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Published: 2015-06-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rxWc-TNIJI
what are you going to do with your life don't tell me that answer that you tell everyone which actually think about it what do you going to do with your life because I'm gonna tell you how I found my dream job you see ever since I was a kid I knew exactly what I wanted to do I want to write I want to be a writer
and help people by writing so it really hard in junior high school high school college and it all paid off because I got accepted into top graduate school of my choice and everything was going to plan and halfway through grad school I quit I dropped out stop going to school and I started my dream job but enough about me let's talk about you you can do
what you love because you live in a world of magic sheer and utter magic all around you so much so that if your great great grandma is here today she would be freaking out because you can fly in the air fly you know how long takes to get from here to China sixteen hours now one that used to take years now you get a snack a
nap in a movie and you're in China that's crazy that's magic forget flying today on the way home we could be stuck in traffic and be talking face to face with someone in Australia that magical device that you carry with you and it was your voice to echo around the world crazy magic you know everything instantly there used to be a time this is going to
be hard to believe but there used to be a time where if you didn't know something you just didn't know it you can be like upon us Syria I don't know how to get home or the bomb us here how many ounces are in a pound you just didn't know it but now you do you know everything instantly it's magic and that magic of course is
technology you can use technology to do what you love if you are a genius just joking you can use technology to do what you love if you learn to create because you can create anything you want with technology you can create your own apps on website their own fashion collection your own movies your own job your own company their own charity you can create that technology
because technology is magic that you can use to do what you love if you learn to create the first thing you need to do is to decide what do you want to create decisions can be hard choosing where to go to school can be scary but I'm not asking you what you want to do with the rest of your life this asking you what do you
want to create like what would be fun to make in the next three months the next ninety days what do you want to create and here's the good news when you make that decision you cannot make a wrong decision the only wrong decision to that answer is the one you don't make the only wrong decision is indecision someone once said the biggest risk is not taking
any risk at all that was mark he was seventeen when he created Facebook after you've decided what you want to create you need to learn how to create a now here's the thing about learning it's one of the most exciting things you can possibly do don't believe me try this close your eyes you guys to close your eyes I want you to think about what closure
on his what's one thing you would love to know how to do like man I just knew how to or if I can only know how to okay got us I hope so held on ice up as high that's what you wanna know how to do no way I actually know someone who knows how to do that yeah let's let's talk afterwards in battle just tell
you now their name is Google and they know how to do that you live in a world of magic you can find out anything instantly you could figure out how to learn what you want if god who to learn from where to learn it in fact your voice can echo all the way around the world could literally ask anyone in any country anything you can find
an expert and say why do you like doing what you do why do you love doing what you do you can ask them those questions and what's most important if you do not stop asking questions because there's a thousand reasons but you cannot learn something like to heart I don't have enough time my mom's not helping me they're all these excuses but you have to keep
pushing you have to keep asking questions someone once said it's not that I am so smart but I stay with questions longer that was Albert he was five when he asked his dad how does the compass work later created at the theory of relativity decide what you want to create learn how to create it and then you just need to do it you need to create
it you need to executed and here's how you start you start by designing what do you want to make how should it make you feel I should make your customers feel how should make your audience feel how should make your users feel you design that experience and you build it you create it you make it and you get this first draft and when you're done with
this first draft you're not done because your first draft is not your final draft you need to edit it need to Polish it you need to revise it you need to remake it because when you revise something you discover what's magic about it you discover that one note that makes the song that one choke that makes the sex you can find magic in anything but you
have to work for it after you have executed on your creation you need to share it too many of your creations are dying on computer desktops garage shelves because you don't want to share it but you need to share what you've made because when you do here's what will happen best case scenario everyone loves it and the recount like wait you may that how how did
you make that that's amazing it's incredible any six the other best case scenario is that you fail ethically flat on your face and they're like well %HESITATION that's really good still in school right you will learn things through failing that's sass will never teach you you need to share your creations share your work with the world someone once said real artists ship real artists share their
work that was Steve he was twenty he created you need to learn how to create you need to execute on that creation and you do this over and over and over again it's a cycle it's something that you do as you move forward because every time you succeed every time you fail that's a step forward and you're better for it this it's how I found my
dream job because when I was a kid I saw Toy Story and that was insane you guys don't know this but they didn't use to be three D. movies there's just too many movies Toy Story came we got a whole new D. and a blue and it blew my mind how could you possibly make a three D. movie crazy that's magic so I decided I gonna
make an animation I don't know how to make an animation so how to learn I read a book I watched %HESITATION read some forums watching videos and I made an animation and it was awful sure a few people but I decided I want to make a website I don't know how to make a website so I found a book that was of this big and I
read through it and I found a website called YouTube I watched videos I learned how to make a website and I made a website slightly better than the animation then later I decided to take a job teaching kids how to make web sites I had no idea how to teach so how to learn how to watch other teachers had a try it out for myself had
a plan lessons but I did it I executed I taught kids and then I decided what if we create could create a company the kids all throughout the city how to create with technology I had no idea how to start a company so I had to learn how to talk to people that companies had to watch YouTube videos at it fine business plans and I had
to start a company but I did it I made it company executed and then we as a company decided what if we teach kids all around the world how to create with techno and be pretty awesome so we decided to make online classes we had no idea how to make online classes we barely had a camera but we learned how to do it we watched videos
we read we talk to people and we made online classes and those are my classes now we have students in one hundred countries all over the world those students are younger than you but they know how to code in Java they know how to animate movies they know how to create their own fashion collections and those students for them that's magic here's the thing about magic
magic is not about doing what is impossible magic is about doing what is perceived to be impossible and what people don't realize is that for hundreds of years generations of creators have been shattering the perception of human limitation that is why you can fly in the air that's why your voice can echo around the world that's why you can know anything instantly it's not magic people
have to do that people had to create that people had to make it they had a fail had a succeed some of them died but they made it and they look at you today and say this is your world fees are your tools want do you want create it's not always going to be easy it's not always going to be fun because people aren't going to
believe in you people are going to doubt you people are going to make fun of you people are going to compete with you people are going to sometimes beat you and you gonna get knocked down and you're gonna get knocked down and you're going to get knocked down but you're not going to stay down because that thing that you are creating is good and it's worth
it and is that what you want to live a life that's worth it and when you're done you can give it back to the world and make it a better place and look at the next generation of creators and say this is your world these are your tools what do you want create learn to create because those who create are those who create the future thank
