TEDxBerkeley 2025: HighwayX

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Highways and roads take you from point A to B. To get to your final destination, or destination X, you can encounter obstacles, sidetracks, and going off ramp from your original plan. You may or may not plan where your final destination is, and sometimes you will never know your last stop until you are there. 

So it’s understood highways can be used as a metaphor for life, relating to your personalized journey of how you got to where and who you are today. Each person's journey of life is unique, full of ups and downs, roundabouts, and stop signs, however in the end you will end up where you are destined to be no matter how long it takes.

Thus through HighwayX we aspire you to talk about the unconventional, planned, and unplanned avenues that guided you to where you are today. From your support systems, environments, challenges, and successes and many more factors, life can be crazy, guiding you down paths in your journey you didn’t know you would end up.

So we want you to take this opportunity to talk about your unique highway that allowed you to your current destination in life, and even speak on what your future destination X is. How and why did you go down the path you went, who helped you, what inspired you, and how did you persevere through the hard times and celebrate the good ones?

At TEDxBerkeley 2025: HighwayX, we invite you to map out your highway of life, pinpointing the monumental moments in your forever changing life. Join us on February 1st, 2025 at Zellerbach Hall to reflect on the big, small, and unknown paths–on your highway–that have shaped both your story and the world around us, and how your story and life continue to inspire others.

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