Traversity Adversity

Talk given at NTU eFest 2012 about how to succeed because of failure.

Transcript

1. NSHipster
2. Jeremy Foo
4. Co-Founder
5. VP Mobile
6. iOS Lead
7. Hello again.
8. @echoz
15. Problem Solver
17. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever —because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference. “ Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement
18. Story of my life
19. 5 Lessons
20. 4 Events
23. Existential Crisis
24. Why?
25. OOC
28. Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success. “ Greg McKeown, Havard Business Review
29. Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities. “ Greg McKeown, Havard Business Review
30. Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts. “ Greg McKeown, Havard Business Review
31. Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place. “ Greg McKeown, Havard Business Review
32. Singaporean society’s definition of failure
33. Singaporean society’s definition of failure
34. Why?
35. 1. Failure is always an Option
36. Discover your limits
37. Meet yourself
38. Learn
39. Motivation to do better
44. Experience everything life has to offer
45. Smell the roses
46. Its what happens after that matters
47. Change the changeable
48. 1. Failure is always an Option
56. Problem Solver
57. There is a problem
58. Complain
59. Live with it
60. Fix it
63. 2 days to reverse engineer API
64. 2 weeks to build
65. 2 weeks to polish
68. 2 days to reverse engineer API
69. 2 weeks to build and polish
71. 2. Laziness is the mother of all invention
72. Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. “ Robert Heinlein
73. Sharing is caring
74. Sharing is caring
76. 1,000 a week
77. 60,000 downloads
78. 2. Laziness is the mother of all invention
84. (Imagine the following to Hello by Off the Record)
85. 47,039 km, 7 Cities, 4 Countries
98. 3. Experience everything life has to offer
103. You spend 11% of your week at work
104. Incentives to work suck
105. Getting a job sucks
106. Interviews suck
107. Resumes suck
108. 4. Happiness is worth more than gold
109. Average Joe
110. Be Passionate
111. Dream Big
112. Do.
113. Dare to do.
114. 5. Stay hungry, stay foolish
115. Stay hungry, stay foolish Happiness is worth more than gold Experience everything life has to offer Laziness is the mother of all invention Failure is always an Option
116. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. “ Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement