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Do you remember how big the world felt when we were younger
Because my childhood was filled with time travel and adventures
I sat in awe of how flowers grew from a simple seed
I remember looking up at the sky and wondering was the earth moving
Was the sun moving or was ii ulving
And i felt the rest of the time by reading books about fantasy lands
But slowly the time travel and adventures of my youth
But only saw my gps to figure out how much traffic
I'd inevitably be sitting in the flowers
Became the screen savto my my latotop spspend newspapers
I only saw the suunrise when pulling all nighters to get work done
And those fantasy lands well
Those became essays and articles from underfunded ed newspapers
And yeah
Some of this is just a part of growing nenecessary
Even
But i realized the maginative and creative forces that drove me had less in a less space to thrive in my young adult life
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And in being forced to look at the world as it is i was missing out on the opportunity to look at the world as it could be now
More than ever we live in a world that requires of us and imaginations
So that we can envision what could be different
And while i didn't come prepared today to answer the world's largest problems
I would like to make a case for how one tool can help us continue to build new worlds and find our place in it curiosity 的
I don't have any fanti graphs to show you all today
But i would like to think that i'm sort of an expert in the field
As my entire life has been a case study and following my curiosity it started supersimple
My grandpie
And i would reimagine i asked out the entire saga of the oddesy with my polypocket dols
As one does at the age of four would rethe age of five
I asked for every religious book
I mean every religious book fast forwarding to thirteen
I read my first short story from the formidable james boddin
And my life was forever changed
Needless to say i was grateful to be surrounded by a commungious people at honoured my inteinterest
But as i got older
I began to get confronted by a big question
Are you sure about that
Now this was a question
I really could not escape in august of two thousand eighteen
Right as i was embarking on my next adventure
I was beginning my freshshman year at harvard
Right as my television show growing us began symbmitic season too
And i was at across roads
Because acting for me has been more than a career
Because given me permission to explore my fantasies
I feel like i gain another level of empathy
Every time i step to a different characters shoes
My education has been equally as pivotal
Because my education has fulfilled my endless st desire to know
To know places
To know the events that have shaped us
The communities that have built us
The obstacles that have tried to stop us
The mistakes that haunt us
But officially to know about myself and my place in the world
Because my two lifelong passions were colliding
And i was being told by academic advisers and entertainment folk alike
Although no one on my team
That there was no symbbiotic relationship between the two worlds
I was searching for an end
But i kept getting presented in either or
And i almost let those five words are you sure about that stop me
But let me cut to the chase
I'm speaking to now as a harvard alarm with a television show going into six season 四啊
And while my college predicament may have been unusual
I do think this experience is quite universal
Because one i'm far from the first person to go to school
While working
But also i go so far as to say all of us struggle multiple interests
Passion and jobs yet there comes a moment on our pabs
Where we're expected to get serious to find are one thing stick to it
We are told that our multiple areas of intestory that we are equally drawn to our incompatible hhit with that all too famicar and sure perit
Suddenly we go from muinorable to no math and equguage sence ence history to operating in this narrosilo for the sake of of comcoming exexpert or really good about that thing we methink about how many times we are each areof the question and ststto which is really a proxy and my mind for much more pressing questions who are you right now and ois think in only a fraction of who we are
And this culture of heralding experiquestions
This means that our curiosity are often mislabeled as distractions
I would love to think through what we could be missing out on by not actively prioritizing our curiosity here let me put it this way
Um curioity ity has been a lifline for me
It's really easy to be twenty three and apessimist it doesn't take many observational skills to see the deep flaws and fishures of our world
To see how close we remain to these systems of oppression
We swear bebeind ind us
And when say say feel affefected by these laws
I'm not just talking king
Some existential i have a degree in a social science kind of way
But in the very real way that it affects me and my family and my community
Every day yeah 有it's also easy to be twenty three
And struggled to find your place
I remember so vividly being sixteen
And thinking that i could change the world
I was certain of it
I was one voting initiative away
I was one march a way
