To be different is good | Jon Jandai | TEDxYouth@BangkokPrep

I don't know why I like to think different from normal people a lot normally but every time when I talk about my thinking many people always said you're wrong you're crazy how can you think like that at the beginning it made me feel sad feel really a shame feel very low self-esteem but I can help I have to do something different because I believe in way for example to be a farmer everybody do a chemical farming I'm the first person in the village who want to do organic farming the whole village said you are crazy we use a lot of chemical we still have less yield how can you grow with no chemical even government official in the problem came to me and said the same thing but after I did one year the next year 30 people follow me can make me think oh it's quite fun to be different and then after that I start to build certain house I'm the first person who Bill Burton how in Thailand many people in the village came every day to see me and they laugh at me and joking around my mud pit and he said you have very good idea but it doesn't work because when it rained it going to melt nobody helped me they said I don't want to waste my energy because if I help you now when the rain come Ismail down but after I finished the first building many people fill their house it mud like me now as many thousand mud house in Thailand after that when I have a first kid many friends who have the kid in the same time they need to prepare a lot of money for their kids to buy formula to buy baby food for the kids but I feel like why we have to buy food for the kids because my wife have the best food for the kid already so I decide to not give water or formula or baby food to my kid almost a year no no nothing from outside Ollie mill from my wife many people came and say you're gonna hurt your kid you're not love you kid but what happened is now my son is 12 years old he taller than me and he never go to a hospital he never gets sick but most of my friend who Red's kid in the normal way they have to go to the hospital almost every year a lot of sickness so I feel like there are many things wrong in the world right now there are many easy way that we can find we can discover and after that I start to feel more confident in myself to be different when edits when I do something different or I have some different idea people say you're crazy I start to tell myself it's not my problem is their problem they can think whatever but I need to be easy I need to be relaxed so now I feel like this is the real freedom freedom to do what you want to do freedom to do what you believe in it's not easy to find this freedom and now I enjoy to be different a lot I feel like this is the special gift in my life when my son seven years old you need to go to the school many people have to work hard to make money to send their kid to school I think there are so many knowledge there's no many wisdom on this earth why we need to go to school school is so narrow Soviet is itis not send a kid to school we do homeschooling it's so easy we don't need to take the kid to school every day don't need to pick him up every day and the most important thing is we have a lot of fun to be together I think this is the best gift in in my life just to be with family we have time to be together play to break it together and we learn out of school there's a lot of thing to learn my son he make cookie just make cookie he learned Sian he learned math he alone missing it he learnt so many thing from one cookie and he has a lot of fun and if he go to school he had to learn what he don't like all the time so it's not fun so I feel like my son is so happy I feel so little as that I've I can design my life in the way I want it to be just be the way I want it to be and now I have so many thinking different from normal people but I don't think I'm abnormal I think I'm very normal like now many people working hard to make money they save money for security but I start to see different for many people money is not secure why we need to save money for security I did not refuse money I still work and use money as normal people but I used money as the tools like a use a knife why I think money is not secure because in my life I see money has so many problem inflation is very fast like when I was kid one noodle one bowl of noodle is one bar one Buffalo is 500 by one the land one plot of land like one dry on one Harbin acres or something like 1000 baht so if I have 1000 baht at a time I become rich people in the village but if I deposit that money in the bank now I'm fifty to forty three years ago how much money I even have in the bank if I go withdraw money because in the bank book in Thailand they said if you have money lower than two thousand baht living take out your money to the for the fee to keep your account every month so the money is gone long time ago I don't know even I'm rich people I never use my money where did my money go this is one thing that tell me that money is not security why I have to save money like many people but in the same time if I use that money to buy one pill and edit in the village now the land in the village seven hundred thousand baht so from one thousand up to seven hundred thousand baht yes that's more secure and in the same time if a plant trees one half an acre is you can plan more than five hundred trees ten years the tree like this big it cost ten thousand baht per one trees but if it's 50 