WEBVTT 00:00:08.982 --> 00:00:10.679 Good morning everyone. 00:00:11.378 --> 00:00:14.963 First of all, I would like to thank you all for being here with us today, 00:00:14.963 --> 00:00:16.743 celebrating Algerian women, 00:00:16.743 --> 00:00:18.947 celebrating the Algerian youth, 00:00:18.949 --> 00:00:21.485 celebrating the Algerian society as a whole. 00:00:21.485 --> 00:00:26.103 Which actually women are still a very effective part and partial of it. 00:00:26.596 --> 00:00:29.617 Well, today my talk is 00:00:29.617 --> 00:00:31.552 It could be actually universal. 00:00:31.808 --> 00:00:35.453 It's for everyone in this planet, 00:00:35.599 --> 00:00:40.217 and but I will actually make it specific to the Algerian youth, 00:00:40.217 --> 00:00:43.801 and also more specific to the Algerian women as well. 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:49.583 Well, you can actually like still consider with that (Laughter). 00:00:49.583 --> 00:00:51.214 or with me, no problem. 00:00:51.214 --> 00:00:53.567 But let me ask this question. 00:00:53.750 --> 00:00:56.197 First of all, this way, 00:00:56.197 --> 00:00:57.827 Do I look cool? 00:00:57.827 --> 00:00:59.347 (Laughter) 00:01:00.177 --> 00:01:01.797 Okay. 00:01:01.797 --> 00:01:05.967 Now , actually we are at the end of the period of exams and all of that. 00:01:05.977 --> 00:01:07.110 Let's ask the question 00:01:07.110 --> 00:01:11.671 of who had the opportunity to watch a movie last week? 00:01:14.331 --> 00:01:16.367 Okay, okay. 00:01:16.367 --> 00:01:19.833 So, who was luckier and had the opportunity to go to the cinema 00:01:19.833 --> 00:01:21.433 to watch a movie? 00:01:22.243 --> 00:01:25.307 Oh my god! Seems like you have some workaholic people in here. 00:01:25.307 --> 00:01:27.496 No one watches movies (Laughter). 00:01:27.496 --> 00:01:32.551 Okay, so seeing as actually some people are not really into movies, 00:01:32.551 --> 00:01:35.785 today we are going to talk about something which is really important, 00:01:35.785 --> 00:01:40.124 and it's actually this concept originated from movies and cinemas and all of that. 00:01:40.341 --> 00:01:43.363 It's called the persistence of vision. 00:01:43.578 --> 00:01:46.157 Persistence of vision will go to take you today 00:01:46.157 --> 00:01:49.680 and project it on actually the level of life, 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.866 not only in the cinemas and the seat of cinemas and seat of movies, 00:01:52.866 --> 00:01:56.022 but actually let's see how persistence of vision 00:01:56.022 --> 00:01:58.931 can actually take us to a whole new level. 00:01:59.403 --> 00:02:02.876 So, since this concept comes from the cinema and the movie, 00:02:02.876 --> 00:02:06.053 let's see what is it at the first place? 00:02:06.058 --> 00:02:10.184 So, people say, or let's say experts actually, 00:02:10.363 --> 00:02:13.012 experts defined to be the after image 00:02:13.012 --> 00:02:17.592 that our eyes keep after just seeing one frame, 00:02:17.592 --> 00:02:21.898 and then the having that this fact that actually you will have an afterimage, 00:02:21.898 --> 00:02:25.097 it will afterimage another afterimage, another afterimage, 00:02:25.097 --> 00:02:28.535 and this is going to be perceived as the motion 00:02:28.535 --> 00:02:31.540 or what we have at the end of the day, movies. 00:02:32.638 --> 00:02:35.351 So, we know that actually our eyes 00:02:35.351 --> 00:02:39.201 keeps this afterimage for one over sixteen second, 00:02:39.841 --> 00:02:43.887 However, in fact, if you come to actual reality, 00:02:44.211 --> 00:02:49.612 our brains are more capable of actually keeping a vision for a whole life, 00:02:49.885 --> 00:02:52.545 and not only for one over 16 second, 00:02:52.545 --> 00:02:53.863 but for whole life. 00:02:53.863 --> 00:02:56.119 How is that you may be wondering? 