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  • So I'm particularly excited about this dog because it's happening inside a university.

  • And I'm I'm about to convince you to quit it today.

  • We'll see that.

  • Was it.

  • Really?

  • Um it's a system that I'm about to share that I've been experimenting exploring for the bus seven years, and it all started from my own education.

  • Now, if you haven't noticed, I'm Indian and just like every Indian, Guess what?

  • I studied engineering, computer science, engineering.

  • Just so you get your student types right?

  • Right now, it's really crazy growing up in India.

  • If you're growing up in India, you're either becoming a doctor, an engineer or a family disappointment.

  • And I decided I'm gonna do engineering and not just any engineering university.

  • I got in and role in one of the best universities in the world in India at that time, the day I found the result, my family found a result.

  • They were so happy I was getting calls from 50 different relatives congratulating me, saying, Congratulations got we're so proud of you.

  • This just so happy for you and I For the first time, I felt like wow, I've made it right.

  • And a week later, I received my tool for success, my brand new first ever del inspire on laptop.

  • That was a game changer.

  • I played a lot of games on it, and as I was entering my university at my brand new laptop, I have my newfound freedom, so many new people to look forward to, and a beautiful campus super excited.

  • But that excitement didn't last very long.

  • Fast forward a year.

  • I couldn't even wake up in the morning.

  • I was so demotivated I couldn't walk into my classroom.

  • I would walk into my classroom and I would feel like I'm entering a prison.

  • The classes were not.

  • I didn't study.

  • I didn't think I was learning something that was relevant to me.

  • The classes were not engaging, the lectures were boring, and every single person around me was focusing on memorizing everything and blurting it out at the end of the year.

  • In the examination, everybody saw it as a means to an end as light.

  • At the end of a four year long tunnel, which is a successful job as an engineer didn't gel with me, I couldn't do it for suffer like Oh, and maybe I'm the weirdo in the class.

  • How many of you know some beer does in the class?

  • There you go, force.

  • I felt that's that's why I was.

  • Then I felt maybe I lost my edge and maybe I'm not set for success.

  • And then I did what any other student would do.

  • I started immersing myself in cultural activities and extracurricular activities.

  • Student loves just so have something to show on my CV.

  • And I stumbled upon this organization called Isaac.

  • Have you guys heard of Isaac?

  • How many of you?

  • Fantastic, I think, is the world's largest?

  • You?

  • Through an organization that aims to develop youth leadership, I joined Isaac and that hit home for me.

  • I was I mean, it was incredible, Like I started doing the thing that I loved.

  • I was with the people that I loved.

  • I was doing leadership training for some people.

  • I was learning like people management.

  • I was learning I was like helping underprivileged kids on some projects to find discover their own passion.

  • Right?

  • And I had a team of 12 different people from India.

  • Four of them are family disappointments, by the way, and I started noticing something interesting.

  • I started reading incredible people from different education backgrounds.

  • Engineers, architects, doctors, economic students, art students.

  • All of them were feeling somehow education has failed them.

  • For the first time, I felt that I was not alone.

  • And the more I questioned it, the more I realized that this education degree would not be off any use to me if you have your smartphones.

  • If you Google right now, university makes me if you Google that right now, you know the 1st 4 automatic answers Anxious depress.

  • I feel like a failure.

  • Stupid.

  • So I started questioning.

  • Why?

  • Why Google?

  • By the way, the tech giant, right that happens, who had a lot of engineers 15% of their stuff doesn't have a professional college degree.

  • Why?

  • Because our education system is outdated.

  • It was built in the 19 hundreds.

  • It was built for the industrial age.

  • It was built for people to prepare themselves to live and have a creative life in the industrial world.

  • It's outdated.

  • Now I can prove it to you.

  • How many of you have a smart phone here?

  • Great.

  • How many of you had the same smartphone two years ago?

  • Some older generation people welcome back if I had asked five years, nobody would raise their hand.

  • If I had said 10 years, you'll be like, What are you crazy?

  • We want the latest operating system in a mobile in our laptops in our home appliances.

  • But the the platform that impacts the entire humanity is more than 100 years old hasn't been updated.

  • We live in the information age.

