TedxGGI : Knowing Is Nothing. Doing Is Everything. | Aseem Hanspal | TEDxGGI — Transcript

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1. 0:03Good afternoon everybody.
2. 0:05UH BEFORE I START I would like to ask a
3. 0:08simple question to all of you. How many
4. 0:10of you know that doing exercise is good
5. 0:12for health?
6. 0:16Fantastic. Okay. Now stay stay like this
7. 0:19please for a minute for 10 seconds 5
8. 0:21seconds. So everybody knows it's good to
9. 0:24do exercise for health. Okay. Now second
10. 0:26question. How many of you do it? Please
11. 0:29keep your hands up. A job is job. Right?
12. 0:33So that's what I'm going to talk today
13. 0:35that knowing is nothing and doing is
14. 0:37everything. Exercise is good for your
15. 0:40health. Almost everybody know it. But
16. 0:41when I asked our heads drop now that's
17. 0:44what happened. You know exercise will
18. 0:47make us fit and that is the topic is
19. 0:49today. Nothing is really to make it in
20. 0:52our mind in our brain. We always get
21. 0:54ideas. We see a gap. So many times we
22. 0:57think you know this could be better this
23. 0:59could have been better but we just pass
24. 1:02that. The difference between ordinary
25. 1:05people and people who really make a
26. 1:06difference is this that you don't pass
27. 1:08that gap. They understand that gap and
28. 1:11they say okay I'm going to make sure
29. 1:13I'll create an action plan on that. Now
30. 1:16a book on swimming cannot teach you
31. 1:17swimming unless you get into water. You
32. 1:20can read anything about swimming but you
33. 1:22won't. Similarly, an idea in your head
34. 1:25is not going to help you till you get
35. 1:27into action. Action does the work guys.
36. 1:30Ideas don't. That is very very important
37. 1:32that whenever you get an idea and you
38. 1:34qualify that idea, you should talk about
39. 1:37actions which we we are going to do
40. 1:39around that. Now you know for example
41. 1:43you notice a gap that every student want
42. 1:45to do well in in that is something we
43. 1:48can practice we can learn. Okay. Now
44. 1:51this is the gap and then you generate an
45. 1:53idea around that and you say okay I'll
46. 1:55take that action let's create a
47. 1:56studentled program group with a faculty
48. 1:59member and practice all this now that
49. 2:03idea that gap which is there that
50. 2:05students need to be good in their
51. 2:07interviews they need to learn that but
52. 2:10that gap can be created by an idea okay
53. 2:12let's create a group and practice it and
54. 2:14then from that idea to get into an
55. 2:16action plan useful ideas can be small a
56. 2:20classroom a process or whatever Whatever
57. 2:21it is until it is not put into action it
58. 2:23is not going to give me results
59. 2:25[clears throat] you know and noticing
60. 2:27the gap gave me something to think about
61. 2:30when I started my career you know when I
62. 2:32started my business somebody asked me so
63. 2:35how it is different than being in a job
64. 2:37and in business and you know my office
65. 2:40answer was you know there's no boss and
66. 2:42he said what is the most difficult thing
67. 2:44I said there's no boss
68. 2:46now because there's nobody to guide you
69. 2:48there's nobody to correct you there's no
70. 2:49one to keep you on discipline
71. 2:51I was very happy that I can do what I
72. 2:53want to do now but I was also not happy
73. 2:55that and that gap gave me my business
74. 2:58idea that there are so many
75. 2:59entrepreneurs who have nobody to guide
76. 3:02you who have nobody and they're on their
77. 3:04[clears throat] own young entrepreneurs
78. 3:05midsize entrepreneurs bigger
79. 3:07entrepreneurs and then we did an action
80. 3:09plan and I decided to become a business
81. 3:11coach I decided to guide these
82. 3:13entrepreneurs I made an organization
83. 3:14around that and that's what we have been
84. 3:17doing with various organizations today
85. 3:18but why not I'm trying to share here is
86. 3:21because I identified that gap and then I
87. 3:24qualified that gap by talking to a lot
88. 3:25of entrepreneurs and they said yes we
89. 3:27feel that gap and then I created an
90. 3:29action plan and build business from
91. 3:31that. Now that is very very important
92. 3:33you know
93. 3:35uh a lot of speakers are talked about
94. 3:36this you know when you talk about
95. 3:38something it's not sufficient I want to
96. 3:42become fitter and a lot of speakers said
97. 3:45okay I'll start with 10 now that was a
98. 3:47measurable action plan that is very
99. 3:50important you want to get fitter instead
100. 3:53of saying I want to get fitter say I
101. 3:54will walk 20 minutes every day at least
102. 3:57five times a week and in January I'll do
103. 3:5910 kilome in next year I do marathon
104. 4:02when you create milestones with action
105. 4:05you're going to achieve that uh we
106. 4:07should improve strength and interview
107. 4:08skills I already discussed create a
108. 4:10group start an action plan practice it
109. 4:12and say okay by so and so time we are
110. 4:14going to do a you know uh exercise
111. 4:17around the to practice it and we will
112. 4:19demonstrate it now we should do
113. 4:22something has no owner on our deadline
114. 4:24you know it's very common thing let's do
115. 4:26something when I say let's do something
116. 4:29there's no owner and there's No
117. 4:31deadline. Whenever you want to do
118. 4:33something, I'll give you give four
119. 4:35things to your idea. Very simple. One
120. 4:38action. This is my idea. I identify the
121. 4:41gap. What is the action I'm going to
122. 4:43take? Once you decide on action, the
123. 4:45next thing is how you going to measure
124. 4:47it. It has to be a measurable action
125. 4:50because by saying I want to be fitter is
126. 4:52not going to help you. By creating a
127. 4:55measurement around that that I want to
128. 4:56lose 5 kg in next 3 months, you're going
129. 4:58to measure it. Second be an owner of
130. 5:01that idea and last is of course state.
