 Have you tried the newfangled teen filter that makes you look like a teenager? No, no, it's fun. I don't understand people who see a lot of people on TikTok using the thing. Uh-huh. And they're getting really emotional seeing themselves as teenagers. Okay. I don't understand. I loved it. It was cool to see myself as a teenager again, but like I wouldn't, you couldn't pay me to be 15 again. Would you want to be 15 again? No. There you go. I think, I think it's more, people want to look 15 again. I don't. I much prefer looking how I look now than I did when I was 15. Are you kidding me? Yeah, you was really ugly. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Reacts, it's The Corbyn. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks to Patreon, follow us to The Corbyn, subscribe to the like button. Truly, I didn't, I, I, you know how long I've waited till we get it. You're a traitor. I've liked how I've looked every stage of my life. You are what you are when you are it, then and there in the now. Be thankful for the now, everybody. Good grief. So this is a speech by R. Madhavan. Yes. We've seen a few of his films, but the title is like learning English, but that's, that's tied a little to the channel. It's okay. I think it's just, it's learning English, the channel with, yeah, it's a speech he gave, and I think they just, it's them, as if we would say, OSR with, blah, blah, blah, right? But I think like, they sub it so people that don't know English maybe can help learn English, but it's not, the speech is not about him learning English. Thanks for the clarification. Little devil to you. God bless you. Sorry, my allergy is going crazy right now. I guess I shouldn't have played soccer. Maybe he's running around outside in the grass, snort and coke in between his kicks. Beginning of spring, almost, and lots of pollen going around. Yep. But this says, learning English from R. Madhavan is an Indian actor, writer, film director who produces, predominantly appears in Tamil and Hindi language films. Yes. He has won Filmfare Awards, South and Three, Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. So we are doing the R. Madhavan life-changing speech. How badly do you want? Anyways, not the other one. These are in your, you know, at the threshold of the dreams that you want to achieve. Please sit down. It's going to be slightly longer. And you know, you guys are going to actually determine how the environment around you is going to progress along with you. You must know that at no point in your life is something impossible. At no point. You could be in a place, you could be born and brought up in a place like Bihar, like I have done, and be a beginner star to come and talk to people in Coimbatore as a star. Or you could be in the industry like the Tamil and Telugu industry and be known as the most exciting director. Rajboli suddenly decides that he can make a film which is if not better, but at par with Hollywood. And he does that staying in India and he hits the ball right out of the park. He becomes a historic ingest at one moment. There is a huge lesson to be learned on things like that. Everybody keeps saying success is when you, when the right opportunity makes the right preparation, right? So you can't have the right preparation by being the engineer that you want to be. And you keep looking out for that right opportunity. But what makes the right opportunity and the right preparation come together? When does that synergy happen for you to be prepared for it? Because like they say, if you're prepared, but you don't get the opportunity, it's useless. If you have the opportunity, you're not prepared. It's not useless. But they have to meet at a point, right? And that meeting happens because you will it to happen, because you want it so badly to happen. I could be walking down any street. I could be anybody. But why did that one director come and meet me and wanted me to act on that television serial? If you look at every next step in my career, I have never prepared for it. I have never imagined that this could happen. I never imagined that money will call me. How would money know about a guy who's doing a television series and Bombay without even seeing one episode of mine? So let's come back to that one point that happens, the synergy that happens between the right opportunity and the right preparation. And that happens when you have what is called situational awareness. So let me tell you a little bit about situational awareness. Situational awareness is when in the as in the army, they say you're completely aware of what is happening around you at all times. Correct. So as I was saying, the situational awareness happens when you're completely aware of everything at all times. And you should be able to do that. When we are in the army, and if you're walking down the ground, anybody who's involved with the defense will know what I'm saying is the truth. And if there's an officer walking away from the other side of the ground, you have to stop and salute them and say, Ram Ram sir, your whatever is the call of the unit. If you don't, they'll give you a break in your hand and you have to shave with that break. Oh, geez. So thank you. That's awesome. So what? Oh, this is because you should know when the enemy is around you or when there is danger around you. You know how that is taught to you from when you're a child that's taught to you in the form of good manners in the form of being courteous. So when you say a good morning or you sing a good afternoon or you're looking around and helping a teacher who's carrying a book and being aware that she needs help or you're watching around and stepping over a train and not tripping on yourself, you should know that you're fairly evolved in the form of in the art of situational awareness. That's why people insist on teaching children good manners and anybody who has good manners not it's not just a desire. It's not a desire just to be considered to be a polite guy, but the ability to know when somebody needs to be wished. Somebody needs help. Somebody needs the assistance or somebody has to run away. And that's why you teach your child good manners. And I will tell you today from the bottom of my heart, I might not be completely worthy of some of the opportunities that I got, but I grabbed it like hell and I got those opportunities simply because I was a very well mannered