years how big it going to be so that's caused a lot of money so let many thing Natural Resources is more secure than money why we need to save money why we don't save natural resources so now when I have money I just buy land by LAN and develop the soil make the SOI good bye no burning no chemical on this under soil the soil be better and better be fertile soil and then I start to save a lot of see a lot of plant in their underground there's a lot of jam and taro roots all kind of roots on the ground above the ground there's a lot of grass and vegetable and big trees and a good shade so I think this is security in my life because whatever happened in the world I'm okay I have a fish pond I have a lot of fish and have 100 chicken I have two cows or milk 15 liters per day if the economics collapse today if the war happened now many people have to be in the line asking for food but I feel like I don't need to go I have enough food here if somebody come to rob me they maybe take some fruit some chicken or some cows away but nobody know where as the yam and taro or roots hiding because it's underground this is security so I feel like this is the real heaven we I can make a help in heaven to leave on this earth ty vivo like make a lot of merit donate a lot of money so when they die they can go to be in heaven but I think there maybe cannot go to the heaven because when they die they cannot bring cell phone with them they have no GPS they maybe lose the way but why we need to die before we go to heaven we build a heaven now I live in heaven we have food we have good we have good soy we have good water we have good family this is more than heaven even people who live in heaven still jealous me because in the heaven there's no trees only crowds very hot but here is so nice and have a lot of fun the kids running around and playing all day long we have a lot of food to eat to bill heaven everybody can do it but to be rich it's not everybody can do it can be so why we choose to do something hard this is a way I think now I feel like I think different from normal people but I don't feel like it I'm not normal and now I start to look at people the whole world why people have to work so much and everybody work hard but not work for themself I can see many people in Thailand they work very hard they get money but how many people who use their money from their hard work to buy organic food to feed themselves because the health our hell is the most important thing in the world when you go to the supermarket they go to the farmer market they see farmers sell rice organic rice 50 baht per kilo and it think and think too expensive and they didn't buy it but when they go to the coffee shop one cup of coffee shop one cup of coffee 150 baht it's not food but they pay without thinking so what are we working for now we working so hard for what for ourselves no we do not do anything for ourselves all the work we do now more people work just to change the natural resources into money but not many people who work to create more natural resource for this earth think about how many million people in the world right now and everybody work more than 8 hours per day but how much resources do we have on this earth now now we have nothing left we have less than 50% of trees in the world we dug up all the mineral and we use them up the more we were the more we ruined everything on this earth now the land become a dead soil you cannot grow things easily anymore now the water all the world cannot drink anymore we need to buy water to drink the bottle of water is the indicator to tell us this is the biggest crisis in the world we work too much until we ruin everything that feed us we have no good soil no good water to drink no tree no animal Highland usually have more than 20000 variety of rice but now we have less than 200 varieties we ruin everything and everybody said I'm working for my kid more for my children but what do we have for our kid to eat to live is anybody thing ask the kid do you like to eat money or you like to eat food you like to drink water or you like to drink money we don't have any resources left for them anymore because we work too much in the way that not for us so I feel like we need more new people more new thinking different thinking is the thing that we need now because we go to the school the school teach are to learn the same thing do the same thing thing the same thing when everybody think that money is security everybody start to work hard to change all the resources into money but not many people think defend it we need to build more resources or for this earth so now I think it's the time to such a thing different we need more people to think different more different more idea its diversity of thinking diversity is security diversity is freedom diversity is happiness no diversity is nothing whatever we think just proud of yourself we can be different we can be different sexes different color differently just different idea friend thinking that's the beauty that's what we need we need to be different we don't need to be the same because we need security we need diversity we need sustainable way of living thank you [Applause]

Channel: TEDx Talks

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Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, Thailand, Life, Farming, Simplicity, Sustainability

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Length: 15min 48sec (948 seconds)

Published: Thu May 11 2017