[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
he was to keep our situation is rental
option ah did you know
[Music]
hi everyone I’m Cindy and in 2015 I
founded the crescendo project I got
together with a couple of friends at
school we brainstorm some ideas got in
touch with others in a community and
then filled out a proposal form to
create a club on Thursdays after schools
last year we fundraised to purchase 21
guitars for managing migrants goal and
we now go to my crystals around pseudo
to teach kids instruments on Saturday
mornings sounds easy it was not I could
talk for days about the challenge we
face but know when things started to
work I forgot all about them I was so
proud of myself and excited I was like
I’m making a difference for the migrant
children teachers at school told me
Cindy you’re doing great things for the
community and for a while I thought it
found so much meaning in life until a
younger student looking to start service
herself came and asked me why do you do
service a profound question she wasn’t
asking what change I’ve made in my
community that gave me purpose but what
motivates me what motivates Cindy Han to
do service and I was dumbfounded because
I was so stuck on this one question for
the next few days I asked myself another
profound question why do we live why do
we rage against the darkness of the
night when we know that with every step
we’re leaving light further and further
behind in one of my theory of knowledge
classes as we were talking about the
Greek mythology of Sisyphus I found my
answer we live to find a reason to live
Sisyphus was the king of Effra whose
punishment for deceit was to push a
large rock up a mountain and when he got
to the top the rocker rolled down and
Sisyphus would have to repeat the
process again and again for eternity
sounds silly but life is like that life
is basically pushing this boulder up a
hill meaningless unless you find meaning
to it and that meaning could be anything
as someone who loves
music I could tell you that sometimes
when life gets hard one of the only
reasons I don’t go jumping off a roof
other than it hurts is for breakfast the
next day and for my mom who makes it for
the rest of my family and friends and
music we pushed that Boulder for what we
love and then I realized doing service
is the same thing except that rather
than being born without a choice
starting service acquires an impetus of
it of quite selfish one you see we don’t
donate to charities to make a difference
but because making a difference can give
us a sense of pleasure or leave a tower
guilt or satisfy our vanity similarly I
guess I also start a service for
self-centered reasons to try something
new while gaining leadership skills well
the only good for being awesome well
doing something that would look good on
my university application so that was
how I began pushing the boulder up the
bumpy Mountain Road and at first it was
boring and hard getting to the top each
time offered some gratification but
these feelings were instantly replaced
by the dread of having to go up the hill
again and so I went on a search for
meaning with the hope that somehow it
will alleviate my pain first of all
doing something I loved helped a lot in
grade 8 I worked a hundred hours at the
douchey Lake library and then I quit
because sorting books for a hundred
hours is surprisingly boring it wasn’t
that obvious at the time in grade nine I
fundraised for an animal protection
association in pseudo then I quit
because I never visited the organization
or petted animals or got to know the
taming person in grade 10 I joined a
Habitat for Humanity trip to Guangzhou
and helped build houses in the tour now
neighborhoods it was a nice trip and I
learned a lot about poverty in the area
but I never went again
the lesson if you don’t like what you do
you will quit so make life easier by
starting with something you enjoy for me
that was music so up came the crescendo
project for you that could be movies or
photography or reading or video games
when you decide on your passion
congratulations but you don’t make a
change by sharing a hobby you do so by
spreading a value so find out why you
like what you like if you find yourself
stuck use this technique developed by
entrepreneurs the key to Toyota ask
yourself five wise I like music why
because playing music makes you happy
makes me happy why because I do have my
friends why because I connects us why
because it helps us understand each
other why because we can express
ourselves in a better way through music
bingo and that set the base for the
crescendo project this is our logo
composed of a crescendo and a music note
in Chinese it looks like the word yeah
which means music the same word could
also be pronounced lua meaning happiness
symbolizing or value of offering
happiness through music our slogan is it
only gets louder with emphasis on
getting louder and gaining confidence as
you’ve probably seen through the video
at the beginning those children did not
become professional guitar players or
singers after crescendo workshops but
instead they fostered a sense of
community and understanding and
self-realization and that’s what our
success is measured by with a reason to
move forward pushing the rock became
much less tedious and I was able to
observe my surroundings find an audience
with which to share my values and search
for connections my dad is from ningbo
my mom grew up in such fine went to
university of shanghai i was born in
hangzhou emigrated to vancouver canada
and is currently attending school here
in sudo I’m a foreigner here in all
respects just like the migrant children
and after thinking about it it’s really
surprising how many similarities we
share we both go to and actually both of
our parents are busy just that their
parents are working in factories on
Saturday mornings and my parents are on
