On X's and passion | Gary Valenciano | TEDxXavierSchool

okay I'm very impressed with the other two speakers that came before me Delphine and Megan and I wanted to use some of that stuff too but I get really pumped up 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 X why it is not one of all the letters is the X that we use when we say that the x marks the place it is also the word or also the letter that is used when the X you did not do it because it also fascinates me I know not is no other letter.

Can you imagine if it was? If I'm up here or Delphine or Megan or all the other speakers saying today we're here to define your B it just doesn't fit right today we're here to define your If you know and then outside we'd like Delphine to hear everyone say the F word Wow no it works well but when you say X there is a mystery behind it and I think that young and not so young that 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 never is when you look at an X there are two lines that intersect right in the middle forming four lines of equal length forming the letter we know the letter X I feel the X with its four equal or equal sides mean certain things that we must have in our life one is can mean balance or elements staying connected to maximize one's strength can mean the soul the mind the heart the spirit I was fascinated when I spoke to some of the students a few weeks ago c hen I asked them if they are asking me to be a part of this because of my past because I was the former mentor and judge of X Factor Philippines and sometimes there are still people who ask me what is x? -factor that people have to have to win a show like x-factor, let's get away from x-factor or The Voice, let's get into American Idol, how many times has the champion who has been on stage who is rated this good and who won in all the votes does not actually become the popular? one is next or number five or number seven that actually becomes popular for me that's the one with the x factor what is it then what is the x factor? do it in the area you worked so hard on, so how do you begin to define that X?

Personally, I think it starts with a frankness, an open heart that makes you ready to accept whatever comes your way. I'm jumping ahead and I don't. I want to do it, so I will say what I have written here. Sometimes people still ask me and honestly it's really hard to find an answer. It is a face? Is it youth? This whole room is full of it. it's your background girl in okusama here open Amelia mahira Pavano maluma que mahir opa locka oma up here but you know sometimes those things are the things that hook and add to the X Factor that you need to get it done at a certain point, huh?

Is it the talent, is it the voice or is it? all of these things added up to create the X Delphine used the word Y a while back and what a great way to use that letter but there are other letters that people use especially for those who don't agree with their X the word Y but don't used us, you know, like the way fin they said it's my why it's used as Y or for people who are surprised it's the letter O and for people who actually agree with you or stood up for you it's the letter C in Samana Pinoy but elegant imagine a surprise Allah it's me they're just a pattern but all the letters are correct the thing is the thing is when you talk about being an ex I feel like it's a tool to define a stock well , actually just to kick things off I know I mean you can think of an ex as something my ght have or various things you could have that you excel at since you were young and everyone is young so everyone knows each other here no only by name, but by strength s of each one who are already building what could later be the ex Now, here is something very interesting in the industry, there are times, however, and it happens quite often that what you once thought was your ex was not in reality the ex you thought, in other words, is like what you started to excel at what many people know. it was actually just a lowercase X already, not the uppercase X, let me give you an example, my son Gabrielle Valenciano, singer, dancer, music producer and he can move onstage when I'm onstage with him.

I tell you my tongue hangs out all the way. the youth here have so much energy he represents the youth there is so much potential in each and every one of you if you are a music producer if you are a dancer if you are someone with only one heart for other people whether you want to educate, if you are beautiful inside and out you have potential well we all think the heat shines on this but X also represents the number 10 and right in the middle when you divide it is five and five so you may not have only one, but several exes to complete the capital X not very little exes in lowercase the talents are now divided into two different things his brother Paolo has directed my last concert arises that took place last year in celebration of my 30 years, but gab, now standing out in another land in the United States, was honored yesterday and featured at UCLA Hammer Museum as a cutting-edge filmmaker, the first Filipino featured and his super selfies were shown, that's the reason why he entity It went well, he directed Jessica Sanchez's latest video and before he came to the US a few months ago, he texted his mom and said I needed to get confirmation on this, but I think I just got an email. electronic. from Beyonce's management and it was Beyonce's management her 711 video now has a hundred and twenty million views and if you look at it and see the Gap super selfies it's the same ideas because her management reached out and tapped on the x factor that chat he had and chat via skype and email he was giving all his ideas and the rest is history now the question is what is your ex he has to be as big as what megan has become or what she is doing Delphine or what I am doing Are you familiar with the nerve in a central nerve?

Well, that gives us the feeling of balance that if we don't have it we can't keep the balance. Do you know any of you who know the name of that verb? That nerve is really strange but I like it because it starts with another letter, the letter V, it's called vesti under vesti under the cochlear nerve, did you know that because I didn't? someone is not known is known by everyone not everyone knows, 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 stay on his feet for long.

It is that nerve that gives us the sensation that we are moving to the right or to the left, even when our eyes are closed in a plane that is the one that it does not have and that we will not know if it is seen. Will you ever be exposed in a TEDx stage ever? being exposed on TV or on a big stage, maybe not, but the role you can play in someone else's life can have such an impact that it changes not just one moment of someone's life, but changes the whole 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 X you were meant to be. maximized if I didn't have the

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to do what I do fed in the body this is one point fed in the mind this is another point fed in the heart fed in the soul all connected to something that is fed by the spirit I am diabetic I have It's been for the last 36 years and it's no joke when the doctor tells his wife and your mom I'm done with my notes, but it's no joke when you hear the doctor say ma'am.

Valencian since the day of diagnosis your son or your husband is given an average life of 30 years I was 14 when I was diagnosed today I am 50 and I can still give up I still go through rejection sometimes I still go through ups and downs in life but young I have been through a house that burned down this is just before i start to sing but the young people imagine that being an empty canvas is worth nothing there and there is a master painter who is now starting to paint what he knows will be a masterpiece it takes time to create these things and finish them so when the teacher starts painting in an area we as viewers start to see X come together beautifully or maybe not even an X maybe just an image come together and when you think you've seen the painting the painter starts somewhere else where you would almost like to go but wait wait you can finish that area and start putting different colors sometimes colors that don't seem significant to what you think it's supposed to be the re result, so you continue painting, but the point 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 X what does it mean to create an impact in someone else's life if it matters what you want to do but don't do it without the

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to do it so he continues for me every stroke that is given is like an event in our life that we may not understand may you like the color blue then he 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 good seed planted in good soil will eventually bear good fruit this is how the ex i have in me works more than singing more than dancing more than writing is really the passion n knowing the value behind every soul's life and hopefully one day uplift, uplift and uplift those who have been beaten down, broken, thrown away, you know, set aside, taken for granted, rejected, there's a little phrase I have of a song it's just a verse and a chorus it's a song i recorded but it never caught on i don't sing it much but maybe i can sing it here now like a young rebel wait no wait wait this is a cappella no music cause i just me no I don't have a lot of time, but you may find yourself in this.

Young people are so vibrant that they want to keep going, but sometimes you tend to go your own way instead of staying connected and being fed by their spirit. The letters are like that. I thought I did the right thing. i thought i had the answers i thought 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've given up the truth becomes clear you know better than me you know how i've let go of need to know why you know better than me I thank you