TED talks - Ideas worth spreading (1 Viewer)

[Zeff]

Good one I enjoyed today:

Three things I learned while my plane crashed

That's interesting. He says he no longer wants to postpone anything in life because of his plane experience. But the truth is, the overwhelming majority of people make the mistake of not having much patience. They constantly need stimulus, or they get bored or frustrated and move on to the next thing. Most people can't sit still and watch a TV show or read a book in one sitting (or read a book at all) The fact that he took that lesson from it speaks more of him as a person. It says that he is different from most people. He is more laid-back and has more patience, and the plane experience jolted that world view. I also doubt he changed. People don't change. His body language and speech patterns suggest he is still very laid-back. So he's saying these things but doesn't believe it. He also shakes his head no when he says he eliminated negative energy from his life. He just lied right there. Shook his head no when he says he's not had a fight with his life in two years. Another lie. Shook his head no when he said above all, the only goal in life he had was to be a great dad, so that's another lie.

In that video, I see a salesman, lying about his personal experience to sell ideas he doesn't believe. Plus, his plane experience didn't even change him. I did learn this person is laid back.

The cutting analysis of a man who's watched a half dozen episodes of Lie to Me and mistakes that for expertise.

 

[BRONG]

My link.

 

[bonesman]

My link.

There was a BBC4 documentary about this lady called, "The Woman Who Could Speak to Cows", or something like that. Pretty fascinating... I think they even did a Hollywood movie about her.

ETA: Oh, she talks about all that.

 

[Hooper31]

Quote from this TED talk really spoke to me.

LINK: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the minds worst disease. ~Sent ts'an, c. 700 C. E.

I find myself never wanting to reply in most of the threads here in the FFA because the majority of posters are hell bent on being for or against. Many never seem to have the ability to just absorb and seek to understand. They are consumed with trying to convince. Easily the most disappointing thing I come across on a daily basis here in the FFA. That said, I continue to look at and open threads.

 

[Fensalk]

Quote from this TED talk really spoke to me.

LINK: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the minds worst disease. ~Sent ts'an, c. 700 C. E.

I find myself never wanting to reply in most of the threads here in the FFA because the majority of posters are hell bent on being for or against. Many never seem to have the ability to just absorb and seek to understand. They are consumed with trying to convince. Easily the most disappointing thing I come across on a daily basis here in the FFA. That said, I continue to look at and open threads.

Actually that is a fairly standard form of rhetoric.When you are presenting a view that you know your audience likely will not be receptive to, or holds an opinion that opposes yours, you follow these steps:

1. Reframe the issue as "shades of gray". Attack straw men arguments by saying things like "we shouldn't believe in aboslutes. We should listen to all sides."

2. Make your audience adopt a listening posture by repeating step 1 as much as needed.

3. Once the audience adopts a listening posture, then bombard them with your one-sided propaganda.

4. Amplify and repeat only the positives of your one-sided views. Amplify and repeat only the negatives for the opposition.

5. Now reframe your one-sided views as "moderate" and "in-the-center" and claim the other side is on the extreme.

When you say that quote really spoke to you, you aren't being enlightened or better than the rest of us. You are just swallowing hook, line, and sinker step 1 of the process many use to push their own partisan agenda. I don't do that to you. I respect you enough come right out and say my position without playing those stupid, rhetorical games.

 

[shader]

Everyone should watch the discussion on Thorium power or at least read about it. Huge solution to energy that rarely gets discussed.

 

[roadkill1292]

Quote from this TED talk really spoke to me.

LINK: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the minds worst disease. ~Sent ts'an, c. 700 C. E.

I find myself never wanting to reply in most of the threads here in the FFA because the majority of posters are hell bent on being for or against. Many never seem to have the ability to just absorb and seek to understand. They are consumed with trying to convince. Easily the most disappointing thing I come across on a daily basis here in the FFA. That said, I continue to look at and open threads.

Actually that is a fairly standard form of rhetoric.When you are presenting a view that you know your audience likely will not be receptive to, or holds an opinion that opposes yours, you follow these steps:

1. Reframe the issue as "shades of gray". Attack straw men arguments by saying things like "we shouldn't believe in aboslutes. We should listen to all sides."

