On X's and passion | Gary Valenciano | TEDxXavierSchool

Alright, I'm very impressed with the other two speakers that came before me, Delphine and Megan, and I wanted to use some of that too, but I get very animated and sometimes I'm on stage, so I'm just going to speak from my heart, which is, I think what everyone has done here for all of you, the fact that you are here is not an accident and the fact that we are celebrating or defining an X is actually not that easy because and I put my notes here about the letter any other letter, can you imagine if it was if I was up here or Delphine or Megan or all the other speakers saying today we're here to define your B just doesn't fit right today we're here to define your If you know, and then out of That's what we would like Delphine to hear everyone say the F word Wow it doesn't work well, but when you say X there is a mystery behind it and I think that young people and not so young people don't do it.

It doesn't matter how old you are, if you have never defined or never discovered your X, it is not too late to discover it. It is never too late. When you look at an the letter the spirit I was fascinated when I spoke to some of the students a few weeks ago when I asked them: are you asking me to be a part of this because of my past? I was the former mentor and judge of X Factor Philippines and sometimes I still have people ask me what is the x factor that people must have to win a show like How many times does the champion who has been on stage and who has such good ratings and who won in all the votes not actually become the popular one, is it the next one or number five or number seven that really becomes popular? to me, that's the one with the x factor, what is it then, what's the x factor?

Some of you may be summa laude valedictorians, any honors, but you may not necessarily succeed in the area you worked so hard in, so how do you do it? Start defining that X. I personally believe it starts with an openness, an open heart that prepares you to accept whatever comes your way. I'm jumping ahead and I don't want to do it, so I'll just continue with what I've done. written here sometimes there are still people asking me and honestly it's very difficult to find an answer it's a face it's youth that this whole room is full of it's your bottom girl in okusama here open Amelia mahira Pavano maluma que mahir opa locka oma up here, but You know that sometimes those things are what stick and add to the X Factor that you need to achieve at a given moment, is it the talent, is it the voice or is it everything? these things added up to create the .but he didn't use us, you know, the way you'll find he said is my why it's used as And or for people who are surprised it's the letter O and for people who actually agree with you or defended you it's the letter C in samaná Pinoy but elegant imagine a surprise Allah, it's me, they only have one pattern, but they are all letters, right?

The thing is, when you talk about being an ex, I feel like it's a tool to really define an action, really, just to get started, you know, I mean. You can think of an ex as one thing you might have or several things you might have that you excelled at since you were young and you're all young, so here you know each other not just by name but by each other's strengths you're already building. what could then be the ex now, here is some very interesting industry stuff, there are times, however, and it happens quite often that what you once thought was your ex was not actually the ex you thought, at other times words, it's like what you started to excel at which a lot of people already know was actually just a lowercase on stage when I'm on stage with him.

I tell you that my tongue hangs to the ground the young people here have so much energy he represents the young people there is so much potential in each and every one of you whether you are a music producer whether you are a dancer whether you are someone with a lot of heart for other people if you want to educate if you are beautiful inside and out you have potential well we all think that heat shines in this but have not just one but several exes to form the capital letter His brother Paolo directed my last concert.

Surge, which was held last year to celebrate my 30th birthday, but Gab, now prominent in another land of the United States, was honored yesterday and presented at the UCLA Hammer Museum as an avant-garde filmmaker, the first Filipino to be presented and his super selfies. They showed themselves, that's why he got it right, he directed Jessica Sánchez's latest video and before he came to the United States a few months ago he texted his mom and I told her I needed confirmation on this , but I think I just got an email from Beyonce's management and it was Beyonce's management.

His 711 video of him now has a hundred and twenty million views and if you look at it and you look at the Gap super selfies, it's the same ideas because his management reached out and touched. The x factor that Gab had and talked to via Skype and email was giving all his ideas and the rest is history. Now the question is, which one is your ex? He has to be as big as what Megan has become or what Delphine is doing. or what I'm doing, are you familiar with the nerve in a central nerve? Okay, that gives us the feeling of balance, if we don't have it we can't retain our balance.

Do any of you know the name of that? verb that nerve is very strange but I like it because it starts with another letter, the letter V, it is called vesti under vesti under the cochlear nerve, did you know that because I didn't do it, but its vibe creates such a big impact on our lives ? Has anyone seen it? Does not know? Does anyone know? Not everyone knows this but if I don't have it it will look like I'm trying to dance all the time because I won't be able to. Even Manny Pacquiao won't be able to stand for long.

It is that nerve that gives us the sensation that we are moving to the right or left even when we have our eyes closed in an airplane without which we will not know. Will it be seen? Will you ever be featured on a TEDx stage? ​​Will you ever be exposed on television or on a big stage? Maybe not, but the role you can play in another person's life can have such an impact that it changes not just for a moment. of someone's life but it changes an entire life the X can also be seen as four arms of equal length but it can also mean five different points that when connected correctly create the I make all the different points, but none of these would be maximized if I didn't have the

passion

to do what I do fueled in the body.

This is a point fed into the mind. This is another point fed into the heart. in the soul everything connected to something that is driven by the spirit I'm diabetic I've been for the last 36 years and it's no joke when the doctor tells your wife and your mom I'm done with my grades but it's not like that Joke when you hear the doctor say ma'am. Valencian from the day of diagnosis your son or your husband is given an average lifespan of 30 years I was 14 when I was diagnosed Today I am 50 and I can still perform I still go through rejection sometimes I still go through the ups and downs of life but young people I have passed by a house that burned down this is just before I started singing but young people imagine that being an empty canvas is worth nothing there and there is a master painter who now begins to paint what he knows will be In a masterpiece , it takes time to create and finish these things, so when the master starts painting on an area, we as viewers start to see X come together beautifully or maybe not even an X, maybe just a picture that comes together and when you think you've seen the painting, the painter starts in another place where you are almost as if you were, but wait, wait, you can finish that area and he starts putting in different colors, sometimes colors that don't seem significant to what you think it's supposed to be.

I know the result so you continue painting, but the thing is that the master is not just creating a painting, he is a master, therefore, he is finishing a masterpiece and that masterpiece is you and there is no masterpiece that does not carry its own life that we may not understand, you may like it. the color blue then starts with the color brown it's like wah but it will play a role in finishing the masterpiece and that's you and no two masterpieces are exactly the same you're different from someone else and good seed like what everyone is doing here now a good seed planted in good soil will eventually produce good fruit that's how the ex that I have in me works more than singing more than dancing more than writing it's really the

passion

to know the value behind the life of each soul and , hopefully one day encourage, uplift and edify those who have been beaten, broken, casted, you know, discarded, taken for granted, rejected, there's a little line I have from a song, it's just a verse and a chorus , it's a song I recorded. but I never became popular.

I don't sing it much, but maybe I can sing it here now as a young rebel. Wait, no, wait, wait, this is a cappella, there's no music because I just don't have much time, but you might find it. Yourself in this young people are so vibrant that they want to move forward, but sometimes you tend to follow your path instead of staying connected and being driven by their spirit. The letters are like that. I thought I did the right thing. I thought I had the answers. I chose the safest path but that path brought me here so I fought and I told you how to help me and just when I gave up the truth becomes clear you know better than me you know how I've let go of the I need to know why because you know better than me, thank you