What to do with your life - TEDxTirupati 2013

My talk from TEDxTirupati, 2013 - titled 'What to do with your life'. Presenting an alternate life-choice to follow your dreams than live a life which everybody else, other than you, decides for you.

Transcript

1. What to do with your life?
   TEDxTirupati, 2013
   by King Sidharth
   

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2. CV
   Before I share my ideas
   A brief
   

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3. 7 Years Ago
   2006
   Moved to Chandigarh
   from small industrial town: Baddi
   not very different from Tirupati
   

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4. 5 Years Ago
   2008
   Finished 10th grade
   Started an online Magazine: theFriendz.biz
   Started Freelancing as a Web Designer
   

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5. 4 Years Ago
   2009
   Got featured in a book:
   50 Interviews: Young Entrepreneurs
   How to Make More Money Than Your Parents
   

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6. 3 Years Ago
   2010
   Failed in 12th Grade
   Gap Year
   My Fist Job as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
   

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7. 2 Years Ago
   2011
   Joined college
   Fine Arts College
   

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8. 1 Years Ago
   2012
   Depression
   Dropped out
   Started a UX design company: Web Mutiny
   

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9. This Year
   2013
   Left my own company to join
   Instamojo
   Entrepreneur + Designer + Cake Baker + Book Reader etc.
   

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10. 3 Days Ago
    2013
    turned
    22 years old
    

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11. Classic Idea of Life
    Be Born > Get education > Get a degree >
    Get a job > Get money > Get a spouse >
    Get a house > Get those damn babies >
    Educate them >
    Put them in the same rat race as yours >
    Retire > Die.
    

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12. Err...
    Where is the scope and space for your
    dreams? for your aspirations? for your
    getting to know life?
    Stop this madness. Halt. Let me think. Let me
    have a look at what I am doing?
    

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13. live a life of
    Your Dreams
    Entrepreneurship
    Live a life of your dreams, or die trying.
    Have fun all along the way.
    

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14. “Would you rather chase your dreams,
    happiness and satisfaction? Or keep adjusting
    to life till the day you die.”
    “If you are not living the life of your
    dreams, or at least trying to. What are you
    here for?”
    

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15. Find Yourself.
    Who are you?
    Body?
    A person?
    A son/daughter?
    A son/daughter?
    A girlfriend/boyfriend?
    Where do we start?
    

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16. Read. Write. Travel.
    Think & Question
    

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17. What is your education?
    Your degree or qualifications?
    Or the lessons life taught you?
    Educate Yourself
    

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18. Is it your job? That your degree defined?
    That everything else defined?
    Or something you want to contribute to,
    change?
    Choose your Profession
    

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19. Some lies they told you
    

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20. -10! Work Hard!
    Reality: Life Rewards you for Mistakes
    Mistakes are Bad
    Myth:
    

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21. Work Hard! Rat Race!
    Reality: Life is about the fun, joy, &
    satisfaction.
    Life is about Goals
    Myth:
    

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22. Bleh!
    Reality: Labour of Love.
    Hard Work
    Myth:
    

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23. Too old, too young, too tall, too short, too
    fat, too boy, too girl...
    Reality: Do you know who you are?
    You are Not
    good enough
    Myth:
    

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24. Welcome
    to
    Planet Earth
    You can be, do, and have anything that you
    want.
    

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25. thank you!
    king@kingsidharth.com
    

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