Medicine or music? Law or sports? Something practical...or what we truly have a passion for? These are critical decisions that young adults are having to make every day. World renown TED speaker, Violinist Robert Vijay Gupta performs beautifully for the first two minutes of his lecture. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, that started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from 3 worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. This lecture is about Robert Gupta who was caught between a career as a doctor and a career as a violinist. Gupta realized he was stuck in the middle of the two worlds, he was ready for both but had a sense of social justice in his heart. In his lecture, Gupta tells an inspirational story about how society's marginalized and the power of music therapy, which can succeed where conventional medicine fails.
From the lecture held in April 2012:
"This was the very reason why we made music: we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core, our emotions, and through our artistic lens, through our creativity, we're able to shape those emotions into reality." -Robert Gupta
Gupta's lecture is moving and inspires you to let your brain access that creativity you hold back most of the time. In this lecture you see the audience and their reaction to Gupta's storytelling about the path of music or heading for the path of medicine. Watching this lecture has given me a chance to develop a deeper understanding of Gupta's passion behind education and outreach, both as musician and as an activist for mental health issues. He has the privilege of working with Nathaniel Ayers, the brilliant, schizophrenic musician featured in "The Soloist," as his violin teacher (TED 2012). Gupta's lectures are so moving because he builds a trust with the audiences and shares his personal knowledge with them through his speech. He speaks very eloquently and personable, as if he's sitting down to have a cup of coffee with you. This lecture is mainly about finding one's place in the world with your talents. Dr. Gupta loved both of his worlds and found his place amongst them and continues to help others do the same.
Filmed April 2012, posted Octover 2012, TEDMED 2012
Other Resources used in research: Ted.com's "Best of the Web"
From the lecture held in April 2012:
"This was the very reason why we made music: we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core, our emotions, and through our artistic lens, through our creativity, we're able to shape those emotions into reality." -Robert Gupta
Gupta's lecture is moving and inspires you to let your brain access that creativity you hold back most of the time. In this lecture you see the audience and their reaction to Gupta's storytelling about the path of music or heading for the path of medicine. Watching this lecture has given me a chance to develop a deeper understanding of Gupta's passion behind education and outreach, both as musician and as an activist for mental health issues. He has the privilege of working with Nathaniel Ayers, the brilliant, schizophrenic musician featured in "The Soloist," as his violin teacher (TED 2012). Gupta's lectures are so moving because he builds a trust with the audiences and shares his personal knowledge with them through his speech. He speaks very eloquently and personable, as if he's sitting down to have a cup of coffee with you. This lecture is mainly about finding one's place in the world with your talents. Dr. Gupta loved both of his worlds and found his place amongst them and continues to help others do the same.
Filmed April 2012, posted Octover 2012, TEDMED 2012
Other Resources used in research: Ted.com's "Best of the Web"
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