131. 5:04Once you do this from point A to point B
132. 5:07you [clears throat] are going to achieve
133. 5:08this. These are some example I want to
134. 5:11read more. Okay I'll read 10 pages every
135. 5:13night before sleeping or we need a
136. 5:15practical exposure. I'm going to do
137. 5:17this. These are few ideas that look put
138. 5:19whatever you want to do action put a
139. 5:21measility and a push time. I'm going to
140. 5:24do this by at this time. Now I would
141. 5:28urge all of you by the end of the day
142. 5:30you have heard so many speakers and we
143. 5:33are talking about making your life
144. 5:35better. Choose one idea and create an
145. 5:38action around that. Whatever ideas in
146. 5:41your mind which is there and you have
147. 5:42been thinking is it true can I do it can
148. 5:44I not do it those self-doubt don't worry
149. 5:48you cannot learn swimming until you jump
150. 5:51in swimming pool and when you jump in
151. 5:53swimming pool you're going to have your
152. 5:54red eyes you're going to have you're
153. 5:56going to gulp that water you're going to
154. 5:58have you know a lot of stuff happening
155. 6:00when you come out of it but that's how
156. 6:02you swim so get into that put a date
157. 6:05these action plans this is the date and
158. 6:07start working on that now Before we move
159. 6:10forward, you know,
160. 6:12I would like to ask you a simple thing.
161. 6:14What is funny about this statement
162. 6:18about this statement? Is there anything
163. 6:19funny?
164. 6:21What's funny? Can anyone tell me
165. 6:24is the same shirt is the same?
166. 6:28You know what I want to talk to you
167. 6:29right now? What stops us?
168. 6:33Why we are not able to create an action
169. 6:35plan and follow it? It's very common.
170. 6:38You know we always find out excuses
171. 6:40outside and this simple grammar I'm sure
172. 6:43many of you have used this
173. 6:50until
174. 6:5842 42 44 and we have fantastic ecosystem
175. 7:02in India you know today we are plus and
176. 7:04after that we can we are at dealers here
177. 7:07>> so there's endless Yes, you can get to
178. 7:08any place until you acknowledge no I'm
179. 7:10getting trapped then you will take
180. 7:13action and you should have thought you
181. 7:14know generally what happens right from
182. 7:17the childhood we have always been
183. 7:20thought like this that it is not my
184. 7:22fault it's outside thought and we come
185. 7:24complaining all this time or we create
186. 7:25excuse you know we all have small kids
187. 7:29one and a half year one year when they
188. 7:31start walking there's very common thing
189. 7:33happens they start walking they get
190. 7:35imbalance and generally in the groin
191. 7:36loop when we are you know seeing them
192. 7:38with a they they you know hit the center
193. 7:41table
194. 7:48and we hit that table and tell that kid
195. 7:50it's not your fault and when we hit the
196. 7:52table it gets up most of the time we do
197. 7:55this and you all would have experienced
198. 7:57this if you have kids or you would have
199. 7:59experienced with you know your friends
200. 8:01kid and that kids understand that okay
201. 8:03it's not my fault it is table's fault
202. 8:06next time that kid hits the wall and we
203. 8:08know the pity of the wall. This kid
204. 8:11grows up and say school is not good, my
205. 8:13clothes have gone bad, my boss is not
206. 8:15good and that's what we all become. We
207. 8:17have to break this. You know there are
208. 8:19two kinds of people. People
209. 8:22who complain or who create excuses and
210. 8:24their idea can never get into action or
211. 8:26people who are initiative oriented. You
212. 8:28have to ask yourself what you are. Are
213. 8:30you a complaining person? outside forces
214. 8:33stop you or are you a person who is
215. 8:35initiative oriented and you say okay let
216. 8:37me create an action plan let me try this
217. 8:39I want to try this because I'm confident
218. 8:42about this once you start thinking in
219. 8:44this terms initiated right I'll give a
220. 8:47small example we all know
221. 8:51Kirani is a super cop of India and many
222. 8:55years back she was to become
223. 8:57commissioner of Delhi now she was not
224. 8:59made commissioner of Delhi she was made
225. 9:01commissioner of the hardship. Somebody
226. 9:03else was made commission of Delhi. Now
227. 9:05there were all reasons to [snorts]
228. 9:08complain or get demotivated. But what
229. 9:10she she told came to the hardship and
230. 9:14she started improving the purposes there
231. 9:17life of inmates. She took so many
232. 9:19initiative so that when these people who
233. 9:21are there when they go out how they
234. 9:23going to earn she started you know uh
235. 9:26teaching them computers, accounting,
236. 9:28making small food items which are still
237. 9:30sold there. What happened? Because of
238. 9:32this initiative, he's sort of
239. 9:33complaining that baby brought Maxis her
240. 9:37what? Okay. Then [clears throat] she is
241. 9:40still in the system. She goes to various
242. 9:43country and talk about this how to
243. 9:44improve the life of mate. You don't
244. 9:47remember that other commissioner. He was
245. 9:48also a great guy. But what happens when
246. 9:50you take initiative on the idea and you
247. 9:53stop complaining? You start increasing
248. 9:55your influence. You start increasing
249. 9:57your circle. you become successful,
250. 10:00popular and of course it gives you
251. 10:03immense satisfaction. I met him with a
252. 10:05few years back and I was talking to her.
