--- title: Shia LaBeouf Intense Motivational Speech: Fake Ted Talk Video description: "DO IT!!!" canonical: https://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-01T20:53:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:34.324Z og:title: Shia LaBeouf's Motivational Speech Will Leave You Inspired and Terrified og:description: "DO IT!!!" og:url: https://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shia LaBeouf's Motivational Speech Will Leave You Inspired and Terrified twitter:description: "DO IT!!!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Shia LaBeouf's Weird Motivational Speech Will Leave You Equal Parts Inspired and Terrified by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 1, 2015 8:53 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 1, 2015 8:53 PM UTC Remember when Shia LeBeouf was just a [charming little weirdo](http://media.giphy.com/media/3tEsZCmccRZwQ/giphy.gif) on the Disney Channel? Yeah, we barely remember that time either. Continuing [his journey](http://time.com/6618/shia-labeouf-plagiarism-apology-art-iamsosorry/) as a performance artist, Shia stood before a green screen at Central Saint Martins, an art school in London, to wax philosophical for an half hour. (He [tweeted it out](https://twitter.com/thecampaignbook/status/603251795511681025) last week.) A one-minute clip from that art project — which features Shia giving a very intense motivational speech — has gained some major attention, racking up more than 1.8 million views. Why? Because it’s deeply weird and intense, and also because he’s sporting some kind of braided rattail. Naturally, this clip has inspired some pretty great parodies, beginning with this fake TED Talk: And then this _Teletubbies_ version: And then this fake infomercial selling acting lessons: And then Shia convincing some guy to shave his beard: > [](https://twitter.com/Seanbits/status/605330330694774784) Can’t wait to see what the [former famous person](http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly%5Ffs/1.1607709.1391971386!/img/httpImage/image.jpg%5Fgen/derivatives/article%5F970/aptopix-germany-berlin-film-festival-nymphomaniac-red-carpetl.jpg) does next. _Read next:_ [_You Can Now Listen to Shia LaBeouf’s Heartbeat Online_](http://time.com/3748998/shia-labeouf-heartbeat-livestream/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/"},"headline":"Shia LaBeouf's Weird Motivational Speech Will Leave You Equal Parts Inspired and Terrified","datePublished":"2015-06-01T20:53:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:34.324Z","description":"\"DO IT!!!\"","url":"https://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3903849/shia-labeouf-motivational-speech-fake-ted-talk/","name":"Shia LaBeouf's Weird Motivational Speech Will Leave You Equal Parts Inspired and Terrified"}}]}] ```