Name: 【TEDx】How to find your passion and inner awesomenes | Eugene Hennie | TEDxMMU
Uploaded: 2018-01-18T16:30:19.000Z
Duration: 16 min 52 s
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I'd like to thank everybody that set this event up.

When I was given the invitation to speak,

I kind of didn't know what I was going to talk about.

that I really don't have to make anything up.

and hopefully, that'll be inspiring to a lot of people here.

how to find your passion and inner awesomeness.

A lot of people in university, especially if you're students here,

where you really don't know what you want to do,

and you kind of have to make changes and decisions

that are going to dictate your entire life.

So it's kind of daunting, it's kind of scary.

I want to give you guys a chance to get to know me a little bit

and understand a little bit more about me.

and Harlem starts at 110th Street and goes all the way to 159th Street.

there were a couple of things that I had to learn quick, right?

I had to learn how to be real quick and witty.

But I also learned that it's good to have an imagination.

When I was young, I had an awesome imagination.

And I'm sure that many of you - think about it,

go back, when you were around six, seven, even younger than that -

So who used to draw? Anybody? Show of hands.

Who used to draw when you were younger, right?

These are a couple of things I used to draw.

But do you remember when you used to draw that a lot of those things sucked, right?

But nobody told you they sucked, like you would give your mother the drawing,

and she really didn't know what it was, but she would put it on the refrigerator.

Nobody ever told you that what you did wasn't good.

OK, so me, I used to draw, I used to sketch,

and right there on the bottom left, that's actually an animation I did.

I used to spend hours creating these elaborate stories,

coming up with characters, coming up with plots.

And nobody never told me that these things weren't cool.

So if you look at this right here, don't get scared,

but on the left, this is a competition that me and my fraternity brothers did.

We used to do performances every year for the university.

and I'm a member of  Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated.

So on the left, we're doing Resident Evil.

We did our kind of reenactment of Resident Evil,

On the right, we did Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory,

were kidnapped by Willy Wonka and forced to work in a factory.

But nobody ever told us that this wasn't cool.

We performed in front of thousands of people

So I was always told to be a rebel and question everything.

this is actually a very funny picture to me

I'm the only one making a really silly face, right?

you actually see that this is the first picture you see

And what was cool about this picture was,

before we actually took the picture, the teacher told me, she said,

"Everybody, when the photographer says smile, smile."

So I said, "Teacher, why do we have to smile?

Is there a reason we have to smile - we're young kids,

Why all the guys in suits, all the women in dresses?

She said, "Don't worry about it, just smile."

And I said, " OK, if you don't want to tell me why I have to smile,

So when the photographer said "cheese," said "smile,"

I'll get to what this code means in a second.

But I was in a Fortune 500 leadership development program

when I got out of college, I was "corporate."

I was making good money, I was making $60,000 out of college,

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