@Janice Brown I am an only child and I since a little boy have found myself identified as a self-learner, and with a creative and entrepreneurial mindset. I am intrigued because I always thought being an only child is a negative quality. Could you expand further please?
@Janice Brown Wow. I see it now. Thinking of my friends that are also only children, most are also similar, critical thinkers. I guess it really is true. Thank you so much, you've made me realise that the loneliness was eventually, in reality, the best thing that happened to me. It has been very hard looking after my single mother since young but I feel it gives me much purpose. Genuinely thanks so much.
His talk is not about leaving school or University, it is about you gotta take another chance to get your real life experience, and if you didn't get chance to go to University, that's doesn't mean you will be a failure for the whole life, this is among the best talk I think.
don't have skill, have passion. learn from yourself get paid Stop if it sucks, don't accept no lol these points are so general you can see them both ways. I don't endorse any points here.
1. Focus on cultivating real, valuable, useful skills (through deep practice) 2. Find people who are "better than you" and find ways to really help them (for free) 3. "Hustle comes before passion." Work hard & keep at it!
Develop skill - deep work -Deliberate practice Learn from the best - best work way too hard -do something that adds value to them and learn as well - it is important to have a skilled mentor Real life skill- learning is more important than money Hustle comes first, passion follows
This talk was immensely illuminating. When I realized how beneficial this would be to my own intellectual learning, I immediately grabbed my notebook and began writing notes to grasp and remember the content as much as possible. It is crazy to think that I am close to his age right now, 20. I sympathized with many of his points and his disappointment with the formal education system. Thank you for this!
Summary. If you want to become good at something:- 1. Develop Skill 2. Learn from the Best 3. Hustle Comes First ( then passion follows) Quote:- "Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." - Pink Floyd-
he is lucky to have a great father ! I think his father should have given this talk ! we need to become better parents ... my parents did the opposite always ! every time I had a dream they were so good at making fun of it and destroying it for me ...
Actually his father did what all or most parents do he simply guided his son in the direction he wanted him to go in a non-confrontational manner. note: he was playing pro basketball until his injury his father stepped in and payed him to dictate psychology books for him to listen to on his way to work. the son unconsciously began to develop a passion for psychology after months of performing dad's requests. bread crumbs
+sara meachel Every parent teaches differently, knowingly or not. Your parents prepared you in a different way than some/most might but it is unique and special to you. Live your light and share it with the world!
You're not alone my friend,you just gotta prove them that you are really passionate.Im havin the same situation as you and also if they make fun of you, see it as a "push" for you to strive better :)
Finding one's purpose is not something that's handed to you, and it's the hardest thing to find! I've also always considered studying as a part-time thing... I've been playing lots of music, learning how to be a teacher and a journalist at the same time. Be curious my friends and seek your passion!
+Guy Schneider If that's you in your profile picture, you're young like me. And that's EXACTLY that mentality that we need to bring into the world. To find the courage to follow our dreams and live life the way we want...no....NEED...to. Stay hungry, feed your mind, believe in what you can accomplish and you will die happy, with a legacy and your mak in the world
27 year old college grad here. Hopefully we'll change the international education system in the future to work for everyone. With that, shall the generations after us be able to improve upon that education. All of this said, I cannot see our current education system continuing on successfully in the future, so an overhaul of the system is needed.
The wise one will listen to this message and extract valueanke information and apply it towards personal growth. The not so wise will find faults and 1001 reasons why they can't break free. Remove that mental block and see you soar.
I am totally agree because university only prepare you for academic purpose not for practicable world you need to gain experience and self skill in order to achieve your goals . I am very impressed with this guy he is my brother friend he is really polite and humble guy .
University has easily become one of the most overrated things ever! In most places, it will teach you that you should destroy your dreams, live a limited life and stick to the degree you took even though you might regret it later. But it will also (if you're willingly) open your mind to new horizons and perspectives you can discover. At least I learned it that way! Everything we've ever wanted is right on the other side of the fear that we develop since youth. I grew a great deal in the last 6 months by being unemployed after being fired from a 1 year job in a company that has been swarmed with corruption, bad values and nasty, nasty people. I'm using a lot of things I've learned from several people including Till and turned my negativism into positivism, my dreams have REAL hope now and I'm following what I believe in and what I wanna do. I've started 2016 with a bad life but this year will mark the path to success for me. Are you courageous enough to that? Do you have the vision and ability to see past many negative things you've been taught since you were a child? Are your ambitions bigger than your fears? You have a chance to live once, do not waste it by living how others tell you. Find out how to live it and live it, damn it!!
Yep :/ I suck at taking exams so I will fail college if I continue but my mom equates "going to college" to "learning". I told her I don't want to continue and she said "but how are you going to learn or get a job?" :/ I can't do it..
Trophonix Go for an apprentice, where you can learn things practically. Colledge is not the best way for everyone to make a proper education. It can actually ruin your life. The System is very fucked. Speaking from own experience. Sorry i cant go in detail for now, but if you dont have a vision of what you want to do with your degre then learn practical things. you will mostly develop better skills step by step then just going through the martyr of examing yourself to death, leaving colledge more depressed then anything. Practical skills getting more and more important again in economy, and you can make a decent living out of it, investing your money in property. If you get out off colledge you most likely will be around 25-30 first time starting earn some money. If you are a woman no one wants start a family with you, couse you re getting to old. For men, they just getting into a profession and need maybe another 5-10 years till they are independent. Where by a worker is easily independent around 30, beginning their first house to build, paying off a car, starting a family, maybe having extra time and money to really educate themselfes based on their practical knowledge... Just dont study because everyones studying. Dont go with the flow!
