@@bigcatt859 "no pierdas tu tiempo" ... de hecho, el tiempo nos pierde; un día, cualquiera, desaparecemos. Pero no para quien escribe... un día, cualquiera, será leído.
Being a Greek and listening to this guzel woman so wise and so witty I feel that I love Turkey for creating such a creative creature. Such a positive energy...
I've just finished reading her "Forty rules of love" and have to say that was more than a book.. Now I certainly know that there are still some people around the world who share my views and feelings.. She is definitely on my TO PERSONALLY MEET ONE DAY list !!!
This is my first time listening to Elif talk. She is so interesting. I read her novel The Bastard Of Istanbul, the one she talked about, and it was fabulous. I enjoyed it very much. I love how she is so neutral in her book. She has all these different characters, different cultures and religions, and all she does is tell their story. No bias. No preference. Narrating their feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
“Come, let us be friends for once; let us make life easy on us; let us be lovers and loved ones; the earth shall be left to no one.” Stories bring us together and connect us. She is using her stories to hug and to love all people. She is great. She has a brilliant mind. She is presenting Turkish culture in the best way. She is very successful with her own identity or characteristics.
''She is presenting Turkish culture in the best way.'' you just did what she warned you, identity politics. She was trying to emphasize the reach of fiction beyond any identity and as a writer and thinker, she was trying to unite all.
She gave an inspiring speech. I strongly believe she is what she says she is. She is a great representative of Humanity, women, Turkey and Turkish culture, Islam and PEACE. The past is over, all nations of the world has a "DIRTY PAST". We should stop blaming of each other for the past but plant the beautiful, righteous, fruitful plants so our offspring can have love for one another instead of animosity. Turks, Greeks, Arabs, Japanese, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and others.
the forty Rules of Love ... Elif Shafak is the best novelist in Turkey. Among the giants of world novel literature with Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Tolstoy, Márquez and others. Shafak approach is closer to Tolstoy's method of adopting just causes and working to enlighten and confront governments and not to involve high towers and revolution on the current conditions and strive for the best.
I worked with South Africans in the Gulf and I agree, the tendency was to judge them on whaT THEIR GOVERNMENT WAS DOING. i RESISTED lest they do the same with me. Sorry for the caps. I am not angr.
This is one of the most successful ted talks I have ever watched! She is very talented with words. She can describe things in detail with great structure.
This is such a perfect expression of how I feel. That little poem at the end took me by surprise, and I got a little choked up over the sentiment. Tear down the walls. Communicate with an open heart.
Come, " let us be friends for once, let us make life easier on earth, let us be the lovers and loved ones the earth shall be left to no one! #sufism ❤ #elifshafak ❤ so blessed to have this !!!!!!!!
One of the best books I read recently - "The Bastard of Istanbul" - it's amazing...Didn't want to finish it pitying the minute I'd come to the last page closing with it the colorful world she had put together in the novel...Admire the author so much - how wise, smart, emotional, and spiritual she is!
Same situation is here. Someone recommended me to read this book. From the title I found this book based on the traditional love of a girl and a boy. But when I started reading it, my interest in it increased. I have completed Forty Rules of Love. It is a wonderful book that takes the reader elsewhere. After completing it, thinking about many things has changed.Definatly wonderful book.Thankx to you ELif..lot of respect and love.
I just got my first book "Honour" and it is so amazing. I hope I can meet Elif Shafak one day in real and get her signature on my books! Respect from Brazil.
She says, about the difficulty of acquiring another language (and stories from other lands, I feel), "...but if we manage not to be frightened by it, it's also stimulating." This is really the message of her talk - for those who can manage not to be too frightened by that which is different, then difference - of diet, of stories, of music, of art and culture - the exposure to difference can be wonderfully stimulating.
She is an intellectual woman and an excellent writer. I had never heard her speak before. Coincidentally, i came across her TED talk and never for a moment did i lose interest in her speech. If anything, i want to listen to her more.
I just finish reading "The Forty Rules of Loves" and it is my first ever Novel I read. She is a amazing writers and I would love to meet her one day. Elif, thank you for the book
I really enjoyed this. I'm currently trying to read 100 books in a year as a challenge to get myself back into the habit of reading. I spent too much time with videogames and movies for a while and forgot how much I loved books.
I enjoyed and felt every part of her speech. Fiction is something reserved for the Western authors, while we must be true to ourselves. Westerners have no idea how life-consuming it is for us to integrate and to meet up to the expectations that will always want to push us to say our story the way they like to hear it.
