The power of passion - Richard St. John

[@Sullytaan]

I hear people saying you wont necessarily be successful even if you follow these '8 traits'. But success is relative, no one said you will be the next Bill Gates and you dont need to be! Success can simply be that you are happy now when you were unhappy before. And you cannot prioritise anything above happiness and contentment with life.

[@meinbuch9458]

Well said.

[@humungousaurlovesit7987]

Sultan Ijaz

[@humungousaurlovesit7987]

Great Words👌

[@ceciliaciepiela-kaelin7719]

"Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted" - Jhon Lennon

[@houseofthoth]

Bertrand Russell said that too

[@tranngocyen4207]

It's not easy to find out the right passion, but I think I will try. If I can not do it I can not get the success in my life, it's so sad.

[@Jannahesthetics01]

Same here

[@za8cun]

thank you... this inspires me

[@Mk_TheOnePixel]

I found out what i loved to do in 5th grade.My passion is creating and designing buildings, and with the help of games my love for creating grew!I love making blue prints before i start to build my buildings, so that way i know what im doing and can plan things out easily when building with my friends.

[@justinjiang]

the problem is I don't know what I love to do

[@gin3868]

Try things you've never done before.

[@trinhmeggie1383]

lol i had the same problem too, but i did working on that, and finally i know what i love to do. u will soon, i believe so !!!

[@nutz4pugz421]

I love to do nothing

[@basmahshoaib5213]

+Jennifer Strohmayer lol

[@bluishwolf]

I doubt they will be impressed at the job interview when you show up for a field you have no experience in.

[@braindeadvirus5173]

yeah! I have been putting number 38 bolt into part 35 on an assembly line for 47years ! and I love it ! some people dont understand MY PASSION ,I even sneak out the same parts so I can do it at home! so I guess to each there own!

[@ShawnRavenfire]

The graphics on this video were a little distracting.

[@suryaachyuta6202]

i was waiting to click the like button, just before a second i did it.

[@chikenbone2]

Well, the one thing he left out is you have to always be doing something. A whole lot of people are obsessed with finding the job they want to do, and there for ignore anything they don't want to do. So you end up a dreamer, rather than a doer.

[@xFuzzyLove]

I like this :) It makes sense..

[@nzrmrk571]

WOW, thanks, you're a life saver

[@lyndonjohnv]

This is really worth sharing.

[@Mzansi74]

For sure!

[@yugalfrasco]

Reading the comments here could discourage you. Proceed with caution. :)

[@xxkq0]

Could it not be that they are passionate about what they do BECAUSE they are successful and rich?

[@KellySmith555]

xinxian kongqi No.

[@Anna13Tonks]

They were passionate before being rich and famous

[@herrapan95]

The game heartstone was some guys that was doing something they thought was funny doing, they later showed it to their boss and it is now the biggest income that Blizzard entertainment has.

[@maheshchandradungariyal]

It's good for us

[@ved93purohit]

i love watching Ted Talks. would this lead me anywhere...hahahahaha😁😝😆

[@muhammadmahad2864]

"Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He is the son of William H. Gates, Sr.[b] and Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates' ancestral origin includes English, German, and Irish, Scots-Irish.[17][18] His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates' maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father had the "II" suffix.[19] Early on in his life, Gates' parents had a law career in mind for him.[20] When Gates was young, his family regularly attended a church of the Congregational Christian Churches, a Protestant Reformed denomination.[21][22][23] The family encouraged competition; one visitor reported that "it didn't matter whether it was hearts or pickleball or swimming to the dock ... there was always a reward for winning and there was always a penalty for losing".[24] At 13, he enrolled in the Lakeside School, a private preparatory school.[25] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students.[26] Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine."[27] After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students - Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans - for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.[28][29] At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in Fortran, Lisp, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in Cobol, providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with "a disproportionate number of interesting girls."[30] He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success."[27] At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.[31] In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives.[32] Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973, and was a National Merit Scholar.[33] He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[34] and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973,[35] chose pre-law major but took most rigorous mathematics and graduate level computer science courses.[36] While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who would later succeed Gates as CEO of Microsoft.[37] In his second year, Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems[38] presented in a combinatorics class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates' solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years;[38][39] its successor is faster by only one percent.[38] His solution was later formalized in a published paper in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.[40] Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard[41] and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.[42] The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company.[43] Gates dropped out of Harvard at this time. He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.[41]" waow, what an underachiever. -.-

