being here listening to this talk
one thing the organizer is for for the
amazing opportunity that you’ve offered
me it’s early not often I am asked to
attract such large amount of people in
the same room and for them to hear my
ramblings for 20 minutes so look the
first thing I want to begin with is a
small confession writing this talk was
one of the most difficult things I’ve
ever done and that’s not because I
generally have an issue with writing
speeches I’ve done multi tears of
competitive debating this provided me
with ample opportunities to make a fool
of myself in front of large crowds God
does hear out of the way oh I think it’s
more other had to do with the like
oppressing feeling of inadequacy that I
had that I had never I was imagining
myself on a path because I perceive TED
talks as being interesting moments held
by people that doesn’t extent already
have achieved success in their lives one
way or another um people that either
have exceptional experiences or have
interesting findings or math-amazing
careers um but generally people that
when you’re inviting you have a high
chance that they may be able to offer
relevant advice to others or run to to
tell relevant stories and then
interesting anecdotes to offer relevant
pieces of wisdom
in extent they are relevant individuals
and the scary thing is just how natural
that sentence sounded because the way in
which we are associate relevancy to
success is hardwired into our brains the
point to which the concept that the
correlation may not be automatic seems
almost impossible for us that maybe we
I just didn’t want to post a photo of
myself at had let me find one not in
digital format digital cameras were not
anything back there I wanted I knew
already what my life path was I wanted
to be one of the greats I wanted to be
successful and it so happened that at
that time I was interested in
theoretical physics devouring books by
my at that moment role models Stephen
Hawking and Albert Einstein like candy
so I knew what that has to do in life ah
and this lasted for about two years in
which I just didn’t get along with my
physics teachers teacher that well but
no despair because in that mean time I
just discovered it obviously my destiny
was to be great in a different field as
I became enthusiastic about IIT and so
role models like Steve Jobs or Bill
Gates I obviously knew I had to become a
great cold
the way in which we do programming and
this lasted for about a year as well
until I started debating in high school
and realized that maybe maybe my place
was not an IT maybe I was to be right
there next to John Jacques who saw it
and revolutionized political philosophy
yes of course how could I not have seen
this that the place in which my bus was
to be displayed after my death was
obviously the economics section a
smaller switch this time but obviously
as a tenth relates to the 90 myself so
much better it was by now known that I
was to be one of the greatest lawyers
that ever existed or maybe maybe not law
maybe I was to go and become a diplomat
and to study international relations or
maybe you know I was really stinky I
could be a great spy and working
intelligence or maybe my meticulous yes
I was to revolutionize watchmaking or
yes a 17 year old wanted to be a
watchman I know I was writing these up
but after after I got to college I
discovered my artistic side and
obviously that was my calling
how could I not have seen it I was to be
a graphical designer and also to
revolutionize photography and maybe in
the meantime I was as discovering it was
not that amazing at these maybe I was to
be a writer or you know a combination of
all of this yes that was it I was do a
great key design or maybe maybe maybe
not that maybe maybe styling company
become an entrepreneur or maybe I know I
was revolutionized modern teaching but
not before I just changed the whole way
in which the political system work and
also started my own newspaper and do
investigative journalism because I could
go on like this for
because fact of the matter is all of the
things that I have tried up until now
are domains in which I haven’t truly
been successful or not in the
traditional sense and you may say that I
am still young and only 22 but honestly
how comes some find Ercoli in calling in
the first or second try and for me it
takes 100 what will be so different
about the 101 and honestly I’m not the
only one in that situations if you take
a look at stats about Millennials people
that are within my generation that are
right now under 34 and above 18 or or 16
something like that you can see a lot of
science of this restlessness in trying
to find a field in which they are to
become great things like the fact that
the unemployment rate is of 16.3% the
fact that just 16 10 Millennials have
jobs of our part-time part of the whole
idea of following your passion things
like the fact that 75 Persie percent of
them see themselves as authentic that
40% either want to start a business
already have started one or that more
than that more than a quarter are
already self-employed all these are
signs that my entire generation suffers
from something and this guy simone
session egg has a very interesting talk
called Millennials in the workplace
exactly about that of how Millennials
have been told up like from the moment
they’re born that they are destined for
greatness that they can achieve whatever
they set their minds to that they are to
be a shining star and the only question
is what will be the place
night-sky that they will have to fall
into that they have the freedom to do
whatever they want in life in a sense
freedom is the ideology of this
millennium will we’re free to do and to
feel and to be whomever we want as long
as we are to be successful no chains and
or shackles stop us from being
successful as long as we are to be
successful we can be whatever we want as
long as we are to be relevant as long as
we are to be successful we will be
relevant and as natural and that may
sound it’s also to a certain extent
quite SAP and the Society mochi will be
displayed right in front of you um it’s
sad because like for starters success is
in many ways to find the relative terms
and there’s not any but not everybody
can achieve success but even more than
that but everybody has necessarily to be
to achieve success now anybody has to to
achieve anything in a sense not
achieving success is a choice in
themselves in itself and as trivial as
it may sound many of us are already
making that choice many about is
thinking emoji I want you to think about
this like whenever we decide to not
sacrifice things like emotional comfort
and thus to go out with our friends
whenever we decide
is physical comfort or having a
multifaceted life just in order for us
to be able to dedicate them of our time
and energy in one particular direction
as to become successful
every time we don’t do that we make an
