The Sum of Small Decisions | Riyana Hatkar | TEDxThe Orchid School

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My talk uses an unusual teacher: slime mould, a brainless organism that, when researchers placed food sources on a map of Tokyo, grew a network almost identical to the city's railway system. I use this to explore how we actually make progress in life. We tend to misunderstand our own lives by treating them as completed stories, chasing five-year plans and grand purposes, when most of life is really lived at the next turn, not viewed from above. I trace this through three moments from my own life. A seventh-grade river cleanup where I felt crushed by the scale of pollution I couldn't fix, which created a thinking pattern of zooming out onto the entire problem instead of the step in front of me. A grade 10 competition where I was doing both a national science competition and preparing for board exams, and the fear of falling behind brought that same zoomed-out thinking rushing back, this time one I could recognise as it happened. And the moment I picked a stream of study, Science, Comme

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