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“Redefining Failure” | Ricky Tsui | TEDxLPCUWC


hello everyone today I’m going to talk

about some a topic that very familiar

with all of you someone in your life

it’s about failure I’ve got a lot of

in view we may we may fail on

giving a homework hanging on homework

finish our house work or we fail to any

on project this may happen or we may

feel in an election or a sales target

and when you feel what do you feel how

do you feel yeah okay same okay I’ll be

depressed and I don’t want you accept

the responsibility of my failure and

what do I do I’ll play I bling on

everyone except myself right ok so I

don’t know what what what will you do

for that actually on the surface failure

is like a setback for everyone for

yourself but if you in reality if you

really learn from it and move forward

with it you actually can create a new

page in your life so I encourage every

one of you to redefine your own failure

so today I’m going to share with your

free points on failure redefining your

failure number one admit you fail and

get up quickly now at you negative

comment can be an inspiration rather

than a failure it’s a key for you to

open and

the door number three failure can be a

chance for you to rethink the impossible

norms that a lot of people think failure

on that subject is usual so I’m going to

talk about it one by one so number one

Amit you feel and get up quickly from

what I know unless we admit we fail we

learn from it will keep making the same

mistake over again that’s what happened

in life if you don’t lender that’s it

light will teach you once again on the

same lesson on a different circumstances

for me what happened after two years I

graduated from college in university I

saw my first pisses and the only reason

I saw my own business is because I want

to be the successful guy so with the

help of weed and overconfident and one

year later I’m 300,000 dollars in debt

that’s a lot of money for a young

graduate what did I do of course I blame

me on everyone except myself I cried for

a whole month at home and then at the

end I found out what I can do it’s not

crying it’s a except my failure and set

my own responsibility then I went out my

tears okay I say to myself I am in rock

bottom the only way i can go is up right

the snow hole down so i pick myself up

swallow my pride go find myself a job to

slowly pay off my debt and it’s a

humbling experience because after you

pay off Oh every month well actually in

the first day of the month after I pay

off all

necessary payment I only have two

thousand hong kong dollars left and that

keeps me a lot of lesson how to survive

and you understand two thousand in hong

kong it’s not a lot for food traveling

and everything so I learned a lot but I

learned my lesson I admit it and I know

is a lesson I need to learn so when it

comes a time that I saw my second

business well which is the business that

I I have now I try to stay humble okay

i’m still learning but one thing I

learned is I don’t pull any money to do

business that sounds crazy to not borrow

any money to do business but guess what

you can always get a good night’s sleep

when you running a debt-free business so

my lesson I learned is admit my old

failure get up quickly and that’s the

mindset for me to go on for the redefine

failure number two negative comment can

be an inspiration rather than a failure

of itself is the key to open another

door listen to those negative comment

because they have a message in there

it’s not really a failure for it a few

years ago we saw on new electronic

courses for students it was a very

successful course because a lot of

pseudonym road and what happened after

the course finished I talk to those

students a few weeks after I talked to

them I say hey did you learn did you use

what you learn in my course at home or

school they say no absolutely no no I

say why well because they say a parents

or students all the teachers don’t allow

to do so during soldering is like a hot

hot things and then you you put you

you’re actually Mel to electronic parts

and the wire together because the

parents or the ellos things they will

burn up their whole school or the house

so I say wow that’s that’s incredible

that’s incredible that you cannot use

any of my things so I was not happy with

this comment hello and I think this is

my own failure on myself even though no

solution has been put forward yet so I

went back to my office I talked to my

in-house engineer I asked him we need to

come up with something that is

inexpensive and it’s easy for students

you use without soldering and this

answer to me is that’s nothing like this

exists then I say great so we’re going

to find a solution for it so after after

a few weeks at a lot of trial and errors

we came out with a new product is called

paper circuit is using paper copper

stickers metal metal buttons and also

some clips that clip into the electronic

process and let kiss to assemble the

things together without using soldering

and they can do a love new creation of

that and many schools are using it now

to teach electronics and if I don’t

listen to those negative comments I

would have missed a great chance to to

make the electronic teaching at step

forward number three failure can be a

chance for you to move forward with and

challenge to rethink the impossible not

two years ago we decide to create our

own star maps which you can look at the

star with the constellations and I love

astronomy since I

little very little and actually our

second business was started on astronomy

which is more amazing in a place in Hong

Kong and so I find a designer of course

that design that don’t know anything

about astronomy and he helped me to to

draw out the universal universal

prototype for the star maps so after two

months in work out this summer and one

day I came to him and say I want to make

some changes I would ask something on

the constellation of Orion which is a

which of the conservation that is should

be quite easy to find he searched for

three minutes and he couldn’t find him

then you make a comment that I would

never forget in my life he say I welcome

this for two months and I couldn’t even

find a ride this is our Maps supposed to

be for beginner and I can’t even do it

and listen this is just a stupid useless

design which I can sum up in one word

for you it’s a failure there’s a main

major design failure in the star maps

and this happened according to an

exchange of an international astronomy

society this failure design failure has

been around for that case and no one and

everyone think this is normal so no one

rethink any of this at all for that case

and you know what the easiest thing I

can say to my designer is just shut up

and do it because that’s that’s the

normal this failure has been around for

years in sir I say I thought for a few

seconds I say you know what you’re right

this is a really stupid useless design

then I go back for three suspend three

or four days thinking office solutions

of this that case problem and

chula well luckily enough we came up

with i came up with four solutions and

that changed the whole game plan of the

of the water summer can use and it

amazing love professionals so so it’s

rethinking to challenge your the

impossible norms is to redefine the

failure for itself so next time when you

fail your housework homework project

elections and you fail your scalp sales

target save yourself realize this is a

sure step for your final goal and you

will amaze watch I should put this out

and you were amazed with what you can

experience through them and one last

thing I want I want you to take home is

redefine your failure yourself not by

what the society things thank you

[Music] [Applause]

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