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What does it take to be a Superhero? | Pratik Uppal | TEDxYouth@SangamSchool


Oh everybody’s doing great at this place

yes I have an educationist and I took up

this profession because this was my

colleague but not everybody is lucky

enough to find their calling I grew up

in a small family where my father my

mother and I used to speak and my school

he was done in small cities small cities

of bihar jharkhand

i never got to go to a Catholic Li a

city when I was doing my schooling and

because I have the single chain no

brothers no sisters I used to get lots

of time to spend with myself and that is

when I look up this habit of reading as

a given you read you read a lot of comic

strips

let’s start to read them and somewhere

down the line I had a fantasy a fantasy

related to the super use I thought I

wanted to be a superhuman but during the

initial is like it is just me wants to

be superhero and the night image is

professional I have it surrounded by

kids the youth or around and I see that

almost everybody wants to be a superhero

but how does one become super do you

know what are the ingredients if it was

a cookery show at this place then what

would happen agree is whether I would

have asked you to bring along to become

a superhero and that is what my talk is

going to go on the ballot but the talk

is going to be around some stories some

real-life events that I came across in

my life and then I’ll connect the dots

the first and the foremost the basic

thing that all superheroes have in

common this man is not a super neither

then you see on the screen but it goes

like me but there’s one thing common

among all superheroes but there’s some

differences also what the spider-man can

do is not what Doctor Strange can do

what dog can’t do is something different

from what Captain America could do but

this is one common thing among all these

superheroes they know what the

superpower is and the stick to it the

question is how do you get to your

superpower

how did I get to my superpower and here

is where I get you equator to the first

story and the story is about kid who

grew up in a family when they were

almost seven family members and the

piranhas were not very good mighty was

not going healed but they were

obligations the family had to be taken

care of and the family was going through

a rough patch and the time was sort of

pnm in their celebrate the festival of

lights divided of you it right yes yes I

thought he has been all bomb to show

with all the crackers and has been more

of a display celebration and kids have

been talking about how much did you buy

the crackers for I bought the practice

for this match how many because are you

going to burst because these many

crackers at this guy the story about you

might need to share with you his father

could have afforded only to bring him

three crackers and those of us with

rockets you know the rocket is we put

that inside the bottle and you find it

goes up in this time and persist but

this man’s the one he was only about

three crackers three rockets so this

particularly valley this guy shot the

first rocket at this man ought to do

something different now so we thought

let’s not do the conventional way let’s

take the bottle or sign unless it was

the hand and the second rocket he needed

with his hand and now only the third

rocket the last rocket was leaded and

now we wanted to make it memorable and

how do you make things never

by doing something look around and on

this right-hand side at his neighbor

zone he saw huge stack of a photo

anything

yeah this is what I should and I’m not

asking you going to do this but this is

what he did and he pointed his rocker to

it that’s type of a shot it and boom

this fire belong and the cause of this

fire was this man and this man knew that

is going to be big trouble in poop water

who’s around towards that place and

ensure that he puts off the fire and he

did them manage to do that came back to

his room slim as if nobody would get you

know with ever morning he got the shock

of his life

the man whose house this manner just

thought yesterday was there sipping tea

at his place and he can’t have come in

and I can simply think what would happen

his heart rate that movement and when

this keep walk towards that man and that

man work towards him the man whose house

was set on fire said I saw what you did

yesterday there was some person who had

set my home on fire and I saw how you

ensure that you put down that fire you

are not a human being you are a fool you

and if it is for real and if I can fire

rockets and people can come down and

brace me I think I should make a

profession out of this and that is what

he did at that point of night this guy

was almost a 13 year old boy he gave it

four years of his life

managed to get to the officers training

academy at Champaign Manor should become

an officer in the Navy

after joining the nanami the second unit

very well placed was the one for six

light in a missile regiment and for all

his tenure in the army he used to wear a

blue badge on the top of his uniform

that’s saying that he is capable to fire

on the side this is the man you see and

there’s no credits when it comes to the

photograph because I want this

photograph and I want this photograph

this man got to the what is of the

poverties an event that gives all the

words and he fought against everything

that could have come across this way

[Applause]

