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TEDx Talks Chanel 

What makes you special? | Mariana Atencio | TEDxUniversityofNevada 

Mariana Atencio the NBC News journalist on TEDx Talks Chanel with the title “What makes you special?” tells us about her story with the aim that the audience will understands about differences. Her story starts when she moves from Venezuela to a summer camp in the United Stated at the age of 7 with her sister. She must take care of her sister because her sister always crying at the summer camp, so she decides to look brave in front of her sister. But after the summer camp ends Mariana felt so proud with herself, because she can get along with others and have a best friend, so it was a special reward for her. 

She realized that “when you’re different you have to work at belonging”. Later on, when she was in high school her dad sent her to Wallingford, Connecticut, for the senior year of high school. On the plane she is daydreaming about the American high school experience with a locker, but in the real situation she had a roommate name is Fatima, and she was Muslim from Bahrain, and she was not what Mariana expected. And it only lasted a few months. After the prom night party ends, she remember about Fatima and telling us sometimes we just label them differently from what we see.  Differences are just their way of being different and we should look at those blind spots by starting to understand what makes them different and embracing those traits only then you can start appreciating what makes other people special. “So, what makes you special in your opinion? Because being different is an advantage that makes you special” she said. 

Long story short she got bad news about her sister that had a car accident and made her must 15 surgeries and had to spend some time in a wheelchair, but she said the worst situation is the way people looked at her sister. But the sister was able to walk again and it’s so miracle and beyond expectations. Imagine yourself beyond what other people see, that is toughest task of all, but it also the most beautiful. In the end she wants to us realized that there are differences that really suck, so do not let them define you, lets be humanist before and after everything else. 

 

14.16 this moment of the video broke my heart , i felt so happy after she said her sister back to walk again .. both of these girls are real fighters . they are a good example to face the life with its hard and people who don't have any feeling.

When she talked about Muslim girl and her reaction when met her . I felt sad because many people don't accept the muslim girl .  It is true that She changed her thinking about that girl but many people don't change their thinking about  us

She is such a good speaker, I learnt a lot from her speak. I found many small group or The Other said the speaker had same problem, I wish they can through this. Thank you to remind us that being different is an advantage and we have to proud of that, so we can stand out and be successful person.

What a powerful talk. She is very clear in her thoughts so the words are coming out like a cascade. I salute this brave lady and she is an inspiration and example to others. Certainly beauty is an added value to a speaker to easily attract the croud and she has got it.

What Make you Special? 

As I write this after I watched the video, honestly I still don’t know what’s make me special, or what the different I have from others. But I think, the least that makes me different from others maybe how my parents strictly train me to be an independent girl yet brave from I was child, so I became independent woman today. 

I remember when my brother was born on 2003, my parents indirectly asked me to take myself as my own responsibility, because the were focused on my newborn brother and their work-life. They train me simply how to clean up my room, or sometimes clean up the house. Then they send me to several courses like Sempoa Course and English Course even I still 8 years old, again, they asked me to be brave, because I was the youngest then. I went to English Course as the youngest with my friends were 3-4 years above me which their capability of learning English was so much better than me. Even my English not even better after I joined the class, but I realized that I learned how to socialize and interact with new people at my age then, how I can struggling myself to follow the class with native English teacher and be friends with people that didn’t came as the same background as me. 

Then when I was in Junior High School, my parents offer me to move to others school, then I moved to a new school when I was in the second grade of Junior High School. On my school then, some of students underestimated me just because I was a new student there, all I did sometimes were wrong. I realized that the ambitious me I have now were started there, when I thought that I should enter Senior High School that no one from that mean girls can enter the school, then I made it! 

But as I entered Senior High School I was not well prepared for my college life or maybe clueless, so after I survived Senior High School, I didn’t have clearly what I want for my long run, I only studied for passed SBMPTN then, and the major that I took still dominated with science. End up I studied Public Administration with only Diploma Degree. As a person which trained to take my own responsibility, before I graduated I started to look up what job that matters, or any job that could help me to bought gifts for my friends as the reward of graduation. I’ve been an SPG that time right one month before I entered my final assessment. Then I had enough money to bought all my friends gift without asking to my parents. After I graduated, I really passionate to find what kind of job that would help me to increasing my soft skill so I could be experienced even it should be started from very bottom. Then I start to worked at Grab not even 1 month after I graduated. I began and grew my career here from the bottom till now are because of the spirit and what my parents teach me, to be responsible to all that I had, survived everything so I can be curious everyday about what I’m going to do, and make everything that I want happen. So, I thought it’s all that makes me special.