However crazy the idea might sound just follow it. | Harish Utthayakumar | TEDxYouth@AUS
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63EqrSXPkI Video ID: X63EqrSXPkI ============================================================ hey guys all right cool so let's begin like I'm hrishitaa Kumar I'm an exit show okay and right now I'm as from dad bets Palani I'm just a couple of years older than you guys so what that means is I know what problems you face you know what problems I faced we have similar solutions to them so yeah let's let's just begin great so I've structured this thought this talk in such a way that I talked initially about science projects things that I like to do as a child some crazy ideas that I did in my childhood and then we'll be talking about ideation why is it important for you guys to id8 to keep thinking and not only think but also work on those ideas right we were talking about that and then at the end I'm going to talk about future of jobs because jobs for you guys is something in which you go to an office work 9:00 to 5:00 type something on the keyboard and then go back home and spend time with your family right that's jobs for you guys but what's up in the next decade what's gonna happen in the future it's something super interesting so stay tuned for that yeah a bit about myself I was born in this beautiful country called Sri Lanka at the age of five I moved to India and then when I was in my first grade I missed my first six months in first grade like I used to be so scared in school right the moment I entered the school premises I used to start crying I used to start weeping the hell out of me and the thing was I used to either stay at home or stay at some teachers cabin I never went to classes in my first grade so for the first six months I didn't go for any classes at all and because of this mic admix had to take a back seat I wasn't good I wasn't a brilliant kid in my childhood but something that kept me moving was my love for science I loved building things right I like I like like googling up things how to build this is this this see there see a tutorial and then buy the stuff and then just build it so when I was a kid I used to work on a lot of projects and initially once I I was you know just googling up about chicken eggs and stuff and I saw this that there's something called an incubator okay for those of you who don't know an incubator is something that turns a chicken egg into a baby chicken artificially right so instead of it's like a it's like a box in which it looks it looks like this it's like a styrofoam box you have above you have a mesh at the bottom and you have a bowl of water for humidity keep some eggs 21 days later magically some eggs hatch and you have baby chickens isn't that amazing because you as humans can replicate and you know biologically create something so in my seventh grade this idea struck me and there I was with a styrofoam box with the bulb and 21 days with me it was summer vacation straight I had a lot of time so I used to sleep next to the incubator all day all night you know adjusting the temperature keeping it at hundred degree Fahrenheit first time it did not work right in seventh grade it do not work the reason being I took those eggs from my fridge and if you don't know eggs from the fridge don't hatch the infotile so you need like fertile eggs so I went to a village I asked people here for Thai like heck yeah so they were like yeah you have like gouty chicken I was like cool give it so I took those brown eggs kept them it started okay and kept them 21 days later something happened the egg actually hatched I was like amazing man I'm a mom now and as like there were there were there were four eggs right and the eggs hatched I live in a live in an apartment it's super difficult to raise chickens in an apartment right so for chickens I had four chickens in my house a cat ate one of them and the other one died unfortunately so I had two left and within a month my house smelled like solid so like no one used to even come to my house because it smells so much my parents were pissed they were like go give it away so I take these two chickens put them in a plastic bag like live chickens okay put them in the hood of my car drive to the snail nearby slum right Neosho covered Allah I see a strange or total stranger I walked walk up to him and I was like a chicken shaker it's like honey though though I go to my hood open the car I take a plastic bag it has to live chickens cuckooing inside ok I give it to him he opens it he gives me the wildest reaction ever he didn't expect to see life life chickens and then I gave it to him and draw away until this state I don't know if those chickens became part of a chicken biryani or if he actually raised them I don't know what happened with that but yeah then in my in my ninth grade have you guys noticed that in Nasik there are no English radio stations all of them are hindi right so I was like why not create an English radio station why not like just like Radio Mirchi in 93.5 why not create something like Harish Mirchi 100 dato which plays just English songs so me and my friend sure either we you know come just build a circuit and the next day we have a radio station running just around my house right a hundred meter radius so within that one meter radius we had English songs playing and it was so much fun because I can host it I can say hey guys welcome to Harish machine I need 100 dough things like this so for an entire day we run a radio station right near my apartment but then I realize it's illegal you can't run a radio station I can get arrested for that so I don't I don't like to get arrested right so I turn it off now by this time I was like so confident about my skills I was over shooting I was super proud about what I had achieved in life in my 11th grade I was like okay now it's now I got an you know take it up a notch I need to take it to the next level so once I was sitting in my car and I saw an ambulance right next to me I was stuck in a traffic right so I saw I saw a car an ambulance right next to me and there was a patient inside the ambulance was beeping the siren was going on and a patient was suffering inside so I was like why not have an app in which if you press a button doctors around can come volunteer and help the patient out it seems like an amazing idea right it could save a life so I I was all uh I was all happy I was like oh this is an amazing idea everyone in India would be using it it's perfect so I went to IIT Bombay see this was an idea on paper right I didn't make this app I didn't do anything it was an idea on paper so I go to IIT Bombay presented in front of prophecies and after like 15 minutes down the presentation I see that the prophecies are not impressed they're like a who's this kid man why is he pouring us so and here and then I realize that just having an idea is not enough right just just having dreams is not enough you gotta work towards it you want to make sure that whatever you think of becomes a reality like just coming up with an idea is not enough you got to work towards it and I have a solid reason about why you should work towards the idea like if if you like art go become an artist I mean why I wasting time if you like YouTube go become a youtuber what's stopping you if you are if you like piano go become a pianist what's what's preventing you right now somehow I know 90% of you are gonna say oh academics is tough now we have man Raj he has done more than 200 shows in the last two years he's still a student right do you need a better