Defeating the inner imposter that keeps us from being successful | Knatokie Ford | TEDxMidAtlantic
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Dr. Knatokie Ford is a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Obama Administration, where she oversees development of national initiatives to raise visibility and improve the image of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and careers.
Knatokie previously served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at OSTP from 2012-2014 with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) where she managed concurrent projects on education technology and improving the Nation’s health care system.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Love this Ted Talk because it speaks volumes to what often prohibits many people from believing they can succeed. It's challenging to reach your goals if you can't even first believe that you are worthy; and secondly that you are capable. Good job Dr. Ford. Thank you for sharing your story. #Enlightenment is the key to change.
Andrea Callahan International, Inc. you clearly didn't watch the video
I don't understand why you are saying that John, Andrea really points was what the subject of the video !
Justine Semidea No, no it's not.
John Smith you didn't watch the video ?
Justine Semidea Clearly you didn't.
Thank you for speaking about the need of diversity. Personally, I have gone so far in my career goals but had doubts whether I really earned my success. As a minority, I feel that I always have to prove to others that I am just as good as everyone in the field. I use validation by reflecting on the hurdles I have overcome to help me get through the thoughts of doubt. I want to inspire and motive people to push past their comfort zone to be individuals that make a difference in the community and world.
So powerful! You vs You-- the real YOU vs the version of YOU the mind creates... We can sometimes create another version of ourselves within the mind that is built upon the opinions or criticisms of others, and sometimes it can be built from what we THINK others expect of us or have thought about us... A pseudo self that is backed by no evidence. Being ourselves, and working to BE more present within our TRUE selves leads us to greater experiences, greater realizations, and greater manifestations! As long as the tree is being the tree, it leaves will grow and it's fruit will ripen! 🙏😊 I love this talk - Peace Love and Good Vibes to the Speaker
You just inspired me to be better and work harder. Thank You!
yes it happens very often. lets be loud about it. everyone can get whatever they can imagine and though effort deserve it but a healthy self steem an social environment is key
Wow, powerful!! Thank you, Dr. Ford.
Thank you Knatokie! great talk and very inspirational.
Wow so inspiring. As a minority and in the stem field wanting to pursue a degree in biological sciences I related to this so much. Comparing yourself is defiantly a big factor. But thank you so much for that reassurance.
wow, that was so inspiring.... game changer
This Talk is so Great!!! Thank you so much!!
"It's hard to be what you can't see." Damn, definitely true, thanks Barack
I use to be good at Math & Science. I agree when you have great support and teachers that you are more likely to succeed. I also agree and talk from experience that I started to get disinterested in it in my teens, mostly due to bad teachers. I wasn't good at english but I was great at math & science, and in high school when I couldn't guidance in class or I didn't have parents at home to assist in afternoons. I felt I just wants good at much, ,maybe it was just who I was. Luckily I went looking for right support, some arent as lucky. I have actually started to roll out a DIY/Craft for kids based on STEAM - STEM but including arts to make it more fun :) - Its so important to encourage children and tell them they can do anything! Now having 2 children of my own I realise how what we do now shapes their future and the future of our world
thanks Stephanie :)
huh I never deleted anything? I only posted one comment. perhaps it was another Charisse.
I would have loved to read that comment, see it affected you in that way. Must have been a real victim who would right hate comment then delete it. I say dont click "submit" if you arent happy with what you commenting.
i cried because thats exactly how ir feel thanks TED
I was just accepted to an engineering program after having given up on STEM almost 6 years ago. I eventually realized self-doubt held me back, and I worked hard to get the transfer credits I needed.
Almost immediately after I was accepted I began to feel like an imposter... Like I won't belong. I feel like I will have to watch this over and over to get me through.
Did imposter syndrome ever go away?
Amanda Camarata It doesn’t go away but it can you control! Perfection is the thief of joy... you got it girl!
She is doing a Zoom today for GISH . I wanted to see who she was before I signed up. I like her.
Love this TED talk
Proud of my cousin!
This is so good! Thanks!
I needed to see this right now!!!!
Very well said!
She's so right about what the entertainment industry is showing related to STEM in characters definitions. Watching a SCI-Fi series currently, the genius scientist is male, and the leader of the citizen group is a woman HR Manager; women typically make up the majority of HR Managers. After having watched this TED talk, I'd like to have seen those roles reversed in this TV series, where the woman is the scientist and the male is the HR Manager.