[@daveylevsonart]

wow this is so moving

[@kennethandrewsjr2280]

So when you don’t chase out the money instead you chase after your passionate goals, money chases after you

[@shreyasnaik8254]

great talk

[@rhyanyellow9467]

this is amazing

[@0GNAS0]

much inspiration

[@xfactor5326]

More videos like this anybody...??

[@oquefilmaragora]

so good

[@deshmukhkrishna2692]

superb

[@jimmyanderson9224]

thanks

[@Deliphin11]

Can someone translate what this guy said into English?

[@imu6085]

i fail to believe that rich people (e.g Bill.G) didn't care about money. if programming is your passion, you will end up as a (average earning) programmer.....you have to think a lot about (making and managing) money or business to have that much money. How much time has your passionate programmer (Bill) spent in programming in the last several years, and how much time in managing the business? Nicolas Tesla was a passionate researcher, it seems. He actually didn't care about money, and died without money (I respect him poor or rich). I have seen many passionate artists on the streets, I wish they were rich.

[@May04bwu]

They probably mean at first, in the beginning. Of course you do care about money when you find out you're good at what you're doing.

[@LazerQip]

That's an interesting point. I have examples of people who went for things that they loved and they didn't earn any money with that. So eventually, they had to switch over to the job they didn't like just so they could pay for their living. So I guess you probably shouldn't care about the money at first, but when you already know what you really love you should understand how you could make money from it. And also it could turn out that you no more like what you're doing after you went for money in this field. It somewhat happened to me in the past - I really enjoyed programming when I was small and when I coded things that were interesting for me, but when I became an employee and started to code some boring stuff on a daily basis it turned out to be not so fun and joyful. (If you're interested, I quit my job after working for 2 years as a programmer and now I'm looking for further possible directions to navigate.)

[@madhavreddykemal]

thats superbb

[@swaraj7993]

As a student is it a good idea to put a few years in a degree to maybe use it later as a safety net if your passion doesn't work out ?

[@danninemx]

Though I admit it does have its own merits, "follow your passion" is an old cliche. I know of countless people who do what they love without much financial gain. Passion "may" improve your chances at measurable success, but it guarantees nothing. It's also a useless tip for people who don't have a passion in life. Don't assume that it's something you will discover "eventually" -that's just pseudoscientific optimism.

[@RoseDragoness]

happy life is better than stress life though, you don't bring the money to grave :) .

[@KellySmith555]

danninemx Its a cliche for a reason. Its true and its great advice, that's why its said so often. You can have millions of dollars and be miserable. Success itself is measured by the individual setting the goals. If your goal is to be rich, sure, get a crappy job you hate and become successful at that goal. Will you have a good life? No, but you'll be successful by your own definition. If your goal is to be happy, than follow your passion and you will be happy. You could be poor, but you'll be happy. For people with no passion in life, they may never find their passion, but they should never stop looking for it. If they don't find it, they will probably always be lost, unfulfilled, and unhappy. That's the reality of the world we live in. Not everyone is designed to be happy. The advice is solid, people who can't find a passion can't be helped. They need to help themselves and find something to live for.

[@prachisolanki2878]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@unknownfromkashmir]

how can there be no likes in here??

[@aefaefaaefawfawfawf3784]

0:53 .. she' one cute mama

[@henryreyes5150]

not funny

[@carolwagner8075]

Well I would make a cloning device and go for both. 50/50.

[@MysticLoser]

Which of you will get to do the part you love?

[@carolwagner8075]

The original person.

[@MysticLoser]

Carol Wagner but he "is" you, so why would he agree to do something he doesn't love while the original does?

