Name: TEDx】闘争心を信じよう｜ザイン・アッシャー｜TEDxEuston (【TEDx】Trust your struggle | Zain Asher | TEDxEuston)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:43:07.000Z
Duration: 14 min 39 s
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My name is Zain Asher, and I'm an anchor at CNN International.

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I'm super proud to say that I have my dream job.

I wake up every day, and I'm so excited to go to work.

and I do want to share a little bit about my background

and help, hopefully, motivate and inspire some of you.

So, I'm an anchor  at CNN International now,

And the reason why I share that is because I want to let you know

that success is never really in a straight line.

There's always going to be bumps along the way.

I always believed that hard work was a key to success.

I thought, "You know what? If you work hard,

of course you're going to be successful."

But now I realize that there's so much more to the story.

There are plenty of people who work hard,

who don't necessarily make it in their chosen careers.

There are plenty of people who are extraodinarily talented,

who know the right people, who are well educated,

So, if it's not always hard work, what then determines

I'll share with you a little bit about my life and my background.

My family and I, we're originally from Nigeria.

The worst and probably most difficult day in my life

And my mother and I were in the kitchen, in our house in London.

We'd just gotten back from a wedding in Nigeria.

And my brother and my father were still in Nigeria

a few days after the wedding, for a road trip,

And they were supposed to come home on September 3rd, 1988.

We were supposed to pick them up from the airport.

I guess we assumed they'd missed their flight.

We continued to wait. We didn't hear anything.

my mother got a phone call from a family friend in Nigeria,

and the voice on the other end of the line just basically said, you know,

"Your husband and your son have been involved in a car crash.

One of them is dead and we don't know which one."

and there were about five people in the car.

Everyone in the car died instantly apart from one person in the back seat,

where my father and my brother were sitting.

Of course she was devastated because my parents

were really the loves of each other's lives.

So, I was raised  in a single-parent family.

For a while, my mother sent me to live in Nigeria by myself, with my grandmother.

When I came back, she decided that, you know,

in life, if you want to be successful, you have to be able to relate to people

She'd deliberately send me to various types of schools.

I went to a state school in a poor neighborhood in South London,

I went to a private school, and then I went to a boarding school.

because my mother felt that, if you want to make it in life,

you need to be able to relate  to everybody.

So, when I was sixteen - I have a strict Nigerian mother -

but when I was sixteen, she decided that she wanted me to go to Oxford.

And she sat down and she thought, "OK. How can I guarantee

that my child's going to get into Oxford? What can I do to make that happen?"

She thought about it for a few days, and she came up to me with a proposal,

and she said that she was going to ban me

from watching any television for eighteen months.

So, I was only allowed to watch BBC and CNN International.

If I wanted to watch anything else, I had to ask special permission for that.

And then, no television expanded into no phones, no cable, no music.

I literally had nothing else to do but study.

And my mother said to me, "If you're living in my house,

the only way you're ever going to be able to watch television again

I worked very hard, I got straight A's, and I went to Oxford.

So, overall, I didn't necessarily have the easiest childhood.

I was raised in a single-parent family; we didn't have much money;

and therefore, I found it difficult to make friends.

I didn't have the easiest childhood, but I loved every minute of it

As I mentioned, especially after having gone to Oxford -

and I went to grad school as well in New York, Columbia -

that hard work was the key to being successful.

Now I realize there's a lot more to the story.

I'm going to share with you what I think is more to the story.

The first thing I believe is, trust your struggle.

This is something I'd heard a lot, "Trust your struggle."