I was one panel away from real change the kind that lasts
And i remember when that assuredness was replaced by quick sand it felt as though the more i moved
And the more i struggled the more i sank ed to the overwhelm
And i responded to feeling loss by finding comfort in my expertise hiding behind this false sense of certainty
I really acted like i knew everything there was to know i was suppressing my curiosity
But i realized that made it so much easier to pick apart every potential decision ther than reaction now while i can't speak for everyone's experiences from conversations i've had with my peers and my mentors
I know this feeling isn't relegated to being twenty three
Choosing to take on both college and entertainment at the same time blending my two worlds was a necessary commitment ment my curioity
Ity ity found such a joy and discovering just how much
I did dn't know classes came from everywhere leasses like hip hop sampling on how neosol and blues became the basis to a new sound taught me
How media can be used as a way of preserving legacy
As a way of bringing present culture
Past cultures into the present playing tinker bell gave me permission to reignite my imagination
My class on web deboys is where i discovered the name for our television production company seventh sun and building a television set in the riders room
Gave me the ability to practice equable hiring within an archaic system in real time and in an independent study created by doctor cornel west
I learned my biggest lesson of all
See there are certain elements of our society that we dem as universal in movable truth
When they're in fact subjective
Not only are they subjective
Thethey're often times responsible for these systems of oression
For these dfeerous misconceptions about people for this feeling of stuckkness
This feeling like nothing can change
And to me these universal truth can range from everything as big as socioeconomic exploitation to that
Are you sure about that
That stops you for going off on your own and exploring conversely this means academics and entertainment are most potent and their abilities to demonstrate alternate realities
This less than reinvigurated my love for these two spaces
Because i realized it always been primed for imagination and exploration
And gave us the ability to explore what can blossom from curiosity
This perspective shift taught me that i was thinking too small
Because i thought the task get hand was to merely alter these systems at play rather than to imagine entirely new ways of being
Because the results of curiosity are a measurable from galileos reordering of the universe to how the musician prints undefined domasculinity for generations and often times these discoveries can jeopardize pasast ways of thinking
I like to call the change that emerges from blossosomto curcurooity ties rupsher
If predition is the result of repetition
Then rupture is the introduction of something fresh
Then bridging together two spacoften kept separate for the sake of achieving new ends
And it's of insisting that their possibilities outside of the ones we've been presented with
But too often dreaming is relegated to the academy and to silicon valley
And to all of these exclusive institutions
When it is in fact the daily curiosity of every one of us that holds the most potential for rupshe now if you aren't convinced just yet that you're a universe shifting change maker
Then it is my duty as a history neror to remind you
That most of these leaders of these social change movements that we credit with giving us the world that we live in today
Change was not their day job doctor martin
Luver King
Jor was a preacure paying attention to the works of gonandi across the ocean while reading toall sty
But i also think of my own papa who used his position with an education to infranchise black children in medicine wiscnn
I think of my cousin and nusha ansari who went from looking up at the stars and iran to flying to the space station
I think about the protesters and iran led by women and children putting their lives on the line
Because they are curious about what a society looks like that values
Women life and freedom
Now if it isn't clear
Do you know what the byproduct of curiosity is possibility surprised
Now i've graduated from harvard and my television show is ending and a couple years ago
This really would have terrified me to leave two spaces
That i know so well
But because i've built a life centred on honoring my interests
Everything from the block and spel to octavia butler
I walk excitevely towards what's next
Because i know some worb between the two lies
My next adventure
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Chasing curiosity means that my purpose is constantly unfolding in front of me
All i have to do
Is pay attention and similarly each and every one of us have a special set of interest
That are totally unique to us
Like a fumprint so please join me
And recommitting to curiosity
Because honoring you're so called distractions is an act of creating
It's to sit in the granger of all of our options
It's to acknowledge our infinite possibilities
When the world tries to convince us
It is indeed finite so refuse to let your world get smaller
And let's build new futures together
Thank you
