The TED Talk we watched in class gave me a new perspective on ourselves. A point that the video made was that most people make a strict correlation between your achievements and your social hierarchy. It's common nature for one to assume that if a person is involved in multiple clubs and sports and has good grades that they are to be considered popular. However, as most of us know this assumption isn't always true, as stated in this article.
Another point that was made in the video was that envy is the one dominant emotion in our society. No matter how much a person tries to deny it, everyone gets jealous at some point. It's an interesting thought that we if a person can't relate to them, they can't envy them. This is very true! We tend to envy people in our age range, and people that we can realistically be comparable to. If we know for a fact that there's no way we could ever be like someone, there's no reason to be envious. But if there's even a slight chance that it could be achievable, it's human nature to be envious. It's the biggest problem in our society and is becoming a bigger problem as time goes on.
A third idea that stuck out to me from the video was that we fear judgment and ridicule from others. Everyone always says "Be Yourself" and "It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks" but we have a tendency to crave society's approval. No matter what people say, there's always a small part of you that is looking from approval from someone. Therefore, you really don't know what someone's motives are for acting or dressing or certain way. That ties to another point in the video that said you don't necessarily know what someone's true value is, so don't automatically judge someone. It goes along with the idea of "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover".
The last point that caught my attention was that our ideas of what it's like to be successful are not our own, and that society tells us what is successful and what isn't. Because of society's ability to shape this idea, it can change instantly. We need to realize that we can't have it all and we cannot succeed at everything. This idea to do everything is ultimately impossible.
Another point that was made in the video was that envy is the one dominant emotion in our society. No matter how much a person tries to deny it, everyone gets jealous at some point. It's an interesting thought that we if a person can't relate to them, they can't envy them. This is very true! We tend to envy people in our age range, and people that we can realistically be comparable to. If we know for a fact that there's no way we could ever be like someone, there's no reason to be envious. But if there's even a slight chance that it could be achievable, it's human nature to be envious. It's the biggest problem in our society and is becoming a bigger problem as time goes on.
A third idea that stuck out to me from the video was that we fear judgment and ridicule from others. Everyone always says "Be Yourself" and "It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks" but we have a tendency to crave society's approval. No matter what people say, there's always a small part of you that is looking from approval from someone. Therefore, you really don't know what someone's motives are for acting or dressing or certain way. That ties to another point in the video that said you don't necessarily know what someone's true value is, so don't automatically judge someone. It goes along with the idea of "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover".
The last point that caught my attention was that our ideas of what it's like to be successful are not our own, and that society tells us what is successful and what isn't. Because of society's ability to shape this idea, it can change instantly. We need to realize that we can't have it all and we cannot succeed at everything. This idea to do everything is ultimately impossible.