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Privileged Passion | Jiunn Wen Tan | TEDxMCKL


I’m sure everybody has a passion so you
have one right you don’t like so so it’s
about like what actually drivers
motivate us to do something that we are
currently doing sound so I am a quiche
formation alumnus so I was teaching math
science and English in a low performing
school so I still remember when I first
enter the class so I asked my is upon
podcast and I asked my students
okay so what are your interests
why is actually important to you and
then they all told me you know is like
money ok no judging
money is a passion yeah it is a passion
so but it is it that informed passion
I will top that like how do you know
that this – imagine if you never exposed
to more options in your life having a
passion is a privilege given node into
the exposure not only having a passion
is a privilege but I should pursue be a
passion is a privilege I’m an atom boy I
come from Funko edit you find so very
beautiful you see something funny today
so it’s like a very beautiful very
peaceful I let people die very nice so
yeah just give you a sense of how these
Portuguese we only have our first KFC to
be our staff we have our very first
survey in every respect you know we
never had those no orders like I don’t
know how to call my clients having
liability demikhov things so we also
have limited resources where I was from
five we only have one Mac fusion feature
no other solutions we need to be there
to go to a mainland to go to the a
solution and then so it is how actually
whatever resources is where I was from
for Desai any of you camping about okay
not as a bunch of graduate from five so
what should I do
so watch my passion I ask myself two
questions the first one what what is the
subject I interest that you
science man yeah something that I can do
I do pretty well and then the second
question asked myself is size important
to me to the world to the country yeah
so to me I think it’s like science is
the fundament of human civilization one
very great variability its life size
chain shot country Japan has a
technology change everything if my
island has a technology the young people
do not have to leave the island they can
stay in a country can stay on the island
they can have more money so people who
stay so to me I think sign is of my
interest is important is my attention
here kind of questions
the swing these passions as a child with
our limited resources and limited
exposure so limited resources in terms
of life uh I’m not comfortable very well
of family my mom like very odd to you
know provide the daily report for us
what I was born for so I I also do not
have that I wasn’t having that exposure
as well I don’t know I like science but
what does it really takes to become a
scientist so do I have asked you I know
that you know like the science I just
now really used by the fact that I know
that I should using computers but I was
having my first computer second computer
without internet when I was four
so thinking of all those constraints
pursuing a passion as a scientist is it
is something as far beyond you know like
it’s beyond so I talk to myself dry
humor it’s okay you are an atom boy you
study hard now you’ve got a good result
asked me to make yourself qualified for
us without thinking about in this very
depression you can post or not you make
yourself qualified first and then I
study hard I’ve got a decent result SPF
so luckily I tried a trivia scholarship
I put who you ask and after four years I
Wow wonderful right now I was very
grateful without a scholarship form we
had a real Oscar I might not be able to
make it this one very strongly pursue a
passion is a pure H then this how
everything about passions pensions
actually interest and importance the
question I ask myself and then actually
to do that to pursue a passion to have a
passionate we need to have resources is
to excuse exposure there is something I
really very strong from me I don’t think
that you know organizations and how date
a society know when a person wants to
pursue a passion so we give her all
these three things right yeah make it
possible so after my I finished my study
I came back to Malaysia I tried this
formation and then I using this model
something I believe is from me and I
want to teach my students how to develop
a passion something I strongly believe
in so I was posted to a low-performing
School in Java and then when I mean I
teach that science Rakesh that English I
would say oh sign this how English is my
enforcer and how science is very
important so it hope that I know you
sparked interest and then as 34 my chest
arrow as well we need to create a social
initiative or we hadn’t run it we had to
run a social initiative so
unsurprisingly
as a person passionate in science I
passed an initiative which we other fish
population fellows so yeah so it is our
logo and you see it’s quite nice here
you know yes so we’re the same model the
same thinking I want to provide my
students with resources I want to cry
students who are very interested in
science resources skills and exposure’
so we pitched the idea to Asheville and
then we’ve got a full funding to
actually run our initiative Wow so is we
started to acquire for resources we
acquire order I do know kicks I’ve never
actually either 20 kicks your use and
then
three for the students and then we
actually brought in UTM Mentos Chewbacca
