TEDx Vlog Part 2: Leading up to the talk

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Here's what happened after you got accepted to deliver a TEDx talk to the day of! Follow me to see the journey.  Link to my TEDx talk: https://www.NashFung.com/tedx

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00:00Here we are at the University of Washington where TEDxUFW was held.

00:05If you wonder what happened after he got accepted to do a TED talk to data presentation, follow me.

00:15So everything happened really fast.

00:17You have roughly two months before you deliver your talk.

00:21And during those two months, I will be meeting with my student leaders from TEDx University of Washington, Brady and Anushka.

00:28Before I go any further, I just want to give all the students a big shout out and thank you for being so amazing.

00:34Because you all have school, you all have midterms and at the same time you carve out time to take on such a huge project.

00:41You are all incredible. Thank you for doing what you do.

00:44Now during those two months, we will look into research and studies that will support the idea in the talk

00:50and also come up with the title for the talk, which was due actually just four weeks after you get accepted.

00:57Now a tool that I can recommend to you is monsterinsight.com slash headline analyzer.

01:03If you are involved in any kind of creative writing, I recommend it.

01:07Because you can plug in the topic that or title that you want to use and it will give you a score.

01:12And ideally you want to score about 87 or above.

01:14And ultimately we decided on this title for my talk.

01:18Unlock the magic to providing better emotional support.

01:22Now the hardest thing about scripting for a TED talk is the ending.

01:27At the end, I wanted to have a call for action.

01:30But you want to write it in the most concise manner and use as few words as you can.

01:36It's not different from a magic theory actually.

01:39Now take for example, this coin trick.

01:41It's a good trick because you know something was going to happen to the coin and I got to the end fast.

01:49Right?

01:50Now conversely, if I would have done it this way.

01:52I mean it's the same trick, but because I waited to get to the end, it starts to lose its impact.

02:07The same theory applies in speaking.

02:11When you get to the ending, you want to be as short and concise.

02:14You want to get to it as quick as you can.

02:16We went back and forth a few times and we ultimately landed on this ending.

02:21But in fact, I should be the one to thank her.

02:26Because when someone shares their vulnerability and their pain with you, it is actually your privilege.

02:36And the magic is how you choose to acknowledge them, how you stay present with them during that moment.

02:45So, do you know someone who can use the magic of your presence today?

03:04So confession, here's something I don't recommend.

03:07I actually did not work on the ending of my talk until a week before the talk.

03:13And that's because I speak professionally and I have a few other customized presentation in my head already.

03:19And in fact, I was doing a keynote in Minneapolis just four days before the TED talk.

03:24But as soon as I landed back home, it is game time.

03:29So right behind me right there, that's Kane Hall.

03:32That's where TEDx University of Washington was held.

03:35Now, first thing on the docket is this.

03:37A dress rehearsal two nights before the talk.

03:41Here's what happened.

03:49Yo, we're two days away from the TED talk.

03:51And we just did a dress rehearsal at Kane Hall.

03:53And this is fantastic because you know what though?

03:55At home when I'm rehearsing, right?

03:57It's totally different from the stage because right now I need to walk all the way across the room, the stage,

04:03to get my card trick ready.

04:05So that is something that we didn't plan for while rehearsing at home.

04:08So I'm glad we got a dress rehearsal so we can get it taken care of.

04:12And then the night before the talk, we had an informal rehearsal in the classroom with the student leaders

04:17and also TEDx University of Washington coach, Rove,

04:20who was responsible for helping all six of our speakers fine-tune our speaking skills.

04:26Rove was extremely invested and dedicated to the success of all our speakers.

04:31I want to give a heads up to Rove.

04:33It was great working with you.

04:34Thank you so much.

04:35So with months and months of hard work and for me a year and a half in training and preparation,

04:40here is what happened on the day of the TED talk.

04:44Whoa, we finally here.

04:45After months and months and months and months and months of practice and rehearsal, we finally here, the day of TEDx.

04:59How do I feel?

05:00I don't know.

05:01I try to stay neutral.

05:02It's going to be exciting.

05:03It's going to be fun.

05:04There's no way I just saw someone who's doing the same thing over here.

05:05Brooklyn, what's up?

05:06Yo, what's up?

05:07J

05:24Yo, what's up, what's up?

05:29Rose a great friend of mine also a great speaker by the way. Let's go

05:38One of the blessing is that I'm on after lunch

05:41so I have literally an hour and a half to set up the stage and

05:45You'll see at a tad top why I need that. But yeah, this is very important right here

05:49Thank God

05:51Videographer's friends

05:52Hope this up. It's kind of so good on a big stage when it's kind of magic is a projector on there

05:58Yeah, so another hour to go. Usually I don't eat. I never eat lunch before I present so I'm just gonna chill

06:08As I'm waiting in a green room for my turn to go on stage

06:11I like to just relax by practicing magic. I even got a moment to show the students a couple of quick tricks

06:19This trick only work in certain angles, all right

06:21It only wasn't this angle onward passes line is not gonna work at all

06:25Actually, what I mean this trick only work with a particular number and that's the number six

06:30All right, so give me your hand if you may put right here right now if you can got it good

06:34So you can see that they have for the ease of memory remembering it. I have six sixes on here, right?

06:39All right, good. So don't forget what number is that on your phone six sixes it will work for you

06:43But it won't work for me because I'm looking at nine for my angle

06:47It wouldn't work for me because I'm two nines, right?

06:49So if you want to see sixes again on your phone, what do I got to do with the counter the calculator with the phone?

06:55Turn around so you see six again on your side, right?

06:58Oh

06:58What the hell?

06:59Wait, wait, wait!

07:02No, no, no, no, no, no.

07:03What the hell?

07:04Oh my god.

07:05That's weird.

07:06That's weird.

07:07It's got a reaction.

07:11You know, from working behind the scenes, I see how much hard work Sherrock, Jeff, Noha,

07:17Emily, and Zarya really put into the TEDx Talk because they absolutely crushed it on stage.

07:23I highly recommend you check out their TED talk as well.

07:26And on April 13th, 2024, 1.30pm, I got a chance to cross off a bucket list of my lifetime.

07:41In the beginning of my magician career, I was booked by a mums and pops Mexican restaurant to do magic.

07:50What I would do is I would walk onto a table and I would be like,

07:53Good evening! Welcome to the restaurant!

07:56fill1st�!

07:58Thank you all.

08:01Thank you!

08:06Thank you very much!

08:12Thanks to this.

08:14Thank you very much.

08:17Perfect!

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