As an Israeli... And much more than that: as a Person - I found this lecture beautiful, inspiring, exciting, and liberating. Thank you - For a wonderful half hour =)
Very impressive! I'm almost done in reading one of her books "the three daughters of eve" and now I know where the protagonist (Peri) was based on... well it was Elif Shafak herself
I m surprised to see her on Ted. And even though I ve always found her very pretentious, this was a beautiful speech. There are a lot of people in Turkey, who live in the inbetween area, culturally. Not exactly European but not traditionally Turkish either. And to be a writer inbetween can be very frustrating. I was taught to write about what i know . This is very hard since what i know is mostly foreign culture but i m completely Turkish. Just like most of my generation. I ll take her advice..
Wow. Absolutely amazing. Unfortunate that so many people missed the point in the comments, but also good that it resonated with so many also. As she said, stories lose their meaning when they become more than stories--and any belief we have is a type of story. When we're absolutely certain we're right and the other guy is wrong, we have ceased being meaningful human beings, and have become caricatures of ourselves. So for all you haters & cynics out there; lighten the heck up.
I don't know why, but I feel like someday I will be visiting Aziz's grave. 'The forty rules of love' made a deep impression on my heart ❤️. All the characters, their stories are embossed on my heart. Just wish I could Elif once in my life. I just lived her fiction.
The way that she relates different topics and melts them in a pot with an understanding, rational way is great!
I am going read her books.
Hasan Oral she is an incredible writer , her books are also a mix of several topics, several cultures and a mix of totally different characters..
I am half way through Three daughters of Eve. It is rivettingly well written and insightful.
Don't waste your time
@@bigcatt859 "no pierdas tu tiempo" ... de hecho, el tiempo nos pierde; un día, cualquiera, desaparecemos. Pero no para quien escribe... un día, cualquiera, será leído.
Being a Greek and listening to this guzel woman so wise and so witty I feel that I love Turkey for creating such a creative creature. Such a positive energy...
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Just finished 40 rules of love. I’m crying. Watching her speech is making me cry more. Thank you Elif you are wonderful
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I've read all of her novels almost...and all are the same
I wish there was a love button on TH-cam - this woman is amazing!
I've just finished reading her "Forty rules of love" and have to say that was more than a book.. Now I certainly know that there are still some people around the world who share my views and feelings.. She is definitely on my TO PERSONALLY MEET ONE DAY list !!!
I just finished reading the "Forty Rules of love" and I found it an amazing one. Did you read any of her other books?
A wonderful book
This is my first time listening to Elif talk. She is so interesting. I read her novel The Bastard Of Istanbul, the one she talked about, and it was fabulous. I enjoyed it very much. I love how she is so neutral in her book. She has all these different characters, different cultures and religions, and all she does is tell their story. No bias. No preference. Narrating their feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
“Come, let us be friends for once; let us make life easy on us; let us be lovers and loved ones; the earth shall be left to no one.”
Stories bring us together and connect us. She is using her stories to hug and to love all people. She is great. She has a brilliant mind. She is presenting Turkish culture in the best way. She is very successful with her own identity or characteristics.
''She is presenting Turkish culture in the best way.'' you just did what she warned you, identity politics. She was trying to emphasize the reach of fiction beyond any identity and as a writer and thinker, she was trying to unite all.
@@satyamsingh4653I see you've decided to be a doer of the word😊 attention to details to the maximum....
She is undescribable! She is an amazing woman, a marvelous author and a Great person!
She gave an inspiring speech. I strongly believe she is what she says she is. She is a great representative of Humanity, women, Turkey and Turkish culture, Islam and PEACE. The past is over, all nations of the world has a "DIRTY PAST". We should stop blaming of each other for the past but plant the beautiful, righteous, fruitful plants so our offspring can have love for one another instead of animosity. Turks, Greeks, Arabs, Japanese, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and others.
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woah ! Her speech rasonates in me deeply ! Thank You Elif Shafak ! Much Love from a cambodian living in Germany 🥰🥰🥰💚💜💛
This is the beauty of an open mind.
Deep!
the forty Rules of Love ...
Elif Shafak is the best novelist in Turkey.
Among the giants of world novel literature with Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Tolstoy, Márquez and others.
Shafak approach is closer to Tolstoy's method of adopting just causes and working to enlighten and confront governments and not to involve high towers and revolution on the current conditions and strive for the best.
Yes! As a South African woman, I feel the exact same pressure she does. I am often seen as the representative of a group rather than an individual.
I worked with South Africans in the Gulf and I agree, the tendency was to judge them on whaT THEIR GOVERNMENT WAS DOING. i RESISTED lest they do the same with me. Sorry for the caps. I am not angr.
