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Follow your heart | Meera Ravishankar | TEDxSriSairamIT


okay so let’s start off the stock with a
small activity so I request all of y’all
to just close your eyes for a few
seconds just for a few seconds and
imagine imagine you have a gift this
gift
mostly helps you make the right
decisions those decisions which could
ignite a movement which could press that
reset body for your life and help you
need all your life expectations to
yourself but this is what we have with
us now what if I tell you it is possible
it is possible to meet all your life
expectations that you have for yourself
just by getting those multiple choice
questions right this could rewrite your
future the simple art of decision making
and following your heart but is asking
ourselves three questions what why and
how there by designing destination good
morning everybody
this is me Ravi here with you today I’m
an architect a wedding designer and most
importantly
a heartful instructors nervous now I was
in the third year of architecture school
when I co-founded the wedding designing
video the dream team
many of you may ask if I was studying to
be an architect what made me branch into
wedding as a profession why did I make
this choice every single moment from the
day I could actually remember has led me
to this party I was quite fortunate to
be raised in a very unrestrained dream
particularly for my real interests to
manifest naturally so I wasn’t caught in
much when I was growing up mainly the
dogmas of other people were never led to
shadow my own
I have to love pretty things anything
that I see through the I used to love it
me and I used to have a habit of
collecting a lot of silly things
especially as I walked on the road and I
used to save them in the castles that
came in Disney movies fascinated with
you and I used to imagine spaces for
what they could be rather than what they
are imagination was my biggest
superpower so when the time came for me
to decide what course it is that I
wanted to do architecture was the
obvious choice for me so my thought was
all set
and my plan was laid out in I would
start off detective school and I would
study for five years to be an architect
after graduating I would join an
architecture firm representing to gain
good experience of how the field work
and after gaining experience I would go
into business of my own Sunday but I did
go to architecture school and when I was
in college I realized that while I was
learning in college was merely just the
tip of the iceberg to how the real world
works now I was very curious by nature
being curious I wasn’t okay with this I
wasn’t okay in knowing that there was so
much of learning left for me to do and I
couldn’t do it so I decided to start
working alongside architecture school
the brainstorming began the first few
thoughts that naturally came to my mind
but the things that fascinated me when I
was growing up this is good shape to
what I wanted to do for me giving life
to all those things that I grow up
embracing in shape to make those movies
a reality and in my own way to
contribute to happily ever after this
gave birth to the dream field
as the name suggests now being Indian
authority working alongside college it’s
a very uncommon concept of graph we’re
taught from a very young age that will
distract our minds and studies but let
me give you a tip instead of
depreciating poetry
linking them together helps me look at
weddings as a temporary interior
installation to arrange my work and my
studies so I was bridging the gap
between how a space could be was it how
a state is one of the wedding’s that we
designed also later went on to be called
fairytale wedding of the year so I would
contribute into the field of design
which is a very basis of what I
designate successor looking back at my
journey two points for very clear to
infinity it is very important to be
aware of your present system not only be
aware of your preferences and racing
them with confidence can help you a long
way this will answer the question what
part it is that you want to take in your
future the second thing and the most
important thing is knowing that
abundance is not joyful yes we do live
in a very civilized society yes were
exposed to inaudible opportunities and
yes we want to do it all but they do to
those choices that you resonate with the
most without being carried away by the
abundance society has to offer with
answer the question why you want to take
a particular party it can be a it can be
a professional path a spiritual path or
a personal partner now coming to the
game-changing question how there are
many things in our lives that we do
subconsciously we go to schools to get
educated we go to college or we go to
work and if anyone asks us how we made
these decisions it just seems like the
most obvious thing to do at that for
design but what if you don’t you know
what the obvious next step thing so I
did something I stopped myself down and
reanalyzed all the subconscious
decisions I’ve made in the past the
bonnet is the same way for my conscious
decision in the future I noticed a
pattern and knowing this pattern will
help us make decisions even when we
don’t know what the next step to our
page break it all down now in the
automated revision there are two
distinct filters inside after which the
decisions have to go through the first
filter it’s what we’re taught to do so
now right from the day we’ve been born
we’ve been accustomed to think a certain
way so till old fashioned on inside of
represents society parents and
circumstances we didn’t choose this for
ourselves but one day we just woke up
and we found ourselves on this path
layer of rock with all the rules of life
and the things we have to do in order to
survive what our goal should be our job
is just to succeed on this path that is
in place time and not to question it
slowly moving evaluated based on this
I’m sure all of you have come across at
one person who sits us down for a long
period of time to give us a long lecture
about how life is actually supposed to
go on life while you’re sitting there
totally zoned out because you know what
they’re saying is at least a few decades
out there is now coming to the second
filter inside of this is what we want to
do so let’s cause it the progress is
