so when I was seven years old I used my
endless free time writing stories now
these stories concerned the most
pressing issues that I faced in the
child they were about the conflicts
between elephant LePage or about
children off to the next great adventure
I poured my heart and soul into these
stories crafting them ever so carefully
and being the determined but stubborn
young girl that was I decided to become
an author and so I go to store full of
narration and women see color pictures
and it was published but only within the
four walls of my house but you see in my
brain and my 7yo brain I saw myself as
accredited that’s telling all third to
me that was all that mattered but like
all children I that was not all
correspond to be in fact I saw the album
of my life looking something like this
now as you can see I clearly thought I
had a vet eagle chance of becoming other
than a spy or about selling author but
what I want you all to notice is a
variety of careers you see here the
variety possibilities that I saw myself
go into and I want you to keep that in
mind because we’re going to come back to
it you see as children we’re not
particular about the activities we
choose to engage ourselves with we
simply choose to do what we enjoy and
that’s fine because as children we
haven’t developed a need to set
ourselves long-term or short-term goals
we are vulnerable in the face of our
future and this vulnerability empowers
us what are young pushes us to
reconstruct the images of who we aspire
to be so what I wanted to figure out is
why do we feel compelled to run away
from this vulnerability when we become
adults why do we
the need to define ourselves and our
futures right now and that’s when I
figured it all out there is actually a
psychological aspect to us all now this
may seem a little complicated at first
but let me break it down for you you see
everyone has this natural mechanism
within them something that I like to
call the beautiful white dove now
there’s done this is what we are as
children we are vulnerable we want to
fly anywhere and everywhere we want to
try everything and anything this dove is
what makes us want to be super here’s
one day and a spy the next and this dub
keeps doing just that but only for the
earlier years of our lives that there
comes a point when something else is
awakened something that I like to call
the practical but time obsessed jut now
this dry very practical very reasonable
and it has good intentions in what
spaces realize the time we have to
achieve our goals in put spaces realized
and we should focus on something
specific something that will hopefully
lead us to happiness and success which
makes sense we should work towards our
goals because how else will we achieve
them but then what ends up happening is
that we fall into this trap of only ever
exploring
options within a single field of
interest forgetting that they’re allowed
overlap and still be functional we fall
into this trap of letting our future
distant goals define what we do right
now and that’s when we get to limit
ourselves that’s when our roles rather
than allowing us to achieve success
limit us but that is not to say that
between us Doug and giant that we
completely ignore our jobs in fact what
we should do is we should keep our
mission we should keep that ambitious
fire but do not simply drop the
demoscene your path we always hear of
individual such as JK Rowling and
Michael jointed that achieve success
only after failing multiple times but
what about goes that achieved unexpected
success those who experience success
they had never imagined in the first
place simply because they open
themselves up to a very possibilities
Stuart Butterfield the co-founder of
flicker is a big encouragement having an
experimental attitude it is the same
experimental attitude that allowed julia
child to become a world-renowned chef
only after being a CIA agent or that
allowed Everett’s favorite doing Johnson
to go from wrestling to active this is a
power of the experimental attitude when
we stop focusing on just our goals and
explore things beyond that’s what we
achieve success that we have never
imagined the first place and that’s when
we begin to realize all that we could
possibly achieve now remember the
graphic earlier
but children concerning their mindsets
and their future careers when we become
young adults or even adolescence our
goals being to look something like this
which make sense this is the practical
and realistic wrap this is what we
should be achieving because we should
strive for a goal that will lead us to a
stable financial stability and emotional
stability but do you notice that we’ve
no Walker allow ourselves a possibility
of exploring something we had never
imagined in the first place because
that’s what scares us we do not want to
be in the automobile want to be
something because that we don’t know
what to do but instead what I’m saying
is that we should embrace this
vulnerability we should have raised this
possibility in fact week between our
doves and our giants we should let our
Giants remind us our priorities and keep
us grounded but let our doves fly a
little let our Giants remind us of our
goals but let our dogs explore another
one a bigger one and so what I think is
really necessary is for all of us to
adopt the experimental attitude because
we have abandoned or youthful tendencies
to spontaneously
whatever our heart desires and while we
should take the steps necessary to
achieve our goals these I don’t make the
only steps that we take while when we
give up the power to control these steps
these steps begin to control us and when
we give up this power that’s when our
futures need to find our presence so
embrace the experimental attitude
embrace that vulnerability forget what’s
next and instead focus on what now thank
you [Applause]
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