Ted Talks Summary No. 9

Helen Fisher
          The Brain In Love


Helen Fishes gets down to why we deal with love how we do.

Anthropologist, expert on romantic love.

In this talk, Helen Fisher talks about how we go about dealing with different types of love, how we experience love, how our brain reacts to experiencing love, and how we deal with getting out of love. Obviously starting off with the different way we go about loving, she talks about when we love, a sensory part of our body goes to work, which is the part that allows us to feel good. And that's why people are so addicted to love, because we sometimes feel so attracted to this person that we cant get enough of it. And apparently after romantic relationship break ups, you would  think that we would like to forget this person and just move on, but infact we just love them harder.

I picked this particular ted talk because I was talking to my dad, and in the back of my mind I was wondering, why parents separate, and why it has been getting more, and more frequent throughout the years. I sometimes feel like, am i the only one that has a real family? pardon me for saying that and I mean no offence to anyone, but sometimes if feel it to be true, my parents are still in a loving relationship, but I find it weird that so many parents are separated.

Although that was what I wanted to be answered it didn't quite help me, instead gave me a better grasp of how we love one another, and what the actual feeling of love means to people. Well, I know what that feels like, I've been there. So infact it did help me in some ways but not quite in the areas I expected.

I know its the recommended quote but I liked it so much. "Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.”

Ted Talks Summary No. 8

Kevin Allocca
          Why Videos Go Viral


In this talk Kevin Allocca talks about how videos get popular and go "viral"

Trends manager for Youtube

In this he talks about how internet web videos become viral in such a a short time span. As a trends manager for Youtube he gets paid to watch videos. And being a trends manager, you are paid, to see how trends start on Youtube and become widely known to the world. Most "viral" videos are apparently started from celebrity introduction, and from there on become widely known very fast. For instance, Jimmey Kinnel introduced the double rainbow guy. Daniel tosh introduced the viral pop monstrosity friday. And even Justin Beiber got started right off of Youtube.

I like most teens am on youtube frequently almost every day, and when he says that 2 days worth of video are uploaded every day its really not that hard to believe. So when I watch a Youtube video and ask myself, why is this video so popular, or why isn't this video more popular? I wanted to have an answer.

This made me think about how things outside the internet and how they can become a big deal very fast. And as cheezey as it sounds, it may help to understand the idea behind what people are thinking in buisiness and how that could  or could not affect me later in life.

Ted Talks Summary No. 7

Elizabeth Gilbert
          Nurturing creativity


Elizabeth Gilbert talks about the pressure creative artists have when it comes to their work and that having a "genius" can be better than being a "genius"

Writer, author of the novel "Eat Pray Love"

In this particular talk, Elizabeth Gilbert tells us how as people from the creative arts; writers, artists etc.  We struggle with the problem of finding creative inspiration. In the early times in greece and france, people who came by inspiration easily and created great works of art were referred to as a "genius". Although in rome, these amazing artists were have said to have, a "genius". And by genius I mean, a little entity or spirit that lives within art studios and concert halls, that was said to be the source of inspiration. Until the renaissance arrived, with the the idea that these amazing artists are have said to be the source of their own inspiration and that they had the power all along! Although, this may have been a mistake, because you put all this pressure on the artist, that did not exist  prior to this new theory. Artists could feel more at ease knowing that it isn't all up to them. Although now these artists feel the pressure of their work overpowering them, if they write a masterpeice no inspiration they think of will ever ammount to what that masterpeice was, Many artists took their lives and some went crazy. So the goal of this was to nurture your creativity and let it flow through you and beleive that that "genius" might actually exist.

like my previous post, I wanted to find somethig to help me in my life. I am (hopefully) becoming a designer after school, the hard part is I dont know what I am going to be designing. So I wanted to get a generalized term of how to deal with creativity, and what challenges I might face in the future when I rely on myself for inspiration to fuel creative thoughts.

And I ended up not quite getting a life changing theory, but more of a couple of pointers. It was helpful and a lot if the stuff about talking to famous poets and muscisians form of inspiration was very touching, and I found that I could relate to a lot of it. So I think I may try it out but im not sure of how much I agree with it, but I do know that it does feel like it takes A LOT of worry of yourself.

I particuallarily liked the part where she was talking about the famous poet and how she would just suddenly whereever she was, catch almost a "breeze" of inspiration and she would try and race it to a peice of paper before it got away and found another poet. Its the childish things that keep our imaginations alive.

Ted Talks Summary No. 6

Brene Brown
          The Power Of Vulnerability


Brene Brown talks about her research and her ongoing goal to understand human emotions

Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston and has spent the last ten years breaking down vulnerability.

In this talk, she talks about how as humans, we seek to find a belonging in our lives, and in doing so need to break down the concept of vulnerability, and courage to accept that "we are enough". The question is, why do we struggle with vulnerability, and how can we overcome it? the answer lies within ourselves if we have the courage to see it, we try to make ourselves noticed, otherwise we feel vulnerable. And then the bad thoughts start pouring in, i'm not good enough, i'm weird etc. But in the process of trying to become visible we instead become who we currently are, and not who we should be, and that sense of vulnerability comes back, but in a different form. So it seems that the way to overcome vulnerability is to be at peace with our emotions, to let our self know, we are enough, and then the vulnerability will start to fade and that sense of belonging will return, but without the self guilt trip to follow.

I went into this ted talk hoping to find something that could help me. I thought I would sound vulnerable to say this, but who really cares, I am who I am. This has always been a touchy subject for me, because not that you care about my personal life, but I struggle, and when I say struggle, I really mean I struggle. With the fact that, i put myself down all the time, and i hate myself for it, so it's just myself and my conscience always in a constant fight. And i hoped I could get out of this; something to help me fight that feeling of "I am not good enough".

And as it turns out it has helped, I think it helped A lot. Although the next day i felt really good about myself, it does take some getting used to, a lot of getting used to. So it will have to become a thing that I need to rehearse more, but I am always open to concepts that aren't total bullshit, that make me a more understood person, to myself, but I got a lot out of this, more than I've got from a talk yet.

My favorite line of this was: when we feel vulnerable, we feel sad, and to cope with sadness we get say, a beer and a banana nut muffin, and try to put all these harsh hate we have for ourselves on ice. but in doing so we numb happiness itself. So when we can no longer feel happy we feel now very sad, so what do we do? we spring for a beer and a banana nut muffin, and its a vicious downward cycle.