I’ve been working on construing my own career without education and I’ve ran into many obstacles but this video has granted me a lot of clarity. After hearing “no” and “school is the only way” I’ve began to get discouraged. This talk really got me back on track‼️
I actually love self-learning, and hopefully after my bachelor's degree, sign up for more learner-centered education or educational structures that I can do on my own for my higher education. What worries me though is that our society's economy is very old-school (at least in my developing country) and are more after those who graduated with a "degree" from traditional schools. I'm planning to be self-employed someday but people whom I might work with might not take me seriously based on the credentials that I plan to have. So right now I'm looking for people or a community who took this life path and I'd like to talk through about the cons of living life through this way and smash through them!
This was the talk I needed to be certain that I dictate my own education. Recently, I have been indulging myself into different academic disciplines, such as the biological mind, computer science (learning how to code), mechanical engineering concepts, and etc despite never learning it in high school. This being said, however, I will be attending an architecture university in 2020. Since my program heavily focuses on design rather than the practicality of structures, I worry that my "education" will be too narrowed down. Don't get me wrong, I know (so far) being an architect is what I dreamed of becoming since young, and yet I question the possibility of intertwining totally different disciplines. It can promote fascinating perspectives of what an architecture can be such as the integration of technology and design, psychological impact on one's brain when entering a building, and etc... An inspirational person comes to mind from this talk, Neri Oxman. She is known for art and architecture that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She was told that biology is not going to take her to become world class architect, yet here we are, she initiated a course of "bio-architecture" of some kind. Through her and this talk, I realized there is no such thing as "bad knowledge". You just learn for the sake of being eager to learn. Don't let what your university degree dictate the scope of your education. I feel as though many university has lost touch with the intimate understanding that students are there to learn to better themselves. There is so much beauty in seeking for knowledge regardless if it aligns with my pursuing degree. The actual Latin meaning of "amateur" is someone who does so purely for the love of it. And so, I want to be an amateur. I want to dictate my own education and not be limited to what my university course offers me. I don't mind if this comment will not be seen. I am merely here for myself, to tell myself, that this is what my reason is for seeking education. Perhaps in the future, I will reread this comment and reflect on my progress...
Amazing secret I learn it from you "If you want to learn from person higher level than you so focus on what value you can give i them" Thanks Till H. Groß
3. "Learning is more important than making money" Yea, if you are blessed financially. This is such a privileged statement. So many people do not have this option because basic human needs are not provided by state or family.
Even for these people learning is more important than making money, it's just a matter of what to learn. Some people need to learn more immediately useful skills instead of psychology. But humans need to learn things as a prerequisite to just about anything. And it's not just a human thing, all mammals learn some basics from their ancestors. I reckon the standard concept of education in western society is disaligned with reality, for learning has been equated with ivory towers. However, learning is just what the word means, the consolidation of information and development of a skill
@@komencanto That was my point. I even talked about animals. When very poor people try to grow food to eat, as was the case for most of the last thousands of years, learning the minimum to grow the food is still a prerequisite. A mammal predator, like a big cat, has to learn to hunt before being able to live independently. A child left alone right after birth will die, because it needs some level of development first, mostly learning, to even try to survive. The whole point of my original post was that education/learning, by the fundamental definition, is the most important thing for any human being in any material situation. It has nothing to do with formal, academic or whatever more sophisticated type of education you're thinking about. Also, that does not imply that people should be learning something every time. I'm just deducing the importance of learning by the premise that the importance of something in the context of a goal is proportional to its necessity for the goal. Knowing is a prerequisite for any goal. Assuming that we aren't born knowing enough, and we aren't, knowing comes through learning.
I thought this guy would be hard to listen to because of his English but the things he has to say quickly makes you work through that and hear his message ❤️ love him ❤️
I have the opposite situation--- not only no one supporting me to get ahead, paying me, but a long chain of severe life blows, snags, setbacks, beyond my control, severely derailing & disrupting all my efforts... blow by blow... in real life. However, I also see God with me, with hope, "He can make a way where there is no way."
1. Develop skill through deep work and deliberate practice 2. Take your skill to the next level by learning from the best people in the world. You may have to seek out this mentor. Don't expect to bump into Mr Miyagi 3. Develop real world experience. Gaining the right experience early on is more important than making money 4. Don't expect to be passionate at first. Hustle comes first, passion often follows later 5. Get used to rejection. Everyone who has been successful has heard "NO" many times. Don't take it personally.
I love this so much, this is exactly what I needed to hear. I've been thinking about dropping out of University to pursue a UX Design career and now I know that I've just gotta hustle through the degree while developing necessary skills on my own. Thanks so much!
1. Develop a skill - Read books{Deep work}and summarize in own words; Delebrate practice. 2.Learn from the best/reach out - focus on what you can give to them 3.Learning is more important than making money(get experience) 4.Hustle comes first, passion follows Additional: Get accustomed to NO/rejection. As you're young....
Totally agree with u we should not rely on formal education. i have just done CS degree and i dont think i really learn about CS but now i will start my journey on self-taught.
1. Develop skill - book summaries, practice, 2. Learn from the best. - work ethics, and habits, adapt the work ethics and habits 3. Real life experience - learning is more important than making money. 4. Get used to no. It's a growing process.
