What holds us back from changes
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This is a speech I made on TEDxYouth Westlake based on my experience to change career path from Economics background to web designer and developer in 301 days. To make a change, you need to: * Bear the cost of being difference; * Take actions, right now; * Stick with your decision for a while.
What holds us back from changes
- 1. What holds us back from ?
- 2. Steven Yang
- 6. My experience starts 2010.10.26
- 7. I beg you() { pleasePrint("Hello World"); }
- 9. 301 days later Now
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- 11. Now I can Play with Many Different Types
- 12. At least, my life path has changed.
- 13. If you also decided to.. Change
- 14. The first thing you will encounter
- 15. Photo by meredith markleigh
- 16. The only one to lean on is.. You
- 18. You have to deal with worries
- 19. If you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. Buddha
- 20. If you take a leap of faith, and are determined to make a difference..
- 21. Things will turn out to be
- 23. Nothing kills you faster than Inaction
- 24. Great work is resulted from continuous Actions
- 25. Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft In 1971, Gates and his friends ran up 1,575 hours of com-puter time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. --Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
- 26. Actions will lead to Feedback
- 27. You determined to take rapid actions and received tons of feedback, but month later
- 29. Motivation Drops
- 30. The pattern pervades in every profession.
- 31. Motivation Drops
- 32. Focus and endurance distinguishes remarkable people from the other.
- 33. Haruki Murakami Writer If you concentrate on writing three or four hours a day and feel tired after a week of this, youre not going to be able to write a long work.
- 34. Motivation Drops
- 35. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Buddha
- 36. Bear the cost of difference
- 37. Do something, right now
- 38. Stick with it for a while
Editor's Notes
- Most of people are on a similar path[I am arranged talk from friends / ]You have other examples to reference to. Freshman-> sophomore Early on your career ->Senior employeeYou always can peer out your life forward
- But when you start out No advices apply to you No one is ahead of you You have to make your own decisions
- People will watch You friends, family
- -They see your mistakes, you falling down,-They care about you
- Loneliness and worries are general feedback you will receive
- unfortunately most actions are boring and monotonous.
- unfortunately most actions are boring and monotonous.
- Then you dig into you ideas,Piled up work,A lot of stuff to learn, work, talks, meetings etc..
- At this stagenothing kills you faster than inaction.Why? -> self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Negative FeedbackPositive Feedback
- At this stage, people become to doubt themselves..
- Write - write/Musician do scales /Artist paint without inspiration /Coder write programs /Scientist monotonous research /Traveler WalkThe process to realize a idea is always tedius.
- Most people cannot endure the dry part of this processHow many of you are still working on something you decide to do this week / month / early this year / years ago?
- The same applies to any creation work.Inspiration is like sparkling light,