253. 10:07It was you know those 10 years were like
254. 10:09a lesson life lesson for me. What she
255. 10:12told me you know read these guys
256. 10:14understand what they did differently.
257. 10:16Okay. Now
258. 10:19what does a complaint do? A complaint
259. 10:21identifies what is wrong. I love one of
260. 10:23the speaker when he said you know
261. 10:25burnness is only seen when something
262. 10:27goes wrong that's what complain is all
263. 10:29about what are you doing by complaining
264. 10:31or by giving excuse you are identifying
265. 10:33what is wrong but when you take
266. 10:37initiative you are saying what can I
267. 10:39contribute or what can I do ask yourself
268. 10:43are you going to make things better for
269. 10:45yourself to start with your family there
270. 10:49for your society maybe I really don't
271. 10:51know what you have to Start taking that
272. 10:53one step when you say come over here
273. 10:56okay let me start exercise let me
274. 10:58control my food that's the smallest
275. 11:00example I can give you because that's a
276. 11:02very good example we all do okay someone
277. 11:05do something is never going to happen
278. 11:09you have to do it you it's your idea you
279. 11:12identified that you have to create that
280. 11:13action plan what stops us from taking
281. 11:16initiative just quick thought and when I
282. 11:19ask people what stops us taking from
283. 11:21initiative I get answers fear of
284. 11:23failure. I get answer this is not my
285. 11:26job. I get answer I'm not authorized to
286. 11:28do this. My answer is I don't have
287. 11:31knowledge about this. I don't know how
288. 11:33to do it. What should I do?
289. 11:36They are coming from initiative era but
290. 11:38history if you look at history people
291. 11:40who have taken initiative they have
292. 11:43brought the difference in their own life
293. 11:46in society or wherever that they have
294. 11:48worked and they are the people we talk
295. 11:49about and initiative is something you
296. 11:51know nobody else can take you can only
297. 11:53take initiative for yourself. So with
298. 11:56this thought that you know if you want
299. 11:58to really make ideas
300. 12:01actual and make them happen it is very
301. 12:03important that you have to stop giving
302. 12:05excuses complaining getting influenced
303. 12:07by outside negative forces and start
304. 12:10taking initiative that is what is in
305. 12:13your hand and you start walking trust me
306. 12:16you'll be able to achieve your goal
307. 12:18maybe sometimes you're slow sometimes
308. 12:20you're faster and I want to leave this a
309. 12:22wonderful video where you will see All
310. 12:25these reasons which I just said what
311. 12:27stops us taking initiative
312. 12:31[clears throat]
313. 12:32you know
314. 12:34I'm not capable or I don't have
315. 12:36knowledge to do this this little boy
316. 12:38forget all those things and he said okay
317. 12:40let me try and do this and see what
318. 12:43happens can you just play the video on
319. 12:44the next slide please
320. 12:48go back and you have to click
321. 12:55between the slide only.
322. 13:12Some of you may have seen it. See it
323. 13:14again with this perspective. Okay, that
324. 13:16one.
325. 13:25What the hell?
326. 13:31Okay.
327. 13:41That's all.
328. 14:03was
329. 14:21I Listen.
330. 14:24>> What's going on?
331. 14:35Oh sh.
332. 14:56[music]
333. 15:05Oh
334. 15:09[music and singing]
335. 15:11my
336. 15:19[singing]
337. 15:21god. [music]
338. 15:27[music]
339. 15:28[singing]
340. 15:34[singing and music]
341. 15:35Heat. Heat.
342. 15:39[music]
343. 15:41[singing]
344. 15:45[music]
345. 15:47[singing]
346. 15:50>> [music]
347. 15:54>> Anyway [clears throat] you saw that you
348. 15:55know and you know when you start taking
349. 15:57initiative everybody will start working
350. 16:00the small kid took the initiative
351. 16:02without having power it was not his job
352. 16:04he was not capital but you see everybody
353. 16:06started joining him and the work is done
354. 16:09so what will you do and by when will
355. 16:11bring that desired ideas are as good as
356. 16:14when you start taking action on that
357. 16:16with that I sign off from GGI thank you
358. 16:18Thank you very much and all the best.
359. 16:20[applause]