From Nobody to Noticed: Breaking Barriers | Bhavika Dabur | TEDxKnowledge Tree World School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ywr9gh7cA Video ID: b3ywr9gh7cA ============================================================ [Music] I don't know if the mic is ready because I'm I'm about to share a journey that is very close to my heart. How many years did I wait for it? 21 years to be precise. To begin with, I am one of those people who was once informed and told. Well, today I stand before all of you to do exactly that. That was a stage like when I was sitting right there, I noticed the carpet, a circle, a circular carpet, red color, red, a color that is SOS by nature. That means something that needs to be static, something that needs to be talked about, a circle, your life's journey, everything circle backs to your dreams, your manifestations. To begin with, hi people, my name is I come from Chandigar, a girl who never thought I would be right here standing in front of all of you. My journey, it begins with my own family. I come from a family of army and there's one thing that we resonate with the most. Leave none of you behind. Leave no one you know behind. And that is where my journey begins with. I train people. I mentor people about soft skills. I talk to strangers like they're my own. And today I stand before you to share why all of this might sound like a beautiful journey to all of you. But again when you talk about someone who's starting right off from a toi sometimes we all don't know whether you'll be able to navigate the path in the direction. Back in class 9 I never thought I could be a speaker. None of my teachers thought that. I remember when I started the modern human simulation club in my home school and I went to the teacher's room I was informed focus on your values well today not just my school but me myself I have mentored more than one lakh plus students and I stand before you as an organizer myself for the UN diplomacy events UN something that I I am still shivering when I talk Um last year I hopped from India to Riad to represent as a youth representative from India. It sounds so fancy right? But when I trace back the journey speaks about lives when I had no direction to what I wanted to actually do. During my last years of college, last days of college rather, I remember I went through a period where I I wanted to avoid everyone. I wanted no one to actually see me. Perhaps I wanted not even my own self to witness who I am cuz I had no answer. One fine day to be precise after 14 days it suddenly clicked me and I sat in my room along with my folder where all my certificates are kept. The very first competition that I won was a rabbit race. It was in class first. I remember I I myself as a rabbit. I hopped on the ground and I came first. Moving ahead, I started with these Olymp school Olympia which are there. A little more ahead, I started doing public speaking events. I started speaking about my own journey, speaking about things that people would not like to talk about. And then somewhere in this journey, I trickled down to 200 plus events and I suddenly had a snap. Why not me again? Why is it that anyone around me is making me feel like that I am not enough? Well, there's a quotation that we all must have heard. Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Or maybe behind every successful woman, there's a man. Well, in my case, we have Google Maps. We have those random auto rides. We have those cities I have traveled to alone maybe crime just because I wanted to ensure that every single thing that I'm scared to do I try at least in this entire journey I realized that why would anyone of you let's say who want to know me or if I'm standing next to someone why would they want to even connect with me and that my friend it taught taught me the power of networking. It helped me understand why your personal branding should be at par. Maybe right now any of you feel that this might doesn't sound familiar. It isn't a friend of yours. But that is on you to decide whether in the near future would you make it your own partner? Would you make it sure that when anyone sees you right, they're standing, oh my god, we know them. How did I do it? I started marketing myself on LinkedIn. Well, to begin with again, I started with no likes. Uh then three lies. One being myself, second my mother and hurting my father. We narrow it down 300 plus slides. But my friends, that is not the logic here. In this process, I realized the art of consistency, which probably you have heard a lot about. something that every single human out there knows. But rather I realized that it is also about capacity shifting. But again the idea is to move to keep moving and that is capacity shifting for all of you. Last but not the least, I'm here to talk about soft skills because I believe that my voice is my power. No, it's not the grammar, my friends. Not that I want to be someone who probably knows every single word that exists in a dictionary. No, I still stim. I'm still not sure of certain things. Right now, when I stand before you, maybe I'm still scared, but again, I still feel that I deserve this life. And if I were to leave you with one statement, I would want you to believe in yourself. You to understand that one day you shall own this mic as well. And given you're standing here to echo the voice of tomorrow, the voice of youth when I went to Riyad, there's one thing that I learned in the process. And I would like the same for all of you. Then why not? Why not us? Why not you? You're not supposed to do what others are doing. You're supposed to do what you want to do. The only thing that you need to believe in is perhaps you. Your mind, your brains, you yourself, your fear. Fear is not your enemy. It's your biggest friend right there. And yes, maybe not today, but tomorrow for sure. This mic shall be yours. Thank you. Signing off. [Music]