’re so brilliant you got
an a star without really studying I mean
I’m sure a lot of us have you heard this
and it seems like a very encouraging and
fine way to help someone ever flatter
them but in reality it has it can have a
very negative interpretation and it is
shown in Dweck’s books mindset if you
say oh you learn that so quickly you’re
so smart it can be taken as well if I
don’t learn something quickly I’m not
smart or if you say oh you’re so
brilliant you got an a star without
really studying it can show that well I
better stop studying or they won’t think
I’m smart and so we raise ourselves with
this idea that we have to be talented
that it’s supposed to come naturally and
we forget the hard work that comes and
frankly I find it saddening the most
because as students as students young
people we still have time we are
privileged we have access to libraries
of information YouTube tutorials online
you can learn languages of come an app
we live in an age of amazement of just
opportunities lying at our feet but are
we going to take them are we willing to
step out of this comfort zone this
circle and try and fail or are we just
gonna be really comfortable
our own little shells and never take
that step well regardless of that let me
start with from the beginning I’m lazy
you’re lazy
we all are lazy regardless of what I
said I know that after this I will
eventually go into my laptop and watch
my shows and enjoy a bit of videogames
it’s too but the idea that we can change
the idea that we can become better the
idea that we can grow each day no matter
how small no matter how we think it’s
insignificant or impossible we can take
that step forward we can move towards a
future where we become amazing because
amazing people to amazing things so let
us make this our age of amazement the
time where we become the amazing I wish you all the best thank you
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