Impromptu Speech — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hello, my name is Brennon Collins. Um,
2. 0:03this is my note card here and today I'll
3. 0:06be presenting to you my impromptu
4. 0:08speech.
5. 0:09People often tell you, you know, be
6. 0:11yourself, be unique, do your own things
7. 0:14in life, and that that you really have
8. 0:16to choose your own path. And I think
9. 0:19when people tell you that, it's it is
10. 0:21honestly very true. Um, that is evident
11. 0:24in the quote that I chose today, which
12. 0:26is never forget that only dead fish swim
13. 0:29with the strength. I think this quote
14. 0:32really is talking about individuality
15. 0:35and being yourself. On a literal level,
16. 0:38this quote is saying that, you know, not
17. 0:40not only dead fish, but fish that only
18. 0:43follow the stream aren't going to have
19. 0:45to make any choices because they're only
20. 0:48destined for one direction, which is the
21. 0:50stream. I think that quote, this quote
22. 0:52is trying to tell people that they need
23. 0:55to be themselves and they need to live
24. 0:58life like they're the main character. I
25. 0:59know that sounds kind of funny, but they
26. 1:01need to live life like they're the main
27. 1:02character and like um almost like their
28. 1:05life is a movie and they're starring in
29. 1:08it. The first example I have today about
30. 1:11something that um kind of illustrates
31. 1:14this quote is a very recent um athlete,
32. 1:18his name is Jaylen Brunson. He just won
33. 1:20the
34. 1:2226 NBA championship, the most recent
35. 1:24one, he was on the New York Knicks. And
36. 1:26I chose him because me being a big
37. 1:28sports fan, I noticed that
38. 1:31um in the media especially, people would
39. 1:33say things like, you know, he's too
40. 1:35small, he can't be the best player on
41. 1:37the championship team. And overall that
42. 1:39he's just not good enough. And I think
43. 1:42Jaylen Brunson is very evident of this
44. 1:44quote because he didn't let that
45. 1:48distract him. He didn't let that change
46. 1:49him at all. He stuck with the same team.
47. 1:51He even took a pay cut for for his team
48. 1:55and he he ended up winning it all
49. 1:57against, you know, one of the greatest
50. 1:58player, one of the best players in the
51. 2:00league. He he stuck with what he knew
52. 2:03and he he believed in himself. He didn't
53. 2:05follow that stream. He took his own path
54. 2:06and he ended up benefiting from it
55. 2:09because he um because he chose his own
56. 2:12path. My second example is a more um
57. 2:16definitely fictional example of a a rat
58. 2:21actually named Remy from Ratatouille.
59. 2:24And I think this example maybe even uh
60. 2:28shows this quote the most because if any
61. 2:31of you have watched Ratatouille, you
62. 2:32know that uh Remy uh his family of rats
63. 2:36didn't did not agree with his decision
64. 2:38of becoming a chef and wanting to be a
65. 2:40chef. They thought that rats, you know,
66. 2:41belong in the sewers and belong doing
67. 2:44rat things. They didn't believe in him.
68. 2:46They didn't think that he should be a
69. 2:47chef. And he did. He believed in
70. 2:49himself. He saw the environment around
71. 2:52him and realized that, hey, I need to
72. 2:54get out of here. I need to become a chef
73. 2:56because this is what's going to not only
74. 2:57help me, but help everyone around me,
75. 2:59all all the other rats, all my rat
76. 3:01family, too. And I think that Remy
77. 3:03really shows this because at the end of
78. 3:06the day, it it seems crazy for a rat to
79. 3:09be a chef, but he did it because he
80. 3:10believed in himself. Just like Jaylen
81. 3:12Brunson, just like him, he believed in
82. 3:14himself. Uh chose his own path and went
83. 3:17on his own stream. The third example I
84. 3:20will choose is um a musician. His name
85. 3:23is Tyler the Creator. Um, Tyler the
86. 3:26Creator is known for his his characters
87. 3:29and his different personalities
88. 3:31and sometimes, you know, people might
89. 3:33see them as weird, different, and, you
90. 3:36know, out of out of the norm. And I
91. 3:39think that's really what makes him him.
92. 3:41You listen to a lot of his music, he's
93. 3:43telling a story. He's telling stuff
94. 3:45about him. He's telling things that
95. 3:46maybe you can relate to, maybe you
96. 3:48can't. But one thing is clear on all
97. 3:51those characters is that he was himself.
98. 3:54He did what he wanted to do. He didn't
99. 3:56let the mainstream decide what he
100. 3:57wanted. He didn't let critics because
101. 4:01there was a lot of critics telling him
102. 4:02what he can and can't do. He has a lot
103. 4:04of lyrics about that, too. He didn't let
104. 4:06critics tell him what he can and cannot
105. 4:08be, which is why I really appreciate
106. 4:10what he's done as a musician. Um,
107. 4:13overall, I think that these three
108. 4:15examples really demonstrate this quote
109. 4:17very well because all three of these
110. 4:19people believed in themselves. They did
111. 4:21what they knew they could do, even if it
112. 4:23was, you know, far-fetched, out of the
113. 4:26norm, because they believed in
114. 4:27themselves. They followed their own
115. 4:28path. They went on their own stream.
116. 4:30And, you know, they weren't dead. They
117. 4:33they were not dead, and they did not
118. 4:35they did not just go where the current
119. 4:38took them. So, yeah. Thank you for
120. 4:41listening to my speech.