example so you guys should you know start implementing those ideas whenever you get an idea start working towards it right another reason why you should work on your ideas is that see I am in college right and for most students for most typical college students this is how our day looks like you wake up at 7:00 a.m. you go for breakfast at 8:00 you go for classes you come back at 1:00 you talk to your friends for half an hour socialized to go back to classes and then you come back to your room at 6 o'clock you watch some TV show you go for dinner and then go back to sleep this is something that happens 200 times a year now imagine how monotonous and boring this life is and that's so most college students spend their life it's so boring it's the same thing over and over again and have you realized that when you guys were 5 and 6 when you like really really young life used to be so long you learned how to write it you learn how you learnt a new language you learned socializing skills you learned so many things and those were like the best times of her life right like life every single day was so unpredictable every single day was filled with uncertainty but as we moved on right now it just seems as if time is flying time is time is like a year and all passes in a snap of a finger right it's it's so quick and that's the reason why you should work on your ideas every single day if you keep doing something new if you keep working on something new then every day becomes unpredictable and seems as if you're learning something new and that's how you live a longer life that's how you you know bring back your childhood days to or to your future right so keep working on your ideas and that's that's a super important because when 60 years down the line when you have all wrinkles when you're sitting and sitting on a wheelchair when this TEDx youth becomes TEDx senior citizens you don't you don't know like sit and say oh wish I was eighteen before and instead of you know going to that high paying job at Amazon wish I picked up that camera and started shooting you don't want to regret saying that right so just just whatever you think of just not implementing it now some of you might be confused about careers and right careers and all right so I'm just gonna show you how the Indian professionals have evolved over time in the 1990s most people want to go abroad you might have seen a lot of analyze they want to go abroad go the cracker talk job and settle there that father ambition that was that's what they want to do in life in mm the ambition the aim of most people was to get a corporate job and get a climb the ladder because a lot of companies like you know Google and stuff had come to India so people are like why go abroad we'll stay in India and we'll work that was the aim of most people in 2000 2010 people want to startup people wanna act cool every nineteen year old ambitious kid wants to start up and solve a big problem right you might have like I go through Facebook files everyone's like I'm an entrepreneur everyone's like I'm an entrepreneur I don't know how much money would they make but everyone says I'm an entrepreneur so that that's what's trending right now right so started starting up is what's trending right now and just like every 19 year-old ambitious kid even be planned to startup and we run an AI company called you log chatbots oh and the issue of startups is that 90% of the startups feel that's what Forbes says it's so much so so uncertain you're putting so much on the line you can fail next day tomorrow you luck can become a billion dollar company that raises and goes for IPO or tomorrow we can fail and become joke of the internet anything could happen and chances of we becoming the joke of the internet is higher is much higher so now people want something that's not as risky as starting up and at the same time is not as boring as our nine-to-five jobs so what's coming up next what's coming in 20 20s what's the next big thing what if I French the shank Modi who is the founder of tap cheap tap chief told me this it's called solopreneur ship have you seen these youtubers who go to like different place like different places in India get a fancy haircut from a local guy and make videos about it and they make these videos put on youtube earn money and use that money to travel more it's such an amazing lifestyle rate so I wanna talk about this sort of lifestyle have you guys sort of digital nomads it's it's it's a lifestyle in which you can work from any place so like if you're if you're if you're working in an office you have to go to your office every day 9:00 to 5:00 right but if you're a digital nomad you can sit in your home with your laptop or not not only your home you can sit in some skyscraper in Singapore or you can be in some Beach and go up which I often do you can just sit there with a laptop and do your work you don't have to go to an office and that's that's that's the future lifestyle that's what people are you know wishing for and I have some stats to support that today there are more than 200 million solar printers 200 million people are freelancing living life at their own convenience working at the flexible hours and doing things that they love to do there are more than 200 people that means one out of every five professional is a solopreneur by the rear of 2035 according to McKinsey more than 1 billion people would be adopting the solar panel shape lifestyle and that's where the stats see this is what the future is going to look like more than 25% of the organization's will be comprised of 30% solopreneurs and fortune 2,000 companies like in the next 20 years fortune 2000 companies which are the top 2,000 companies in the world would be having more freelancers and solopreneurs as compared to regular workers isn't that astonishing like more people working at their convenience from some other part of the country they'll their number will be more than the people working physically in their office that's that's truly astonishing and some of you might be like how do I become a solopreneur it could be any skill literally any skill but these are some of the top skills are trending like web mobile development analytics visual design content marketing SEO instructor research and for lndeed keeps the amazing part about all these skills is that it can be learnt online you can just go online type in how to become a data analyst get tons of courses the Internet is awesome or you can just go and type in how to become a UX designer and start learning the skills it's so much so much more simpler once you learn these skills go to one of these websites all of the all of them are freelancing websites you know people from the US people from Europe post jobs go do a job stick to them and then build a good relation with the client over time you will become sort of a full-time employee and you can work from anywhere you can work from beaches in Vietnam or anyplace in the world and earn a living so that's the future of jobs if you're more interested in startups I recommend this book by warren maya my mentor pochamma profit it literally means you can earn profit in your pajamas by sitting at your home so that's the amazing lifestyle if you adopt if you if you do what do you love at your convenient time and 60 years down the line when you're all old when you're wrinkled when TEDx youth turns into direct senior citizens you will be happy a political life and you will be like oh I wish I lived that life okay with that I'm ending the speech thank you everyone for listening and begin our awesome audience