Who Told You What Success Looks Like? | Zia Victoria | TEDxCool Springs Youth

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What happens when you reach every dream - and the feeling doesn't last? Zia Victoria knew what she wanted to do from the time she was five years old. She wrote songs, performed, signed a publishing deal at sixteen, and kept reaching goals that once felt impossibly far away. But every time she got somewhere she had dreamed of going, it was the same question, “What's next?” In this honest talk, Zia examines what it costs to spend your life measuring yourself against a definition of success you never actually chose - and offers a new one: success not as a place you finally arrive, but as whether the different parts of your life actually feel like they belong together. Maybe success has less to do with what you can point to, and more to do with who you're becoming along the way. Zia Victoria is a 21 year old singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, creative director, and speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee. After signing her first publishing deal at just 16 years old, she has

Tags: English, Happiness, Life, Music (topic), Personal growth, Self improvement, Success, TEDxTalks, Youth, [TEDxEID:64324]

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