very good evening and Kim Chiu good
Schroth all the Gujarat
that every Indian would know that's it
so teaspoons of change I think I'm the
only one who literally took the meaning
out of it and tried brainstorming over
what to speak to these little kids who
actually watch this video
schools are where we actually get our
heads in the right place I think that
lays the foundation of as an architect I
feel at least the foundation to the
high-rise building that we construct so
talking about teaspoons very literally
today the bigger picture what am I
talking about today I think as a human
we always end up at every juncture
answering multiple choice question air I
think from the tiniest decisions like
what to wear today to how to do my hair
to which where to go and which right to
take today to the biggest and the most
important decisions of what to study in
my future which profession to take and
also who to marry they do become big
questions important decisions but
broadly dividing them into three basic
questions I think one that we actually
answer is a what and then why any
guesses on the third aha not bad so I'm
sitting these typical three questions
let's come back to this in a bit so
talking about our entire universe -
Milky Way galaxy - the solar system to
our very planet Earth how constant are
we on this planet Earth how how constant
are things on this planet Earth
having seasons we shiver we get drenched
we sweat I think this is because of the
revolution of the earth the simple
rotation of the earth actually gives us
day and night can all of us survive a
24-hour daylight I don't think so
can we all experience night or
the entire 24 hours I don't think so and
fortunately or unfortunately the only
thing constant on this planet is change
Edward Lawrence says that a flap of the
flap of butterfly's wings in Brazil can
set off a tornado in Texas funny but yes
while he was on a coffee break and being
lazy to actually put down 6 decimal
points he put up just three decimal
points in one of the variations in an
experiment of a weather forecast and
realizes that wow there is a completely
different result at the very end of the
graph and that's where he realized that
these my new changes are 0.03 percent of
a change of my new change actually gave
him a varied weather forecast similarly
a small tectonic I think a very tiny
minuscule movement in the tectonic
plates actually ends up creating an
earthquake or as big as a tsunami that
can wipe out cities also did you all
know that the world war 3 was prevented
just by one man's decision again funny
right oh yes it was in 1962
Vasili arkhipov i hope i pronounced it
right he being a russian army navy
officer had was the only one who decided
not to launch a nuclear told or torpedo
towards the US navy and that's how an
entire nuclear exchange was prevented
and this is why he is known as one of
the most important man on in modern
history just this once
one man's decision of not launching now
actually does not leave the US and
Russia as nuclear wastelands thanks to
him just funny that while I was talking
about this to an aunt and my mother they
said of course these spoons are very
important taking the word literally
a teaspoon of good curd
while we are setting milk while we're
setting curd for the next day in the
milk it will actually give us depending
on temperature depending on the
surroundings depending on that mas fear
depending on the darkness that you
actually set your card and these small
things actually give you a right curd or
the right yogurt or the bad curd so not
all changes are good or bad depends on
these changes as simple as now each of
us actually inhaling and exhaling the
carbon dioxide that we are exhaling at
this very moment each one of us gives x0
the carbon dioxide that you're exhaling
right now actually gives the plants and
the trees outside the carbon dioxide
that is necessary for the photosynthesis
and this photosynthesis helps them to
grow and this for the very next
generation provides oxygen now time to
see the bigger picture these tiny
decisions these small things actually
make us where we stand tomorrow the
decision that we make today the small
alterations that we make actually let us
end us up in a place we are in the very
future and and do we say that we do not
know what future lies for what future
actually lies for us just changing a
small letter in the word change actually
becomes a chance the chance the
opportunity to change a lot in our very
simple lives similarly let me tell you a
story of a young girl in college was
very scared
put her on stage and her legs would
shiver as if she was drenched in
ice-cold water and left in the North
Pole she actually pulled up her guts and
went backstage to participate in an
elections that made her makes her a
representative of her college that very
mindset or
just backing out was a second it
would have just taken her a second to
just step back and say no I don't want
to participate what I do not want to
give those elections I am freakin scared
of the bunch of senior sitting in the
audience who were bullying the others
but then she said no let me go ahead
let's see what actually happens she
spoke she won the elections she did
shiver like she had mentioned she did
shiver
but finally happened to win the
elections represent her college in a in
the largest student body organization
for architects and she addressed a crowd
of 7,000 plus students at a convention
and happened to have students from NEPA
from the SARC Nations in Pakistan and
which actually gave her the motivation
and the pull to not back down when they
were auditions for Miss India 2017 and
then got back boldly saying that why
should I fear this and that small
mindset of not backing down actually
gave her to perform the way she did in
2018 and who did she share the stage
with let's have a look I need them to
play this
I managed to tell karan johar that i
share the same name as srt my favorite
so from there to here was just a matter
of a small change in my mindset and now
speaking as the third TED talk to be
very proudly presenting it in front of
my parents today ladies and gentlemen I
speak EUR and the and the video was not
shown in the actual law on the actual
telecast but my father had taken that
snippet and I'm very glad about that
but to be very honest I think the small
small tiny decisions that we make today
would really matter tomorrow so I would
really really request you to give it a
thought take these changes as chances as
opportunities of tomorrow and forge
ahead in life thank you so much thank
you school
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