Dark Momentum | Jamie Lim | TEDxAteneodeManilaU

A TEDx talk by Jamie Christine Lim, a Filipino karate athlete, courtside reporter and public figure, on the "dark momentum" of ambition. The talk looks at the pressure, anxiety and harmful trade-offs that can come with pursuing success, using sports as the main lens. It asks how athletes can pursue victory while valuing honest competition over winning by any means. Lim is a Southeast Asian Games gold medalist and a summa cum laude Mathematics graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman. The talk was given at an independently organized TEDx event.

• The hidden costs of ambition and progress
• Pressure and anxiety in competitive sports
• Winning honestly versus winning by any means
• Speaker background in karate and academics

The dark momentum represents the unnoticed side of progress. It dives into the pressure, anxiety, and harmful trade-offs that can come with ambition. In sports, it asks how we pursue success while recognizing that there are things more important than winning: not winning by any means, but winning honestly. Jamie Christine Lim is a Filipino karate athlete, courtside reporter, and public figure. A Southeast Asian Games gold medalist, she also graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics from the University of the Philippines Diliman and continues to inspire both on and off the mat. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx