The 5 Ifs Make Life Worthwhile

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I joined the presentation of Dr. John on Fed 29. He talked about the theme “The 5 Ifs make life worthwhile”. I went there because I wanted to get more experiences in real life from successful people. Dr. John got many degrees in different field such as Business, Education, Law. That was the third time he’s been a speaker at NSCC. He is a black American, charming face with brilliant eyes. But I think the most interesting thing about him is the way he speaks which was very attractive. He started his presentation by telling a story about an artist who didn’t know her talent until one came and told him that her art painting was really fantastic. The artist lived his life without knowing his purpose, but he was passionate in painting. The first “Ifs” John talked was that if you meet someone tells you have talent and life is worthwhile if you try. You need to try what you really want to do with a strong belief. “Try” is an ability to make the impossible possible. A lot of people don’t even try something because they have fear made –up in our mind that we may probably fail. His message is that people shouldn’t be afraid of trying and doing something. The second “Ifs” is that life is worthwhile if we learn. Learning is so important nowadays as we’ve seen. He mentioned PE and OPE which stand for “personal experience” and “other people experience”. We live to learn and get experiences and apply it to our life. Everyone needs to be able to self-taught and reading is the best way to do that. He suggested us to read one book every month. 3 “E” help we read are “Exercise”, “Environment”, ”Efficiency”. The third “if” is that if we can. He asked question “how many of you have friends?”. A lot of hands raised. He continued to ask “How many of you have a friend who you can trust to tell him/her that you expect him/her to share and not tell someone else. Hands started going down. It’s
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