Translator: Zeeva Livshitz Reviewer: Ido Dekkers
I thought of being a transvestite
(Laughter)
Why are you laughing?
You imagine me as a minister
Or pakita de la brio?
No, I was thinking of being a transvestite or a dentist,
Or being an air steward,
That was what I told my father
I was going to be what I wanted to be
Fortunately, I grew up in a family
In which, though between me and my parents
There was a huge generation gap,
Because my mother gave birth to me at the age of 40
So they say that I was born not really normal
But … I do not think it was all her fault
They always supported me unconditionally,
Unconditionally, whatever I decide.
It is very important to me to talk about this issue today.
How the strongest driving force,
My parents gave me
He loved unconditionally.
And why am I talking about it today?
How many parents are here today?
Parents of you, raise your hand.
Or those who want to be parents someday.
Yes? Good
Well, I have news for you.
You’ve had a lot of trouble
(Laughter)
Really, I tell you
Because I just remembered
In a sentence my friend told me here in Cancún,
Although it is not very beautiful it is very true,
And the mothers would agree. The trial says,
Mothers, doing what we do, we messed up big time.
In itself, raising children is a very complicated thing
Because it’s a huge responsibility
Imagine all that implies
Once they are born, diapers, doctors, then schools,
In other words, all the usual things.
In the case of people who think we are successful
Or, for example, in the case of celebrities,
People never seem to think of parents.
They’re used to all the other parents,
Who work in regular jobs,
And they have regular struggles,
There is a point that parents always forget
And that I always emphasize.
We are always asked the same question,
We are particularly asked in interviews
When people recognize us on the street,
“Hey David, how did you win?”
“How does it work with so famous people and celebrities?”
Well, everything is normal.
“How did you succeed?”
Well, work, work and a lot of effort
But in fact, for me the secret formula
Is the work that parents do.
The parents, father and mother, are the characters
That we carry with us throughout our lives,
In our personal, professional, and in all respects.
So I tell them that they have a heavy burden.
Because what they do with their sons and daughters
Will remain with them throughout their lives.
In the cases of successful people and in cases of problematic people
And certainly in cases of serial killers and even politicians,
Or worse than we can imagine
(Laughter)
why?
Because really, all the time
We carry with us the teachings of the parents.
So when a person has a chance
Work if great personalities
With great celebrities,
He notices when a person has received a proper education
And proper education, as the tedious sentence says,
It’s something you get from infancy.
Education is something you bring home
Training is the responsibility of the schools
But education, no.
Education is the fruit of the parents’ struggle.
And understand it
When you work, for example,
With Oscar de la Renta, I had a wonderful time
Get to know him, work with him and spend time with him,
Watch it work.
You notice when a person has a remarkably good education.
– If only my mother would hear me say those words.
But one notices when a man is manly and manners,
How he relates to others,
How does this manifest when he is in contact with others?
Understand that it is important to work in a team
The importance of the one standing here
Equals those standing behind.
And the same thing on the track,
Everyone thinks it’s the designer
And it’s not, that’s the whole team of people behind the scenes.
And this is very much related to the parents’ behavior.
That’s why I’m always very upset
Because they invite me a lot to university conferences.
Now it is very fashionable to be a fashion designer.
These girls do not really know what they are doing.
(Laughter)
It’s true that parents have some kind of commitment
Which I think they never thought of
Apart from satisfying their needs, there are other issues
One of them is that there needs to be discernment
Excellent discerning ability, to understand whether your son or daughter
There is a knack for doing what you want them to do.
Because I spent 45 minutes looking at the bottom of the barrel,
When I talk to a father who tells me he has a daughter,
For 45 minutes he told me
That the daughter wants to be a model and that she has everything she needs from a model.
How tall is your daughter?
1.20 [meters] (Laughter.)
In other words, it is not someone who has a good distinction
Good distinction
It’s like in the case of parents of successful people,
Like Rommel Pacheco’s
Who at the age of 11 Rommel’s mother could recognize
If I am not mistaken at age,
She could tell that Romel had the ability
And a passion for jumping into the water.
And as in many cases of mothers
Of famous supermodels,
Who I worked with, and spoke with some of them,
The parents were always there.
So this is not a magic formula,
It is no coincidence that parents are part of us.
They are part of us in a very important way.
Because we always carry our parents with us throughout our lives.
It’s not that easy to think about.
It’s not easy to accept.
And it’s even harder when you have children.
Because now I have the difficulties
And now I have to solve them and see what they tell me,
In conversations I conduct with students
One of the problems I often encounter
Is the lack of passion.
Today’s generation, which is the generation of “touch.”
They want everything “now.”
They want everything fast
Just like it works on the iPhone
“Bing Tan, Tan” and that’s it.