00:02:56.119 --> 00:02:58.876 Well, coming from "Ouargla", 00:02:58.876 --> 00:03:02.830 where actually, we have a lot of these palms and all of that, 00:03:02.834 --> 00:03:09.030 my father used to take us every single weekend to our oasis 00:03:09.316 --> 00:03:12.524 and we used to help him actually around with crop and all of that, 00:03:12.524 --> 00:03:14.853 and collecting the dates and all of that, 00:03:14.853 --> 00:03:18.476 I should have brought some of Deglet Nour, I know (Laughter). 00:03:21.176 --> 00:03:24.651 And one day, I remember I was like 12 years old or something, 00:03:24.651 --> 00:03:26.604 and I told my dad, 00:03:26.604 --> 00:03:29.680 "Dad, I don't want to just like collect the dates, 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.631 you know the ones actually on the ground. 00:03:31.631 --> 00:03:34.972 I want to get up there and get the dates from the palm date". 00:03:34.972 --> 00:03:37.966 And he was like: "Okay, why not? Let's go". 00:03:37.966 --> 00:03:41.935 I owe him a lot for this, he didn't say, "You are a woman, you can't do that." 00:03:41.935 --> 00:03:46.080 He said : "Okay, Chada just like you did your bicycle the very first time, 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:48.557 you remember how actually like you ran your bicycle? 00:03:48.557 --> 00:03:53.240 Put one feet here, put the other there, and keep your head up, 00:03:53.259 --> 00:03:56.701 Just see the date palm you want to get, 00:03:56.701 --> 00:03:58.406 and don't look anywhere else. 00:03:58.775 --> 00:04:01.406 You may see around if there is a thorn or something, 00:04:01.406 --> 00:04:05.796 if there is actually thorn that you want to keep away, 00:04:06.327 --> 00:04:11.310 but keep your vision fixed on that date, over there. 00:04:11.693 --> 00:04:16.842 I did so, and yes in half a day I learned how actually to get the dates, 00:04:16.842 --> 00:04:20.262 not just from the ground, but from the date palm over there. 00:04:20.548 --> 00:04:21.698 How is that ? 00:04:21.698 --> 00:04:24.663 By actually having my vision fixed in there. 00:04:24.663 --> 00:04:26.837 Well, this actually one example, 00:04:26.837 --> 00:04:32.472 and we all know Jim Carrey, who is the very famous actor 00:04:32.636 --> 00:04:35.511 or maybe since you don't want to watch movies, 00:04:35.511 --> 00:04:37.911 I don't know if you know him or not (Laughter). 00:04:37.911 --> 00:04:39.290 Do you? 00:04:39.730 --> 00:04:42.723 So, we know that actually the famous Jim Carrey, one day, 00:04:42.723 --> 00:04:45.855 and before he became actually this famous actor, 00:04:45.855 --> 00:04:47.576 One day what did he do? 00:04:47.576 --> 00:04:51.593 He just wrote a check to himslef, dated it five days later, 00:04:51.593 --> 00:04:53.705 five years later, sorry. 00:04:53.986 --> 00:04:59.824 and then, he wrote the amount of money he wants to have five years from now, 00:05:01.288 --> 00:05:03.003 What happened at the end? 00:05:03.003 --> 00:05:06.000 Five years later, he surpassed that amount. 00:05:06.765 --> 00:05:10.730 You see how actually it's really fundamental and imperative 00:05:10.730 --> 00:05:13.398 to have something at the end of your road, 00:05:13.911 --> 00:05:16.629 something that shows you what path to take. 00:05:16.629 --> 00:05:21.105 Something that actually can tell you: "Yes, you are going the right way, 00:05:21.105 --> 00:05:23.979 or no, you are not going". 