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Your most powerful weapon that you’re not using! | Mr. Divyanshu Damani | TEDxIITIndore


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I have a dream I have a dream that one
day this nation will rise up and live
out the true meaning of its Creed
that all men are created equal I have a
dream that we ask not what the country
can do for us but instead ask what we
can do for our country and I have a
dream where we live in a place where the
mind is without fear and the head is
held high apologies ladies and gentlemen
for combining all these great speeches
poetry and some bollywood dialogues I’ll
give you some context here because I
think that’s important so my name is the
branch of the money I’m a social-media
influencer and a keynote speaker and I
have a following of around 200,000
people online and I’ve spoken to almost
20,000 people offline over the past year
and a half and it’s important for me to
tell you how the journey started
so I started about a year and a half
back and I started creating content
online about anything that I wanted to
share with the audience so I call up my
friend say hey come over I want to
create a video and that’s how the
journey started I was just me talking to
the camera and sharing my thoughts very
candid thoughts slowly I started
receiving some recognition for the
content I was creating and people
started messaging me they told me that
how the content was impacting their life
how they were able to take better
decisions and how probably it was
allowing them to change their lives as
well
in the beginning I was a bit of a cynic
I thought how can the content change
their life so much that they actually
come out and message me about it so I
said probably they liked the content
it’s great I will continue doing it but
with more content I created with more
offline engagements I went to and with
more people I spoke with that were
actually influenced by the content I was
creating I thought path is say through a
barrier because there’s something
happening here which I was probably not
aware of because one random guy is
sitting in one random part of the world
and just using a medium which was social
media that was open to everyone and
sharing his thoughts was impacting in
such a way I needed to know more so I
started to introspect
and I found the answer the answer was
very very simple it was this force of
nature that I had this very very special
ability it was so special that everyone
in this room and even people watching
online have that ability let me tell you
the secret the secret is nothing but the
power of words words can act as a bullet
or act as a seed words have been used to
wage wars by dictators or to even feed a
hungry child whose starving
words can take a man who is at the
lowest in his life and make a star out
of him or someone I could take someone
from the top and bring them down to the
trenches that’s the power of words you
might be thinking here I add the rancher
that’s fine we know it that’s the power
of words but I have a question you must
be thinking that and great question
audience I have a question how do you
actually tap into this power that you
actually have there are three parts to
it
what can change me what can change you
and what’s can change the world
it’s simple meet you in the world very
simple very clear now how can what
change me let’s do this small incident
let me show you a small incident all
right the two friends one friend was up
to the other friend he says hey man
how’s it going and the other friend
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casual conversation now if it Netflix up
series that scene one cut second scene
the person comes in again hey man how’s
it going this time the person replies
hey man it’s going great life is awesome
it’s pretty beautiful that’s it he
replies that what I’m trying this might
seem a little lame but what I’m trying
to talk about is this concept called
transformational go Cadbury it’s not a
concept created by me it’s created by
this individual Tony Robbins who is a
life coaching entrepreneur he says that
if you’re conscious of the words that
you’re using every single day and you
conditioned yourself to use the words
and amplify the positive words and
reduce the negative words that will
improve
the quality of your life so what I’m
saying life to Charlie are it’s okay for
a very common question that’s always
asked me about every single person and
instead if I say life is beautiful life
is great it’s having a very subtle
effect on your mind in the longer run he
goes on to say that instead of using a
word like I’m feeling depressed if you
use something like I’m feeling low today
or instead using like if I meet someone
today and I say it’s very nice to meet
you
if I say I am so thrilled to meet you
you will automatically feel thrilled and
you can condition yourself to do these
things automatically and this is how my
words can change me but even your words
can change me isn’t it
let me share a small story here this
story is about Kings surely anyone out
of King shall know show of hands Kings
shall was in the mahabharata– and he
was one of the stronger Emperor’s who
wanted to fight from the Pandavas side
however he was somehow tricked to fight
from the kaabah side and he was made to
become the charioteer of colonel who was
one of the stronger warriors from the
car beside now Kings earlier since he
was he relented the thought of all of
fighting from the car beside he started
demoralizing Kearn while being his
charity or he told him you won’t be able
to win the war look at original strength
Arjun was a direct competitor these are
your weaknesses there is an AOP law he
constantly demoralized in demotivated
Khan and instead on the other hand
Argent’s charioteer was none other than
Lord Krishna and Lord Krishna of
constantly inspired Arjun to do more
told him what are the things he should
do and he was a guide or guide and
mentoring force one of the major reasons
