Good morning everyone.
First of all, I would like to thank you all for being here with us today,
celebrating Algerian women,
celebrating the Algerian youth,
celebrating the Algerian society as a whole.
Which actually women are still a very effective part and partial of it.
Well, today my talk is
It could be actually universal.
It's for everyone in this planet,
and but I will actually make it specific to the Algerian youth,
and also more specific to the Algerian women as well.
Well, you can actually like still consider with that (Laughter).
or with me, no problem.
But let me ask this question.
First of all, this way,
Do I look cool?
(Laughter)
Okay.
Now , actually we are at the end of the period of exams and all of that.
Let's ask the question
of who had the opportunity to watch a movie last week?
Okay, okay.
So, who was luckier and had the opportunity to go to the cinema
to watch a movie?
Oh my god! Seems like you have some workaholic people in here.
No one watches movies (Laughter).
Okay, so seeing as actually some people are not really into movies,
today we are going to talk about something which is really important,
and it's actually this concept originated from movies and cinemas and all of that.
It's called the persistence of vision.
Persistence of vision will go to take you today
and project it on actually the level of life,
not only in the cinemas and the seat of cinemas and seat of movies,
but actually let's see how persistence of vision
can actually take us to a whole new level.
So, since this concept comes from the cinema and the movie,
let's see what is it at the first place?
So, people say, or let's say experts actually,
experts defined to be the after image
that our eyes keep after just seeing one frame,
and then the having that this fact that actually you will have an afterimage,
it will afterimage another afterimage, another afterimage,
and this is going to be perceived as the motion
or what we have at the end of the day, movies.
So, we know that actually our eyes
keeps this afterimage for one over sixteen second,
However, in fact, if you come to actual reality,
our brains are more capable of actually keeping a vision for a whole life,
and not only for one over 16 second,
but for whole life.
How is that you may be wondering?
Well, coming from "Ouargla",
where actually, we have a lot of these palms and all of that,
my father used to take us every single weekend to our oasis
and we used to help him actually around with crop and all of that,
and collecting the dates and all of that,
I should have brought some of Deglet Nour, I know (Laughter).
And one day, I remember I was like 12 years old or something,
and I told my dad,
"Dad, I don't want to just like collect the dates,
you know the ones actually on the ground.
I want to get up there and get the dates from the palm date".
And he was like: "Okay, why not? Let's go".
I owe him a lot for this, he didn't say, "You are a woman, you can't do that."
He said : "Okay, Chada just like you did your bicycle the very first time,
you remember how actually like you ran your bicycle?
Put one feet here, put the other there, and keep your head up,
Just see the date palm you want to get,
and don't look anywhere else.
You may see around if there is a thorn or something,
if there is actually thorn that you want to keep away,
but keep your vision fixed on that date, over there.
I did so, and yes in half a day I learned how actually to get the dates,
not just from the ground, but from the date palm over there.
How is that ?
By actually having my vision fixed in there.
Well, this actually one example,
and we all know Jim Carrey, who is the very famous actor
or maybe since you don't want to watch movies,
I don't know if you know him or not (Laughter).
Do you?
So, we know that actually the famous Jim Carrey, one day,
and before he became actually this famous actor,
One day what did he do?
He just wrote a check to himslef, dated it five days later,
five years later, sorry.
and then, he wrote the amount of money he wants to have five years from now,
What happened at the end?
Five years later, he surpassed that amount.
You see how actually it's really fundamental and imperative
to have something at the end of your road,
something that shows you what path to take.
Something that actually can tell you: "Yes, you are going the right way,
or no, you are not going".
So, we may persist in our vision,
we may have the vision clear and all of that,
But how do we really achieve it?
that's way I cal it, the cat way,
Anyone here likes cats?
(Laughter)
Oh my god, you are not fans for anything? Come on guys.
So the CAT way is something, just three letters as you see "CAT".
"C" the first is celebrating your achievements.
You remember how my father told me.
"Chada just the same way you did your bicycle,
you can do this is well".
So, the first step and to actually getting that vision really fulfilled,
is to celebrate your achievements,
at another actually you did great,
and you just like the same way you did that before, you can do it again as well,
This is "C".
"A" is acknowledging your weaknesses.
Acknowledging your weaknesses because that's the only way
that's actually you can make sure, you're overcoming them,
and you're aware and conscious of what you did before,
and you can do it later on.
Again, when we actually were actually trying to have the thorns before, away,
when he told me just like, you know,
"Sometimes you may look behind, if there's a thorn in the way,
that was a part of acknowledging the weaknesses".
And the last part is "T", which is taking a step forward.
The most important thing in your vision.
If you have your vision fixed at the end of the road,
yet you are staying here, where I am,
just like Nassim said : "Stay in this red carpet".
and you aren't doing anything,
will we achieve actually something?
Never, we won't.
Unless you take a step forward, that vision will not be fulfilled.
And then taking step forward, it might smell something.
Thank you, whoever brought that.
Actually, this remembers me of something, which is taking a step forward.
just few days ago, when I was in Cairo,
I have met Omar Samra,
I don't know if some of you who are familiar with him or not.
But he is one of the very few Arab and Egyptians
who actually were able to climb the summit, Everest.
And believe it or not, he was asthmatic,
Oh yes, he is asthmatic when he was 16 years old,
He dreamed that he want to get into Everest summit
and he made it a challenge for himself
He trained and trained and trained hard,
Until actually, he started with just like hiking,
He started with the very low mountains,
and then after all he is now coming back from actually North Pole and South Pole,
after finishing the long journey of Everest summit,
and that's a person who had an asthma.
Again , actually taking an action,
and celebrating achievements,
and acknowledging our weaknesses, while on the middle of the road,
Persisting in our vision this remind us,
that a vision after a vision, after a vision,
will give us the motion of our life.
Just like the same way we have it in the movies and videos,
while experts in movies tell us that actually
the persistence of vision is a theory to apply with movies,
we tell them that we can apply it in life as well,
We can apply it in life the way that actually we have a vision after vision.
We achieve it and we actually have that motion going on,
Yes, we can achieve it.
Last thing I remember also and actually have it related to this,
is when I was in the third year of my high school.
While having the baccalaureate exam at the end -
by the way we wish all the luck to all our baccalaureate candidates -
I worked really hard, really really hard,
and then, I had actually just wanted to get that score of 18,
no matter what, and I was actually waking up early and all of that,
and even I used to dream with it,
I used to dream that actually, I'm taking that score of 18.
At the end of the day, I didn't get 18.
So what? Do we just actually say that yes we're persistent within anything?
Yet actually we didn't reach what we want and then we go back?
No, it's not the end.
That's why from the very beginning, I said the persistence of vision
are not the persistence of goals, because goals may be flexible.
We can actually get from a goal to another, but the vision is set.
I had the vision of being a person who is actually impactful in the local society
and has an impact and I think that actually I'm there,
with that goal or with another.
But at the end of the day, all what we want to say is the vision is there
and the vision is all what clear clarifies the path to you.
Set your vision right.
Set your vision right and persist on it,
Not only one over sixteenth of a second, but for an entire life.
Just like our Excellency, our ambassador said.
She said, "Be the champion".
I will say "Set your vision and be the champion woman".
(Applause).