[@esp69rs]

I like this video =)

[@The_Dcoder]

TED and TED Ed video style mashup :P

[@adnanshaikh9889]

Fea team 🙌 ?

[@iinfinityart8378]

THE PASTED ON AUDIENCES

[@ilovedagreenday]

lol love all the green screen work they did.

[@moanaete]

STOP WITH THE CANNED LAUGHTER! It's ruining such a great message!

[@ajaysingh-c3z]

FEA Students are Here 😁😁

[@deltaxcd]

This is very unrealistic video because usually it is completely impossible to chose job you like because it requires insane investments like finishing university, obtaining certificates and licenses, and only hem you can actually start trying to do it and see if you like it. Life is not as simple nowdays imagine if you want to become a dentist even before you will be allowed to take dentist drill in you hand you will have to spend 10 years to obtain diploma and license, and spend like half million or more.

[@Truthiness231]

Eh.. while there were times I would have concurred completely with you, there are unaccredited dentists working out there that would be more than willing to let you pay them for their amateur services. If you find it so important, why not be part of the free market solution and seek one of them? And yeah the world is divided unfairly between haves and have-nots and we got stuck in the have-not category. We won't get to do whatever we want without concern for money. The vast majority of the planet is in the same boat. What can we do about it? If you measure success monetarily (to me it seems ultimately hollow, but since so many have convinced themselves that's what it takes to be happy, I won't kill anyone's buzz...), and the way you want to go about it is through skilled labor (most of the richest people DIDN'T go to college btw, but rather made their money entrepreneurially), there are ways to make it work so long as you apply yourself and you really want it.

[@deltaxcd]

Truthiness231 Not sure how it is in your area, but where I live practicing medicine without licence is criminal offense. Knowledge and skills does not matter as long as you have that magical paper. I do not measure success monetarily, however the problem is that you must spend insane amount of money just to try some job. So only rich people are capable to explore and find a job they like like this Richard who was very rich even before starting his photo studio.

[@Truthiness231]

deltaxcd True... perhaps you need to look in a different direction. Try: watch?v=LUQjAAwsKR8

[@deltaxcd]

Yes, that video is exactly what I say. You must have some source of income/skills to fund your passion at first. This is my goal to work as little as possible and devote my time to things I like such as scientific research. Internship is not available for any medical profession without spending lots of time in hell learning crap. Most of professions are designed on work drone model as when you are stuffed with algorithms to perform your job and you work like mindless done. and judged by how well you can execute these predefined algorithms. true passion comes when you are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them. sometimes great ideas and solutions come that way, and ordinary work drones see it as some kind of miracle, forgetting about thousands of mistakes that lead to this great idea.

[@aefaefaaefawfawfawf3784]

no no you've got it all wrong. the little bit of money to survive, yes you need that to stay alive, but apart of that, spend the rest of your time into what you love. to make a little bit of money, get some side jobs. don't waste your life on some degree/paper/license to make that little bit of money to stay alive? then you're not living. to me those 'proof of skill' is all bullshit to me. i gave up on high school diploma 10 years ago and never regretted it. learning from the internet is way more fun, educational, and useful. need $$ to stay alive? restaurants, construction, oddjobs, those are viable options. would you rather choose to spend 10 years in school just to make the $$ to to stay alive giving up those 10 years of doing what you love? hell no! i'd rather live on some 8 hour day job and get the other 8 hours building a business on my passion than spending that 8 hours in school just to be in debt and hope for a higher paying job that keeps me in a vicious cycle.

[@Aryan_v_11]

Lo agya FEA wala

[@kjell159]

So that's why Windows sucks , all servers run Linux and other computers run UNIX software; right?

[@Mzansi74]

??? What are you asking or trying to say?

[@kjell159]

That Bill Gates isn't successful in every spot on the software market. Anybody still using internet explorer? :)

[@bakaop6382]

Any fea student here 🤣🤣

[@timlavy1968]

I cannot believe how cringeworthy this is. It is so american.

