JC+A’s+Final+AmEx+2014+Speech

=Title of Speech= Trigonometry and Precalculus (not really)

=Text of Speech=

I am here to teach you some trigonometry and some pre-calc. I am here to discuss finding why and overcoming probability.

It is very well known in nature that the lion chases the gazelle. Why? The gazelle runs for pretty clear reasons. It’s got a 400 pound beast behind it. The lion hunts because it has to, it has a family that it’s got to feed. If he doesn’t catch this gazelle, his family will die. Let’s take the derivative of that. There are two types of people in this world, lions and gazelles. Most of you and I sometimes are gazelles. That means that you are running. You go to school, you play sports, you have clubs and organizations that you go to. That is not the problem, I question I ask you is why?. Why are you doing the things you do? Most responses are because I need to get into a good college or my parents want me to. That’s good, but school will end, you will move out of your parent’s house, and you will have no reason to go on in life. I am asking you to find out what is your why. Why do you want to do the things you want to do? The gazelle will have that pseudo motivation but it will lose to the lion. I’m asking you to be the lion. The lions in this world know what they want and why they want it. They have something that’s pushing their action. Whether they’re successful football players, business people, entertainers or soldiers, they have a why that extends more than just money or because they have nothing better to do. They have something deep within them, a goal, a dream, a desire. And when you yourself find out what your why is, life is going to be a lot more easier because you will have a reason to get up at 5:00 in the morning, you will have a reason to grind through the tough and boring classes because you have a tried and true reason for being there beyond just because you have to. You The next subject is probability. Calculate the probability of someone from this generation committing any action if the possibility of that action becoming a success is less than 100%. The answer is unlikely. Most people, they grow up, they earn a living, they have a family, and then they die. This is fine, yet they stop growing as a person, they stop taking opportunities, and they stop pushing themselves. Most of us are not willing to take chances. We are either to scared of don’t believe that it will happen. Most of us won’t apply for the opportunities we really want because we are scared. We are scared of losing, and we are scared of even winning because we think we won’t be able to handle that level of greatness. We are spectators in the arena of life, and it is not the spectator that counts. The people in that arena are the ones that count. The ones who win, win with humility knowing that it could just of easily have gone bad, and the ones that lose, lose so without remorse because they did something that the spectators could have never done. Some of us, when applying to college aren’t going to take that risk to get into your dream college because you don’t think that you will make it. You will never know the outcome until you act of that opportunity. Sure you might have an idea on where it is going to go, but you will never know until you try. Please take this piece of advice. Just this past year alone I have skipped out on opportunities I wish I had done but didn’t do because I didn’t think it was going to happen. It still pains me when looking back on those times. I need you to think, if you died, this very second, what would die with you? What potential for greatness would be lost because of procrastination or fear stepping in? My fellow Americans, I leave you with these pieces of advice because when I grow old in this country I want the potential of all Americans to be fully exercised. I want a future where people are not totally satisfied with where they are. People who are 60 years old starting a new sport (true story). People who workout at the gym all year. Fellow students, this begins with you. I can see that each and every one of you have a potential for greatness. And with that potential, it is not just a gift, it is a responsibility to exercise that potential as hard as you can, because I believe that you are the future leaders of America.

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