This only happens on the iPhone,
Bing works only on your iPhone. (Laughter)
Outside your iPhone you eat it big
And anyone who says otherwise deceives you
It’s true, it’s a lie.
And I can tell you
Because even people we criticize for having no talent
When we talk about something, like singers who have no voice
“That, he does not have it,
David, Adriana Lima is not really worth it
Man! (Laughter)
And Adriana in this case
We all know who Adriana Lima is
Adriana and many others, left us with an outstanding lesson
Now when I read this book
I liked to discover the sentence he was saying
This life has a lot to offer us,
Me, you, everyone
But it does not come for free,
It’s not free.
Nothing is free.
Life encapsulates great things for everyone,
I tell you this from the bottom of my heart,
But it’s not free.
It takes a lot of work,
A lot of effort
But there is a huge credit point in your favor,
There is one thing that is free
And that’s what you have for free
And what we all have for free
This is our potential.
You have the potential to do something
Whether it be to be a great scientist
Or to be an important mafia member,
Or whatever else you can
We will not enter questions of intimacy about sex
Because even that requires ability
And money.
But you have the potential.
You are the ones who decide,
If you want the potential to take you
Where you want to be.
But it’s not free,
Only through hard work and effort,
With a lot of effort and work.
So you say, what’s that for and about the parents?
That contemporary generations,
In these conversations,
Which always bothers me a lot
To see the heads of these children in the clouds
This generation of children worried me
Until I understand
Not the generation in trouble
It’s my generation of trouble
Your generation, your parents
And those who want to be parents
Because there is hopelessness
It is so disproportionate to give them everything
And to ease them all
That we are really creating a useless generation
Of bullies and drinkers
As I said on my networks
And if we do not notice, you will not notice
Remember when I told you that being parents is trouble?
It’s even worse if you do not pay attention
Because it happened and it happens
So you have to learn to pass it on to your children
To break through these paths of distinction,
These channels of interest to their children,
Who really speak, analyze, watch,
To be near them like policemen,
Discreet, but always close to them
To know what decisions their children are making,
Which are very important to me.
Toward the end, I would like to leave a sentence that fascinated me
He is also from a book that came to me
at the right time; Who says,
This concerns me personally because my parents are no longer with me
Your parents may still be with you and this is a blessing
Or maybe you are the parents.
Parents die, die,
And it hurts when they die,
But even when they are gone
A man is never separated from his parents
The children never separate from their parents.
Thank you.
(Applause)
I thought of being a transvestite
(Laughter)
Why are you laughing?
You imagine me as a minister
Or pakita de la brio?
No, I was thinking of being a transvestite or a dentist,
Or being an air steward,
That was what I told my father
I was going to be what I wanted to be
Fortunately, I grew up in a family
In which, though between me and my parents
There was a huge generation gap,
Because my mother gave birth to me at the age of 40
So they say that I was born not really normal
But … I do not think it was all her fault
They always supported me unconditionally,
Unconditionally, whatever I decide.
It is very important to me to talk about this issue today.
How the strongest driving force,
My parents gave me
He loved unconditionally.
And why am I talking about it today?
How many parents are here today?
Parents of you, raise your hand.
Or those who want to be parents someday.
Yes? Good
Well, I have news for you.
You’ve had a lot of trouble
(Laughter)
Really, I tell you
Because I just remembered
In a sentence my friend told me here in Cancún,
Although it is not very beautiful it is very true,
And the mothers would agree. The trial says,
Mothers, doing what we do, we messed up big time.
In itself, raising children is a very complicated thing
Because it’s a huge responsibility
Imagine all that implies
Once they are born, diapers, doctors, then schools,
In other words, all the usual things.
In the case of people who think we are successful
Or, for example, in the case of celebrities,
People never seem to think of parents.
They’re used to all the other parents,
Who work in regular jobs,
And they have regular struggles,
There is a point that parents always forget
And that I always emphasize.
We are always asked the same question,
We are particularly asked in interviews
When people recognize us on the street,
“Hey David, how did you win?”
“How does it work with so famous people and celebrities?”
Well, everything is normal.
“How did you succeed?”
Well, work, work and a lot of effort
But in fact, for me the secret formula
Is the work that parents do.
The parents, father and mother, are the characters
That we carry with us throughout our lives,
In our personal, professional, and in all respects.
So I tell them that they have a heavy burden.
Because what they do with their sons and daughters
Will remain with them throughout their lives.
In the cases of successful people and in cases of problematic people
And certainly in cases of serial killers and even politicians,
Or worse than we can imagine
(Laughter)
why?
Because really, all the time
We carry with us the teachings of the parents.
So when a person has a chance
Work if great personalities
With great celebrities,
He notices when a person has received a proper education
And proper education, as the tedious sentence says,
It’s something you get from infancy.