00:05:25.273 --> 00:05:28.318 So, we may persist in our vision, 00:05:28.318 --> 00:05:30.954 we may have the vision clear and all of that, 00:05:31.251 --> 00:05:33.669 But how do we really achieve it? 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:37.416 that's way I cal it, the cat way, 00:05:37.416 --> 00:05:39.316 Anyone here likes cats? 00:05:39.316 --> 00:05:41.345 (Laughter) 00:05:41.345 --> 00:05:46.007 Oh my god, you are not fans for anything? Come on guys. 00:05:46.467 --> 00:05:52.082 So the CAT way is something, just three letters as you see "CAT". 00:05:52.419 --> 00:05:55.546 "C" the first is celebrating your achievements. 00:05:56.016 --> 00:05:57.937 You remember how my father told me. 00:05:57.937 --> 00:06:00.114 "Chada just the same way you did your bicycle, 00:06:00.114 --> 00:06:01.794 you can do this is well". 00:06:01.794 --> 00:06:06.318 So, the first step and to actually getting that vision really fulfilled, 00:06:06.574 --> 00:06:08.197 is to celebrate your achievements, 00:06:08.197 --> 00:06:09.867 at another actually you did great, 00:06:09.867 --> 00:06:13.687 and you just like the same way you did that before, you can do it again as well, 00:06:13.687 --> 00:06:14.761 This is "C". 00:06:14.761 --> 00:06:17.392 "A" is acknowledging your weaknesses. 00:06:17.392 --> 00:06:20.607 Acknowledging your weaknesses because that's the only way 00:06:20.607 --> 00:06:23.420 that's actually you can make sure, you're overcoming them, 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:26.255 and you're aware and conscious of what you did before, 00:06:26.265 --> 00:06:27.984 and you can do it later on. 00:06:27.984 --> 00:06:33.137 Again, when we actually were actually trying to have the thorns before, away, 00:06:33.137 --> 00:06:34.903 when he told me just like, you know, 00:06:34.903 --> 00:06:38.377 "Sometimes you may look behind, if there's a thorn in the way, 00:06:38.377 --> 00:06:40.944 that was a part of acknowledging the weaknesses". 00:06:41.183 --> 00:06:46.488 And the last part is "T", which is taking a step forward. 00:06:46.829 --> 00:06:49.851 The most important thing in your vision. 00:06:49.851 --> 00:06:52.380 If you have your vision fixed at the end of the road, 00:06:52.495 --> 00:06:54.998 yet you are staying here, where I am, 00:06:54.998 --> 00:06:58.718 just like Nassim said : "Stay in this red carpet". 00:06:58.718 --> 00:07:00.291 and you aren't doing anything, 00:07:00.291 --> 00:07:02.106 will we achieve actually something? 00:07:02.106 --> 00:07:03.532 Never, we won't. 00:07:03.532 --> 00:07:07.359 Unless you take a step forward, that vision will not be fulfilled. 00:07:07.948 --> 00:07:10.941 And then taking step forward, it might smell something. 00:07:11.648 --> 00:07:14.745 Thank you, whoever brought that. 00:07:15.745 --> 00:07:21.058 Actually, this remembers me of something, which is taking a step forward. 00:07:21.248 --> 00:07:23.549 just few days ago, when I was in Cairo, 00:07:23.753 --> 00:07:25.589 I have met Omar Samra, 00:07:25.589 --> 00:07:28.488 I don't know if some of you who are familiar with him or not. 00:07:28.488 --> 00:07:31.416 But he is one of the very few Arab and Egyptians 00:07:31.416 --> 00:07:34.979 who actually were able to climb the summit, Everest. 00:07:35.607 --> 00:07:39.124 And believe it or not, he was asthmatic, 00:07:40.026 --> 00:07:43.495 Oh yes, he is asthmatic when he was 16 years old, 00:07:43.805 --> 00:07:46.876 He dreamed that he want to get into Everest summit 00:07:46.876 --> 00:07:49.047 and he made it a challenge for himself 00:07:49.047 --> 00:07:52.047 He trained and trained and trained hard, 00:07:52.365 --> 00:07:56.350 Until actually, he started with just like hiking, 00:07:56.350 --> 00:07:59.029 He started with the very low mountains, 00:07:59.340 --> 00:08:04.768 and then after all he is now coming back from actually North Pole and South Pole, 00:08:04.768 --> 00:08:08.364 after finishing the long journey of Everest summit, 00:08:08.364 --> 00:08:10.911 and that's a person who had an asthma. 