the phone during dinner both of us go to
private schools and have to pay a higher
tuition fee and yup they actually pay
more money than do public school
students because they are unable to go
to public schools well my parents want
me to get a better education than public
schools can offer and then during the
crescendo workshops i began to catch in
my students small snippets of people
around me chiselling is playful and
dramatic and outspoken although
sometimes too annoying point like my
friend a gar yoshimura reminds me of my
mom caring and hardworking she always
cleans her finger board before returning
her guitar and is always the one
practicing on the rest are joking around
my imagination of a little brother is
transformed into reality by full own
home a curious and affection of boy who
throws the occasional tantrum and every
time I see whaley I see myself a secret
fighter quiet but always open to
challenges you know that you’ve made a
true difference when your audience
started taking off their masks sharing
their true identities you know that
you’ve undergone metamorphosis yourself
when you begin to notice all these
little things and build connections
between them so get to know those you’re
helping in person communicate share your
stories and your thoughts ask questions
understand and empathize most
importantly
find out instead of just assumed that
impacts of everything you do a lesson I
learned was that sometimes when my
students refuse to sing it’s not because
they need me to teach them the notes but
because they need guidance on how to
become more confident only by becoming
more aware of your surroundings can you
truly understand the social cause you’re
supporting you’re still pushing that
rock up the mountain but this is when
you’ll start noticing how beautiful the
flowers are around you how warm the Sun
is or how lovely the birds and distant
sound and how you feel in the midst of
all these wonderful sensations moving
forward will not be getting about
getting to the top anymore because the
Rock will roll down anyways but about
the journey itself start to explore take
a different path up the hill when the
weather gets bad relish the rain a lot
of the advice we get when we first begin
service is take a look as society around
you see the problems and help those in
need start from the top of the funnel
and narrow down your choices according
to your values but I truly believe that
we need to start with a personal cause
to be able to make a true difference
triple society and ourselves start from
the bottom of the funnel and you’ll find
that there are unlimited possibilities
for you to explore of course it will be
hard you probably have 10 different
ideas and 20 different plans with no
idea where to start my last tip and I’m
not advertising for nike just do it find
the one thing you’d like to explore
because this is this could push that
rock forever we can’t thank you you
[Applause]
[Music]
he was to keep our situation is rental
option ah did you know
[Music]
hi everyone I’m Cindy and in 2015 I
founded the crescendo project I got
together with a couple of friends at
school we brainstorm some ideas got in
touch with others in a community and
then filled out a proposal form to
create a club on Thursdays after schools
last year we fundraised to purchase 21
guitars for managing migrants goal and
we now go to my crystals around pseudo
to teach kids instruments on Saturday
mornings sounds easy it was not I could
talk for days about the challenge we
face but know when things started to
work I forgot all about them I was so
proud of myself and excited I was like
I’m making a difference for the migrant
children teachers at school told me
Cindy you’re doing great things for the
community and for a while I thought it
found so much meaning in life until a
younger student looking to start service
herself came and asked me why do you do
service a profound question she wasn’t
asking what change I’ve made in my
community that gave me purpose but what
motivates me what motivates Cindy Han to
do service and I was dumbfounded because
I was so stuck on this one question for
the next few days I asked myself another
profound question why do we live why do
we rage against the darkness of the
night when we know that with every step
we’re leaving light further and further
behind in one of my theory of knowledge
classes as we were talking about the
Greek mythology of Sisyphus I found my
answer we live to find a reason to live
Sisyphus was the king of Effra whose
punishment for deceit was to push a
large rock up a mountain and when he got
to the top the rocker rolled down and
Sisyphus would have to repeat the
process again and again for eternity
sounds silly but life is like that life
is basically pushing this boulder up a
hill meaningless unless you find meaning
to it and that meaning could be anything
as someone who loves
music I could tell you that sometimes
when life gets hard one of the only
reasons I don’t go jumping off a roof
other than it hurts is for breakfast the
next day and for my mom who makes it for
the rest of my family and friends and
music we pushed that Boulder for what we
love and then I realized doing service
is the same thing except that rather
than being born without a choice
starting service acquires an impetus of
it of quite selfish one you see we don’t
donate to charities to make a difference
but because making a difference can give
us a sense of pleasure or leave a tower
guilt or satisfy our vanity similarly I
guess I also start a service for
self-centered reasons to try something
new while gaining leadership skills well
the only good for being awesome well
doing something that would look good on
my university application so that was
how I began pushing the boulder up the
bumpy Mountain Road and at first it was
boring and hard getting to the top each
