Shahbaz Mirza and 'The Story of Purpose'
Hello all. In this post I will be sharing with you an interview surrounding a talk that Shahbaz gave at TED Glasgow. There were 11 speakers in total, and unfortunately, Shahbaz didn't make the finals, but he shares his experience. Shahbaz tells me he is a fully fledged accountant now, but we actually know one another through an Awards evening for Islamic Relief, a charity organisation. I think in this day and age where life is so fast paced, TED is a great platform for individuals to speak about subjects and thoughts they are passionate about. An opportunity to get the introvert in us out there! *For the purposes of this post, I will be using second names since Shahbaz and I both share initials (and phonemes) too! Sheikh: Salaams. Hi Shahbaz, thank you for the call. How are you? Mirza: W/salaam. I'm good. Not too bad, and you? Sheikh: All good. (At this point we went off-topic and Shahbaz spoke a bit of Urdu because I wanted to hear what Urdu sounds like with a Sco