Embrace the Now. Empower the Self: Tanvir Deol at TEDxLSE 2014

Currently a second year undergraduate at the LSE, in the Philosophy,Logic and Scientific Method program, Tanvir is the winner of the TEDxLSE 2014 student speakers competition. Undoubtedly a thinker transcending his years, he questions our career-oriented and inherently forward-looking education system. Influenced by Eckhart Tolle, Christopher Hitchens and Sir Ken Robinson, as well as intimate conversations with friends, he has become an advocate of and will talk about the necessity of present moment awareness, and how the roots of anxiety and self-doubt are very much the result of persistent detachment from the now.

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