I really enjoyed watching the video. I thought It would be boring but his concepts and ideas really grabbed my attention and it gained my interest to keep listening becauses he spoke about many things that I can really relate too. Robinson informs us that we tend to make poor use of our talents which is really true and like kids and students, I believe that our dreams are being stumbled on. There isn't enough support and assistance from parents or teachers who are making us feel comfartable to present our true self and doing what we want to so istead, we endure it because we don't enjoy it. He made me think of my future career because it's accurate that passion will motivate me for the rest of my life and I don't feel like I'm able to show bits of myself, to express what I'm really passionate about to my family member because they might take it as a joke. I know I'm not alone and it's minority of us students whose passion is being judged and stigmatized which is no help in improving ourselves to recgonize what we're really good at. And like Robinson said how five minutes will feel like an hour when we are doing what we dislike, but five minutes will feel like an hour because we are so focused and passionate about doing what we love. I do want to persue in a career that relates with my interests because from doing what I love, I will value it more rather than feeling like it's a job. Robinson also convey how WE are obsessed with getting people into college and that reminds me of everyone in my family member. People in general want their kids to go to college and yes I get that it'll help us students in the long run, but sometimes we don't need to, maybe not right now and we can choose to later because our life isn't only based entering a University and graduating with a college diploma. Like parents are so obsessed and preaching to kids about getting educated in order to get in a professional career, to make a sufficient amount of salary. I get it but from what parents are doing, it doesn't help one bit. It doesn't motivate us to figure out how much our values and quality really means to us and so we try to please others in doing what they want us to or what they wanted to be in the past. Americans are so focused in forcing kids into the work force and hoping that we one day prosper and so it doesn't enable us to bring our passion into it and letting us figure out what we love doing. Furthermore, I really liked how Robinson said that life isn't linear but organic. I guess he's trying to convey a message of how life isn't about following a set of rules, like a straight line that will lead us to one place, to the same place. Life should be more organic, with no preservative so my life and everyone's else should be more original, more of our own taste and it's more about creating our life symbolically with our own talents than to be what everyone wants us to be just like how fruits and veggies should taste one way in order to please and give satisfaction to whoever's eating it. I really recommend undecided majors like me and people to watch this video because there's no doubt that one will relate to it the way I did.
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