EPTOn June 10 2012 05:12 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
you can't misinterpret something if you never had the opportunity to interpret it in the first place.
he basically quotes Pixar's 'The Incredibles', "If everyone is special, then nobody is"
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CatNzHat
United States1599 Posts
you can't misinterpret something if you never had the opportunity to interpret it in the first place. he basically quotes Pixar's 'The Incredibles', "If everyone is special, then nobody is" | ||
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Dekoth
United States527 Posts
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PaulZ
Lithuania11 Posts
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are all a part of the same compost heap. | ||
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bailando
Germany332 Posts
its hard to get out of a big down and keep working. at least i feel like that... sometimes its just good to have someone telling you that you are a good guy. | ||
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B.I.G.
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Pera
Finland18 Posts
 . I just recently graduated from high school myself and I had a few weird days after graduating. I basically had no idea whatsoever about what Im going to do next. To be quite honest I had never felt this way before in my life. As weird as that sounds, that was the case. Now I'm in this position where I basically have all the tools to do whatever I want, the only thing lacking is perhaps courage. And this speech certainly does not fail to give me courage. David McCullough Jr seems to really understand the situation a lot of young guys and gals are in after graduating, and all in all I think he did a great job of bringing up the positive aspects of life. Especially the part where he talked about climbing mountains and visiting Paris, really great stuff! | ||
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peacenl
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Dekoth
United States527 Posts
On June 10 2012 21:47 peacenl wrote: I honestely can not believe people have no clue what they want to do as a job after graduating. If you put aside the if's and what if's you can do exactly what you like the most. It's a simple equation: Passion = motivation = success. And what success looks like is where your imagination falls short. Almost none of the SC2 casters would be doing their thing today, if they hadnt gotten out there and starting making Youtube vids while only 50 people viewed it for weeks. This is how you start, and do not expect things to come to you, you have to grab it and master it fully even with all your diplomas. Well to be fair, passion or not most peoples passion doesn't translate into a good way to pay the bills. This is why so many people graduate and have no idea what they want to do as a job. Unfortunately we spend so much time telling our kids to dream and anything they dream they can become, that when reality sets in of that being extremely unrealistic 99% of the time. It leaves most people wandering lost because they haven't thought to have a backup. | ||
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gruff
Sweden2276 Posts
On June 10 2012 21:47 peacenl wrote: I honestely can not believe people have no clue what they want to do as a job after graduating. If you put aside the if's and what if's you can do exactly what you like the most. It's a simple equation: Passion = motivation = success. And what success looks like is where your imagination falls short. Almost none of the SC2 casters would be doing their thing today, if they hadnt gotten out there and starting making Youtube vids while only 50 people viewed it for weeks. This is how you start, and do not expect things to come to you, you have to grab it and master it fully even with all your diplomas. Not everyone find what they love to do in life before the age of 18 (or whenever you graduate) and not everyone will be successful in it no matter what the passion they have for it. Reality often gets in the way. | ||
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paralleluniverse
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On June 10 2012 21:47 peacenl wrote: I honestely can not believe people have no clue what they want to do as a job after graduating. If you put aside the if's and what if's you can do exactly what you like the most. It's a simple equation: Passion = motivation = success. And what success looks like is where your imagination falls short. Almost none of the SC2 casters would be doing their thing today, if they hadnt gotten out there and starting making Youtube vids while only 50 people viewed it for weeks. This is how you start, and do not expect things to come to you, you have to grab it and master it fully even with all your diplomas. Go to uni. Then decide. | ||
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Mallidon
Scotland557 Posts
What the fuck? Anyway, his message is overly cynical in my opinion. I agree with some principles, but not to the extent I want to actually agree with more than about 5% of his speech. He is basically a guy who is the 'son of someone who did something' and is probably giving out this speech to justify his own life that pales in comparison to what he expected. | ||
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Domus
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Creager
Germany1962 Posts
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Vandrad
Germany951 Posts
This guy isn't special | ||
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blug
Australia623 Posts
On June 11 2012 00:06 Vandrad wrote: Why would I listen to this ? This guy isn't special This is the exact attitude which you shouldn't have if you want to prosper in life. | ||
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peacenl
550 Posts
On June 10 2012 22:27 Dekoth wrote: Well to be fair, passion or not most peoples passion doesn't translate into a good way to pay the bills. This is why so many people graduate and have no idea what they want to do as a job. Unfortunately we spend so much time telling our kids to dream and anything they dream they can become, that when reality sets in of that being extremely unrealistic 99% of the time. It leaves most people wandering lost because they haven't thought to have a backup. This is exactly where the imagination and creativity fails many it seems. It shouldn't matter what you like, what your degree is and how intelligent you are, what your personal situation is, if you are truly passionate about it you WILL find or create a job out of it. If you have a passion, it's unlikely that you are the only one in the world with that passion, hence money can be made out of it. This is something that should be taught in school. Of course I can also find a few examples where people are simply not able to do the thing they love, but my previous statement generally holds true. So no matter what, stop making excuses not to do the thing you love, it's insane and both kind of funny that people try to argue with my point with the "but", "what", "if"'s and whatnot just to show that yes a small minority can not do what they want and thereby limiting a vast majority to reach their full potential. Don't keep hiding behind these few exceptions you can find, to personally justify that you can not be what you want, it will severely hold you back in the long run. Many of the largest business owners never finished a degree but had a clear vision of how things should be according to their passion, they shaped the world instead of being limited by their lack of imagination, disabilities or inabilties and making excuses. | ||
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Kalingingsong
Canada633 Posts
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peacenl
550 Posts
On June 11 2012 03:10 Kalingingsong wrote: what if I love jacking off? Don't know if I should respond to this, or that I should call your bluff. But heck  You are in luck my friend; people actually pay to watch your jerk off. Whether it be from a website or DVD's or you coming to them - I'm sure you'll earn your living there. But you probably know more of that stuff than I do, after all you are the expert here. | ||
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zergnewb
United States816 Posts
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