person. I was able to yeah so and with that manner with the way you walk with your gait, the kind of words that you use, it's very common to use normal language with your friends and everything, but most people don't even have a vocabulary. The reason I started those classes in in Kolhapur was so that I had my friends who came to me and said Maddy, we are very good engineers buddy. We're really good at what we're doing, but the problem is I can't speak in English, I can't speak in Marathi, so when they come from Tata's and Kerala's schools for campus selections, I'm not able to communicate to them. They don't even observe a Kolhapuri boy wearing a terracotta pant and a shirt and wearing slippers and don't even consider that he's a good it could be a good engineer. So when I said the fault lies with you guys. It's just you have to break the clutter. Nobody's going to come and say hey you know what maybe you're a good engineer, let me give you a shot. You have to be noticed in that very first instant and for two reasons. One is that either you should know what is your good, what is a good profession for you. If you're not able to make an impression then quickly change it. This is not the be all and end all. The engineering or whichever subject that you choose to major in when you're in college does not literally have to be your lifelong profession, but give it a shot. At least know if that is a profession that you really want to pursue and excel in because that's the only way you'll survive is if you excel in it. If you excel in it to such an extent that you think, sleep, dream, eat, breathe that particular job and I do that with acting and I'm telling you I do not know what else. I would have been a really bad soldier because I would have because I think I'm a really good actor. I'm involved completely 100% of the time. I'm doing research if I have free time. I'm going to YouTube and finding out what is a different method of acting. I just do that with a passion. If you're not doing that for your profession, know that you're in a secondary profession. Know that you're doing something which the Lord has not made you to achieve glory in. So you have to give it that shot. Now, what I'm trying to tell you is that Kolhapuri, friends of mine who then came to me and I said, okay, let's try and see if we can change that. So at five o'clock in the morning they would come to my room, we'll go to the terrace and I started teaching them how to present themselves in the interview. Things that I had the good fortune of doing because I had many interviews and many group discussions to attend. And then I started with basic things on how to shake hands. How to look somebody in the eye and speak. How do you introduce yourself? How do you shake hands with a lady as opposed to a man? How do you speak on a phone? What is dining table etiquettes? What's telephone etiquettes? When do you use a shrimp fork or a salad fork? People might think I might don't require that. I'm never going to work on those things I'm doing my father's business. But you never know. That is the prepare. That is the preparation that you make to make that quantum leap in your careers. These are basic things. You have to know that. You have to know how to dress correctly. You have to know if you have body order. You have to know whether you're spitting on people's face and how to stop it when you're speaking. If you don't do these things, ladies and gentlemen, you will be in an average life doing an average job and living an average life. Having said that, I'm not saying that is wrong. That could be your calling. My father is very happy living that sort of life because they don't live in extremes. But if you have a passion and if you have a desire to be exceptional, if you have a desire to be seen apart from the crowd, then this is the bare minimum thing you should do. So when these guys went for the interview the next time in Golhapur, I made it a point to call the Tata's and say, Hey, you know what? What is wrong? Because I am from Jamshaypur, from the Tata Steel Town. I knew the officers. I knew the senior gentlemen. I said, Sir, you know, these friends of mine are extraordinary engineers. The mere reason why you're not taking them is because they don't know how to present themselves in English. How long is it going to take for you to send somebody who knows Marathi in your panel so that they can actually judge and see if these guys are good enough? For Tata Steel, do you need good people who speak in English? Or do you need somebody who are good engineers? And he agreed. He actually sent people from Maharashtra. And for the first time in the history of Golhapur, we had five guys getting into Tata Steel and Kerala Stars. And I just wanted to say that I don't want, I'm not taking credit for it. It is just, I just felt bad because it is just small three day push that they required to achieve that. So when they were interviewed, they said four years of learning engineering one side and those three days of Madi, we became engineers and successful today because of those three days. And what I am teaching you is nothing extraordinary. It is simple stuff. It's the norm. It's the way of the world. So yes, we are all radicals here. I mean, you guys are very awesome students. You're sitting there quietly listening to me. We used to make a ruckus if somebody came to give a speech. But the idea is that you have to connect to the audiences that you're speaking to. Public speaking and group discussion skills can be taught in 15 minutes. I used to challenge my students that I should say, I will hold each and every one of your attention for 15 minutes, because I will say such relevant stuff that you will be forced to pay attention to me. And that's how you make an impression. That's how you break the clock. And that's how you get seen in this world. And that's how you can achieve glory for yourself and this wonderful nation that you're part of. So does he, I'm guessing this is one of his things. Yeah. He says he teaches, I guess so, which is such a unique, no, you don't want to say just to India, but obviously to India, but in India it is a very big thing of, that's why a lot of them speak multiple languages. English being, obviously, I think it's the second largest English speaking nation in the world, but behind America, obviously. And it's so different because here we are not required. You