So there's another option, and it is to embrace what I call "the pioneer spirit." And this is how it works.Īgain, you look around, you see how everyone else like you is doing, and then you open yourself up to doing something no one like you has done before. They tend to perpetuate the status quo, and there are moments in life when the status quo is not enough. You can be perfectly happy embracing an emulator mindset all your life if you want to.īut here's the thing. You want to emulate their achievements.Īnd I am not here to judge anyone's life choices. You are setting your future prospects based on someone else's past results.
Jokes aside, when you don't see yourself fairly or proportionately represented, you understand early on that you have two choices moving forward.Ĭhoice number one is to embrace what I call "the emulator mindset."Īnd the emulator mindset is a fancy name for something we're very familiar with, which is to look around, see how everyone else like you is doing, and then setting your goals based on someone else's past experience. Or if you're feeling extra ambitious, you can always be crowned the next queen of a drug cartel. You can even be a tornado made out of sharks - a sharknado.īut if you're in a movie, and you are an immigrant Latina like me, all you can aspire to be is a stripper, a maid, a nanny.
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How to be what you can't see, even in movies.īecause let me tell you something, if you are in a movie, and you happen to be, let's say, a tornado, you can get to be any kind of tornado you want to be. How to be what you can't see in real life. So the question I had to answer was very simple: how to be what you can't see. The only reason why I chose Arnold Schwarzenegger was because when I looked around, I couldn't see anyone like me on stages, like me in leading roles, or like me in leadership positions in general. So why on Earth did I choose Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first place? He's a bodybuilding champion, and to be honest with you, I can barely do 15 push-ups back to back.
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He's an action movie star, I don't even watch action movies. He's from Europe, I am from South America. It can be the way you sound, the way you look, or something as simple as realizing halfway through your speech that the zipper is down.īut as I was getting ready to deliver this TED talk, I started thinking about that Arnold Schwarzenegger story in a very different light.Īnd I asked myself, "Why on earth, out of all the people in the planet, Gaby, did you choose Arnold Schwarzenegger as your preperformance mental reference?"īecause the truth is, the Terminator and I, we don't have that much in common. The truth is we all feel inadequate one way or another when facing an audience. It was my own way to encourage people to speak in public, even if they feel they don't quite fit the mold. So as a newcomer, I feared people would not understand what I had to say, would not pay attention, or even worse, would not take me seriously as a speaker, only because of my accent.īut then, I learned two words that cured my fears, two words that I treasure in my heart, two words that will help you overcome your own fears next time you have to give a presentation.Īnd those two words are "Arnold Schwarzenegger!"īecause if that man with that thick Austrian accent who first conquered Hollywood, and then become the governor of California, so can I, and so can you.įor many years, I've shared this story as an ice breaker just for fun. In fact, even today, I come across people who mistakenly assume that I am uneducated, only because English happens to be my second language. Fiften years ago, when I first arrived in the United States from Argentina, doing what I'm doing right now - speaking in public in English - was one of my biggest fears.Īccentism, the perception that certain accents are inferior to others, is very real in today's world.
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