why can’t went on to lose the battle
went on to lose the battle against Arjun
was because of king Shalu because of the
words that King shalyah was using around
him the question right now that I have
for all of you is
who’s your charity and what are the
words are they using and your charity or
are your friends your family and the
relatives that you move around with if
the words that they are using are like
Lord Krishna that are inspiring you to
do more that are inspiring you to create
more be more innovative in your life
then that’s awesome but if your charity
er is using words like that of King
shalya then it’s time to change the
charity and that’s how ladies and
gentlemen words can change me including
my words changing me and your words
changing me but words can change you as
well the TED platform is one of the best
examples of our changing you I mentioned
some of the inspiring speeches by people
like John F Kennedy even people like
Abraham Lincoln
reppin the nod to God all of these
people had mastered the art of using
their words to positively influence
people and makes me think of Steve Jobs
it makes me think of because Steve Jobs
created this reality distortion field
which is a term coined by but rebel who
was working with Steve Jobs at Apple at
the moment so but Ribble said that even
if you do not believe in steve’s vision
even if you did not believe what Steve
could offer to the world when you were
with Steve personally he had this he
could actually hypnotize you with his
language with his belief in himself and
with his passion that he would actually
went into this reordered reality
distortion field and he said yeah Steve
I think that is possible I think that
could be done what’s the reality
distortion field that you are creating
for others around you and what how are
you positively influencing them in your
lives one of the quick examples of words
changing you I did this short video I
just wanted to do this social experiment
where I was out how do people react when
you go out there and read them just ask
them from from your uber driver to the
person who serves you at the restaurant
– random stranger on the street how do
people react when you go out there and
read them so I was out there I greeted
people asked get over your sub Beria sub
at subsea
and instead
instantly every single person had a
smile on their face because we often
don’t ask people how they’re doing so if
you just go out there and do that you’re
instantly creating such a strong
connection with so many people out there
it’s just a thought that you need to
keep in your head and that’s how my
words can change you a third part words
can change the world and you’ll be
saying it the rancher that leave that to
the politicians leave that to the
business leaders at least my words right
now it can’t change the world let me let
me counter that thought
last year I created this one video or
rather this one video was going viral on
social media
it was called the community solution
video it was about this young kid who
was under the influence of drugs and he
was being interviewed and some of his
answers were apparently funny to some
people and they created memes out of it
and created funny video compilations
which are going viral all over the
Internet the sad truth was that amongst
all these memes amongst all these
virality the hard truth of the king
being of the kid being under the
influence of drugs and a lost life was
absolutely camouflaged I created a video
then talking about how insensitive it
was to create memes on such a topic
instantly the video caught fire
and people shared it all across and it
reached four million views overnight but
the more important point was I saw the
conversation across the country changing
I was just a random guy sitting in a
random corner of my house and I just
wanted to share my thoughts and
something going viral across social
media and that changed the conversation
around an entire country and I’m not
saying this because of the numbers or
the metrics
I’m saying this because a lot of people
called me up and they said that in my
office or in my workplace people were
making fun of this kid but after seeing
the video they were actually able to
change or stop other people from making
fun the point ladies and gentlemen when
I say words can change the world
I mean and if you said that ten years
backwards can change the world
I would feel you’re a cynic that’s fine
but if today I mean what can change the
world I mean your words can change the
world with the platform that social
media gives you even if you’ve got
thousand friends with you right now that
means you’re influencing thousand people
whatever you like whatever value you
provide in the little little ways
whatever opinion you put out you’re
influencing them and slowly slowly
slowly you’re changing the world so use
this opportunity that you’ve got that’s
what I mean words can change me you and
the world
so the point what’s the point of all
this the point is if I were to give you
the nuclear codes
what were you to do with it you would
not play a game of snake along with it
right you would be very careful with it
because they are weapon words are a
similar weapon and any weapon contains
power I like to quote my favorite quote
out there and it was said by Uncle Ben
to Peter Parker in the movie spider-man
with great power comes great
responsibility
and that’s what you need to take care of
so use words that inspires people
instead of words that tires people use
words that creates rather than words
that destroy use words that same word
that we can instead of words that we
can’t use ones that fuels you up rather
than what the dispirit cyou use words
carefully and to conclude ladies and
gentlemen I’ll just say I have a dream
that more people will inspire more more
people will create more more people will
do more in all thought action and
definitely word thank you ladies and
gentlemen [Applause]
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