[@godofwar2709]

What, passion? Isn't that a strong point?

[@Mzansi74]

Why?

[@tworookiesinavanjan7913]

Timmy Lavy the laughs aren't even in sync haha

[@krashmania]

It's a shame, this guy has such good subject matter, but it feels like such a dry, over-rehearsed delivery.

[@liljuice8554]

Is this a fake 'public' speech? lol its so cringey

[@b3blueblue]

Why cant people understand that these vids were edited especially for TED ed? Its not really meant to be as a TED speech. That is why at the end there's TED ed... Its meant to be flipped by educators and shown in the classroom, making the graphics enticing is very usable in class lectures. And there is value in way he has been saying... There are way too many cynics and pessimists in this world.

[@mitdesai55555]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@DuncanKim]

I love his speeches on TED, and his book, too. He is great, very inspiring. Very simple but thoughtful contents. Enjoy it.

[@hongphucnguyen6069]

maybe people with 8 traits don't have success but successful people must have this 8 traits

[@otinanaichannel]

"we could do it for free, but we have to earn our food"...if you say that for your job, then I think you love it

[@chhawagamer]

How many of you are from FEA😳

[@matsudaindustries2530]

Funny to see 2013's Trump associated as Real Estate Developer when in the next months could be president of the US

[@Pschychotically]

Dear god, please prevent all evil... and Donald Trump as president...

[@pandawhoupon4494]

Li Centia im laughing

[@patrickwchen]

He IS the president right now.

[@deathstroke8639]

Oof he might go for his 2nd term

[@guitarraenllamas]

American succesful = being rich

[@pernaboys]

they aren't successful because they're rich, they're rich because they'resuccessful

[@dromingo6881]

micheal phelps is passionate cuz he b smoking herbs

[@rezowasis5200]

That was deep

[@sikdersaheb9558]

I was in very much depression last couple of days. Trying to improve myself. After watching this video I have been searching for my passion but still I didn't find it. But I got the answer about my depression.

[@akhileshsajwan9248]

I know it has been 5 years but I sincerely hope that you have had found your passion and are living a life worth living.

[@zerocalvin]

well i have a passion for toy.. so i started a toy review channel... let's see if i'll become a billionaire with that.. probably not.. well we'll find out 7 years later.

[@CreepypastaHorror]

+Calvin Zero 2 months and 0 videos. Do you REALLY have a passion for it?

[@zerocalvin]

Erick Alden Horror this isnt my toy channel... i'm currently editing my 42th toy review...

[@CreepypastaHorror]

ok good lol

[@zerocalvin]

***** if that the case, i would have quit by now..

[@zerocalvin]

***** have you watch the video? the speaker said, passion is the key, with passion, you'll obtain other skill necessary require for success. so my " i have a passion for toy.. so i started a toy review channel... let's see if i'll become a billionaire with that.. " is more like a challenge to see if the speaker is correct.. and remember what i said later.. "probably not.. ", which mean i dont believe my passion for toys would lead to a successful life. it's almost a year since i started my toy channel and i just release my 60th toy review.. if money is my main concern.. i would have give up long time ago because making toy review is not an easy work and i'm not seeing a single penny..

[@ironmanny_rsf]

Who is watching this video as a fea student ?

[@vincentpebenito5548]

i love his voice tone. clear and easy to understand. . .

[@andrewg9143]

the weirdness of this video... is just so distracting

[@RedSunzaw11]

Wish for the lottery if your a narcissist

[@doubletoned5772]

You nailed it sir. You really did. I am moved.

[@henryreyes5150]

bruh

[@kazy853]

Watching because of fea😢

[@tuneanime]

Any FEA. Student here.😁😁

[@kephalian]

Great video, may be applicable for nations where people have a choice, what about people who are not given any choice? How to bring passion in a job you don't like?

[@KellySmith555]

Santhosh Kumar You get a hobby.

[@LazerQip]

How could it happen that you don't have a choice? I live in a very poor country and still I managed to gain enough money so I could stop and think over about what do I want to do next.

