TED Community » Chantell Weir

More About Me

I'm passionate about

reading and continuous learning

An idea worth spreading

Financial independence is the only way to complete freedom. And it can be achieved by YOU.

Talk to me about

entrepreneurship, personal development and growth, inspirational topics, I love those things!

People don't know that I'm good at

influencing people

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  A comment on Conversation: What's one thing you wish you had learned in school?

  Nov 8 2011: I wish I had learned how to think and act like an entrepreneur from an early age. Schools teach their students how to become employees or managers. They rarely if ever teach how to become an owner of a major company.

• A reply on Conversation: If you could pursue any business (whether it made money or not) that you had a PASSION for, what would it be?

  Oct 27 2011: Wow! You sound like a blogger in the making! Do you have a website created already?

• A comment on Conversation: If you could pursue any business (whether it made money or not) that you had a PASSION for, what would it be?

  Oct 27 2011: A music lover huh? I have seen a lot of people advertise their music on youtube and doing self promotional shows! Have you tried that? Or maybe even creating a website for your band to book people?
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  A comment on Conversation: Whose responsibility is it to educate our young people on healthy eating, physical activity, and positive self esteem?

  Oct 27 2011: I feel that it is everyone's responsibility. The media plays such an essential role, so why not have celelebrities, commercials, or your everyday individual contributing to this effort. I feel it would be great to have twice as much commercials talking about healthy eating as opposed to pepsi commercials. As for positive self esteem we would have to change our media's perception, which is essentialy OUR perception. There is already an accepted world wide view on how a male or female is particularly suppose to look. To initiate positive self esteem I feel that we need to start advertising average looking people on our commercials or tv screens (not this glamorous made up) portrayal of a female I could never be. This would take rejecting and challenging world wide opinions on others as well as ourselves.