active choice to know them successful
and honestly that’s a great thing but at
the same time we just cannot escape and
our mind cannot escape the shackles that
the culture of success glorification has
created for us
I don’t a small show of hands how many
of you have ever felt bad for watching a
TV series okay okay keep your hands up
how many of you have are feeling regret
thinking that they haven’t learned a new
language when they were younger
okay well now last question how many of
you are having a feeling of of dread
when ever you’re envisioning your own
mediocrity and you know you don’t
necessarily
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or not to me make it to yourselves but
fact of the matter is that the deal that
were feeling whenever we’re realizing
that we are taking the detour from our
path where success is in a way of
feeling as honest and real as any other
expression of our identity and that is
because our identity is in a way just a
construction upon the basis of our
perception the reality that we perceive
and the reality that we perceive is one
in which success is not a choice is an
imperative is something that you just
have to achieve failure is not something
acceptable and I know it’s a bit petty
of me if I’m in your front of all of you
and then just justifying my failures in
a slightly entertaining manner Oh like
what it’s kind of hard to find a pieces
of wisdom when your creative space is
restricted by the fact that the only
major difference between you and a
homeless beggar is the fact that the
homeless beggar is at least providing
sustenance to itself cause you’re living
on your parents money to be honest
actually if you take a look at the title
of my talk freedom fighting ourselves
you can see that it can be read in three
different ways
and on this is one of the reasons why I
chose it because honestly I didn’t
really know what I wanted to talk about
for quite awhile so I wanted to give
myself some
ability in that sense but what I didn’t
know is that they want to have hippo for
action um I knew that if I managed to
make it that we see modicum of logical
sense you will leave this room was being
slightly less adamant about your
convictions and that’s not to say that
your convictions may be bad in any way I
just want to shine some light upon the
fact that they are just as strong as you
make them um in as a great man once at
an HBO cult
power resides where men believe it
resides no more and no this and honestly
our convictions have power upon us only
as much as we want to offer them power
on I recently read a book that left its
mark upon me it’s called The Iceman
biblecry heart it’s a fun interesting
insightful book has a lot more wisdom is
in it than this set off so I obviously
recommend it but this often also a very
good source of inspiration for me and in
the book Luke Reinhardt is a
psychologist that decides his life is
boring and he feels like no choice that
he makes is any better so he wants to
succumb his ability to make choices to
the dice do not stop making choices and
let the dice make choices for him he
wants for this with a construct his
personality something
don’t necessarily advice but whilst
doing so he obviously has to find
options to give the dice and he starts
asking himself questions questions like
when does he sleep at night
what is he attracted to only a
particular type of women why does he
just not just leave his wife and start
becoming a carpenter in a nearby town
like so many questions is there anything
that we think about ourselves for
granted why do we wear clothes why do we
go and listen to TED talks that have
little content whatsoever why do we
believe that success is a prerequisite
for a good life like there must be some
reasons behind it then there may be
amazing reasons but unless we think
about them and discover them and then
put them up against reason supporting
that opposite course of action we may
not know that whether what we’re doing
is a good choice or not maybe we just
refer off like showing off our sexy
bodies more than we like being
comfortable in our codes maybe with more
rather eat sweets than be slim numb
ourselves with drugs that we loose it
let our inner traitor roam free he
rather than have a good talk like so
maybe so many choices that we can make
but we need to fight for our freedom to
make them see what they did there oh
yeah I call this talk because I believe
I need to think again I believe that a
world in which people are not critical
regarding their own frequency
and convictions the bedroom world is a
world in which people first of all know
themselves more and can find out better
what makes them happy it’s also a world
in which whenever they make choices that
have even happened if us guilty it’s a
world in which they are slightly more
tolerant because they understand that
others choices are just as much an
expression of the environment in which
they live in as it was for them and
there’s more rather than being hateful
towards them would help these people
actually try to fight their
preconceptions and honestly a TED talk
is slightly too short for me to offer
you a truly relevant list of advice both
in the psychological field on how to
challenge your own preconceptions in
sociology into how to trigger change
positive changes in people or even in
other other fields though honestly if
you search for me after this talk I can
offer you like five minutes of my time a
present present you my plan on
overthrowing the world order it’s pretty
cool
go ahead I can vouch for it okay ah but
what they think you should come out of
this talk with is the following we do
live in the part of the world’s history
that in which we’re most free there
hasn’t have never been so few shackles
around our minds and bodies however the
fight is not yet won traditions customs
manipulators or even laws are still
restricting our ability to choose our
path in life and do whatever we want and
I may not have achieved
success and may never have in a
traditional sense but what I want is
more rather the freedom to not have to
achieve success together with the
freedom to just generally do whatever I
feel like it is necessary for me to do
and I want this freedom both for me and
for everybody else and especially in in
today’s political scene defending
freedom and then fighting for it is as
much of an imperative as it ever was
and in that sense if there is one
conviction that I have thought long and
hard and licensed every nuke and Pratt
and true still decided that’s a
conviction I still have is the fact that
the fight for freedom is worth it and
that is because freedom is not a
specific statements more rather a
process it has to be nurtured for it to
grow for us to start understanding more
and more the just how broad our range of
possibilities is and this is a fight and
I want to fight and further stop I just
hope that you might join me thank you [Applause]