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5 qualities which make you fail at school but succeed in life - Faysal Hafidi - TEDxCasablanca

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    I've got a question for you.
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    Which of you was always top of the class?
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    All your life, top of the class?
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    Right.
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    --Liar (Laughter)
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    Well, in precisely 9 minutes and 30 seconds,
    I'm going to make you proud
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    that you weren't always top of the class.
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    (Applause)
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    You're going to go home tonight
    and tell your partner, your children,
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    your friends and relatives:
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    "Hallelujah, thank God, I wasn't always top of my class!"
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    In 2007, when I started blogging, I began studying
    the lives of several people
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    who were successful in their lives.
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    And each of them was successful in their field,
    each one succeeded in a different way.
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    But there was one thing all these people shared,
    just one thing
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    which intrigued me, and this was the fact
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    that these people, these characters --
    none of them had been really successful at school.
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    And some of them had even cut short their education
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    and others didn't even make it to school
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    for long periods of time.
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    So this was a little worrying and frustrating for me
    when I remembered
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    all those years in which parents and teachers
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    told us, you must work hard, you must get the best marks,
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    you must be one of the best
    to get into the best higher education establishments
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    and in the end, I note that the reality is this:
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    all those who have been successful at the school of life
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    were not necessarily those who were top of the class.
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    So this meant we needed an answer to the following question:
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    Why isn't it necessary to succeed at school in order to be successful in life?
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    Or even: why is there no direct link between success at school
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    and success in life?
Title:
5 qualities which make you fail at school but succeed in life - Faysal Hafidi - TEDxCasablanca
Description:

Comment se fait-il que les leaders et les personnes qui nous inspirent ne sont pas forcément celles et ceux qui ont réussi à l'école ?

Dans un talk plein d'énergie, Faysal Hafidi nous présente les 5 qualités qui font échouer à l'école mais réussir dans la vie.

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Video Language:
French
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDxTalks
Duration:
19:02

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