I live a life surrounded by negative people, critics, and traditional wrap-ups. They keep on motivating the young people to pursue technology degree through their statistic and marketing, but in reality there is such thing that some students might ended up working with their own hands on the construction fields, jobless, and more. In school, they taught different subjects in general concepts that I find it hardly to focus. Not only learning in university brings negative impacts to me, but the older seem to believe that because the learner earn less than they do simple business or income, they tend to judge that learning is useless and it is not so valuable to learn to much. Now, I throw away my engineer degree, my business mentor, and critics in order to study online to build a career I love and the true education I seek to understand in real life.
Nothing so wrong with "working with their own hands on the construction fields". My husband did that for 40 years and now we have a very comfortable retirement income. Today all the kids want to work on a computer......lots of good jobs are going unfilled out there "working with their own hands".
3:35 Let's face it his dad being a therapist took the opportunity to change his son's life forever by paying him a very handsome amount to read and record psychology book for him to listen as audio while driving his car. I'm pretty sure his dad knew that this trick would change his son's life without his son noticing it for longtime. Now that's what I call a dad.
4 STEPS to becoming successful Take education in your own HANDS 1. Develop Skills Deep learning and deliberate practice) 2. Learn from the BEST people in the field Adopt their work ethics and work practice 3. Learning is more important than money At least at the beginning of your career 4. Hustle comes first (before you find your passion) 5. Get used to being told NO 6. Find a mentor - in exchange for his/her mentoring offer services your can provide to reduce their workload
im 16 and i came from serbia a year ago, when i came i was going to a school where you have school subjects for "Hauptschulabschluss" and learn German, but then I got bored and 6months later i transferd to another school and did the "Hautpschulabschluss" and "Quali".Today I'm going in M10 after that I will go to FOS and go Studie if I dont succeed in football. SO basicaly you motivated me to learn more for my future job(programming, i hope if not football). because here in school you get such easy stuff in math and informatik(wirtschaft) and im bored as f----. thank you so much.
When people say they’ve read “dozens an and dozens” of books on a topic, it baffles me because I absolutely love reading, but am so slow at it. I wish I could say that I read dozens and dozens of books on a topic, but if I even get through one, that’s a major accomplishment for me. Good grief
studies are destroying creative minds if the study not 100% fits which it won`t in most cases. I just finished studying and working for 8 years and now starting just learning the stuff i need. Study made me depressive in the end. Now i feel lucky and free and quit everything and travelling the world soon. Go for someone in your field and work with him or just watch youtube.
I am 22. I am taking college degree but on the side focusing much on MIT and Stanford's freely available courses and will follow his suggestions as well.
He does have good points, but mileage may highly vary depending on your level of privilege. For example, you can only work for free, if you somehow have some other type of support that allows you to live rent or bill-free. If you have to live on your own and pay for an apartment, food, etc., some of his tips may not work as well.
Who says he didn't also have a night job to pay for all the things that cost money? He sounds the sort who would have done anything to get where he wanted.
@@FlakeyPM He didn't say he had a night job to pay for all the things that cost money, this is the thing. My observation and expreience say that those who work nght and day round end up with burn out and frustration. And never reach their dreams. Sad but true.
@@vidmiraclejdv true. Money actually gives you the freedom that you want. Getting paid without working. That may be privilege and luck to an extent but not entirely. Financial literacy and financial education gives you that freedom IMO. But sadly most people are not ready to face the truth
Not only y oung people underestimate it. So did my parents. I'm twice your age, but what you're saying is something I wish I'd heard from my parents 30 y ears ago.
these are terrific suggestions, and i find educational institutions to be less and less respectable all the time, but many of these options are not viable for students that have to work, among other things. there is a lot of privilege that allowed these people to accomplish what they did and develop these methodologies. a year of four unpaid internships? not in most people's wildest dreams.
Thanks for sharing your story. The wise ones will take what they need from your talk an succeed, sorry for those who don't see the value of what you shared. Best wishes on your chosen field.
University helped me seek out the answers I was looking for by forcing me to be curious. Be curious on your own, save time and money without university. Learn how to learn, then you can learn about anything.
Truth is anyone can become just as educated as someone who spent years of college to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer. Etc.. Without spending a penny. Its smaller than a T calculator and 99% of us have one 😉 Peer reviewed articles are free Edit: Btw I just handled myself in a Pre-trial case earlier today. My attorney didn’t show and the Honorable wanted to proceed. Well thanks to studying law (for free) the previous couple weeks I simply spoke calmly “Your honor I request adjournment due to not having my attorney present”. Case instantly froze, council met in the judges chamber and I was awarded adjournment
Whatever the format, Moral & Spiritual Education is also needed as well as Material & Human Education. "Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom." ~ Bahá'i Faith
It always comes down to good positive environment and experience ( being surrounded by good people and not burnouts and assholes ) Bad Parents, Bad teachers, Bad bosses, Bad workplace colleagues and Bad friends. Don't forget the old axiom -You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends.
I just finished my formal education. I finished Law, Banking and am now majoring in General management from a super expensive private faculty which has a million dollar view from the library. It had a total cost of a luxury SUV to my parents. University is a mix between a bad kindergarden and a terrible psychiatry. I totally agree with this ted talk. It hasn't brought me a single cent, hasn't taught me any skill. It has only brought me insecurity, financial problems, psychological problems, destroyed relationships. I pay for sports just to stay sane. But at least i know how to cite and write academically about useless stuff after 20 years of torture. Thank you formal education, I can't wait to defend my useless thesis.
