How to make an impact from scratch
good afternoon
my name is omri remis i can’t see you
guys right now but i know you guys are
all looking beautiful
wherever you may be i hope you’re
comfortable i’m a 17 year old senior at
homestead high school
and i think i’ve found the way to be the
most efficient
and most likely to make your impact from
scratch
now there’s four principles that i’m
going to be covering today
which i find critical for me to follow
in order to achieve whatever goal i want
to pursue
and i hope that you could take something
from my talk into your own life
but before we get into the nitty-gritty
let me show you how these principles
look like in action
so okay
from the very first time you pick up
your guitar you’re gonna learn
one note from one note
transition to two
then three four and five
once you have those five notes
you can start a melody
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change it up again
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awesome so we have our melody and with
this thing
we create something pretty cool
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so
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thank you now i didn’t come here to talk
about my guitar
rather how this guitar brings into my
principles
so let’s go over them there’s four
principles that i think are
absolutely important and critical to
follow
number one focus on target
focus on target is the idea of having to
go from the very beginning of your
journey
and most importantly one that you could
clearly and fairly
imagine you achieving so take this for
instance every single time
i start a journey i sit down on my bed i
close my eyes looks like i’m totally
daydreaming but i
fantasize about how it’s going to be
like to achieve this impact or goal
whether that’s scoring the final buzzer
beater or it’s getting down on the wave
or it’s getting into my college apps i
mean just imagine
how many times i thought and prospered
about this guitar performance
i saw the finish line i saw what i
needed to focus on
focused on it and achieved it that
brings me to my second principle
attitude attitude
happens to be the principle that
embodies the idea from the very
beginning of your journey
and the beginning of your first note you
have to believe
and tell yourself i can do it
now you cannot win the race if you don’t
believe that you can win in the first
place
because if you don’t believe that you
can win in the first place you simply
won’t have the motivation
to start practicing over and over again
now attitude ties incredibly closely to
our success
way before skill is even involved what
makes great coders great or
genius guitarist genius isn’t just their
skill level
but it’s how they apply those skills and
their approach to it in the first place
you have to succeed and believe that
you’re gonna succeed
only if you believe that you’re gonna
succeed
because if you don’t you probably won’t
it’s that simple now i’m not saying that
you’re going to be the greatest guitar
player of all time just by thinking
about it
no you have to work for it but
what i am saying is that one critical
moment
and critical aspect of your journey is
attitude
here’s an amazing clip that i think
showcases my idea
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perfectly
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the only disability in life is a bad
attitude
a simple yet just a powerful statement
which leads me to my next point
principle number three small steps
i could have just came out here not said
anything pick up the guitar
and play a song for you guys but that
wasn’t my impact
my impact was to get our brains to
develop the idea
of building blocks and how i led one
note to multiple notes to a chord
progression
to the looper and only then to the song
take a building for instance
how awesome would it be if we could put
a hundred foot skyscraper
in the middle of manhattan we can’t i
wish
but we can’t it takes five years on
average
five years to build one of those
monsters and
one of the fastest buildings was ever
built was still built in 13 months
the empire state building now just
imagine
what it would be like if a block wasn’t
placed in the place it was supposed to
be or if the architect
imagined of skipping a small step i mean
it wouldn’t have been the building we
know enough today
it probably would have collapsed but
let’s recap so
i came on stage i knew my focus knew
what i wanted to perform
awesome great principle number one
attitude told myself i can do it got
over the fear factor
and believed that i can do it great
principle number two
number three got from chord to notes to
chord progression
looper song awesome principle number
three
but something is missing none of this
can be possible without persistence
persistence is the glue to every
principle above and is in my opinion
is the reason why most people don’t
succeed in making their impact the way
they do
so before we start there’s a difference
between persistence and consistency
persistency is not only being able to
come to the gym
every single day but it’s the act of
coming harder and harder
to higher difficulty and not selling for
the good
but that’s only half of it it’s not only
not setting for the good
it’s the inability and
to stop an ability to prosper through
boring
and mediocracy i wish
we always that it would be as easy as a
linear line
if it was everybody would do it now we
all know this we all know
that there is failure dedication
sacrifice hard work time
but it’s slept on we don’t understand
how hard it is
to actually reach our success okay
let’s take a different approach from
this guitar performance
early last year the covet pandemic hit
our lives
but i found it a perfect opportunity to
make my impact with this new normal
that’s where i founded eye for eye with
a partner a non-profit organization
established to teach skills in this
newfound abundance of time
but let me show you how my principles
come into effect
number one focus me and my partner
saw our end goal of an opportunity to
help our community in need
so through a free learning environment
we decided
to give the people the hat time on their
hands something to do
the application zoom we brought several
different teachers
to teach new passions in order to create
new loves from guitar to art to geometry
great number two attitude
we made sure that every single one of
our nine teachers
understood that if students weren’t
coming to classes
or if the business wasn’t going well or
if something went wrong you would come
harder and stronger and understand that
you’re never going to lose that positive
mentality
that is honestly where i found out
that the greatest part of the process
are
to work with number three small steps
so we saw all the small steps on the
floor they’re all all scattered
while our website took hours to build
days to build to perfect
our small recruiting system took slowly
by slowly by slowly to understand who we
wanted to be on our team
we reached out to several different
developers before reaching the one
that would guide us to make our project
a venture
but when we got all the small components
on the floor and build them up
that’s when we saw eye for eye come to
life
but through it all we stayed persistent
true to the process and never gave up on
our venture
and that’s when ifri became from scratch
to impact
by august 2020 ifry had 238 users
using my site so
through the guitar performance and
through my covet project
i’ve shown how the four principles are
critical for me to follow
in order to pursue my impact and i
hope that with my four principles
you guys can pursue your next impact
thank you very much