Shaw, Gerard: - I\'ve heard it countless times when I was a kid and even when I was growing up, just smile.
I began studying keynote speakers, what do they have? I\'ve observed the best talented presenters in class, what keeps their audience engaged in their every move and what they have to say? Soon I found myself attending.
Being that conscious was hell but truly enlightening.
I started thinking what others could be thinking.
I didn\'t even know that smile, I never even bothered looking at myself with that for a while.
I had to take a hard look at myself in the mirror Everyday and funny that I needed to tell myself to just smile.
It felt like a hard battle between what I knew who I am in the inside and the lack of who I am on the outside.
I had to do a final presentation on my own and I knew I had to do it for myself.
It\'s not okay to let someone do your dream for you.
Before graduation, I realized it\'s not okay to be just on the side lines.
But at the back of my head, What do I deserve? At some point, right at the culminating part of all our endeavors, we will be faced with our very own reality.
I just had to give all the praises people give to that someone, he deserves it.
But then somebody had to do the presentation, and I was just happy there\'s always someone gifted with that talent in my team to do it for me.
I was always the brain who\'s got all the major inputs in terms of conceptualization and ideas.
I also struggled with presentations back in college, and I\'m happy that I often did it with a team.
I hated interviews.
I vowed I\'d jump into entrepreneurship and put up my own company right after college so I could skip being in that same situation.
Guess what? It was terrible, and I barely made it through, but somehow I did.
I nailed writing the application for business school until I was called for an interview.
I got brilliant ideas and thought that\'s enough to get me to college.
I\'ve lived my youth pretty much with ideas, concepts, and imagination in my head.
It was cool for a while, I enjoyed sharing it with a couple of close friends.
So, I focused more on expressing myself in other forms of expression which is music, writing, and the arts.
I was often misunderstood.
I was literally bad in all sorts of expression, both body and verbal expression.
I\'m one of those introverts, and I\'m not saying all introverts are as totally clueless as I am when it comes to facial expressions.
Maybe I heard it more than any of you did, that\'s because I rarely smile.
Shaw, Gerard: - I\'ve heard it countless times when I was a kid and even when I was growing up, just smile
