me that and
sure that you tell
everyone checks
about it what are you going to do with your life because i want to tell you how
i found my dream job
you see ever since I was a kid I knew exactly what I wanted to do i went to
write I wanted to be a writer and help people by writing so it's really hard in
junior high school high school college and it all paid off because I got
accepted into the top graduate school of my choice and everything was going to
plan and halfway through grad school I quit
I dropped out just stop going to school and i started my dream job but enough
about me let's talk about you
you can do what you love because you live in a world of magic of sheer and
utter magic all around you so much so that if your great-great-grandmother
here today she would be freaking out because you can fly in the air fly you
know how long it takes to get from here to China 16 hours and how long they used
to take years
now you get a snack a nap in a movie and you're in China
that's crazy that's magic forget flying today on the way home you can be stuck
in traffic and be talking face to face with someone in Australia that magical
device that you carry with you
enables your voice to echo around the world
that's crazy that's magic you know everything instantly
there used to be a time this is going to be hard to believe but there used to be
a time where if you didn't know something you just didn't know it
you can be like a bum serie I don't know how to get home or the bomb us Terry how
many ounces are in a pound
you just didn't know it but now you do you know everything instantly
that's magic and that magic of course is technology you can use technology to do
what you love
if you are a genius
I'm just joking
you can use technology to do what you love if you learn to create because you
can create anything you want with technology you can create your own after
own website your own fashion collection your own movies your own job your own
company
your own charity you can create that with technology because technology is
Magic that you can use to do what you love
if you learn to create the first thing you need to do is to decide what do you
want to create decisions can be hard choosing where to go to school can be
scary but I'm not asking you what do you want to do with the rest of your life
just asking you what do you want to create like what would be fun to make in
the next three months
the next 90 days what do you want to create and here's the good news
when you make that decision you cannot make a wrong decision
the only wrong decision to that answer is the one you don't make the only wrong
decision is in decision
someone once said the biggest risk is not taking any risk at all
that was mark he was 17 when he created facebook after you've decided what you
want to create you need to learn how to create it now here's the thing about
learning
it's one of the most exciting things you can possibly do
don't believe me try this try it
close your eyes you guys to close your eyes
I want you to think about what close your eyes
what's one thing you would love to know how to do like man if I just knew how to
or if I could only know how to
ok got that also helps to hold on eyes up Sorry Sorry
that's what you want to know how to do no way I actually know someone who knows
how to do that
yeah let's let's talk afterwards in fact i'll just tell you now
their name is google and they know how to do that
you live in a world of magic you can find out anything
instantly you can figure out how to learn what you want you can figure out
who to learn from where to learn it in fact your voice can echo all the way
around the world
so you could literally ask anyone in any country
anything you could find an expert and say why do you like doing what you do
why do you love doing what you do you can ask them those questions and what's
most important is you do not stop asking questions because there are a thousand
reasons that you cannot learn something like it's too hard
I don't have enough time my mom's not helping me
they're all these excuses but you have to keep pushing
you have to keep asking questions someone once said it's not that I am so
smart but I stay with questions longer that was Albert he was five when he
asked his dad
how does the compass work later he created the theory of relativity decide
what you want to create learn how to create it and then you just need to do
it
you need to create it you need to execute it and here's how you start you
start by designing what do you want to make how should it make you feel I
should make your customers feel how should make your audience feel I should
make your users feel you design that experience and then you build it
you create it you make it and you get this first draft and when you're done
with this first draft
you are not done because your first draft is not your final draft
you need to edit it you need to polish it
you need to revise it you need to remake it because when you revise something you
discover what's magic about it
you discover that one
note that makes the song that one joke that makes the set
you can find magic in anything but you have to work for it
after you have executed on your creation
you need to share it too many of your creations are dying on computer desktops
garage shelves because you don't want to share it but you need to share what
you've made
because when you do here's what will happen best case scenario
everyone loves it and they freak out like wait you made that
how did how did you make that that's amazing it's incredible and you succeed
the other best-case scenario is that you fail epically flat on your face and
they're like wow that's really good
you're still in school right you will learn things through failing that
success will never teach you
you need to share your creations
share your work with the world someone once said real artists ship real artist
share their work that was Steve he was 20 he created apple
you need to learn how to create you need to execute on that creation and you do
this over and over and over again it's a cycle
it's something that you do as you move forward because every time you succeed
every time you fail that's a step forward and you're better for it
this is how i found my dream job because when I was a kid I saw toy story and
that was insane
you guys don't know this but there didn't used to be 3d movies
there was just two da movies toy story came we got a whole new d
and it blew
and it blew my mind
how could you possibly make a 3d movie
that's crazy that's magic so i decided i am going to make an animation
I didn't know how to make an animation so how to learn
I read a book I watched read some forums watch some videos and i made an
animation and it was awful
I should a few people but then i decided i want to make a website
I didn't know how to make a website so i found a book that was this big and I
read through it and I found a website called the youtube and i watched videos
and i learned how to make a website and i made a website was slightly better
than the animation then later I decided to take a job teaching kids how to make
websites
I had no idea how to teach kids so I had to learn how to watch other teachers had
a try it out for myself had a plan lessons but i did it i executed
I taught kids and then I decided what if we create could create a company that
could teach kids all throughout this city
how to create with technology
I had no idea how to start a company so how to learn how to talk to people that
companies
I had to watch youtube videos i had to find business plans and i had to start a
company but i did it i made a company executed and then we as a company
decided what if we could teach kids all around the world
how to create with technology that would be pretty awesome
so we decided to make online classes we had no idea how to make online classes
we barely had a camera but we learned how to do it
we watched videos we read we talk to people and we made online classes and
those online classes now we have students in 100 countries all over the
world
those students are younger than you but they know how to code in Java
they know how to animate movies they know how to create their own fashion
collections and those students for them
that's magic
here's the thing about magic magic is not about doing what is impossible
magic is about doing what is perceived to be impossible
and what people don't realize is that for hundreds of years generations of
creators have been shattering the perception of human limitation that is
why you can fly in the air
that's why your voice can echo around the world that's why you can know
anything
instantly it's not magic people had to do that people had to create that people
how to make it they had a fail they had to succeed
some of them died but they made it and they look at you today and say this is
your world
these are your tools what do you want to create it's not always going to be easy
it's not always going to be fun because people aren't going to believe in you
people are going to doubt you people are going to make fun of you people are
going to compete with you people are going to sometimes beat you and you're
going to get knocked down and you're going to get knocked down and you're
going to get knocked down but you're not going to stay down because that thing
that you are creating is good and it's worth it
and isn't that what you want to live a life that's worth it
and when you're done you can give it back to the world and make it a better
place and look at the next generation of creators and say this is your world
these are your tools what do you want to create learn to create because those who
create are those who create the future
thank you