Education is something you bring home
Training is the responsibility of the schools
But education, no.
Education is the fruit of the parents’ struggle.
And understand it
When you work, for example,
With Oscar de la Renta, I had a wonderful time
Get to know him, work with him and spend time with him,
Watch it work.
You notice when a person has a remarkably good education.
– If only my mother would hear me say those words.
But one notices when a man is manly and manners,
How he relates to others,
How does this manifest when he is in contact with others?
Understand that it is important to work in a team
The importance of the one standing here
Equals those standing behind.
And the same thing on the track,
Everyone thinks it’s the designer
And it’s not, that’s the whole team of people behind the scenes.
And this is very much related to the parents’ behavior.
That’s why I’m always very upset
Because they invite me a lot to university conferences.
Now it is very fashionable to be a fashion designer.
These girls do not really know what they are doing.
(Laughter)
It’s true that parents have some kind of commitment
Which I think they never thought of
Apart from satisfying their needs, there are other issues
One of them is that there needs to be discernment
Excellent discerning ability, to understand whether your son or daughter
There is a knack for doing what you want them to do.
Because I spent 45 minutes looking at the bottom of the barrel,
When I talk to a father who tells me he has a daughter,
For 45 minutes he told me
That the daughter wants to be a model and that she has everything she needs from a model.
How tall is your daughter?
1.20 [meters] (Laughter.)
In other words, it is not someone who has a good distinction
Good distinction
It’s like in the case of parents of successful people,
Like Rommel Pacheco’s
Who at the age of 11 Rommel’s mother could recognize
If I am not mistaken at age,
She could tell that Romel had the ability
And a passion for jumping into the water.
And as in many cases of mothers
Of famous supermodels,
Who I worked with, and spoke with some of them,
The parents were always there.
So this is not a magic formula,
It is no coincidence that parents are part of us.
They are part of us in a very important way.
Because we always carry our parents with us throughout our lives.
It’s not that easy to think about.
It’s not easy to accept.
And it’s even harder when you have children.
Because now I have the difficulties
And now I have to solve them and see what they tell me,
In conversations I conduct with students
One of the problems I often encounter
Is the lack of passion.
Today’s generation, which is the generation of “touch.”
They want everything “now.”
They want everything fast
Just like it works on the iPhone
“Bing Tan, Tan” and that’s it.
This only happens on the iPhone,
Bing works only on your iPhone. (Laughter)
Outside your iPhone you eat it big
And anyone who says otherwise deceives you
It’s true, it’s a lie.
And I can tell you
Because even people we criticize for having no talent
When we talk about something, like singers who have no voice
“That, he does not have it,
David, Adriana Lima is not really worth it
Man! (Laughter)
And Adriana in this case
We all know who Adriana Lima is
Adriana and many others, left us with an outstanding lesson
Now when I read this book
I liked to discover the sentence he was saying
This life has a lot to offer us,
Me, you, everyone
But it does not come for free,
It’s not free.
Nothing is free.
Life encapsulates great things for everyone,
I tell you this from the bottom of my heart,
But it’s not free.
It takes a lot of work,
A lot of effort
But there is a huge credit point in your favor,
There is one thing that is free
And that’s what you have for free
And what we all have for free
This is our potential.
You have the potential to do something
Whether it be to be a great scientist
Or to be an important mafia member,
Or whatever else you can
We will not enter questions of intimacy about sex
Because even that requires ability
And money.
But you have the potential.
You are the ones who decide,
If you want the potential to take you
Where you want to be.
But it’s not free,
Only through hard work and effort,
With a lot of effort and work.
So you say, what’s that for and about the parents?
That contemporary generations,
In these conversations,
Which always bothers me a lot
To see the heads of these children in the clouds
This generation of children worried me
Until I understand
Not the generation in trouble
It’s my generation of trouble
Your generation, your parents
And those who want to be parents
Because there is hopelessness
It is so disproportionate to give them everything
And to ease them all
That we are really creating a useless generation
Of bullies and drinkers
As I said on my networks
And if we do not notice, you will not notice
Remember when I told you that being parents is trouble?
It’s even worse if you do not pay attention
Because it happened and it happens
So you have to learn to pass it on to your children
To break through these paths of distinction,
These channels of interest to their children,
Who really speak, analyze, watch,
To be near them like policemen,
Discreet, but always close to them
To know what decisions their children are making,
Which are very important to me.
Toward the end, I would like to leave a sentence that fascinated me
He is also from a book that came to me
at the right time; Who says,
This concerns me personally because my parents are no longer with me
Your parents may still be with you and this is a blessing
Or maybe you are the parents.
Parents die, die,
And it hurts when they die,
But even when they are gone
A man is never separated from his parents
The children never separate from their parents.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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