[@mohdfardeen7157]

Angreji beet da

[@stutiarya5573]

My passion is designing and art.. But I am 'supposed to' be a Chartered Accountant, being in the finals.. And once I am with the qualifications, I don't think it would be right to go for designing ditching all the work and time I invested/wasted in this course.. I know the perfect difference between my passion and my money-seeker job, but it won't be easy to 'go-for-it' when I have been pursuing accountancy for like 4 years and finals await.

[@yashny]

Stuti Arya wow I did accounting too but my passion is art and designing.

[@swaraj7993]

Do you realise you could pursue your passion part time. Make the job fuel your passion until your passion reaches a critical point and earns you enough to live decently. Lastly dont have an attitude that you've wasted the time you've invested, think of the time you might waste if you dont pursue it. We only get one shot at life.

[@yashny]

That is right. I have never felt I wasted my time in accounting unlike stuti though. I did learn a lot and it is a useful skill. Thank you for sharing your perspective.

[@trinhmeggie1383]

i listen to this over n over !!!

[@harshadfx]

real passion for Fake laughs.. :)

[@johnlisterbonafus9844]

probably yes, they are all too concentrate on the video. even me didn't get the jokes because i too concentrate on the pictures. maybe st.john must reduce the text reading and make it more pictures so the audience dont read it so the audience can grasp easily the message. the good presentation comes after the middle a get his message and jokes easily but at the beginning it's hard so many words to read.

[@wisdomacademy748]

Any fea student here ?

[@kantesh8336]

Yeah I was looking for this video finally I got..I will never ever forget it till I die.

[@VincentKCW]

Fake audience, repetitive gestures, too much visual aids, content told and retold for years already, TED you can do bette than that...

[@twinkletunes4523]

sir Richard , how to find your passion when you're pretty versatile ?

[@dyahsashanti2179]

I cried :'(

[@aefaefaaefawfawfawf3784]

me too, sometimes you just need a little pat on the back, that little affirmation that this path you're walking, which may seem lonely most of the time because people don't get you or believe in you and you have to motivate yourself all the way, this little extra confirmation that w.e. you're pursuing is the only true path to success.

[@henryreyes5150]

pussu

[@DrRajeshSharma1963]

Richard you are fantastic to explain in very plane language - How to succeed in life. HATS OFF!!

[@henryreyes5150]

bold r showned

[@weiwu1929]

I enjoy many things and doing many kind of things or works. But I don’t really have a PASSION for anything. Nothing is a thing that I really really want to do. Maybe this is why I am not that successful…

[@coachjoemax9435]

That's so great , I hope everyone in world watch this video

[@mas-top]

Good talk about the big problem in finding passion, maybe we are falling to the 'seeker''s path, so let's not give up!

[@rognex]

Wow, this is the Very truthful, eye-opening, inspiring video. Thanks 😃

[@hamzaalaudi1184]

Why this is so simply said, i loved it.

[@a-renheit4803]

Run for excellence not success

[@jebc4652]

Passion is everything.

[@DeepanshuChoudhary-ni2bg]

Who all are here from FEA.😃😀😀😃

[@AdvGufran-t4t]

Anyone here from FEA.

[@GLowMt]

This video was so needed in my life right now.

[@kevinhuynh9654]

One thing is: you'll get all kinds of pressure from anyone like your parents, your friends, and your parents' precedented bussiness.... Sometimes it's easier said than done

[@hasanaskari7]

Yes exactly. Who said that this would be easy anyway? Life is hard. Success is hard. And it's supposed to be hard.

[@alicenguyen6410]

00:29 omg why does it look lie that

[@sakshamagrahari3114]

Fea ki public aarhi hai kya😷😷

[@mayank0721]

Reshma ma'am session?? FEA

[@SHIELD2707]

Is there any FEA student💓

[@ankitachaurasiya2770]

I realy like this video

[@bennypr0fane]

most banal, boring TED talk ever

[@Mzansi74]

For you, yes

[@sore-insan6250]

Any fea student here?

[@kavya9803]

Well presented