when I was there on the crossroads of my

career but I have a promising car in

front of me but I knew this is not what

I want to do for my life and I went down

to my father I told him

can I get an education please he said do

you do you have the conviction do you

think you would want to do this I said

yes I show you do this yes and that is

when I start to get into the field of

education and let me tell you times got

tough very tough

I remember my days where I used to stay

in Delhi when I ran out of money I had

no money even to eat food but this menu

field of education got me all the

respect and this very field of Education

gave me the life span which I live and

trust me this is the kind of lifestyle I

always dreamed of you all have super

powers

we all have super bubbles but we never

get to know what a super powers are but

within how do we get to know super

powers is there a software is it an

application no there are two things if

they coincide that is a superpower the

first thing you need to ask yourself is

this that particular thing that I would

want to do for the rest of my life

even if I have not paid for it even if

you not pay for it and trust me if

you’re good at it you will be paid for

it that is some cool goes around the

world would appreciate you and the

second thing list all the things for

which you get appreciation in your life

and the one basic tip for which you get

the maximum appreciation and the one

basic

that you can do for the rest of your

life free of cost even if you have not

paid that is a superpower

gone that it would hit you everything

you want in your life it would get you

everything you desire in life the first

thing you all we including me we all

have superpowers number two what do i do

once I get to know what my superpower is

you can everything you have you go on

and you invest yourself into that we all

see success will be able to round us and

we just see the success that’s it

if being rich would have been a

superpower I think Bill Gates would have

been again a superhero if swimming would

have been a superpower and sure Michael

fence would have been again a super you

and believe me they are superhumans

but what we get to see is just the

success what we don’t get to see is that

the same Bill Gates who has the

superpower of money of B bridge did not

take a day off when he was a 20s he had

no Sundays in his life during his 20

keys yet no more Asians in his life by

he was in twenties and if you talk about

Michael Phelps between two one of bigs

four years of time where people who are

resting on Sundays

this man was training himself for 12 was

every day that was his normal too deep

and many times I come across people a

it’s something come on let’s have fun

what would you achieve by doing extra

practice on Earth Day the Sunday

Michael libs never said that and you

need not to be a mathematician to

understand this between two other pigs

there are four years each ear has got 54

and when this guy goes again but the

next Olympics he has 216 extra seconds

as compared to the others and if we came

to the percentage bulls it is from eight

point six nine percent and they are at

the level of Olympics point or person

matters this man has got a fifteen point

six nine percentage that’s the second

thing after you but get to know what

your superpower is you invest yourself

in you give it everything you have you

don’t look at the candidates you don’t

look at the time you just do it

and after you’ve invested yourself into

you get the prize of the fact you

understand do you appreciate the fact

what you do it is important what you’re

doing is going to bring a change even if

it in one person’s life that’s perfect

that’s fine and that means me to the

second story the surah comes from a

school and there was a small kid I think

in the second grade a seven-year-old boy

you should come down to the school

everyday shabbily dressed shabbily

none of the people used to understand

what was going on with this person’s

life but there was one teacher who used

to constantly ask him what is the

problem but the society never opened up

through one day this Jenny broke up in

front of that lady and he said a second

grader second year wrote what he said my

mother has a paralysis attack my father

thinks about me I don’t know how to wash

my clothes this is the best I can do in

my life so again please stop criticizing

me every time you see me this uniform

and I think a normal person would have

said all right when we have your life I

have my life get along with your mind

will get along with my life that is what

superpowers that tell us what the

superheroes never do this wonderful lady

ensure that this child gets to wear a

clean uniform every time he comes down

to the school this being invented a

particular set of uniforms of this skill

every time this guy used to be in a

dress that was not particularly suited

this guy was asked to change that’s not

the most beautiful things that happened

in this each other’s life and this I

believe in this kid’s life was when this

the particular place and they are

talking about is where you find people

who are very religious very

superstitious with text and on the top

of the copy people used to write the

name of all the gods and goddesses they

used to admire for all the blessings I’m

sure many of us would have done this and

you know what was the point that touched

that lady teacher the agents name

happens to be mrs. Donald at this game

when he was writing his final examples

on the top potentially now the second

thing he wrote was education and the

third thing he wrote was chasing this

and that he decreed and I know that

nearly cried because again this video

father but why did I take my father’s

example and why did I take my mother’s

examples the world is full of

superheroes just to make this point that

these super you use never want the

language nobody would have brought my

father nobody would have grown my mother

nobody that got me it was me that it

doesn’t even matter that doesn’t matter

that is what BYU is all about and that

brings me to the fourth thing the magic

ingredient the last thing that you need

to add to this recipe no matter what is

superpower is no matter what kind of a

superhero you are there going to be time

is going to be lots of self-doubt lots

of several others doubting you is fine

but there would be times when you would

be doubting yourself talk to your own

capabilities it that what will you do at

that moment if finances allow you please

might not go at you and look at this

beautiful sculpture that has been made

at that place that is called Abel David

was made by Michelangelo it is one of

the most beautiful pieces of art that

has ever existed on the earth but the

most important point is that before

Michelangelo started to sculpt that

particular thing out of a single marble

block that marble block stayed at the

place put that place for 40 years and

what is more interesting is it stayed at

that place for 40 years because the

others rejected it because they said

and each one of us is that model and

each one of us is a sculpture the only

thing that awaits is we made you start

to sculpt something too because there’s

going to be lots of self-doubt as a kid

I used to love to watch this

he-man an LP da Mosta what’s this he

managed to have so much motivated

because he man before becoming he back

was offense but a feeble animal with him

and when the world needed him he used to

just raise the sole of it there and used

to say I have the power

trust me people the world might not be

needing you but you need your Sydney and

the next time you need yourself you have

to raise your hand up in the air

animated or not and you have to say

aloud not that you have the power

because everybody sitting in this room

and every person watching this video has the power to be thank you so much

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