Talha Ahmed Personality

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Passion, peace, and prosperity. These are the traits that gave Talha Ahmed the ability to create Chains of Humanity, the biggest minority help organization in the world. Because of that, he is winning the Time Magazine Person of the Year Award of 2042. In an interview, Ahmed said that he felt that he was helping the world, but not enough. He being a minority himself, Ahmed said that he was empathetic towards other minorities who could not get their basic rights because of their ethnicity. He wanted to share good with the rest of the world. Chains of Humanity helped him achieve that goal.
Talha Ahmed has been willing to help others ever since high school. He has a kind heart, evident in his childhood and as an adult. He was a part of his middle and high school student council. There, he helped with putting up posters for clubs and
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Ahmed also believes in a growth mindset. You don’t have to be an extremist all your life- you are able to change. In his early days of law, Ahmed wanted to make wrongdoers suffer. He was a very good lawyer and he certainly made some arguments that messed up some people’s lives. But, like Malcolm X, he overcame his prejudices and started making fair arguments. Time Magazine sees Ahmed’s faults, but we also see how he succeeded. Before he founded Chains of Humanity, he had helped only 25 clients and had no life except for his work. With Chains of Humanity, he has helped more than 1000 individuals achieve justice in all sorts of cases. He also became more active in his community. The sheer difference that Ahmed has made is enough for him to become the Time Person of the Year. But, Ahmed has helped some of our own reporters, giving him an even better

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