Your Pace is Your Power | Erin Chelsea Tan | TEDxPace Academy

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The speech reflects on the pressure of productivity, deadlines, and comparison in modern society through the speaker’s humorous “phobia” of Google Docs, which symbolizes fear, overwhelm, and the anxiety of not keeping up. Erin explains how procrastination often comes not from laziness but from fear of failure and unrealistic expectations fueled by social media and fast-success stories. Using examples such as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders, the speech emphasizes that success does not follow a single timeline and that slow growth is not failure. She argues that rushing often sacrifices quality, increases stress, and leads to burnout, while true growth happens at different paces for different people. Ultimately, she encourages people to stop comparing themselves to others, embrace imperfect beginnings, and move at a pace that allows meaningful growth, because success is not about being the fastest but about finishing strong on on

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