Fear is your friend | Rory Kramer | TEDxMilpitasHighSchool

Rory is a professional life liver and accomplished videographer. Rory talks about how he overcame personal challenges and now strives to live each day to the fullest, because he thinks doing it any other way would be a waste. He takes everyday and lives it like its his last. He has become a successful videographer working with people such as AVICII, Martin Garrix, 3LAU, and Justin Bieber

[bananasrock]

"Fear only comes around when you want something" such a good perspective change. This really hit me for where I am right now.

[chinzasvlog]

"Life is cool, when you live it"!!

[ReidGrahamVisuals]

the only ted talk i've ever finished

[kaitlyncrawley]

everyone needs to be the warrior not the worrier

[favoritesongisU]

This is awesome. I not only can hear every word, but I can feel every word. We all live in this unhappiness and need a way out. Thank you for your passion in life and it's happiness! We need more Rory's to inspire us.

[MrKiwicity]

Cannot express how proud I am of you Rory for doing this TEDx talk. Getting out of your comfort zone is what it's all about, and embracing life. Looking forward to your upcoming adventures! Have an awesome day and #runit!

[valeriapaz]

As always Rory, you are the best! Thanks for everything! #RunIt

[coltonpurcellmusic]

I relate to this on an extremely deep level. I’m 30 and my experience is very much parallel to his at that time in his life. The only difference is that I was born with a disability. I grew up in a small town where I was the only one in the county who had a type of dwarfism. My experience in high school was probably really different to most people’s. I was enrolled in classes just as everyone else was, but I was required to go to the special ed room in my high school on a regular basis. This room was located right next to a set of doors that act as a kind of exit for the high school. That room was one of the last rooms people would see when going to the high school. I hated that room. When I would go in there, I felt depressed. It was like going to a landfill of broken dreams. Everyone in that room had resigned themselves to a fate that was chosen by small-minded individuals who were big in the local community. They valued physical strength a lot more than they let on. When you were someone like me with a disability, they sought every opportunity to tell you that you are broken because you can’t be successful in the way that they perceive success. Growing up, I got a lot of looks from people in the community and even a fair amount of high school teachers that told me what they really thought of me. They thought I was broken beyond repair. Not many people in the community I lived in really believed in me. The relationships I tried to cultivate within that community. only made me feel like what they all were saying about me with their disgusted looks was true. I now realize just how much time I wasted trying to please a community that would never have accepted me no matter how successful I became. Since high school, I have graduated with a bachelor of music degree as well as a master of music in music technology degree. I am knowledgeable and experienced in the industry I studied and I really like doing that. That’s what I feel like is really me. Looking at that has helped me to realize something else though. I have realized that I would have to do a lot of freelance work in sound effects and audio technology in order to get an actual full-time position as a sound engineer. What I realized is that we can be more than one thing. I started looking into the tech industry in general and found that that could be a life that I would probably really like. We don’t have to pick just one thing to do to make our lives fulfilled. We are much more complicated than that. Lately, I have been taking steps to overcome the hopeless feelings that I experienced as a teenager growing up with a disability. I’ve been working to gain access to all of the opportunities gifted to so many others without my disability. I have found that those opportunities and doors are just as available and open to me as anyone else. This video helped me to confirm a lot of what I had been positively feeling this past little while. I really appreciate that. Thank you. This helped me to realize more fully that I am much more capable than many of the adults I grew up around tried to make me believe I was. People will try to tear you down and tell you that you’re not working in the way that you’re supposed to be working. They’ll tell you that you should be somewhere else in your life and that you should have a lot more figured out by the deadline they set. They try to make what is purely their opinions sound as fact to validate themselves. They will work to tear you down because they are insecure about where they are This behavior is extremely selfish and cruel. I have a firmly-held belief that there is no such thing as being broken. We’re all working how we’re supposed to be working. Anyone telling you otherwise clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They don’t live your life. They don’t know what makes you happy. Only you can discover and know that for yourself. Choosing to let go of other’s opinions of you can be extremely difficult though. Telling ourselves that we’re doing good can often feel selfish and narcissistic. The opinions of others seem more real because they are orally heard and for some reason appear to have more of an anchor in reality than our perception of ourselves. I wish someone had told teenage me what this Rory is telling these kids. I probably wouldn’t have wasted so much time trying to please people who weren’t really worth my time. Thank you for uploading this video. It really helped to improve my self-perception.

[nikkemies]

One of the most inspiring people in the world for me! :)Thanks for this video!

[illgilligan]

Finally got a ted talk! Was looking forward to this for a while! SO amazing

[StephenMcPhilemy]

Great to see this side of you, I've been inspired by your videos for a while now and it inspired me to start uploading my own . Professional life livers 7 needs some Irish cliff jumps. So next time you're here we should RUN IT.
Thanks for the inspiration :)

[mehdiadrdor]

I really Salute you, what makes avicii's video awsome is illustrating your life on it!

[ReidGrahamVisuals]

rory you always have a great perspective man. awesome stuff

[Cindy-CD]

Whenever someone asks me that question, I say successful. He/she thinks "this girl knows what she's doing."
I think "I have no idea where life is taking me, I have no idea what I'm going to do, I don't know if I'm going to be alive, I just know I'm putting my all into it. Whatever it is."

[akiyamamoto]

Am I the only one who watching this in 2022? I've already watched this over 100 times when I want some motivation. Love you.

[natasyaaulia]

The problem is, we got something that called 'responsiblity' over bills. My life is so messed up, when my mother is always act like not get enough of money that her husband earned, and end up causing me feel that i should make her happy but the other side, it feels more like pressure bc she never get it enough.

[justblondfilms]

after that video, I realized how much fear i really have and how much fear I have to overcome, and this really gets me to my limits, right now i feel so much fear, that i cant do it and never make it even though i think i could make it, or dont do that double backflip on a trampoline because you could hurt yourself, all those negtive thoughts come together in my brain, but i just donbt want to, i dont wnat to give up, i dont ever want to give up"

[HimanshuBaisoya]

This is awesome. I always wants to know about this side of your life like when i m feeling negative i watch your videos but you do ? U inspires me too much. When you r coming to India #Runit#rorykramervision

[Bharatmaximus]

The nights now have 416 million views man boii!

[dillydee]

Watching the dream unfold through Rory shows me how do-able this is... it's time to #RunIt folks!