What would you do if you knew you could not fail
let’s forget where we are
let’s control alt and delete
so how many of you over here
have seen a deck of cards
your hands if you have
okay how many of you here have
played any card games please clap your
hands if you have
now how many of you
know that the ace of spades is the
highest card that you can get
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you got the gist i think uh that’s my
first success
i have uh successfully gotten applause
for this session
my job here is done now
if i had to ask you all if you wanted to
be the ace of spades i think you’ve
answered that you’d want to be
in order to get from a deck of cards
to being an asus page all we have to do
is control
alt and delete you see
this is a function that we take not once
not twice
several times in our day each day
luckily each and every one of us all of
us over here
is born as a deck of cards fresh
completely
new with opportunities the only
difference i would say in these deck of
cards is how you shuffle them
that’s all that changes how you shuffle
this deck of cards
and how we’re then presented it
you see with that let me tell you a
little bit about myself
let me introduce myself to you beyond
just the name
this is the first time i was cited
that’s my first picture now
i wouldn’t call it a selfie of course
but at the same time i didn’t get
permission for this to be taken
but much like my ultrasound right here
each and every one of us has our first
picture and it looks
exactly like this like a deck of cards
fresh but let’s skip to the future
if i had to take it one day at a time
this might be a bit too long
so i found myself over here doing
exactly what i love to do and that’s
where i put the control function
on that’s where i pressed control the
first time i started playing football
all the time every single day and i
found myself
good at football and therefore playing
for a club in england
it showcased in my marks or lack of
marks at the time but what i really
realized was i was focusing on my
impulse
my impulse to do something i loved
which got me right here now
this is where i realized what my
passions were but what was supposed to
lead me towards a goal
a goal towards a scoresheet actually led
me to
writing on a blackberry
a phone that was used utilized to convey
messages to friends and loved ones
the oldest blackberry that i had turned
out to be where i typed in
my first book you see for me
that’s where i put the alternative part
of my life i pressed alt
and started to explore different
passions much
more than i thought i wanted to do and
much more where i wanted to spend
my time in what i was willing to fail at
and this is where i realized we’re all
confused
we have no idea what we’re doing and
that’s the best part of it
going one word at a time i typed up the
words this is just a short story
to realize it turned out to be a book
typed up in a blackberry
but at the same time what my friend over
here is telling us
is you’ve got to be confused in the
process don’t believe you’ve reached
the ultimate goal because there is no
ultimate goal and that’s the best part
about this journey
like this deck of cards you actually
have to slice and dice it a little bit
so you have to start removing parts that
you don’t want
that’s where you reach a very very
important part
that is the delete function intimidating
isn’t it
almost seems like a villain trying to
take us away from our goals
delete it’s daunting
but you have to start trimming in order
to reach your goals
i’m going to repeat that to grow you
have to trim
makes no sense but you have to let go of
things you’re not willing to fail at you
have to let go of things you’re not
willing to spend
time improving towards
and like this deck of cards i started
cutting a little more
each time started letting go and got
left with two or three different parts
of my life
you see we’ve got to be a jack of all
trades
you have to be one of them you have to
have so many tricks up your sleeve in
order to figure out
where you stand where you want to stand
where you want to sit
there has to be as homer simpson said
confusion
now to factor all this in i started
testing out myself a little bit
because there’s only so much a passion
can tell you until you actually go out
there until you get out
of the red line until you cross so i
started testing out
by meeting people and spending time in
writing books no writing a blog
starting a business definitely not
getting mentored
aside meeting people that had done the
control alt delete function in their
life
multiple times multiple times
successfully as well
what i realized in the process was
in order to reach your several goals in
order to learn
how to catch one ball throw one ball
catch the other ball
and then eventually juggle wait were you
guys going to think i was going to
juggle
no that’s one thing i realized i’m bad
at
apart from the multiple other things i
realize i’m bad at
so i started to realize what i need to
focus on how do i
put something let it go how do i
let another thing go and catch it
you’ve got to realize what you’re
willing to spend your time on
so i set my goals very methodically or
at least that’s what i thought
the hardest goal the one that will take
the furthest amount of time
came first i spent my time building that
first
by the time i was in your place
in school i didn’t realize i typed up my
first book
and by the time i was ending university
i realized someone told me hey this
might be the second
so i set it set myself aside and put
another hat
on one of the other jacks to realize let
me start building ventures
it wasn’t that easy it was almost like
dropping a ball each time when you
thought this is the one you want to
catch
that’s where the whole process of
meeting someone else came in the mentors
came in
now let me tell you the fun bit
when you start categorically putting
what you want in place
do you realize
the people around you are actually your
stakeholders
each and every one while you’re pressing
control someone else is pressed all
when they’ve pressed all someone else
says press delete
it’s a vicious chain cycle that works
and that got me to the last part
in order to reach her you categorically
put everything in place
jump into that mess get your hands dirty
realize you don’t realize anything
realize you don’t know what you’re doing
and only then will you be able to figure
out what you’re willing to fail at
and only after all this will you realize
the real trick has been obviously the
entire time
the ace of spades it’s there with you
and you can keep building more how many
of you think there’s another
card up my sleeve clap your hands if you
genuinely think there’s another ace of
spades
those that did there’s only one ace of
spades in a deck
and you have to concentrate on that
first and then slice and dice the cake
till you become
the entire cake yourself lastly
i’m going to tell you the first step of
this what is a deck of cards made for
to have fun that’s what decks are made
for
just have fun during the process
lose a few hands play a few more
the house will always win that’s that’s
the first step that we’re taught
but like a deck of cards like that first
picture
be fresh and have fun
thank you very much for having me