@@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...
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.
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 !!!
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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 =)
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
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
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 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.
A tough message softly delivered by this brave and calm lady.. P.S. I cannot agree more about the difficulties on writing in another language, i wish more of the english-speaking people would have to do that :-)
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 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.
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!
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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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.
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
I love it when she said
"My imagination was the only suitcase I could take with me"
“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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I started reading for Elif Şafak at 2014 and I just fall in love with her style and her books .. Respect from Morocco ♡
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.
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.
This is the beauty of an open mind.
Deep!
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.
woah ! Her speech rasonates in me deeply ! Thank You Elif Shafak ! Much Love from a cambodian living in Germany 🥰🥰🥰💚💜💛
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.
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.
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.
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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Need the "standing ovation" button over and over for this - what mastery she has, of so many aspects of life and literature!
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.
Great, heart & mind moving talk. She’s a true prophet of staying united against divisiveness & bias: through 1st class literary work 👍
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 lectures on writing I've ever heard.
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.
she talks 100% sense.. amazing
One of the best Ted talks..Congrat Elif Shafak ,proud of you.
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!
This lady is beyond admiration. Just finished forty rules of loves and profoundly enjoyed it (9th May 2021, 2120hrs)
God, is she an angel?
She has magic in her words.. enchanting converse she does have...May Elif be bless 🙌
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.
Thats well said. Smart people try to change the world, Wise people try change their selves. Such a wise author. Loved it a lot.
this talk moved my heart
She is such a brilliant woman and her writing is so so riveting and beautiful. She deserves all the praise in the world
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.
Respect from Pakistan. Just completed reading Forty Rules of Love, a wonderful read (Y)
This is my favorite TED Talks video.
ashleigh fortier mine too ❤
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.
that is such a lovely and constructive way of expressing the contemporary problems of the world...
I like this talk so much. It's so interesting in so many ways.....
'What is most personal is most universal." - Carl R. Rogers
Wow! As soon as the camera cut to her while she spoke, I just went wow! She's incredible.
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..
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.
She made me cry...
Same
What a rambler! Just unloading everything she's memorised with little pause.
Never heard of Elif, beautiful person.
Ill definitely find one of your books..
Three daughters of Eve is a good one
Simply wonderful statement of a brave writer who dares to speak out to the world. Thanks fot that.
What a wise woman! İ'm admiring her!
the stories are fiction, not politics... she is an amazing writer...
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.
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!
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.
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
Thank you for The Forty Rules of Love. I really appreciate it.
Beautifully said!Thank you Elif for all of you've written and presented
i never knew writers face a sort of racialism too but still being a writer is a gift and they should be respected
I read 40 rules of love ...n fell in love with this mazing writer
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 =)
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
Amazing and inspiring.
That is so true, they look at the background of author rather than their creation.
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!
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 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.
That was a very, very good TED talk! She speaks right out of my soul!
Amazingly insightful, I'm an instant admirer!
Mikkel,
Just Love It ! I think I needed To Read Elif Şafak's Books in my life ...
لا أمل من سماع حديثها، وقراءة كتبها، ملهمة جدا
She is easily my newest favourite novelist!
AMAZING! Her story would make a great movie.
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)
Love you! I have read all your books.. waiting for more:)
She is an excellent speaker and storyteller.
i love her and I have read almost everything she has written. cant decide which one is my favourite
wonderful woman, with much to pass on
Bu kadının kendini ifade edebilme yeteneğine hayranım..
beautiful I did not bat a lid as I listened to this fountain of sounds of wisdom....
Stunningly and gently radical :) I have long used both books and movies (all stories, really) as travel experiences. I must go read her stories!
Amazing speech and good pr for herself:) Adorable lady
Excellent! So poised and well spoken.
Outstanding content and flowing, persuasive delivery! Congratulations. Daniel
she is remarkable!
A tough message softly delivered by this brave and calm lady..
P.S. I cannot agree more about the difficulties on writing in another language, i wish more of the english-speaking people would have to do that :-)
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..
Listening to this woman is better than drugs
"Identity politics divides us" well said in today's time.
I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH ELIF SHEFEK. REGARDS FROM AZERBAIJAN !!!
Golden Words, should be written in Gold water
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.
You are a genius.
WONDERFUL!! SO WISE!
I FEEL therefore I am freeeeeeeeeeee
I think therefore I AM
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.
Brilliant talk. Thanks
very enlightening talk, Thank you.
Yes, one of the best