Pratica di Shadowing: My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube
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Transcriber: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo Hello everyone.
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Transcriber: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo Hello everyone.
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I'm Sam, and I just turned 17.
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A few years ago, before my freshman year in High School, I wanted to play snare drum in the Foxboro High School Marching Band, and it was a dream that I just had to accomplish.
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But each snare drum and harness weighed about 40 pounds each, and I have a disease called Progeria.
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So just to give you an idea, I weigh only about 50 pounds.
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So, logistically, I really couldn't carry a regular sized snare drum, and because of this the band director assigned me to play pit percussion during the halftime show.
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Now pit percussion was fun.
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It involved some really cool auxiliary percussion instruments, like the bongos, timpani, and timbales, and cowbell.
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So it was fun, but it involved no marching, and I was just so devastated.
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However, nothing was going to stop me from playing snare drum with the marching band in the halftime show.
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So my family and I worked with an engineer to design a snare drum harness that would be lighter, and easier for me to carry.
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So after continuous work, we made a snare drum apparatus that weighs only about 6 pounds.
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(Applause) I just want to give you some more information about Progeria.
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It affects only about 350 kids today, worldwide.
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So it's pretty rare, and the effects of Progeria include: tight skin, lack of weight gain, stunted growth, and heart disease.
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Last year my Mom and her team of scientists published the first successful Progeria Treatment Study, and because of this I was interviewed on NPR, and John Hamilton asked me the question: "What is the most important thing that people should know about you?" And my answer was simply that I have a very happy life.
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(Applause) So even though there are many obstacles in my life, with a lot of them being created by Progeria, I don't want people to feel bad for me.
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I don't think about these obstacles all the time, and I'm able to overcome most of them anyway.
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So I’m here today, to share with you my philosophy for a happy life.
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So, for me, there are 3 aspects to this philosophy.
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So this is a quote from the famous Ferris Bueller.
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The first aspect to my philosophy is that I’m okay with what I ultimately can’t do because there is so much I can do.
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Now people sometimes ask me questions like, "Isn’t it hard living with Progeria?" or "What daily challenges of Progeria do you face?" And I’d like to say that, even though I have Progeria, most of my time is spent thinking about things that have nothing to do with Progeria at all.
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Now this doesn’t mean that I ignore the negative aspects of these obstacles.
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When I can’t do something like run a long distance, or go on an intense roller coaster, I know what I’m missing out on.
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But instead, I choose to focus on the activities that I can do through things that I’m passionate about, like scouting, or music, or comic books, or any of my favorite Boston sports teams.
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Yeah, so -- (Laughter) However, sometimes I need to find a different way to do something by making adjustments, and I want to put those things in the "can do" category.
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Kind of like you saw with the drum earlier.
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So here’s a clip with me playing Spider-Man with the Foxboro High School Marching Band at halftime a couple of years ago.
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(Video) ♫ Spider-Man theme song ♫ (Applause) Thank you.
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All right, all right, so -- That was pretty cool, and so I was able to accomplish my dream of playing snare drum with the marching band, as I believe I can do for all of my dreams.
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So hopefully, you can accomplish your dreams as well, with this outlook.
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The next aspect to my philosophy is that I surround myself with people I want to be with, people of high quality.
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I’m extremely lucky to have an amazing family, who have always supported me throughout my entire life.
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And I’m also really fortunate to have a really close group of friends at school.
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Now we’re kind of goofy, a lot of us are band geeks, but we really enjoy each other’s company, and we help each other out when we need to.
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We see each other for who we are on the inside.
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So this is us goofing off a little bit.
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So we’re juniors in High School now, and we can now mentor younger band members, as a single collective unit.
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What I love about being in a group like the band, is that the music that we make together, is true, is genuine, and it supersedes Progeria.
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So I don’t have to worry about that when I’m feeling so good about making music.
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But even having made a documentary, going on TV a couple of times, I feel like I’m at my highest point when I’m with the people that surround me every day.
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They provide the real positive influences in my life, as I hope I can provide a positive influence in theirs as well.
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(Applause) Thank you.
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So the bottom line here, is that I hope you appreciate and love your family, love your friends, for you guys, love you Bro’s and acknowledge your mentors, and your community, because they are a very real aspect of everyday life, they can make a truly significant, positive impact.
