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Why Being Clueless is Pivotal | Alecia Amadio | TEDxGoldeyBeacomCollege


my show of hands who has ever used a map
navigation device on their phone to get
somewhere awesome okay
and anybody wonder where they would be
in life without that thing yeah me too
one thing that I feel is crucially
important always is to have a plan but
that doesn’t always happen in all
circumstances I’m not going to sit here
and tell you that I enjoy riding through
the woods and hearing my GPS tell me
recalculating recalculating
recalculating because that’s just
honestly not true but sometimes being a
man with no plan is a really good thing
this is the man with new plan let me
define cluelessness for you
so closeness lacking knowledge
understanding or information a lot of
the time this is misconstrued and that’s
something that I look forward to talking
to you about today over the entire scope
of my life I have just enjoyed
thoroughly analyzing behaviors and
interactions between people over the
last four years I’ve had the opportunity
to experience digging deeper into
studying different behaviors and
interactions between people as I grew my
career in human resources and what I
have learned is the top two primal
reasons why people come to you for
advice or seek answers is because they
feel uncertain or they doubt themselves
you know why don’t we immediately feel
excited first something new to happen to
us or you know when we if they it’s our
question why aren’t we assured in
ourselves and excited to do that why are
we uncertain in South self-doubting this
is Natalie Portman she is an inspiration
because she exemplifies what it’s like
to take the path that sort of not made
so you’re in front of a path and it’s
not necessarily
for you there’s more to discover that
way Natalie Portman has created her
career at age 10 she was found by a
recruiter in New York at a pizza shop
after her first dance class and her mom
was asked if her daughter could be
taking a picture of and she said sure so
she started her modeling career and then
became an Academy award-winning actress
so that just goes to show you that she
had no intentions of doing that at 10
but just the fact that she did and look
how successful she does she got somebody
else that you might be familiar with is
this guy
anybody know Ashton Kutcher start in
that 70s show well he actually studied
biochemical engineering turned out well
for him didn’t it clearly he does that
what I would like to say about like Lula
sness is pivotal when how to identify
cluelessness in your life but for
instance me giving this TED talk I’m
going to be honest this is my first time
speaking in front of any sort of
audience and so first I think that we as
a society look at cluelessness in a
certain way maybe not the best way for
your psychosocial health why because the
portrayal of cluelessness is not
necessarily supportive so you know when
we see people and they say oh you know
he or she is clueless we’re associating
that with being unintelligent or not
having sort of the brain capacity to
absorb information and the understanding
and things that you need to in order to
gain a clue so in order to break this
stigma I think to really get down
nitty-gritty to the definition of
cluelessness and the lack thereof
knowledge understanding and the
information needed I think that this I
look at cluelessness when I’m
interviewing candidates all the time I
noticed that the work/life balance is
really being pushed in the industry and
lots of people are shifting their career
paths because
they want to do something that they feel
more proud of doing they want to feel
like what they’re doing has purpose and
you want to kind of live life and be
happy with it because it’s so short and
people are realizing that more and more
so I don’t base my judgments off of a
small sample of qualification anymore
what I’ve actually done is made it
broader so I think the way that we
should look at cluelessness is a very
impactful way to train somebody because
if you think about it this person
doesn’t have a clue about what you’re
interviewing them for say you have
somebody who’s like you know I’m really
interested in working this position well
you have no experience in it so how do
you expect to do that
well I’m willing to learn great they
have no parameters with what they want
to learn because they don’t understand
where the parameters lie whereas maybe a
candidate who’s kind of experience in
the field they know how to do something
they know what works for them they’re
gonna do it that way sure they’ll learn
from you they’ll take your input into
consideration but maybe it won’t be as
effective so that’s I guess some
pointers on how we can break the stigma
I want to encourage people that being
clueless in your life is bound to happen
like regardless of what circumstances
you may be in whether it’s in the
workplace whether it’s personal and good
things happen good things happen because
okay you ready take a guess cuz you
don’t have a clue yeah because you don’t
have a clue you know the concept of
failure you don’t you can’t envision
what that is because you don’t envision
or you’re not able to build a plan
towards success yet because you’re in
that learning stage and so even if you
fail in one perception you’re not
failing in another because you’re
learning something from every failure
you are taking something from every
circumstance and regardless of how it
ends up it can’t end up badly with that
being said there’s never been a better
time to be clueless and cluelessness in
your life to allow the universe to take
you and open you up to new opportunities
take them don’t be closed
don’t be so planned I had to learn that
the hard way my message if you take
anything from it today I want you to
understand that cluelessness is pivotal
pivotal meaning crucial importance in
relation to the development or success
of something else regardless of what
that is regardless if it’s relevant to
what you’re trying to do or not you will
gain success or some sort of development
from anything you choose to do whether
you go into it knowing what you need to
do or not and so the moral of my story
here is times given to you without a clue are pivotal for you thank you
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