2. Make your audience adopt a listening posture by repeating step 1 as much as needed.

3. Once the audience adopts a listening posture, then bombard them with your one-sided propaganda.

4. Amplify and repeat only the positives of your one-sided views. Amplify and repeat only the negatives for the opposition.

5. Now reframe your one-sided views as "moderate" and "in-the-center" and claim the other side is on the extreme.

When you say that quote really spoke to you, you aren't being enlightened or better than the rest of us. You are just swallowing hook, line, and sinker step 1 of the process many use to push their own partisan agenda. I don't do that to you. I respect you enough come right out and say my position without playing those stupid, rhetorical games.

Could you have missed the point by a wider margin?

 

[roadkill1292]

Everyone should watch the discussion on Thorium power or at least read about it. Huge solution to energy that rarely gets discussed.

Thorium is indeed an intriguing energy source, though it seems to strike a nerve with some uranium proponents and some anti-nuc people as well. Our gb Bueno insists that it isn't feasible because there isn't a big enough global supply, though others in the industry take issue with this.Fortunately, the Indians are giving a thorium reactor a serious trial and we'll have a clearer picture of what it will mean to us. Personally, I think scalability is the key; we can't keep building multi-billion-dollar reactors.

 

[joffer]

Quote from this TED talk really spoke to me.

LINK: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the minds worst disease. ~Sent ts'an, c. 700 C. E.

I find myself never wanting to reply in most of the threads here in the FFA because the majority of posters are hell bent on being for or against. Many never seem to have the ability to just absorb and seek to understand. They are consumed with trying to convince. Easily the most disappointing thing I come across on a daily basis here in the FFA. That said, I continue to look at and open threads.

this was interesting

 

[5 digit know nothing]

aka the slow hunch

 

[Hooper31]

If you're a fan of TED, you're going to love Intelligence Squared. Had a friend share this with me a few days ago.

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/

Live debates on interesting topics. After viewing the one on legalizing drugs I was hooked. LINK

 

[bonesman]

TED catching a ton of flack for their removal of talks by Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from their YouTube channel. These talks were given at a TEDx event titled, “Challenging Existing Paradigms”. Looks like they did that a little too well.



http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/

 

[joffer]

How to green the desert and reverse climate change

 

[sporthenry]

TED catching a ton of flack for their removal of talks by Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from their YouTube channel. These talks were given at a TEDx event titled, “Challenging Existing Paradigms”. Looks like they did that a little too well.



http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/

Fighting over the definition of consciousness seems pretty stupid. I guess they are smarter than me but I can't really fault them for attempting to not promote outrageous scientific views. But saw the cool Ted talk about bringing back animals from extinction. My link

 

[roadkill1292]

How to green the desert and reverse climate change

That was a fairly startling admission he made about the elephants. I remember thinking that people hostile to science were going to have a field day with that.

 

[Jewell]

If you're a fan of TED, you're going to love Intelligence Squared. Had a friend share this with me a few days ago.

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/

Live debates on interesting topics. After viewing the one on legalizing drugs I was hooked. LINK

Thanks for this recommendation. I've listened to several since your post. I like the multiple views on each topic.

For those that listen to these things during their commute and have an iPhone, the audio of all debates are on iTunes.

 

[Arsenal of Doom]

Huh. I just discovered that after 43 years, I've been tying my shoes the wrong way.

I've been using the correct way for a few days and it makes a ridiculously large difference.

 

[Maelstrom]

Huh. I just discovered that after 43 years, I've been tying my shoes the wrong way.

I've been using the correct way for a few days and it makes a ridiculously large difference.

I remember switching the way I tied my shoes sometime in the last 10-15 years. I was sick of the knots orienting length-wise down the shoe, and I knew there had to be a better way. Thankfully, it isn't that hard to figure out, and it is an easy change to make once you know what to do. Well worth it though.

 

[joffer]

Found this one really interesting. About being wrong.

http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong?utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&utm_medium=on.ted.com-facebook-share&awesm=on.ted.com_b05Si&utm_campaign=&utm_source=facebook.com

 

[Das Boot]

Huh. I just discovered that after 43 years, I've been tying my shoes the wrong way.

I've been using the correct way for a few days and it makes a ridiculously large difference.

Yep, just saw that one the other day, that will be a daily use one for the rest of my life.

 

[chauncey]