00:08:12.001 --> 00:08:15.087 Again , actually taking an action, 00:08:15.087 --> 00:08:17.267 and celebrating achievements, 00:08:17.267 --> 00:08:21.062 and acknowledging our weaknesses, while on the middle of the road, 00:08:21.062 --> 00:08:24.770 Persisting in our vision this remind us, 00:08:24.770 --> 00:08:28.056 that a vision after a vision, after a vision, 00:08:28.056 --> 00:08:29.916 will give us the motion of our life. 00:08:29.916 --> 00:08:33.013 Just like the same way we have it in the movies and videos, 00:08:33.383 --> 00:08:35.815 while experts in movies tell us that actually 00:08:35.815 --> 00:08:39.549 the persistence of vision is a theory to apply with movies, 00:08:39.549 --> 00:08:42.323 we tell them that we can apply it in life as well, 00:08:42.526 --> 00:08:46.837 We can apply it in life the way that actually we have a vision after vision. 00:08:46.966 --> 00:08:50.078 We achieve it and we actually have that motion going on, 00:08:50.368 --> 00:08:52.931 Yes, we can achieve it. 00:08:53.871 --> 00:08:58.021 Last thing I remember also and actually have it related to this, 00:08:58.021 --> 00:09:01.799 is when I was in the third year of my high school. 00:09:02.199 --> 00:09:04.758 While having the baccalaureate exam at the end - 00:09:04.758 --> 00:09:08.140 by the way we wish all the luck to all our baccalaureate candidates - 00:09:09.590 --> 00:09:11.770 I worked really hard, really really hard, 00:09:11.770 --> 00:09:16.740 and then, I had actually just wanted to get that score of 18, 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:20.723 no matter what, and I was actually waking up early and all of that, 00:09:20.723 --> 00:09:22.317 and even I used to dream with it, 00:09:22.317 --> 00:09:25.205 I used to dream that actually, I'm taking that score of 18. 00:09:25.832 --> 00:09:28.237 At the end of the day, I didn't get 18. 00:09:28.618 --> 00:09:33.446 So what? Do we just actually say that yes we're persistent within anything? 00:09:33.446 --> 00:09:36.415 Yet actually we didn't reach what we want and then we go back? 00:09:36.415 --> 00:09:38.006 No, it's not the end. 00:09:38.006 --> 00:09:41.935 That's why from the very beginning, I said the persistence of vision 00:09:41.935 --> 00:09:45.239 are not the persistence of goals, because goals may be flexible. 00:09:45.670 --> 00:09:49.466 We can actually get from a goal to another, but the vision is set. 00:09:50.210 --> 00:09:55.336 I had the vision of being a person who is actually impactful in the local society 00:09:55.339 --> 00:09:59.534 and has an impact and I think that actually I'm there, 00:09:59.534 --> 00:10:01.460 with that goal or with another. 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:05.859 But at the end of the day, all what we want to say is the vision is there 00:10:05.859 --> 00:10:09.574 and the vision is all what clear clarifies the path to you. 00:10:10.068 --> 00:10:12.091 Set your vision right. 00:10:12.091 --> 00:10:14.684 Set your vision right and persist on it, 00:10:14.684 --> 00:10:18.603 Not only one over sixteenth of a second, but for an entire life. 00:10:19.703 --> 00:10:22.941 Just like our Excellency, our ambassador said. 00:10:23.062 --> 00:10:24.581 She said, "Be the champion". 00:10:24.581 --> 00:10:28.386 I will say "Set your vision and be the champion woman". 00:10:28.386 --> 00:10:29.221 (Applause).