do take other languages, but it's not like a thing of like, it's high school kids, middle school kids, you're like, oh yeah, you take Spanish. And everybody knows. And then forget it. Azul and Mito Corso no Fuega Porti. Donde esta su madre. And stuff like that, but it's not like a, if you don't learn this. Right. You're not going to get a job. Right. No, it's always considered for the most part, elective. And that's obviously very different. Yeah. And that's a privilege. That's a privilege. Obviously we have here in America that the entire world currently wants to learn English so they can get American or English jobs in the West. I believe it is the most widely spoken international language. So to communicate with the most affluent and successful people on an international basis, you typically have to have your mother tongue and English. And in America, just like in Great Britain, our mother tongue is English. And granted, it could also be just because we were also refused basically as a, as a, as a whole to learn other languages. You're going to have to learn ours. Yeah. It's not our view. I'm just saying like as a, as a whole. We were, I was raised with parents who it was because it wasn't necessary here. They didn't consider it to be something. It would be cool if you learned another language and enrich your life. It was not necessary for you to achieve the things you want to achieve in life. Yeah. There are people here that straight up, they'll ridicule other people and they don't even call it English. They'll say, Hey, you need to speak American, which we want those people to go to Texas and create their own country and leave the union. But yeah. And there was only one thing I made a little look at the camera at the time. I've, I've never, I don't agree with, if you believe it, you can do it. I don't, that's not true. So if it's plausible, then absolutely, if you have a dream that can be achieved, but all things are saying it can't keep believing in it. But I mean, I had a dream to be a major league baseball player when I was a kid and there was a point where I very healthily buried the dream because it needed to die and go away. I'm about to turn 54. If I was still trying to play major league baseball, because I believe all things are possible, I'd be an idiot. I think he's mostly talking about in that aspect. And he even said it. He did. He did later on. He even said at a moment, he's like, obviously, if you can't do it, then obviously find something else that you can do. No, but there are, there, that message gets just blanketed out there in the same way that, for example, you know, love is love. I understand the context that people are saying love is love, but that's not true. You can't just, just because you love something or someone loves you doesn't mean that the relationship is healthy. Once again, that's not what they're referring to. No, 90% of it was really good. There's just, when I hear carte blanche statements like that that are of a principle that just is not objectively true, it bothers me. But that was only the first opening few statements that he said. The majority of what he said, I thought was very encouraging. And I love that he's about personal development for people. That's not just about learning the language, but it's about public speaking, body language, how to properly address people, how to sit at a table if you're at a place. I mean, what happens if you suddenly find yourself in a position you didn't expect and you're invited to dinner at the White House? Would you be comfortable going to the White House and sitting at the table and know exactly what the proper etiquette is there when you look down at the table and see all the forks and all the spoons and all the glasses? Great, I wouldn't care. Really? You would not care about how you're perceived? How I perceive? No, absolutely not. I'm not going to stand on the table and hump the air, but I have no issue with just being myself and not looking like an uppity up. No, but why is that an uppity versus? No, because you said like, oh, I want people to think I, if I use a wrong fork, I don't give two flying shits, it's a fork. If somebody thinks less of a person because they don't know how to use a fork, I think much less of that person. That thinks about that person. Interesting. Because if you think a person's worth, do they know what fork to use? It's not about fucking asshole. No, it's not about measuring the person's total worth. It's about measuring the person's sense of social decorum and looking beyond themselves. The reason that social decorum is theirs because everybody wants to feel like they're elite over everybody else. Nobody in real life ever uses all those fucking forks, and I know what all the forks are for. Well, that's true, but I've been a waiter for many, many years. Well, that's true, but there's a big difference between having dinner at home and having dinner at the White House. It's about honoring and respecting the place you're in. It's the reason why there's dress codes. Don't get me started on dress codes. Really? Fuck dress codes. It's all in elitist. I'm just not with this video as well. I hate school uniforms. That is any time there's a dress code for a place. It depends. To me, it depends on everything always goes back to why are you doing it because they want to be elitist. Every dress code is elitist. Most of them, yes. Okay. Yes. And also, I don't respect where I am. There's no reason I walk into White House and be like, oh yeah, I should respect this place. I'm not going to shit on the floor, but I'm not going to treat it like it's some place that I have the utmost respect for because I don't. Okay. It's a fucking house that also wasn't originally white. A little factoid of the day. In case you didn't know that, it was painted that multiple times, one because it was burned, as you know. I do know. But then it originally was not. A George Washington didn't go in there and be like, paint this place white. Yeah, I know. He never got to see it finished. No, he didn't. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the video. Let us know what other speeches we can react to from him or others. Yes, Priyanka. I think we've done that one. I want to do it again then. A while ago. It's been a while. But it looks like Big B has one too. Let's do him too. Anyways, let us know what other ones we can react to down below.