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A Wakeup Call: Shaquan Huntt at TEDxColbyCollege

2,869 views · Published 21 March 2013 · 10:43 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Shaq is a senior psychology and philosophy double major at Colby College. He was born in the Bronx, NY and raised by a single mother and a community of family and friends. Shaq spent most of his childhood at the Thessalonia Worship Center. After middle school, Shaq became an A Better Chance (ABC) scholar and was placed in a community boarding school program in Madison, CT. The program took him out of New York City and sent him to Daniel Hand High School, a local public school in the suburban neighborhood. After high school Shaq came to Colby. He is excited and ready to see where life takes him next.

On Febrary 23, 2013, TEDxColbyCollege will explore new ideas through the lens of failure, with perspectives from across the academic spectrum and beyond. In our society, success is prized above all while failure is seen as an embarrassment, is taboo. But success and failure are inextricably bound; to laud one while hiding the other ignores that fundamental link. How can we live and work with the concept of failure looming above us? Does fear of it lower our potential? What can it teach us and contribute to our lives? Success and failure are two possible progressions of the attempt, and one is as valuable as the other.

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