Very important speech. Thanks a lot for delivered the speech on the stage of TED Talks. We are all so much benefited by the speech. There are so much inspiration which can improve our knowledge and also our thought process. I am truly speaking that TED is the BEST platform for learning English and by the TED Talks we are always benefited. So, in future we want to more valuable, important and useful speech. And we will able to learn ENGLISH by TED Talks and motivated also so. Thanks to speaker and TED Talks team. BANGLADESH
That was a terrific talk....totally enjoyed it....A great Orator at work....and some very valuable tips shared based on life lessons learnt....cheers from Pune
I keep hearing "Do it for free." "Offer to do __ and do it for free." With what money? With what time? Are you suggesting a full time job on top of full time college and everything you just said? Say Joe Schmo is willing to mentor you if you do __ for him and get a plane ticket to the city where he lives for __ weeks? How are you supposed to pay for the plane ticket or the gas, the food, the hotel? Not to mention the time off school? How are you supposed to juggle all that?
Do what you can with what you have right now. God gave you a brain. Pray, meditate and THINK to find the solution. for example, to get a plane ticket....YOU COULD use a cashback card for travel THEN use it to pay EVERYTHING...JUST by signing up to use it, they'll give you enough points to get at least a one way ticket free..BANG..plane ticket solved. Hotel: Find family or a friend or acquitance who lives in the city, ask to live on their couch for a month and pay rent of 25 bucks. These are solutions I came up with off the top of my head. My point is that YOU have to figure out a way to do it and then have the courage to try it. The interesting places in life have no predetermined route. You have to walk it yourself
But what if you don't know what you want to do? Because this sounds amazing but if you have no idea what to do or who to follow or learn from you just dont have any idea.
3:34 Ding, ding ding. A lot of these so called "speakers" always had some advantage, whether its family, money connections etc. Please read Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell but yea, decide what you want to do and do it. Dont listen to universities / formal education path unless you need a professional credential. Even when you are in educational system still question it When I went to school about a million years ago at a urban polytechnic, many of the professors in my major were there because of the union, waiting tenure, as it was well paying jobs. Many didnt even know to teach properly. One lectured by looking down at the floor the whole session, telling us we wouldn't amount to nothing. Thank god he left to take care of his ailing mother
Your talks are very inspiring! I kinda wish you could be my mentor and be able to reach out to you for more advice haha I've watched most of your videos and they are very useful. I'll be starting college soon and have no idea what I will encounter but your videos will definitely be of help!
I think at 22 he has more things figured out than most people in their 40s...
Navneet Nair you can tell he has great parents
@Janice Brown I am an only child and I since a little boy have found myself identified as a self-learner, and with a creative and entrepreneurial mindset. I am intrigued because I always thought being an only child is a negative quality. Could you expand further please?
@Janice Brown Wow. I see it now. Thinking of my friends that are also only children, most are also similar, critical thinkers. I guess it really is true. Thank you so much, you've made me realise that the loneliness was eventually, in reality, the best thing that happened to me. It has been very hard looking after my single mother since young but I feel it gives me much purpose. Genuinely thanks so much.
I met him in 2015. Really smart guy, learned a lot from him.
People now understand 20s things in less than their 10s
His talk is not about leaving school or University, it is about you gotta take another chance to get your real life experience, and if you didn't get chance to go to University, that's doesn't mean you will be a failure for the whole life, this is among the best talk I think.
1 have skill
2 learn from best
3 do it for free
4 keep going and have guts to accept "NO"
Sarbjit Singh and learn how to give value to those you want to learn from.
don't have skill, have passion.
learn from yourself
get paid
Stop if it sucks, don't accept no
lol these points are so general you can see them both ways. I don't endorse any points here.
Reko Starr then what the hell can I do go eat shit
unnecessary frustration is unnecessary.
I love you! lol
OMG, was he really 22, when he delivered this talk? That's amazing and awe inspiring. Well done Till..
1. Focus on cultivating real, valuable, useful skills (through deep practice)
2. Find people who are "better than you" and find ways to really help them (for free)
3. "Hustle comes before passion." Work hard & keep at it!
You are a young man with wisdom well beyond age!
Develop skill
- deep work
-Deliberate practice
Learn from the best
- best work way too hard
-do something that adds value to them and learn as well
- it is important to have a skilled mentor
Real life skill- learning is more important than money
Hustle comes first, passion follows
This talk was immensely illuminating. When I realized how beneficial this would be to my own intellectual learning, I immediately grabbed my notebook and began writing notes to grasp and remember the content as much as possible. It is crazy to think that I am close to his age right now, 20. I sympathized with many of his points and his disappointment with the formal education system. Thank you for this!
Summary.
If you want to become good at something:-
1. Develop Skill
2. Learn from the Best
3. Hustle Comes First ( then passion follows)
Quote:-
"Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."
- Pink Floyd-
he is lucky to have a great father ! I think his father should have given this talk ! we need to become better parents ... my parents did the opposite always ! every time I had a dream they were so good at making fun of it and destroying it for me ...
Actually his father did what all or most parents do he simply guided his son in the direction he wanted him to go in a non-confrontational manner. note: he was playing pro basketball until his injury his father stepped in and payed him to dictate psychology books for him to listen to on his way to work. the son unconsciously began to develop a passion for psychology after months of performing dad's requests. bread crumbs
+sara meachel Every parent teaches differently, knowingly or not. Your parents prepared you in a different way than some/most might but it is unique and special to you. Live your light and share it with the world!
