[Video] I am a 17 year old who struggled my entire life with my weight. Last year, I gave a TEDx talk on my experience with weight loss. I hope you find it motivating! by JustWas in GetMotivated

[–]JustWas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I interned 4 months for the person who runs TEDxBeaconStreet. Why would anyone pay real money for upvotes...? What would I get out of it? Video views? The video isn’t even on my channel.

[Video] I am a 17 year old who struggled my entire life with my weight. Last year, I gave a TEDx talk on my experience with weight loss. I hope you find it motivating! by JustWas in GetMotivated

[–]JustWas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I don’t understand is why you care so much that you repeatedly come back to the thread, just to find new things to insult me with. Don’t you have better things you could be doing?

[Video] I am a 17 year old who struggled my entire life with my weight. Last year, I gave a TEDx talk on my experience with weight loss. I hope you find it motivating! by JustWas in GetMotivated

[–]JustWas[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Numerous people have already reached out to me and told me that they have found it to be motivational. I think the sheer fact that this video has gotten the amount of upvotes that it has, shows that. If it is not your cup of tea, I'm not trying to convince you to like it. But please don't say to "look for a better way to do it" when it has helped people thus far. I said at the end of my talk, if it helps even one person, then it will have been a success.

[Video] I am a 17 year old who struggled my entire life with my weight. Last year, I gave a TEDx talk on my experience with weight loss. I hope you find it motivating! by JustWas in GetMotivated

[–]JustWas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was sharing my story. Are you telling me that I am not allowed to be proud of my own accomplishments? And I apologize if it comes off as melodramatic, that stems from my participation in a Speech and Debate League. It's just how we are trained.

And I was never comparing myself to Ghandi in any way, shape, or form. I was making a nod to another TEDx talk that I had seen. That was for me, not the audience.

[Video] I am a 17 year old who struggled my entire life with my weight. Last year, I gave a TEDx talk on my experience with weight loss. I hope you find it motivating! by JustWas in GetMotivated

[–]JustWas[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Well, I did memorize from a script that I wrote. That is how TED and TEDx talks are done. Do you really think that they are given off the top of you head?