You can tell she practices what she preaches because every time the audience laughs at her photo she says it's ok to laugh. She's telling this to herself more than anyone else, that they can laugh, but she is immutable about her self image. She feels the doubt, acknowledges it, addresses it, and accepts the real truth, which is that she should be proud of that photo because she's worthy. And she'll prove it by showing it again.
thank you!
this is very inspiration i aim for success and wish for success for everyone
Great presentation.
yes that's true you should never compare yourself with someone else :)
final catalyst to get me off my butt to start coding again. awesome talk and style.
This is excellent!!!
Knatokie Ford for president!
i like her great speech
Ike's Lions Den ...... lead paint poisoning as a child?
John Smith huh?
Ike's Lions Den exactly
John, are you just commenting on every comments to say stupid or bad things to people ?
Justine Semidea no, should I be?
There's more related pie charts that are really depressing. People on the autism spectrum make up a significantly disproportionate portion of the STEM workers. This is kind of natural, a lot of us are bad at language and interacting with people, but good at math. STEM frequently has positions where working with multiple other people at once isn't required very often.
People on the autism spectrum are rarely employed, especially women on the spectrum.
People with physical disabilities are frequently not precluded from STEM jobs. If we're interacting with computers, why do we need to be able to walk? If our computers can speak to us, and we have a Braille keyboard, why do we need to see? So many disabilities are not *actually* roadblocks for a STEM job in a progressive company.
And yet, people with physically disabilities are not particularly well represented in the workforce. It's a bit better since the start of SARS2, since people started realizing that we don't all need to go into the office. But it's a long way to go before we're even at as many disabled people in STEM proportionately as there are in society.
The intersectionality of all of this is... a very bleak picture.
All of these people have diverse viewpoints. People with autism are stereotypically diverse as much as women and people of color, but none of us can imagine life with a physical disability without really getting to know someone with physical disability.
All of these issues are more or less the same, and can be worked at the same time. Different people do take different approaches, but that's true whether we're talking two different women of color or a woman without handicaps and one with handicaps. There's admittedly a difference in degree, but it may not be as much as you might. We are living in the future. It's incredible what we can achieve with the technology we already have, if we just apply it.
I lover her speech, made me tear up a bit hahaha
Awesome Talk^^
WRONG LINK! The TEDTalk this links to is about increasing diversity in STEM education and jobs. That's all well and good ;-) but not at all what the title describes. Am I missing something here?
The speaker conflates the issues. She has the belief that her imposter syndrome is based on not having diverse role models. She ignores the fact that because she focuses on the differences, she doesn't see others that are like her, but only people that are different. She also doesn't seem to recognize that virtually everyone is afflicted with imposter syndrome at some, with the exceptioni of people who are overly confident or narcissists.
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I wrote a speech about educational disparities and this video identifies many of them...I'm grateful for this ⭐️
I hate it when people say that I didn't see anyone who looked like me. People on this planet are all from the Human race. We are diverse but still, all the same.
SnowWalker I believe they mean that they didn't see anyone with the same background as them. if that makes sense.
In an "ideal" fantasy world...maybe..but in reality human beings will never be colorblind
Technology improves by leaps and bounds but the human race, at a snails pace. Every little triumph is trumped by some kind of cruelty or ignorance, power or greed. When can we all just be *one* race, the Human race?
John Smith: I am a woman and I can't understand today's feminist. They are way, way over the line and take it way, too far. They make no sense at all anymore, and if I were you, I'd just ignore them.
SnowWalker, what you're saying is beautiful and I believe will be the ultimate outcome of the human race. I know this will happen sometime, somewhere in this infinite creation.
I am a man and I CAN understand today's feminism. To every action an equal and opposite reaction. We know this to be true with everything be it physical or immaterial. All is always balanced regardless of how far we stretch out into extremes.
The reason humanities humanity is slow to evolve is that it will take all of us to wake up. We're not all there and and those who believe they are, will have stunted their own growth by believing so.
It's also important to never deny anyone els's experience. It's nice to say we are all one, and though that is the ultimate truth, we wouldn't have been created so differently if it weren't to work through these differences together. And how can we work passed them if we deny them?
Be the change. One thought at a time.