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The third aspect to the philosophy is, Keep moving forward.
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Here’s a quote by a man you may know, named Walt Disney, and it’s one of my favorite quotes.
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I always try to have something to look forward to.
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Something to strive for to make my life richer.
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It doesn’t have to be big.
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It could be anything from looking forward to the next comic book to come out, or going on a large family vacation, or hanging out with my friends, to going to the next High School football game.
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However, all of these things keep me focused, and know that there’s a bright future ahead, and may get me through some difficult times that I may be having.
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Now this mentality includes staying in a forward thinking state of mind.
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I try hard not to waste energy feeling badly for myself, because when I do, I get stuck in a paradox, where there’s no room for any happiness or any other emotion.
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Now, it’s not that I ignore when I’m feeling badly, I kind of accept it, I let it in, so that I can acknowledge it, and do what I need to do to move past it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be an engineer.
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I wanted to be an inventor, who would catapult the world into a better future.
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Maybe this came from my love of Legos, and the freedom of expression that I felt when I was building with them.
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And this was also derived from my family and my mentors, who always make me feel whole, and good about myself.
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Now today my ambitions have changed a little bit, I’d like to go into the field of Biology, maybe cell biology, or genetics, or biochemistry, or really anything.
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This is a friend of mine, who I look up to, Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, and this is us at TEDMED last year, chatting away.
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I feel that no matter what I choose to become, I believe that I can change the world.
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And as I’m striving to change the world, I will be happy.
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About four years ago, HBO began to film a documentary about my family and me called “Life According to Sam”.
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That was a pretty great experience, but it was also four years ago.
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And like anyone, my views on many things have changed, and hopefully matured, like my potential career choice.
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However, some things have stayed the same throughout that time.
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Like my mentality, and philosophy towards life.
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So I would like to show you a clip of my younger self from the film, that I feel embodies that philosophy.
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(Video) I know more about it genetically.
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So it’s less of an embodiment now.
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It used to be like this thing that prevents me from doing all this stuff, that causes other kids to die, that causes everybody to be stressed, and now it’s a protein that is abnormal, that weakens the structure of cells.
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So, and it takes a burden off of me because now I don’t have to think about Progeria as an entity.
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Okay, pretty good, huh?
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(Applause) Thank you.
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So, as you can see I’ve been thinking this way for many years.
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But I’d never really had to apply all of these aspects of my philosophy to the test at one time, until last January.
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I was pretty sick, I had a chest cold, and I was in the hospital for a few days, and I was secluded from all of the aspects of my life that I felt made me, me, that kind of gave me my identity.
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But knowing that I was going to get better, and looking forward to a time that I would feel good again, helped me to keep moving forward.
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And sometimes I had to be brave, and it wasn’t always easy.
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Sometimes I faltered, I had bad days, but I realized that being brave isn’t supposed to be easy.
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And for me, I feel it’s the key way to keep moving forward.
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So, all in all, I don’t waste energy feeling bad for myself.
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I surround myself with people that I want to be with, and I keep moving forward.
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So with this philosophy, I hope that all of you, regardless of your obstacles, can have a very happy life as well.
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Oh, wait, hang on a second, one more piece of advice –- (Laughter) Never miss a party if you can help it.
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My school’s homecoming dance is tomorrow night, and I will be there.
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Thank you very much.
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Il relatore del video è Sam Berns, un ragazzo di 17 anni che vive con una malattia rara chiamata Progeria. Nonostante le sfide che affronta quotidianamente a causa della sua condizione, Sam condivide la sua filosofia per una vita felice, enfatizzando l'importanza di affrontare le difficoltà e coltivare relazioni positive. Sam si è impegnato a realizzare i suoi sogni, come suonare la batteria nella band della scuola, dimostrando che con determinazione e supporto, è possibile superare anche gli ostacoli più grandi.
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- “Scelgo di concentrarmi su ciò che posso fare.” – Un approccio proattivo verso la vita e le sfide personali.
- “Circostanza importante: circondati di persone di alta qualità.” – L'importanza di avere una rete di supporto positiva.
- “La musica che creiamo insieme è autentica e genuina.” – Il potere della collaborazione e della creatività condivisa.
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