Forget your nouns. Find your verbs | Cảnh Luân Nguyễn | TEDxLuong The Vinh Youth
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As high school students, we are often asked, “What do you want to be?” At an age when the future can feel both exciting and overwhelming, we are expected to choose a single noun to define who we are: a doctor, a designer, a teacher, an entrepreneur. But what if we are asking the wrong question? Drawing from his own journey across education, content creation, writing, poetry, acting, and music, Nguyễn Cảnh Luân explores how seemingly unrelated interests can come together to form a meaningful direction. Rather than defining ourselves by the titles we hold, he invites us to look deeper at the verbs that keep appearing throughout our experiences - the things we love to explain, create, express, connect, or solve. Through this perspective, our different interests become less like scattered choices and more like notes in the same song. Forget your nouns. Find your verbs. Nguyễn Cảnh Luân is an educator, content creator, author, and creative artist whose work spans language, education, knowl
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