time offered some gratification but
these feelings were instantly replaced
by the dread of having to go up the hill
again and so I went on a search for
meaning with the hope that somehow it
will alleviate my pain first of all
doing something I loved helped a lot in
grade 8 I worked a hundred hours at the
douchey Lake library and then I quit
because sorting books for a hundred
hours is surprisingly boring it wasn’t
that obvious at the time in grade nine I
fundraised for an animal protection
association in pseudo then I quit
because I never visited the organization
or petted animals or got to know the
taming person in grade 10 I joined a
Habitat for Humanity trip to Guangzhou
and helped build houses in the tour now
neighborhoods it was a nice trip and I
learned a lot about poverty in the area
but I never went again
the lesson if you don’t like what you do
you will quit so make life easier by
starting with something you enjoy for me
that was music so up came the crescendo
project for you that could be movies or
photography or reading or video games
when you decide on your passion
congratulations but you don’t make a
change by sharing a hobby you do so by
spreading a value so find out why you
like what you like if you find yourself
stuck use this technique developed by
entrepreneurs the key to Toyota ask
yourself five wise I like music why
because playing music makes you happy
makes me happy why because I do have my
friends why because I connects us why
because it helps us understand each
other why because we can express
ourselves in a better way through music
bingo and that set the base for the
crescendo project this is our logo
composed of a crescendo and a music note
in Chinese it looks like the word yeah
which means music the same word could
also be pronounced lua meaning happiness
symbolizing or value of offering
happiness through music our slogan is it
only gets louder with emphasis on
getting louder and gaining confidence as
you’ve probably seen through the video
at the beginning those children did not
become professional guitar players or
singers after crescendo workshops but
instead they fostered a sense of
community and understanding and
self-realization and that’s what our
success is measured by with a reason to
move forward pushing the rock became
much less tedious and I was able to
observe my surroundings find an audience
with which to share my values and search
for connections my dad is from ningbo
my mom grew up in such fine went to
university of shanghai i was born in
hangzhou emigrated to vancouver canada
and is currently attending school here
in sudo I’m a foreigner here in all
respects just like the migrant children
and after thinking about it it’s really
surprising how many similarities we
share we both go to and actually both of
our parents are busy just that their
parents are working in factories on
Saturday mornings and my parents are on
the phone during dinner both of us go to
private schools and have to pay a higher
tuition fee and yup they actually pay
more money than do public school
students because they are unable to go
to public schools well my parents want
me to get a better education than public
schools can offer and then during the
crescendo workshops i began to catch in
my students small snippets of people
around me chiselling is playful and
dramatic and outspoken although
sometimes too annoying point like my
friend a gar yoshimura reminds me of my
mom caring and hardworking she always
cleans her finger board before returning
her guitar and is always the one
practicing on the rest are joking around
my imagination of a little brother is
transformed into reality by full own
home a curious and affection of boy who
throws the occasional tantrum and every
time I see whaley I see myself a secret
fighter quiet but always open to
challenges you know that you’ve made a
true difference when your audience
started taking off their masks sharing
their true identities you know that
you’ve undergone metamorphosis yourself
when you begin to notice all these
little things and build connections
between them so get to know those you’re
helping in person communicate share your
stories and your thoughts ask questions
understand and empathize most
importantly
find out instead of just assumed that
impacts of everything you do a lesson I
learned was that sometimes when my
students refuse to sing it’s not because
they need me to teach them the notes but
because they need guidance on how to
become more confident only by becoming
more aware of your surroundings can you
truly understand the social cause you’re
supporting you’re still pushing that
rock up the mountain but this is when
you’ll start noticing how beautiful the
flowers are around you how warm the Sun
is or how lovely the birds and distant
sound and how you feel in the midst of
all these wonderful sensations moving
forward will not be getting about
getting to the top anymore because the
Rock will roll down anyways but about
the journey itself start to explore take
a different path up the hill when the
weather gets bad relish the rain a lot
of the advice we get when we first begin
service is take a look as society around
you see the problems and help those in
need start from the top of the funnel
and narrow down your choices according
to your values but I truly believe that
we need to start with a personal cause
to be able to make a true difference
triple society and ourselves start from
the bottom of the funnel and you’ll find
that there are unlimited possibilities
for you to explore of course it will be
hard you probably have 10 different
ideas and 20 different plans with no
idea where to start my last tip and I’m
not advertising for nike just do it find
the one thing you’d like to explore
because this is this could push that
rock forever we can’t thank you you
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