I started reading for Elif Şafak at 2014 and I just fall in love with her style and her books .. Respect from Morocco ♡
This is one of the most successful ted talks I have ever watched! She is very talented with words. She can describe things in detail with great structure.
This is such a perfect expression of how I feel. That little poem at the end took me by surprise, and I got a little choked up over the sentiment.
Tear down the walls. Communicate with an open heart.
Come, " let us be friends for once,
let us make life easier on earth,
let us be the lovers and loved ones
the earth shall be left to no one!
#sufism ❤ #elifshafak ❤ so blessed to have this !!!!!!!!
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One of the best lectures on writing I've ever heard.
I just came here to see her after reading forty rules of love and three daughters of eve and I am not disappointed ♥️keep writing for us👍
Mid way through Three daughters. It is so penetrating and well written. I love it and will pass it on to my wife, who is Turkish.
this author is making me more of a spiritual man. just read 40 rules of love.
MBN what about this book?
MBN i read it. but i read Turkish and its name is only "Love". it is so amazing.
@@meleknennioglu1446 love and 40 rules of love 2 different books.. the second book is written based on the first one.
@@ozland7172 thanks
Haha... Same with me. I even talked to my parents about their recation if I decide to go to an ashram.
Great, heart & mind moving talk. She’s a true prophet of staying united against divisiveness & bias: through 1st class literary work 👍
Need the "standing ovation" button over and over for this - what mastery she has, of so many aspects of life and literature!
she talks 100% sense.. amazing
God, is she an angel?
I'm deeply impressed by this speech! I wish to know your secret and then embrace it in order to get out of the circle of fear and cowardice.
Elif Şafak's stories with Fatih Akın's skills can be wonderful movies together..
with love from Region of Western Black Sea :)
One of the best books I read recently - "The Bastard of Istanbul" - it's amazing...Didn't want to finish it pitying the minute I'd come to the last page closing with it the colorful world she had put together in the novel...Admire the author so much - how wise, smart, emotional, and spiritual she is!
She made me cry...
Same
This is my favorite TED Talks video.
ashleigh fortier mine too ❤
'What is most personal is most universal." - Carl R. Rogers
Thats well said. Smart people try to change the world, Wise people try change their selves. Such a wise author. Loved it a lot.
Same situation is here. Someone recommended me to read this book. From the title I found this book based on the traditional love of a girl and a boy. But when I started reading it, my interest in it increased. I have completed Forty Rules of Love. It is a wonderful book that takes the reader elsewhere. After completing it, thinking about many things has changed.Definatly wonderful book.Thankx to you ELif..lot of respect and love.
Agree 100% with everything she says, and...shallow as it may be for me to say, she is preternaturally beautiful. I'll have to read her books.
This lady is beyond admiration. Just finished forty rules of loves and profoundly enjoyed it (9th May 2021, 2120hrs)
She has a superb mind, a vocabulary that is unmatched, and she exudes elegance. Even though I'm a straight lady myself, I'm truthfully in love.
She has magic in her words.. enchanting converse she does have...May Elif be bless 🙌
this talk moved my heart
I just got my first book "Honour" and it is so amazing. I hope I can meet Elif Shafak one day in real and get her signature on my books! Respect from Brazil.
One of the best Ted talks..Congrat Elif Shafak ,proud of you.
I like this talk so much. It's so interesting in so many ways.....
the stories are fiction, not politics... she is an amazing writer...
She is such a brilliant woman and her writing is so so riveting and beautiful. She deserves all the praise in the world
Da, very impressive discussion. I love it. I wish she can speak again sometime, especially about her grandmother customs.
Teodor Foca what will u do with her grandmum's customs? lol
@@majestic4652 not costumes!
Biricik Solak not everything is about “doing something with that info” lol lol lol
Currently reading her novel, The Architect's Apprentice, I found her every novel more interesting than previous one..
Respect from Pakistan. Just completed reading Forty Rules of Love, a wonderful read (Y)
Wow! As soon as the camera cut to her while she spoke, I just went wow! She's incredible.
and i also love writting in German, Arabic, and Korean, they allow me to flow across dividers and welcome things that others may fear or condem
Amazing and inspiring.
Ayakta alkışlanacak değerli yazarımız Elif Şafak 👏❤
She says, about the difficulty of acquiring another language (and stories from other lands, I feel), "...but if we manage not to be frightened by it, it's also stimulating." This is really the message of her talk - for those who can manage not to be too frightened by that which is different, then difference - of diet, of stories, of music, of art and culture - the exposure to difference can be wonderfully stimulating.