I also think this.. His dad was super smart ;)
thats a lot/ many parents. especially the ones without a lot of education, or too busy working
You're not alone my friend,you just gotta prove them that you are really passionate.Im havin the same situation as you and also if they make fun of you, see it as a "push" for you to strive better :)
Finding one's purpose is not something that's handed to you, and it's the hardest thing to find! I've also always considered studying as a part-time thing... I've been playing lots of music, learning how to be a teacher and a journalist at the same time. Be curious my friends and seek your passion!
It usually starts by following your guts and doing the things you enjoy as well as you can.
+Guy Schneider If that's you in your profile picture, you're young like me. And that's EXACTLY that mentality that we need to bring into the world. To find the courage to follow our dreams and live life the way we want...no....NEED...to. Stay hungry, feed your mind, believe in what you can accomplish and you will die happy, with a legacy and your mak in the world
The fact that his English is imperfect, but the content of his speech is super valuable, is really impressive.
I find his accent really good and understandable
+Keanu Oliva His spoken English is as good as your slightly flawed written English. I agree with your evaluation of the content, however:)
I don't think one's fluency in english in anyway limits one's intellectual capability and intelligence.
If you will ever learn any foreign language, you will find out that not only English natives speak about valuable things
This is what they should teach in school
I like that young people like me (22 yr old) are investing in their mind which will return the investment with interest. Awesome talk!
Drop the finance parlance ("returen the investment with interest") and we can talk.
27 year old college grad here. Hopefully we'll change the international education system in the future to work for everyone. With that, shall the generations after us be able to improve upon that education. All of this said, I cannot see our current education system continuing on successfully in the future, so an overhaul of the system is needed.
I am 13 I already knew all of this I just needed the confirmation
@@nikosnianiopoulos appreciate!
The wise one will listen to this message and extract valueanke information and apply it towards personal growth. The not so wise will find faults and 1001 reasons why they can't break free. Remove that mental block and see you soar.
I am totally agree because university only prepare you for academic purpose not for practicable world you need to gain experience and self skill in order to achieve your goals . I am very impressed with this guy he is my brother friend he is really polite and humble guy .
University has easily become one of the most overrated things ever! In most places, it will teach you that you should destroy your dreams, live a limited life and stick to the degree you took even though you might regret it later. But it will also (if you're willingly) open your mind to new horizons and perspectives you can discover. At least I learned it that way!
Everything we've ever wanted is right on the other side of the fear that we develop since youth. I grew a great deal in the last 6 months by being unemployed after being fired from a 1 year job in a company that has been swarmed with corruption, bad values and nasty, nasty people. I'm using a lot of things I've learned from several people including Till and turned my negativism into positivism, my dreams have REAL hope now and I'm following what I believe in and what I wanna do. I've started 2016 with a bad life but this year will mark the path to success for me. Are you courageous enough to that? Do you have the vision and ability to see past many negative things you've been taught since you were a child? Are your ambitions bigger than your fears? You have a chance to live once, do not waste it by living how others tell you. Find out how to live it and live it, damn it!!
Good job!! :)
Yep :/ I suck at taking exams so I will fail college if I continue but my mom equates "going to college" to "learning". I told her I don't want to continue and she said "but how are you going to learn or get a job?" :/ I can't do it..
Curious, how are you now my friend?
Trophonix Go for an apprentice, where you can learn things practically. Colledge is not the best way for everyone to make a proper education. It can actually ruin your life. The System is very fucked. Speaking from own experience. Sorry i cant go in detail for now, but if you dont have a vision of what you want to do with your degre then learn practical things. you will mostly develop better skills step by step then just going through the martyr of examing yourself to death, leaving colledge more depressed then anything. Practical skills getting more and more important again in economy, and you can make a decent living out of it, investing your money in property. If you get out off colledge you most likely will be around 25-30 first time starting earn some money. If you are a woman no one wants start a family with you, couse you re getting to old. For men, they just getting into a profession and need maybe another 5-10 years till they are independent. Where by a worker is easily independent around 30, beginning their first house to build, paying off a car, starting a family, maybe having extra time and money to really educate themselfes based on their practical knowledge... Just dont study because everyones studying. Dont go with the flow!
Tiago Campos m8 thank you very much I was saying this for time seriuosly thank you m8
I’ve been working on construing my own career without education and I’ve ran into many obstacles but this video has granted me a lot of clarity. After hearing “no” and “school is the only way” I’ve began to get discouraged. This talk really got me back on track‼️
Like Mark Twain said “don’t let schooling interfere with your education’
I actually love self-learning, and hopefully after my bachelor's degree, sign up for more learner-centered education or educational structures that I can do on my own for my higher education. What worries me though is that our society's economy is very old-school (at least in my developing country) and are more after those who graduated with a "degree" from traditional schools. I'm planning to be self-employed someday but people whom I might work with might not take me seriously based on the credentials that I plan to have. So right now I'm looking for people or a community who took this life path and I'd like to talk through about the cons of living life through this way and smash through them!
1 develop skill
2 learn from the best
+Austin Duran
3 learning is more important than making money
4 Hustle is first. "then passion comes after"
what does "hustle is first" mean?
