Changing Career? Not pursuing your Dreams?

On YouTube, I was exposed to a young Singaporean who excels in sports and in the performing arts. Already a champion swimmer in his younger days, he rewired himself for a 360 degree career change. Starting from scratch he shifted from athletics to the performing arts.

Now he is seen on social and mainstream media, playing the keyboard, strings, composing, writing, singing, acting, performing the spoken word. He also enlightens as a celebrity speaker.

Benjamin Kheng in his spoken word act talked about “Rich.”
-Is rich being wealthy, having a great of assets or money?
-Or having a high value or quality?
-Or deep and vivid in colour, sound or smell?
-Or is it the one that makes you whole?

Find out if making peace with the heart is the one that makes you rich.

https://youtu.be/BhHAV1z4v28

Ben shared to TEDxYouth@Singapore complex concepts on how to be competitive and to excel through rewiring, creating the movie soundtrack of one’s life, writing one’s script and filtering out the noise of discouragement and fighting the demons.

Catch the concepts of
-Relative pitch, comprehend the complexities of a sound hearing it for the 1st time
-Synesthesia, associating notes with emotions and colors and putting them in the right place.
-Negative Splitting, a competitive tool to piss people off, pacing yourself on the 1st and 2nd half of the race and going for the kill

Noise exists. How to handle them by making music with the noise, associating it with a chord and putting the noise in the right place through the heart.

In walking with the mind, one knows himself, the strengths and weaknesses and the environment he is in.

In running with the heart, it is deciding and acting at full speed the direction to pursue.

The secret is in his talk "Walk with your mind Run with your heart." (It needs patience to complete the 21-minute lecture. The key to success is there to the keenly interested.)

https://youtu.be/04-JxYnzcq0

Ben sings. One of my favorites is "The Fight Song" in collaboration with Kurt Hugo Schneider.  I quote the lines which resonate “Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion”

“Starting right now I'll be strong I'll play my fight song And I don't really care if nobody else believes 'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me”

https://youtu.be/2kR3hmaikGI

Ben closes his Ted Talk with the question, “What about you? What do you want to be? What kind of legacy do you want to leave? Find the color and the noise. Know who you are and what you are made of. When the stars are aligned, let go.”