Thank you for The Forty Rules of Love. I really appreciate it.
i never knew writers face a sort of racialism too but still being a writer is a gift and they should be respected
Simply wonderful statement of a brave writer who dares to speak out to the world. Thanks fot that.
that is such a lovely and constructive way of expressing the contemporary problems of the world...
Never heard of Elif, beautiful person.
Ill definitely find one of your books..
Three daughters of Eve is a good one
What a rambler! Just unloading everything she's memorised with little pause.
She is an intellectual woman and an excellent writer. I had never heard her speak before. Coincidentally, i came across her TED talk and never for a moment did i lose interest in her speech. If anything, i want to listen to her more.
AMAZING! Her story would make a great movie.
What a wise woman! İ'm admiring her!
Wow! I love the way she articulates her words! Everything she utters sinks in me so deep and causes vibrations in my mind. I wonna read her books!
Listening to this woman is better than drugs
لا أمل من سماع حديثها، وقراءة كتبها، ملهمة جدا
Beautifully said!Thank you Elif for all of you've written and presented
That is so true, they look at the background of author rather than their creation.
I read 40 rules of love ...n fell in love with this mazing writer
I just finish reading "The Forty Rules of Loves" and it is my first ever Novel I read. She is a amazing writers and I would love to meet her one day.
Elif, thank you for the book
So much of this is applicable to Internet age.
Same goes for how fiction and storytelling have turned out in 2010s / 2020s (imagination is all gone)
I really enjoyed this. I'm currently trying to read 100 books in a year as a challenge to get myself back into the habit of reading. I spent too much time with videogames and movies for a while and forgot how much I loved books.
I enjoyed and felt every part of her speech. Fiction is something reserved for the Western authors, while we must be true to ourselves. Westerners have no idea how life-consuming it is for us to integrate and to meet up to the expectations that will always want to push us to say our story the way they like to hear it.
Just Love It ! I think I needed To Read Elif Şafak's Books in my life ...
Bu kadının kendini ifade edebilme yeteneğine hayranım..
As an Israeli... And much more than that: as a Person - I found this lecture beautiful, inspiring, exciting, and liberating.
Thank you - For a wonderful half hour =)
Amazingly insightful, I'm an instant admirer!
Mikkel,
Very impressive! I'm almost done in reading one of her books "the three daughters of eve" and now I know where the protagonist (Peri) was based on... well it was Elif Shafak herself
I was looking for this comment! I mean I thought exactly the same thing while listening to her! Peri is undoubtedly inspired by Elif herself!
Golden Words, should be written in Gold water
She is easily my newest favourite novelist!
You are a genius.
i love her and I have read almost everything she has written. cant decide which one is my favourite
I m surprised to see her on Ted. And even though I ve always found her very pretentious, this was a beautiful speech. There are a lot of people in Turkey, who live in the inbetween area, culturally. Not exactly European but not traditionally Turkish either. And to be a writer inbetween can be very frustrating. I was taught to write about what i know . This is very hard since what i know is mostly foreign culture but i m completely Turkish. Just like most of my generation. I ll take her advice..
I FEEL therefore I am freeeeeeeeeeee
I think therefore I AM
Wow. Absolutely amazing. Unfortunate that so many people missed the point in the comments, but also good that it resonated with so many also. As she said, stories lose their meaning when they become more than stories--and any belief we have is a type of story. When we're absolutely certain we're right and the other guy is wrong, we have ceased being meaningful human beings, and have become caricatures of ourselves. So for all you haters & cynics out there; lighten the heck up.
Amazing speech and good pr for herself:) Adorable lady
That was a very, very good TED talk! She speaks right out of my soul!
wonderful woman, with much to pass on
I don't know why, but I feel like someday I will be visiting Aziz's grave. 'The forty rules of love' made a deep impression on my heart ❤️. All the characters, their stories are embossed on my heart. Just wish I could Elif once in my life.
I just lived her fiction.
I've not read any her books, I can't judge whether she is good for bad author however in this video she demonstrates that she is a good storyteller.
She is an excellent speaker and storyteller.
WONDERFUL!! SO WISE!
"Identity politics divides us" well said in today's time.
she is remarkable!
beautiful I did not bat a lid as I listened to this fountain of sounds of wisdom....
I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH ELIF SHEFEK. REGARDS FROM AZERBAIJAN !!!
very enlightening talk, Thank you.
Yes, one of the best
This woman is a genius and a great author.
very smart woman. not a single second wasted
Love you! I have read all your books.. waiting for more:)
Her english, as not her first language is better than many, if not most americans.
Excellent! So poised and well spoken.
Stunningly and gently radical :) I have long used both books and movies (all stories, really) as travel experiences. I must go read her stories!
love the deepness... in her speech