Alexandria Hammond
I chose this video because it makes me laugh really hard. It’s not a formal speech that is planned out and has a speaker who is calm and collected, it’s a video of a woman yelling at you to get it together because it is up to you to live a happy life. I love to laugh so this video and others like it stick more with me than anything else. I hope you all enjoy this video because I sure have been laughing for the past 10 minutes. Please let me know if you feel motivated from this! Because I sure feel like I can do anything with this woman hyping me up like this.

Iridiana Castrejon

I chose this motivational video because I feel like it’s very easy to be negative when something doesn’t go our way, and it’s difficult to be positive when something goes wrong or something bad happens. I would always think negative and blame myself when things went wrong. This video has motivated me and helped me to think positive about failures and bad situations. In the video, Jocko said, “When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that comes out of it.” We have to remember that when something goes bad, we have the opportunity to learn and figure out a solution. We have the opportunity to get up and try again and do things better. We have the opportunity to grow and become stronger. I love this video because watching it helps me remember all of these things. We should try our best to think this way about things instead of thinking negative and putting ourselves down. This video has helped me and I hope it can help others as well.

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My name is Maria Villicana and for my motivational video, I chose “Change The Way You See Yourself” by Eric Thomas. Thomas said in the video, “What you need to think is not how you see the world but what you need to see is how the world sees you.” What I got from this is, is that you need to set your goals and work really hard because no one will help you achieve your goals unless you do it, but in order for that to happen, you need to work very hard and never give up. Which is then followed by then next thing that he mentioned on the video, “It’s always a result of commitment to excellence, intelligent, planning, and focused effort.” Again, you need to be persistent with your goals in life and know exactly what you want. My mom once said to me, “Stay away from negative people, or you’ll become one of them.” I always thought that those were just things that people would come up with. In fact, I was wrong. I have had many negative people in my life that somehow changed me and the way I would think about life. After experiencing it in real life, I know that what my mom once said to me was true and not just things that people would make up. Staying with positive people and helping yourself by watching insperational videos or instrumental music can really help you so much. I chose this video, because it made me reflect many things and how much I have accomplished so far.

Hello, my name is Jessica Valero. I selected a video clip related to Commencement because I will be graduating in a few weeks. Furthermore, I chose Steve Jobs as the keynote speaker because he was an influential man. First, he talked about how he dropped out of college after six months and as a result, took a calligraphy class, which ten years later became useful in the creation of the Macintosh font. Furthermore, he talked about him getting fired from Apple, a company that he co-founded and that with a twist of destiny, he became the owner of. Lastly, he spoke about how he had a tumor on his pancreas, which was the closest he had ever been to death. However, at the end of his speech, he said, “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” I found those two phrases motivational and will continuously be on my mind in the next chapter of my life, graduate school. Overall, what I gained from the YouTube clip is that failure can lead to success and to always live life as if it were one’s last day.

Mitsu Saldana

I chose this motivational video for a couple of reasons and the first one is because we never know how long we will live so we should make conscious choices each day to live fully. We need to make the most out of each experience we have and trust our instincts. Life is too short to be spent worrying about things that are out of our control. When living a life so cautiously then it can be hard to achieve great things in life. This video reminds me that we shouldn’t life in doubt of the “what if” because that is not healthy and instead go out and enjoy life since we do only have the opportunity to do so once!

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Elizabeth Silva Ponce

I find this video to be motivational for many reasons. I think the video does an excellent job at addressing many issues that women face today, not just in sports, but in life. Often, women are seen as weaker, dumber, and less capable of achieving their dreams. As the video mentions, no dream is too crazy, too big, or too difficult for woman to accomplish. I would also like to note that I believe the video’s producers are very effective in including real women that achieved dreams that society could have deemed as too great.