In daily life, we may learn something because of a sentence and a movie. A TED talk of less than 20 minutes may also inspire us and give us enough strength to face ourselves and our lives. Here are four TED talks on "power" from unexpected places: fragile, ordinary, angry and introverted.
1. Brené Brown: Weak power: makes us weak and makes us great.
This TED talk has been watched 97 19288 times, and it should be one of the most famous TED talks. Brené Brown is a famous scholar, best-selling author, social worker and a professor at the Institute of Social Work of the University of Houston. She spent twelve years studying human vulnerability, courage, sense of value and inferiority complex.
In her speech, she explained the research process and found from a large number of interviews that "vulnerability will bring us bad emotions, but it also brings us strength." She divided the interviewees into two types, one is those who think they are valuable, and the other is those who think they are unworthy. She found that these people who live with a strong sense of value, * * * is "fragile". They accept their vulnerability as necessary and say it will make them strong.
Vulnerability makes you feel unworthy of being loved, but it can also give you strength. Once you accept and understand your real vulnerability, you will know how to bow your head first, take better care of your own needs and treat others with empathy.
2.StevenD`Souza: Ordinary power: If you want to have an impact, you don't want to be extraordinary, but start with everyday things.
Speaker Steven D 'De is an international consultant, a best-selling author and one of the top 30 "most influential people" in the world selected by Thinkers 50 Radar and HR magazine.
He mentioned at the beginning that the people who will be invited to speak at ted are all extraordinary people with achievements. We often compare ourselves with them to make ourselves look small, as if we must invent something and do something great to really live.
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But think about it carefully, although listening to a TED will inspire you, what really has a profound impact on you may be your closest family, a comfort, a smile, and these are trivial things in daily life. Steven D`Souza reminds everyone: Don't ignore the ordinary but far-reaching people and things around you in pursuit of the extraordinary, and don't forget that you can leave a far-reaching and beautiful influence on others' hearts through some small actions. Don't underestimate your smallness and ordinary.
3. Suraya Chemali: The Power of Women's Anger: Anger is not shameful, it is the power to cause change.
Suraya Chemali is a columnist for Time magazine. In this TED talk, she mentioned how limited and ugly women's anger is, as if it were a man's patent. If a woman is angry, she will be described as emotional and unreasonable. Suraya Chemali asked how many times we met accosted, unreasonable supervisors and sexists in the street, even though we were already shouting, "Are you kidding? What are you talking about? But we can only say, "I'm sorry, what did you just say? " 」
Suraya Chemali also mentioned that her daughter was bullied by male classmates at school, but the parents of male classmates responded that "boys want boys", and then her daughter had to endure all this silently. Suraya Chemali wants to tell women that anger means that we still have hope for the world and hope to change the status quo, so anger is not shameful, it means that we take ourselves seriously.
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4. Susan Kane: The power of introverts: Accept your introversion, and the world needs you!
Susan Kane graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She has been a lawyer on Wall Street for many years and is currently a business consultant.
We live in an extroverted society. Susan Kane is an introvert herself. She has been trying to stay away from her introverted nature on the way of growing up, and she didn't realize that her introversion was suppressed until she grew up. She pointed out that we should respect different personalities in order to really fit in. For example, some people like teamwork, some people like working independently, some people like being busy, and some people like being alone. This TED talk makes extroverts know more about the inner world of introverts, and also makes introverts know that they don't need to force themselves to be outgoing and lively, and accept their introverted characteristics.
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