TEDxRDFZ Youth

Speakers

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• Ariewan Chaikittivanich

  One day, you wake up, and everything is different. For me, change meant leaving behind a familiar life and stepping into a completely new one in China. A new country. A new life. A new version of everything I knew. This talk explores what happens when the world you once knew suddenly turns upside down—and what happens next, when you have no choice but to find your way through it.

• Fanshu Ding

  Most people hold a fixed idea of what change is supposed to be.We naturally expect transformation to arrive through sudden, remarkable moments.Yet life rarely works according to these expectations. This talk invites us to rethink our assumptions about growth, and to question where meaningful change truly comes from.

• Hengwei Zhang

  There is no need to fear that the future will invade your comfort zone. The future’s script is yours to write, and it will be filled with more things that you enjoy.

• Hongfu Li

  This speech explores how adapting to unfamiliar environments can transform fear into growth. Through my experience of school transfers, I share how change taught me to take the first step, overcome the fear of rejection, and discover new parts of my identity. Furthermore, this speech shows that although we cannot always control the changes around us, we can choose how we respond to them—and discover who we can become because of them.

• HongHao Zhao

  To me history is more than a record of the past, it's a testament to humanity’s capacity for change. Through experiences, I realised that uncertainty often precedes growth. Each challenge has reshaped my perspective, much as pivotal moments reshape societies. History reminds us that transformation is rarely comfortable, yet it is often necessary. By understanding where we have come from, we gain the courage to imagine and shape where we might go.

• Jiani Bei

  When people face changes, they weigh the pros and cons. In economics, we call them opportunity costs, something we measure in order to strive for perfection when facing trade-offs. Sometimes weighing opportunity cost becomes a burden for people when making changes due to the fear of imperfection. But there is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. Go make mistakes, expand your crack and see posibilities. Life offers a surprisingly high margin for error and no single choice seal your fate.

• Muzhou Leng

  People talk about making a change in our lives like it's something really easy, but honestly, it's not. To change in the right direction, in the right way, with the right reasons is absolutely a difficult thing to do, and during the process of changing, it's hard to tell whether if we're doing well or not. However, that shouldn't become an excuse for not making that change which might be crucial to creating a better life. As tough as it may be, we must find the inner strength to embark on the journey of changing ourselves. Over and over and over till we get it right.

• Pengrun Yu

  This speech explores how people’s ways of thinking and technological advances evolve during ongoing climate change. Facing worsening environmental crises, human minds have gradually shifted from blind pursuit of growth to the awareness of sustainable development. Meanwhile, technological progresses start to emphasize on responding to climate‑driven challenges. It discusses the interaction public mindset innovation and the changes on the environment around them, arguing that changed thinking drives new‑tech development, while technological breakthroughs further reshape human cognition toward our warming planet.

• Ruohong Wu

  In this talk, I share how a childhood fear of dogs and my stage fright as a musician led me to discover the psychology of fear and how understanding it can transform anxiety into strength.

• Siyen Kim

  We are taught to divide the world into categories:science and humanities, male and female, useful and useless, successful and unsuccessful. But the world itself is not devided as neatly as we think. Through the way we choose our subjects, define our identities, and understand one another, this talk explores how these boundaries shape the choices we makes. Change begins when we question the boundaries we inherited-and realize that crossing them can create something new.

• Yi han Zhi

  We've all believed we were the center of the world — as children craving attention, as teenagers fearing judgment. From Piaget's egocentrism to the projection of adolescence, it took me years to realize: the one judging me was myself. True change isn't becoming braver — it's stepping from a world defined by others into a world I choose to create. When the audience disappears, the stage becomes yours.

• Yueyuan Ma

  A story of how systems meant to protect us can become sources of fear, through harassment, legal gaps, and inherited silence.

• Yuhan Zeng

  Philosophers once said that the only constant in the world is change. Just like the cherry blossoms on campus bloom as scheduled every year, but the people who stop to admire them rotate one after another. In the second semester of sixth grade, my parents went to another city for work, and I started living with my grandparents. This sudden change made me say goodbye to my dependence on my parents and learn to independently plan my studies and life, and cultivate my self drive; Also, in the process of adjusting with elders, we need to re understand family relationships and learn to understand and tolerate. In the midst of continuous change, we constantly grow and complete our own transformation.