Yes, we are all a part of the human race. But, it's a little naive to think that children and teens (especially minority children and teens) do not need to see other people who they identify with involved in certain fields of study and occupying certain jobs. If we had a total of 45 white presidents, a black child would be less likely to believe he or she could be president. Now that is not the case.
Hollywood is definitely playing a big factor on how people see themselves. I have been saying this for a while now.
It's 2022, I wonder if we created that extra 1 million STEM graduates...
Adorable 4th grade picture!!!!!!!
My teacher said there were only 4 students that got the math test 100%. I was one of those 4. lmao
Good job, I am sure that made you feel proud. That is a HUGE accomplishment.
Once upon a time, I was the only one who actually understood maths, so I had to help EVERYONE ELSE in my class to do maths, it was a tiring but proud moment in my life. :D (I got 100% marks in all my papers)
because youre a fuckn buzzkill who needs fresh air
Feather M No one gives a shit. You should learn real Maths.
its was college math
LOVE This...I so identify as a person with a Electrical Engineering degree to and Actress.
9:45 the philosophy of golf in a nutshell
Squad of the notifications, where are you at?
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i hate it when people say diversity is our strength.. but sometimes its true.
And something that extrem leftist should listen to was "if i was willing to work HARD then i can do anything i put my mind to."
Excelent talk, nice flow in words and very easy to understand.
you dont need a tedtalk to wake up from being comfortable and just grind
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How can she say sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon ????
We never went to the moon. What?
It is my all testimony 😏😅
Yeah right, everybody is competent. I have never seen an impostor syndrome talk helping you to see that you are a genuine impostor.
I wish I cared more about what she was saying. But the truth is what you deem successful/acceptable, someone else will have a different definition of success/acceptability. No matter what your position in life you're still gonna die one day. So what is life about: God First! 👆 Amen 🙏
defeating yourself is the biggest obstacle. the victim hood way of thinking for liberals makes me worry. it's impossible to progress with that mind state and way of thinking. probably why they are now known as regressives
BoomShakaLaka Not probably, regressive thinking is victim hood mentality.
I thik it's ironic how she focuses on the lack of diversity in STEM fields, while choosing not to not actually work in the STEM field she trained for and instead go into the more people-oriented side of the tech industry. It lends credence to the james Damore letter. In the end, it may be less bias from the environment, and more personal interest led.
If she went back to actually work in STEM, she'd be adding one woman back into STEM. In the role she had while making this video, she was able to do so much more than that. I'd expect whatever role she's in now is also like that. Policy makers and guiders have so much more influence on the field than those of us who merely work in it.
@@edgrimm5862 Maybe. But I'm not sure, since only 2.4k have watched it. The fact is she has never worked beyond her education in the STEM field. She has no experience to draw from when encouraging girls to work in the STEM fields. It's hard to effectively guide what you don't know.
Captain here: The reason why there are less women in business and science is because 'Men play to Win' and 'Women play NOT to lose'. There's a big difference! Knatokie Ford even said it herself that she went to Harvard again 'NOT to drop out'. ;) Flies away
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I am so F’n sick of hearing about STEM
It's simple, women don't care for those jobs.
Wrong title, this is some crap about people from usa not understanding mathematics and therefore all graduating in reading books. Or something like that, because 5 minutes into this talk you still don't know her point. She didn't attend communication 101, that's for sure:-))
honestly I am upset...y did u care about what Ppl have to say so much... stop being a conformist... n come up with a minimalistic state of mind, seriously... I don't like this ted talk at all I'm really upset... I get what youre saying n all... but I just hate behaviors like this... u should be a fighter, a competitive person, you should not have time to think about stuff like this... the world is not a place for people with this mentality... whether you female, Muslim, black or w/e ... fight bitch fight!... the end part alone was good, About adults inspiring kids n making them accepting their uniqueness... that's all
I don't agree, not everyone can be a fighter !! You surely are one if you speak like that, but I think majority of the people have a lot of insecurity, and telling people that they should be a fighter can actually make them feel worse about themself, be aware of that, that we are all so different !
Be a competitive person is actually not for everyone as well...
@@justine.Semidea Not to mention, that girls have historically been conditioned away from the childhood, narc attitude of be able to be Anything - to, generally, more stereotypical roles. Bifurcating in Jr. HS, & more the next 4 years. ... I'm sure being a minority further compounds those widespread issues!
Thank God, things have been changing, ever so gradually, the last 50 years! ... And, now, it's women who are becoming more educated than males.
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