  • This education old standardized education model is based on linearity, conformity and batch ing people.

  • It's outdated, I would say It's almost getting obsolete, right?

  • We we live in the information.

  • It's something that you learn in the beginning of the university is obsolete.

  • By the time you graduate Peter Diamandis, he said, between 2016 and 2022 they will be as many technological changes as many as we had between 19 hundreds and 2000.

  • That's more than 2000% growth.

  • And that's just the beginning off the exponential curve.

  • Many of the interesting jobs today that we have didn't exist five years ago.

  • What do we do?

  • We don't live in the age of standardization.

  • We live in the age of customization.

  • Let me tell you a story.

  • Do you guys know this guy?

  • Kevin Systrom.

  • So this guy what?

  • In a marketing job during the day, he was working a marketing agency and he will come back home, take out his computer and start with the computer.

  • Start programming.

  • Right?

  • And he got so good at programming.

  • He built an app called bourbon.

  • He later, after a few alterations, called that app Instagram at the age of 28 he sold that app for a $1,000,000,000 to Facebook.

  • Mark Zuckerberg.

  • I called his drop up.

  • We live.

  • We don't live in the age of standardization.

  • We live in the age of customization and everybody can teach themselves.

  • No.

  • Two people are the same.

  • How many of you have siblings?

  • How many of you have siblings?

  • Perfect.

  • Did your parents ever come up to you and said Hey, come here.

  • Uh, remind me which one of you again never happens.

  • Even if you're Indian doesn't happen.

  • There's half a 1,000,000,000 people.

  • There doesn't happen.

  • No two people are the same and neither should be the education journey.

  • I had an uncle once.

  • I mean, I still do, I hope after I tell you this story my uncle, who's also an engineer.

  • Obviously, his face resembles one of the biggest Bollywood actors.

  • Amir Khan.

  • Pretty cool, right?

  • So I'm sitting at home with my friend and my uncle walks in and my friend looks and wow, you look like Amir Khan and two that he says, Oh, no, no, He looks like me.

  • We all want to be unique.

  • At least the original copy right?

  • And we are unique.

  • Start designing your unique education and it's never been easier.

  • Did you know that all the classes at M I T students are taking today You can go online and take the same classes for free, not just a mighty.

  • You can go on EDEK store or the M I.

  • T.

  • Harvard, Berkeley.

  • Some of the best universities in the world pick the courses you like.

  • Take them.

  • You guys want you to me, you can go and you to me and learn basically everything from programming to photography, right?

  • Tone your passions into your professions.

  • You can do that.

  • Most of the course is less than $200.

  • I've purchased courses in that promotion for $15.

  • Right?

  • You can do that.

  • Start educating yourself, and that's the first key.

  • Just the only one.

  • The next one.

  • Here's how you take it to the next level.

  • How many of you know this guy, Elliott?

  • Business No.

  • One.

  • Great.

  • So this guy was a young American entrepreneur living in us, starting out as a digital entrepreneur at the age of 24.

  • He felt really lonely.

  • He didn't have.

  • Ah, he had a lot of unanswered questions.

  • What did?

  • He picked up his phone, started calling successful digital entrepreneurs and us and said, Hey, guys, I'm saying Utah, I'm inviting a lot of digital entrepreneurs.

  • Why don't you come hang out with me and you know what?

  • I will pay for it.

  • He took $50,000 on credit card debt and invited 50 different entrepreneurs for one trip.

  • But then he was onto something.

  • Next year, 200 people came and they paid the year after 700 people came and they paid.

  • Today, he gave birth to what we call the Summit series.

  • People like Richard Branson, speaker that event today, and he was wounded as the coolest entrepreneur by Inc magazine in 2009 right?

  • You know what he was doing?

  • He was bringing together people with similar interests, similar pain points and similar lifestyles.

  • And that's the key.

  • Find your tribe.

  • We are social animals.

  • We are naturally inclined to connect with people who are like a similar value.

  • Similar interest, similar belief system.

  • Right, and we drive in that environment.

  • That's that's That's where you shared the latest practices.

  • That's where you learn and you teach each other.

  • You learn and grow with each other together as a tribe, and it's never