WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU DID SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME?

Author John C. Maxwell famously asked, "When was the last time you did something for the first time?" A question that appears to be "tough to think about," yet forces the listener to reflect on oneself. Today, let's take a ride in TEDxHANU 2021's time travel car and go back in time to uncover the solution for ourselves.

To begin the journey, let us return to the most distant memory area, when we were still youngsters. Do you know that as youngsters, we continuously investigate and ask questions out of interest for everything around us? Since then, every day has been another opportunity for the children to "do something for the first time". The abilities you need to survive get imprinted in your brain as you become older. Unconsciously, humans operate like pre-programmed machines. Finally, you are tacitly accepting that you will continue to live every day with what you already know, in a tedious, dull way.

Is your zest for life dwindling by the day? Have you found the solution to that question yet, our time traveller? If you answered "when I was young" or "a long time ago," are you stuck in the cycle of growing up and becoming an adult, juggling numerous responsibilities? Then you abruptly withdraw into your comfort zone, forgetting that the meaning of life is found in the rich experiences that people bring to themselves?

The voyage through time has come to a conclusion. It would be fantastic if you could boldly state, "I am still enjoying my life to the fullest, discovering new things every day." Learn to cook a new cuisine, play a new musical instrument, or simply spend more time adoring your loved ones. Instead of becoming captivated and exhausted by the learning curve and then becoming lethargic and unwilling to try new things.

Hopefully, the short trip to 𝐓𝐄𝐃𝐱𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 will help you re-evaluate yourself and live completely with your youth. Don't allow looking back on the past just to bring up the word "regret" because of the numerous things you didn't accomplish, but instead fill it with the delights of the experience.