Mentos to train our students how to do
programming how to do how to play the
second three and electronics and then I
also brought my student to organize
become a competition so we brought our
student to the state level and the
national level competition and my
student reward the champion for state
level four twice so twice in to do
yourself so yeah we also grow that to
the University we know to keep that
exposure it hope that you spike that
interest so what happened in everything
I also very confident on this model
works
this student particular student are
living like that is actually this
initiative as we added some value to the
students but as one particular students
I actually expect me actually the way I
think about fashion so it is what we did
you provide him with his skills I have
to do is go here probably the resources
so he’s actually one other person one
also the virtual wandered champion for
the Thursday and then uh when I was when
I left the fellowship he was about to do
his SPF so two months ago where I make
him agate is the past expands from then
I meet him and then he tell me sir
I’m curry a waiter at a fast food best
one McDonough yes he struck me I thought
these maneuvers I would have much do any
better passions but no offense that
fast-food restaurant waiter
it’s a good job but I know that this
student actually very interested in
science
these students see signs as a very
important things so what really happened
I talked to him and then he told me that
sir I got I do not get a good SK result
so there’s no much resources for me to
continue my study I had to earn money
for my DVD
science is not something of my priority
now let’s say oh no opportunity to be
ended you can borrow then you say no sir
money is my private for now you say
she’s from me the more Arab you
myself to help these students to develop
passion so I think what he said and we
when we talk we also feel about one
avoids untangle those projects only for
those like very good winds up based on
pencil that’s a very deep I also imagine
if I do book a disclosure would I end up
with the same way that I am today
so I actually I forget I talked to my
other brother who was in a similar
experience as this student he study
engineering
and he also do not get much resources
compared to me so after accommodations
otherwise I realize that you know
there’s something missing in my mother
how I see patients in his name of
interest it should be relevance we have
many interest in our life but wish why
is the one is actually relevant to us
which is the what appears was the post
which was a word that we can we can we
can do instead of importance which
actually values the sudden do know that
English is important the student do know
that size is important
or which one will they value and in
focus is less important if it is a put a
value on on it so this one came having
so my new discoveries passion is
actually very much toss values and then
twenty plus we dispatcher unique
reflections and 30 agrees this is
something that I’ve realized is
something very internal how do we know
that this particular interest or this
target if what is something that we can
appeal workable
we reflect but if there isn’t something
that I created to and then how do you
know that you leave the in person that’s
why do enterprise it’s not about
exposure
it’s about when you’re getting no
experience how emotionally you attach to
that as Venus so you know that which
interest I wish the important appear to
you the most
why is it enough know you steady degrees
when you do not have a resources when
you do not have a skills when you do not
have the exposure what you do great
you steady those things but is something
in kind of small
thank you you don’t wait but to give you
the resources particular skills forgive
the exposure we actually find boys wait
so this is hi mommy I mean honey I
discovered guys look if there’s also
something that me and my brother when we
detect that our own church organist I
mean um go to MIT is something also
quite hot it’s not like a smooth you
know nice you go to MIT and the boils
come up okay Bryce the know all of the
way Greeks and say hops along and and
the backs as well so it is something
that it changed how I think about
passions so this is what something I
would like the audience to focus beyond
today when we say that Apache a few
bridge it’s not about resources it’s not
about españa is about you had to
advocate respect you can’t advertise you
have to Crete is it easy to get know so
only then if you have those internal
things you can get the other things
skill exposure every sources it is
something new I mean should I do guys I
can review all the words but is
something that happened I think the nice
something that you know there’s a blade
you can internalize it it’s the first
time and try so much that I think that
is something become a guiding principle
so yeah to keep you a little ways I
would like orders to hack first one is
finish passion is for everyone even
though I use a lot example my case my
brother Cates my student case but this
passion is more passion I think is for
everyone
I would like any of you if you are
helping underprivileged kids or helping
yourself do remember not only keep that
asshole just resources or skills twice
how to give them internet factor in them
and then the last thing is when you
change your focus you change your life that’s all thank you
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