My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns | TEDxMidAtlantic
Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Just before his passing on January 10, 2014, Sam Berns was a Junior at Foxboro High School in Foxboro, Massachusetts,...
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Translator: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau LugoHello everyone.I'm Sam,and I just turned 17.A few years ago, before my freshman year in High School,I wanted to play snare drum in the Foxboro High School Marching Band,and it was a dream that I just had to accomplish.But each snare drum and harnessweighed about 40 pounds each,and I have a disease called Progeria.So just to give you an idea, I weigh only about 50 pounds.So, logistically, I really couldn't carry a regular sized snare drum,and because of this the band director assigned me to playpit percussion during the halftime show.Now pit percussion was fun.It involved some really cool auxiliary percussion instruments,like the bongos, timpani,and timbales, and cowbell.So it was fun,but it involved no m...
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Translator: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau LugoHello everyone.I'm Sam,and I just turned 17.A few years ago, before my freshman year in High School,I wanted to play snare drum in the Foxboro High School Marching Band,and it was a dream that I just had to accomplish.But each snare drum and harnessweighed about 40 pounds each,and I have a disease called Progeria.So just to give you an idea, I weigh only about 50 pounds.So, logistically, I really couldn't carry a regular sized snare drum,and because of this the band director assigned me to playpit percussion during the halftime show.Now pit percussion was fun.It involved some really cool auxiliary percussion instruments,like the bongos, timpani,and timbales, and cowbell.So it was fun,but it involved no m...