+unfortunatebeam In an informal way, it's grabbing your ass to have some rough time, failure and rejection etc
This was the talk I needed to be certain that I dictate my own education. Recently, I have been indulging myself into different academic disciplines, such as the biological mind, computer science (learning how to code), mechanical engineering concepts, and etc despite never learning it in high school. This being said, however, I will be attending an architecture university in 2020. Since my program heavily focuses on design rather than the practicality of structures, I worry that my "education" will be too narrowed down. Don't get me wrong, I know (so far) being an architect is what I dreamed of becoming since young, and yet I question the possibility of intertwining totally different disciplines. It can promote fascinating perspectives of what an architecture can be such as the integration of technology and design, psychological impact on one's brain when entering a building, and etc... An inspirational person comes to mind from this talk, Neri Oxman. She is known for art and architecture that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She was told that biology is not going to take her to become world class architect, yet here we are, she initiated a course of "bio-architecture" of some kind. Through her and this talk, I realized there is no such thing as "bad knowledge". You just learn for the sake of being eager to learn. Don't let what your university degree dictate the scope of your education.
I feel as though many university has lost touch with the intimate understanding that students are there to learn to better themselves. There is so much beauty in seeking for knowledge regardless if it aligns with my pursuing degree.
The actual Latin meaning of "amateur" is someone who does so purely for the love of it. And so, I want to be an amateur. I want to dictate my own education and not be limited to what my university course offers me.
I don't mind if this comment will not be seen. I am merely here for myself, to tell myself, that this is what my reason is for seeking education. Perhaps in the future, I will reread this comment and reflect on my progress...
Amazing secret I learn it from you "If you want to learn from person higher level than you so focus on what value you can give i them"
Thanks Till H. Groß
3. "Learning is more important than making money"
Yea, if you are blessed financially. This is such a privileged statement. So many people do not have this option because basic human needs are not provided by state or family.
Even for these people learning is more important than making money, it's just a matter of what to learn. Some people need to learn more immediately useful skills instead of psychology. But humans need to learn things as a prerequisite to just about anything. And it's not just a human thing, all mammals learn some basics from their ancestors.
I reckon the standard concept of education in western society is disaligned with reality, for learning has been equated with ivory towers. However, learning is just what the word means, the consolidation of information and development of a skill
@@LucasRibeiro-po4pb you clearly aren't aware of how poor some people are, and I can't blame you. Try to search for information on poverty.
@@komencanto That was my point. I even talked about animals. When very poor people try to grow food to eat, as was the case for most of the last thousands of years, learning the minimum to grow the food is still a prerequisite. A mammal predator, like a big cat, has to learn to hunt before being able to live independently. A child left alone right after birth will die, because it needs some level of development first, mostly learning, to even try to survive. The whole point of my original post was that education/learning, by the fundamental definition, is the most important thing for any human being in any material situation. It has nothing to do with formal, academic or whatever more sophisticated type of education you're thinking about. Also, that does not imply that people should be learning something every time. I'm just deducing the importance of learning by the premise that the importance of something in the context of a goal is proportional to its necessity for the goal. Knowing is a prerequisite for any goal. Assuming that we aren't born knowing enough, and we aren't, knowing comes through learning.
I say earn. Some spend a lifetime earning. Don't forget to learn.
I thought this guy would be hard to listen to because of his English but the things he has to say quickly makes you work through that and hear his message ❤️ love him ❤️
Very intelligent and wise person. He didn’t let ‘schooling interfere with his education’ : )
I have the opposite situation--- not only no one supporting me to get ahead, paying me, but a long chain of severe life blows, snags, setbacks, beyond my control, severely derailing & disrupting all my efforts... blow by blow... in real life. However, I also see God with me, with hope, "He can make a way where there is no way."
1. Develop skill through deep work and deliberate practice
2. Take your skill to the next level by learning from the best people in the world. You may have to seek out this mentor. Don't expect to bump into Mr Miyagi
3. Develop real world experience. Gaining the right experience early on is more important than making money
4. Don't expect to be passionate at first. Hustle comes first, passion often follows later
5. Get used to rejection. Everyone who has been successful has heard "NO" many times. Don't take it personally.
I relate to this guy SO MUCH. I am so passionate about Psychology and this is just.... He is speaking my heart
I love this so much, this is exactly what I needed to hear. I've been thinking about dropping out of University to pursue a UX Design career and now I know that I've just gotta hustle through the degree while developing necessary skills on my own. Thanks so much!
1. Develop a skill - Read books{Deep work}and summarize in own words; Delebrate practice.
2.Learn from the best/reach out - focus on what you can give to them
3.Learning is more important than making money(get experience)
4.Hustle comes first, passion follows
Additional: Get accustomed to NO/rejection. As you're young....
Totally agree with u we should not rely on formal education. i have just done CS degree and i dont think i really learn about CS but now i will start my journey on self-taught.
1. Develop skill - book summaries, practice,
2. Learn from the best. - work ethics, and habits, adapt the work ethics and habits
3. Real life experience - learning is more important than making money.
4. Get used to no. It's a growing process.
I have a goal and my goal is to change the way they educate us and i believe that i can do it just like how I phones destroyed Nokia's.
this is my dream too , only I'm not sure how to . Can you share your ideas with me ?
thank you
My dream too. First idea leave their institutions.
I live a life surrounded by negative people, critics, and traditional wrap-ups. They keep on motivating the young people to pursue technology degree through their statistic and marketing, but in reality there is such thing that some students might ended up working with their own hands on the construction fields, jobless, and more. In school, they taught different subjects in general concepts that I find it hardly to focus. Not only learning in university brings negative impacts to me, but the older seem to believe that because the learner earn less than they do simple business or income, they tend to judge that learning is useless and it is not so valuable to learn to much. Now, I throw away my engineer degree, my business mentor, and critics in order to study online to build a career I love and the true education I seek to understand in real life.
Korona Gear exactly the same here , thanks Korona
314asaable glad we understand the world is changing.