all of us has a progressive pass maker
inside of when we were young we often
questioned about what we wanted to come
when we grow oranges and an answer would
keep changing from time to time
depending on our newest fascination at
that time when I was four years old I
wanted to become a model because I was
awestruck by my Barbie dolls glamour
when I started going to school I wanted
to become a teacher when I watched
Disney movies I wanted to become a
princess but by the time we finished
college our interests are most
streamlined and we have a quaint idea
about what it is that we want to do in
our future
yes okay so this progressive fact maker
inside us we updated two different
things that we want to do in our lives
at different points of time now these
two characters dominantly coexist inside
our cells until one day we’re pushed
into the real world and asked to make
something of ourselves then the whole
so back then even if you wanted to do
something it didn’t really matter
because they already had a preset Sparta
laid out in front of us and all we had
to do was just act the father we had a
wake up we had a go to school or college
to be a student come back to your
homework two and three but the good news
is the preset path almost gets over when
after almost two decades of field used
to a preset path you’ll suddenly ask to
make one of your own like choose a
career or get married you know all those
important decisions which mbox a
milestone of one journey then the whole
system is in chaos and say after a lot
of thought you come up with what it is
that you want to do now before the
decision goes out into the world it has
to go through these two filters that you
have inside you stage he choose the
nature of job that you want to do and
you happen to be a girl that had
immediate reflects void of that
old-fashioned aren’t and Cyrus telling
artist if you don’t get married now all
those good proposals might just slip
away and say you do choose to get
married to the person of your choice
that’s a real old-fashioned aren’t
inside of six prompting us all these
things happen only in movies or what
will others think the future that’s when
the progressive sauce maker Johnston
it’s made in muscle can turn the picture
of herself into reality sitting outside
the palace
against all the Royal odd I’m sure my
chances are – and it’s spiritual bracken
get in here – a man with ten years
younger than her
I’m sure anything is possible so we have
the old-fashioned on good conventional
and a bit more principled in our
thinking which worked out great for her
because the choices that she had to make
sense but very conducive to her
environment
but the progress of pasta maker sisters
and Gathafi because we live in a
civilization but at constantly trying to
catch our presence we just want to
choose wisely from the ocean of
synthetic students to earn our bread
doing what satisfies us tonight and both
to were setting up of good lifestyle for
a future family life is respective of
the gender and this is when there’s an
overlap because it turns out that these
two actually agree on a few things like
getting educated going to work getting
married having a family the general
principles of flight passed on to us by
our older generations Casas is
overlapping and the other time there the
conflict the conflict when it comes to
the way we go about these principles
like the carrier choices that we made or
the way we go about our family life so
it’s fair to say that we actually fall
under the grey zone but constantly
trying to bridge the gap between what is
taught to us and what we wanna do while
we follow the general framework of life
that’s passed on to us every real life
choices fastly very well executed none
of us are makin Merkel or Priyanka
Chopra freedom so how do we the only
bridge this gap it turns out that these
tools have a mutual scientists the life
guard which forms the very base of our
and this heart Delta but what not much
is different between the both of us
as we’re all wired the same way and as
the same all in pumping blood inside out
but what has changed is a circumstances
outside of causing us to express
ourselves differently to adapt to this
past life to learn to grow the pizza boy
follow your heart is obscure Mansfield
which I’m sure all of you here are quite
accustomed to hearing and the great
examples of people who pitched children
like Steve Jobs but why they killed
asleep through comments so often nobody
actually tells us how we can go about
this process save you faced the
situation and you have to make a
decision we also learn to assist
ourselves for some kind of reassurance
assuming that the inner voice would
magically appear replied and guide us
well and sorry to burst your bubble but
there is really no such thing
the funny thing about the heart is that
it doesn’t give us a signal when they’re
going the right way
or the natural way but fails my eyesight
goes bad I immediately feel like there’s
something wrong but on a day when I’m
seeing normally my heart doesn’t
congratulating same Mira kissing
normally to be congratulated
the notorious figure from the heart how
do we go about our decision with
confidence during these times it’s very
important to pause and ask ourselves is
three important questions the first one
am i a 100% satisfied with my decision
the second one is my decision
promptly to my fellow being and the
third one the most important one being
do I have any doubt when it comes to my
and whenever there’s even a 1% doubt the
answer has always been moved and during
these times the lightness that you’ve
had will be replaced by the heaviness of
this because he is envisioning yourself
in that situation forcing things to go a
certain way and lastly compromising the
actual nature
this typically translates but I’m just
not feeling right about that feeling and
if any of you on such situations now is
a good time as any to make that change
now before I go I’d like you all to
close your eyes again with charisma
chatting and imagine today to be the
last day of your life today it’s all you
ever have to do everything you’ve ever
dreamed the same to tick all those unfit
to do this to reset your life and to
take the far it’s always dream of
clearly are you doing what you should be
doing thank you [Applause]
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