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How to lead a happy successful life | Aatik Tasneem | TEDxBeaconhouseDefence


usually I failed in biology test I don’t

know that that’s crap

let’s move to another field that’s known

as Chartered Accountancy that makes

money and I flunked all over the county

and dr. you dropped it then I moved on

to like oh no my real strength is

basically I am gonna be a CEO of a

company and that’s what I’m gonna do so

I’m gonna work hard I’m gonna do good

all levels a levels and I’m gonna go to

the best person school because that’s

the way I’m gonna cry in the corporate

ladder everything this point perfect

lumps is great I mean the sophomore year

at my small business wedding photography

I am peeing I’m making money I’m

teaching tuitions and you know I was in

that phase I was I was very close to

where I was going on you okay life is

finally setting them but then one

incident changed everything I fell in

love I fell in love with this girl who

it was very smart she used to sit right

in front of the class in the second row

brilliant our lives and all I could

think about was her then but I didn’t

have the courage to talk to her and most

importantly she diverted anyway existed

so I was in the backseat fourth row guy

through the front cedar who was officer

performing in the classes and everything

four months past the fall semester is

about to end and exams are on our heads

so I’m sitting right outside the

economic block building enjoying hot

cocoa when I saw her name is Sarah

the Sarah was walking right so and I was

but I pretended not look at her I used

my phone I was Frank you know taxers

trying to act a little busy and she came

to me it’s just like hi otic can I sit

with you my inner self under cool man

this doesn’t happen to you you’re not

that guy and then two miles like that’s

an all-clear and please sure take a seat

and she’s like it’s been a long time I

want to talk to you about something I

know my nervous I know things I don’t

know how to say this I have a lot of

anxiety I’m stressed so I’m just gonna

say it in one shot would you cover my

engagement this weekend and now that was

a big I wish and that’s the incident

that really evolved me to be a better

person

it taught me two things number one when

you want something you don’t delayed for

four months you doing you go out and get

it at that right point in time and

number two there’s a difference between

liking and loving something I liked my

work at that point in time it was simply

just about making money and I liked it

but Sara I used to love her when I was

with Sara I forgot about work I forgot

about everything in my life when I was

at work I was still thinking about Sara

and that’s where the difference was

drawn but why wasn’t I able to

understand that in the first goal and

what I when I intersected into myself

the problem lies with how we all

individuals are groomed we have one

model of success we have all been there

right our parents tell us okay so do

hard work live a good life that’s all we

get at homes right show of hands how

many people have heard this from their

parents yes

hard work you’re gonna succeed the

problem with this framework is it only

has

one outcome attached to it the either

gauge performance by being academically

brilliant or making more money and there

is no other option and when we all try

to search and hunt the same goal down

not everyone reaches it because we like

it we don’t love it in my talk and my

perspective of living life changed I

wanted to fall in love again but this

time not with the girl with life itself

I want life as my relationship my

relationship with my leg and what

requires a relationship is trust with

life going through the hard times and

relationships are never easy how many of

us have ever been in a relationship come

on show fans oh no you guys are lying

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anybody who has been in one will tell

you how hard it is their fights their

times you want to just give up

but you keep moving forward you keep

building the relationship you want at

the end of the day you want to marry the

guy of the girl right and I want to

marry my life one day

and that’s my objective now it’s very

easy to say you know I have to spawn in

love with life but nobody actually tells

you about how to fall in love with life

we don’t have that framework available

am i right you know what you wanted in

life anybody what do you want dude tell

me okay he’s blacked out he doesn’t know

at this age and what we don’t realize is

our time is very limited it’s you at the

point present you’ll be like okay you

know I’m just 16 or 17 out of gazillion

more years to live on life and go on and

figure it out right let me break it down

in math an average Pakistani lives for

66 years that’s what Google says about

it you have already wasted 16 after 40

you won’t have the energy or the will to

pursue what you want that leaves us with

24

you spent it are sleeping driving

talking eating and that takes about 12

hours of your life per day that cuts

your life half which means you only have

12 years to follow your passion you’re

66 your life

it only has 12 years in which you can

actually make what you want to be and

you’re gonna spend that doing something

you don’t even love that’s not a fair

trade for me I would like that and I

don’t want anything for you guys this

way so how do you fall in love with like

how do we find what interests us what is

our inner core do we don’t work what is

what were we made up what why aren’t in

this universe why God has created us for

some reason do we know that reason

so I created up I resource a lot on this

farm alive

tested on people when I came up with

this three simple steps they’re just

three simple steps and nothing more than

that

and if you take them today I could

promise you if you apply them in your

life you not only be more personally

effective would be a better human being

overall so step number one meditation

it’s basically called disconnecting with

the world we are all surrounded by noise

every day we walk out we think obedience

we hear opinions do this do that or

disagree or is a better one since we

should towards this field this has much

more potential your career advisors

everybody’s just corrupting your head

with something and when you come home

you’re like oh I’m just gonna sleep you

do mean nothing yeah absolutely do

nothing and you go home and go to sleep

what I tell you to do before sleeping

just before sleeping for 30 minutes just

shut down everything you know like no

phones no mom no dad your friends no

nothing no internet no Facebook just you

and your core now let me just try this

the heart is a very very powerful organ

it creates emotions for you right and we

don’t listen to it and if we keep

silence for just one second you’ll be

able to hear your heartbeat

and you’re gonna ask your heart one

simple question now we solve each and

every single problem of your career or

whatever that’s probably you what’s that

one thing that one thing that will that

you’re gonna do in life even if you’re

not baby

nobody’s gonna appreciate it it’s just

you doing that thing and it makes you

happy

ask yourself this question time and time

again it will take four months a year

four years ten years it’s gonna take

time when when you get the answer things

are gonna get a little better I’ll tell

you my my answer came and asked my

question I like aren’t good with people

and that’s the only thing I got I love

being around people my teammates can

tell you how much I love being around

every people every day my office is

filled with students I have literally

told them out the point I can break down

they don’t even let me eat at 11 a.m. at

11:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. I’m getting

text messages and calls but I like that

and what I do is definitely is do the

second step of life now I know okay I’m

good with people well what’s the second

step you find your life in an abstract

don’t tell me you want to be an engineer

no that’s the worst we can find your

life tell me you want to be an inventor

because inventors can be an artist

invention can be a musician in venture

can be anybody who loves creating new

things you want define your life like an

engineer doctor there feels that’s what

you’re gonna choose later on in the life

not at this moment it’s a defining an

abstract maybe you want to be I don’t

know you want to dance all day long

that’s fine that’s show of energy you

can get away it feels with that and

lastly and the most important is

understand the difference between a

hobby and a career

we all have hobbies everything there are

careers a hobby is something you just

like doing a career something you’re

going to give your life to like your

soul mate you take your career you put

that ring on the

career we asked the Curia to marry you

you want to keep it for the rest of your

life you don’t want to let it go with

that easily and hobbies like you know a

flame baby so with that said I just have

one last message to wish you guys you

are the captain of your own ship your

friends your family your parents your

mentors your teachers they are the crew

of that boil ship who’s gonna help you

do where you want to go in life and my

advice is you start your journey today

thank you very much [Applause]

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