Nothing so wrong with "working with their own hands on the construction fields". My husband did that for 40 years and now we have a very comfortable retirement income. Today all the kids want to work on a computer......lots of good jobs are going unfilled out there "working with their own hands".
My tears just came down when the big NO was on the screen. Thx so much. I felt so lucky to watch the video!
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Let's face it his dad being a therapist took the opportunity to change his son's life forever by paying him a very handsome amount to read and record psychology book for him to listen as audio while driving his car.
I'm pretty sure his dad knew that this trick would change his son's life without his son noticing it for longtime.
Now that's what I call a dad.
1. Develop skill.
2. Learn from best
3. Learn even though you are not paid
4 hustle first
5. Accept No
@cukkoo cukkoo damn ur so funny!
4 STEPS to becoming successful
Take education in your own HANDS
1. Develop Skills
Deep learning and deliberate practice)
2. Learn from the BEST people in the field
Adopt their work ethics and work practice
3. Learning is more important than money
At least at the beginning of your career
4. Hustle comes first (before you find your passion)
5. Get used to being told NO
6. Find a mentor - in exchange for his/her mentoring offer services your can provide to reduce their workload
im 16 and i came from serbia a year ago, when i came i was going to a school where you have school subjects for "Hauptschulabschluss" and learn German, but then I got bored and 6months later i transferd to another school and did the "Hautpschulabschluss" and "Quali".Today I'm going in M10 after that I will go to FOS and go Studie if I dont succeed in football. SO basicaly you motivated me to learn more for my future job(programming, i hope if not football). because here in school you get such easy stuff in math and informatik(wirtschaft) and im bored as f----. thank you so much.
When people say they’ve read “dozens an and dozens” of books on a topic, it baffles me because I absolutely love reading, but am so slow at it. I wish I could say that I read dozens and dozens of books on a topic, but if I even get through one, that’s a major accomplishment for me. Good grief
studies are destroying creative minds if the study not 100% fits which it won`t in most cases. I just finished studying and working for 8 years and now starting just learning the stuff i need. Study made me depressive in the end. Now i feel lucky and free and quit everything and travelling the world soon. Go for someone in your field and work with him or just watch youtube.
I am 22. I am taking college degree but on the side focusing much on MIT and Stanford's freely available courses and will follow his suggestions as well.
grt! courses like cs50?
He does have good points, but mileage may highly vary depending on your level of privilege. For example, you can only work for free, if you somehow have some other type of support that allows you to live rent or bill-free. If you have to live on your own and pay for an apartment, food, etc., some of his tips may not work as well.
Who says he didn't also have a night job to pay for all the things that cost money? He sounds the sort who would have done anything to get where he wanted.
@@FlakeyPM he was privileged, as he stated he had gotten paid generously for reading books for his father.
@@FlakeyPM He didn't say he had a night job to pay for all the things that cost money, this is the thing. My observation and expreience say that those who work nght and day round end up with burn out and frustration. And never reach their dreams. Sad but true.
@@vidmiraclejdv true. Money actually gives you the freedom that you want. Getting paid without working. That may be privilege and luck to an extent but not entirely. Financial literacy and financial education gives you that freedom IMO. But sadly most people are not ready to face the truth
Not only y oung people underestimate it. So did my parents. I'm twice your age, but what you're saying is something I wish I'd heard from my parents 30 y ears ago.
these are terrific suggestions, and i find educational institutions to be less and less respectable all the time, but many of these options are not viable for students that have to work, among other things. there is a lot of privilege that allowed these people to accomplish what they did and develop these methodologies. a year of four unpaid internships? not in most people's wildest dreams.
The first 2 minutes of this 😩 I had a ride awakening my 1st year @ university
Thanks for sharing your story. The wise ones will take what they need from your talk an succeed, sorry for those who don't see the value of what you shared. Best wishes on your chosen field.
This is such a nice thought! :)
Hell yes Till, this got me thinking more and more about following up om my passions and push trough with all of it. Really inspiring and great talk!
excellent talk , I wish every person young and old would listen , brave , mindful , creative ,honest talk
University helped me seek out the answers I was looking for by forcing me to be curious. Be curious on your own, save time and money without university. Learn how to learn, then you can learn about anything.
Truth is anyone can become just as educated as someone who spent years of college to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer. Etc.. Without spending a penny. Its smaller than a T calculator and 99% of us have one 😉 Peer reviewed articles are free
Edit: Btw I just handled myself in a Pre-trial case earlier today. My attorney didn’t show and the Honorable wanted to proceed. Well thanks to studying law (for free) the previous couple weeks I simply spoke calmly “Your honor I request adjournment due to not having my attorney present”. Case instantly froze, council met in the judges chamber and I was awarded adjournment
Whatever the format, Moral & Spiritual Education is also needed as well as Material & Human Education. "Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit therefrom." ~ Bahá'i Faith
Man, your talk was amazing and I couldn't say it better! Go out to the world and spready your passion and ides!
It always comes down to good positive environment and experience ( being surrounded by good people and not burnouts and assholes ) Bad Parents, Bad teachers, Bad bosses, Bad workplace colleagues and Bad friends. Don't forget the old axiom -You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends.
I just finished my formal education. I finished Law, Banking and am now majoring in General management from a super expensive private faculty which has a million dollar view from the library.
It had a total cost of a luxury SUV to my parents.
University is a mix between a bad kindergarden and a terrible psychiatry. I totally agree with this ted talk. It hasn't brought me a single cent, hasn't taught me any skill. It has only brought me insecurity, financial problems, psychological problems, destroyed relationships. I pay for sports just to stay sane. But at least i know how to cite and write academically about useless stuff after 20 years of torture. Thank you formal education, I can't wait to defend my useless thesis.
