Xingrun Chen

Blogger, Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Idea generator, Student

I’m passionate about people: their stories, life experience, ideologies and dreams all attract me as I can’t help but wonder what makes each person unique and irreproducible. I’m passionate about digging deeper into different people, listening to their stories, and understanding them. It just amazes me how we have so many individual stories, which are never the same to one another, to tell. I love to read, listen, think, debate, and just feel inspiration sparkles between ideas and beliefs as people communicate and interact.

I started watching TED talks when I was in primary school, originally for the intention of improving my English. However, as I grew up and started to understand more about the world I'm living in. I came to realise how each of these talks is beyond simple listening materials, but contains inspiring ideas in each and every one of them. It made me fall in love in getting to know about the ideologies and beliefs people around me hold, how different and unique they can be inspire me to understand more about our kind. TED also help me realise how powerful words can be, changing someone's past beliefs within 18 minutes. With all these, I am drawn toward TED and hope to let more people in my school feel the sparks I felt years ago.