I think you got a lot of achievements but here you telling all your shits hhhahahh
Very important speech. Thanks a lot for delivered the speech on the stage of TED Talks. We are all so much benefited by the speech. There are so much inspiration which can improve our knowledge and also our thought process. I am truly speaking that TED is the BEST platform for learning English and by the TED Talks we are always benefited. So, in future we want to more valuable, important and useful speech. And we will able to learn ENGLISH by TED Talks and motivated also so. Thanks to speaker and TED Talks team.
BANGLADESH
we are stuck in failing education systems...wish I knew this when I was 22
Thank you. Develope skill and learn from the best. The best oround us
That was a terrific talk....totally enjoyed it....A great Orator at work....and some very valuable tips shared based on life lessons learnt....cheers from Pune
This inspires me. Definitely bookmarking and watching again.
I’m disappointed by high school so now I am here
Idk... ya gotta have the passion to even wanna hustle... where there's a passion, the hustle is a foregone conclusion.
tis was mosthelpful tedx talk , you people are doing great job.
underrated ted speech
His dad is smart and wise.
Wow so inspiring! Self education is soooooo important! Teach yourself the things that make your heart beat faster! 💪💪
I’ve faced with the same issue. Thank you
I keep hearing "Do it for free." "Offer to do __ and do it for free." With what money? With what time? Are you suggesting a full time job on top of full time college and everything you just said? Say Joe Schmo is willing to mentor you if you do __ for him and get a plane ticket to the city where he lives for __ weeks? How are you supposed to pay for the plane ticket or the gas, the food, the hotel? Not to mention the time off school? How are you supposed to juggle all that?
Do what you can with what you have right now. God gave you a brain. Pray, meditate and THINK to find the solution. for example, to get a plane ticket....YOU COULD use a cashback card for travel THEN use it to pay EVERYTHING...JUST by signing up to use it, they'll give you enough points to get at least a one way ticket free..BANG..plane ticket solved. Hotel: Find family or a friend or acquitance who lives in the city, ask to live on their couch for a month and pay rent of 25 bucks.
These are solutions I came up with off the top of my head. My point is that YOU have to figure out a way to do it and then have the courage to try it. The interesting places in life have no predetermined route. You have to walk it yourself
Really think this kinda of doubt stops us. Never know if there are people out there willing to help you for nothing.
You've definitely motivated me, thank you, amazing speech!!
Super superb....thanks for sharing!!
Seem like he knows no doubts
Every time I watch this I feel so pumped up.
im lucky to have my dad in the same field..
I love Germans. The way the brain works is amazing. :)
"Hustle comes first, then passion follows"
That end quote.... damn
But what if you don't know what you want to do? Because this sounds amazing but if you have no idea what to do or who to follow or learn from you just dont have any idea.
+Hughie Spudders what is "an active control"?
+Tom Smith take charge and do what you can, what is most practical at every given moment toward your goal.
in my case, i went for a trip. let the wind take you. the answer will come :)
Start as a philosopher. Discover yourself..
Learn marketing from amazon books and youtube vids. Marketing is the highest paid profession in the world
Paul OregonUSA there are no doctors on your country?
Great talk on how to succeed
I just wish I heard this talk (and other motivational speakers) 15 years ago!!! well, we gotta start out of where we are right now, right?! :)
Olga Balakshina Right. Its never too late you know, just go out there and do what u wish u have done a while ago.
NiAl_B Blue I am doing :) started as soon as I realised that I would not be able to talk myself out of my dream :)
Till is awesome
Wasn't expecting rsdmax to show up here. Good stuff
Thanks Till, you really inspired me.. Wish me luck..
Truly amazing and inspiring story!
Oh god you are saying what i always think about.
Why did I watch this now, but i’m glad i did at least now
blasting video WOOOOOOOOOOW! im in ALL THA WAY!
not everybody has the option to work for free
Loool I actualy am I follower of the third example... RSD MAX! #hustler
can you write down his name? Till's speech is not very clear cometimes :)
Fool2Cool www.rsdnation.com/max/blog/insane-infield-video-unleashes-max-hot-seat
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Ding, ding ding.
A lot of these so called "speakers" always had some advantage, whether its family, money connections etc.
Please read Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
but yea, decide what you want to do and do it. Dont listen to universities / formal education path unless you need a professional credential. Even when you are in educational system still question it
When I went to school about a million years ago at a urban polytechnic, many of the professors in my major were there because of the union, waiting tenure, as it was well paying jobs. Many didnt even know to teach properly.
One lectured by looking down at the floor the whole session, telling us we wouldn't amount to nothing. Thank god he left to take care of his ailing mother
Fantastic talk! Thank you 🙏🏼
Who isn't ready to learn?!
this is what i exactly thought before going to college
but he is going in a wrong way. i don't know why people are still encouraging capitalism
Fantastic speech👏
Wow he is mazing talented boy
You are champion
Your talks are very inspiring! I kinda wish you could be my mentor and be able to reach out to you for more advice haha I've watched most of your videos and they are very useful. I'll be starting college soon and have no idea what I will encounter but your videos will definitely be of help!
So true!
Great
Working for free seems essential. It works in different life situations. But how can I work for free if I have Bills for days!!!! 😭
Self educate and you can get fortune
wow. so he looks so awesome, and his talk is very inspiring. 😍😍😍😍