Perception is the Root of All Evil | Deji Akingbade | TEDxMHK
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- Throughout history, many philosophers have given us schools of thought or various ways to understand the world we live in. Just as Plato sparks the question “What is Justice” in “Republic”, Deji Akingbade possess his own questions about our existential crisis with his philosophy “Be the Verb - Not the Noun.
According to Deji’s philosophy on Nouns and Verbs, each man or woman must be charged to express his work, beliefs, goals, passions, dreams and aspirations in a manner that cannot be defined by a Noun. Fundamentally, there is no such thing as a complete truth when every Noun and its narrow minded definitions are open to question.
Deji also challenges the conventional idea to “Think outside the Box”. The true nature of any innovation is to “create new boxes” to think outside of. Hence the solution to mankind’s existential crisis begins with one question - What is wisdom?
Deji Akingbade writes for lifehack.org. His articles on Work, Leadership and Communication have received over 25,000 shares.
Deji also challenges the conventional idea to “Think outside the Box”. The true nature of any innovation is to “create new boxes” to think outside of. Hence the solution to mankind’s existential crisis begins with one question - What is wisdom?
Deji Akingbade writes for lifehack.org. His articles on Work, Leadership and Communication have received over 25,000 shares.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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Thanks for the comments and feedback guys!
I understand that there are two strategies of attitudes- an inclusive and exclusive attitude.... To be inclusive is to accept that there is exclusive thinking.... in being an inclusive person, one knows that which you speak... but each singular perception is valid and valuable... set to the singular perception and their own purpose.... I used to argue with my little brother, the wonders of thought and world stimulus.... until one day, having made his valid point which I accepted as his truth, there fore being "wrong", I concluded "If i am willing to be wrong I am right." Though as adults we understood later there is no wrong or right... haha I love it
I am listening to this video my third time and unraveling my own perceptions... thank you
Thank you for the enlightening talk.
This was amazing and your theories and research validate what I have been feeling. More people need to watch this and the world would be a much better place!!
Life saving talk, gave value worth millions of views
Very interesting talk, Deji!
If you allow me, I'd like to suggest a different perspective on the difference between Self and Person/Persona/Identification.
What is called the True Authentic Self is the no-self, when you go beyond the limitations of the mind and transcend the physical nature, it's what remains when you empty all your basket, when you release all your identifications and become truly free, you're not the person, nor the body, nor the mind, nor the ego, just a piece of life and the Person/Persona is what you've described as the self.
The perceived is absolutely contingent on the perceiver, so if there is no perceiver, there is no perceived either. And whence both of them go and you find out what you really are and what life really is all about.
Once we get rid of the person(s) inside who looks outside at something then we find our own natural state, the real innermost essential being, just pure consciousness.
One just has to be. One relaxes so totally because there is nothing to do, therefore no tension. Suddenly all the boundaries dissolve. With nothing to do, you disappear. The ego disappears. With nothing to do, nothing to be, nothing to achieve - who you will be? The whole identity evaporates. You don’t have to do life - you are life.
Essentially, this is about syncing your mental structure with your existential nature.
So, it is in this state, where you basically die as a person and awake as a being, of complete surrender (egoless/no-self) and selflessness that we can find a clear way to what’s truly authentic and real.
underrated...with the type of content the presenter had in his basket, this video deserves much more views
Sumit Sharma thanks!
Totally agree. Very thought provoking.
agreed...it is a wonderful starting point. definitely worth contemplating.
I agree with your arrogance... haha... Nice comment :)
Agreed, this is a great video and should have more views.
"Context and Perception." I applaud Deji Akingbade for finding a way to present and articulate an introspective look to where we are in the world???? It can be vastly different....So different are perceptions that my truth and somebody else truth can easily and will always be different.
Ted Says, "Ideas worth Sharing but Dejis Ideas are worth holding onto in any and all social interactions of my life. I have kept this video in my TH-cam library for 4 years now and I still go back to it for self introspection. I highly recommend you "bring it in real close" WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO I find Deji"s Talk as Honest, inspirational and unique.
Such a confident speaker.
CJ Wratchford Thanks CJ
Really deep talk. He is just showing us our dark side.
This should get more views.
I have to add, one of the best Ted Talks ever (and I've watched many hundreds of them) I am so pleased to have met you here Deji, and there is no doubt my life, and the lives of my students will also be better
Thanks a lot Mr. Deji Akingbade, you gave a valuable talk about perception´s thinking process.
“Nothing is good or bad, Thinking makes it so.” - William Shakespeare
Excellent talk!! Such an intriguing topic. Well done, sir.
Stanzi Curtis thanks!
Loved this video, so much of it resonates with me, there is no Authentic Self as we are made up of many selves, whether it is our job, gender, race, relationships or hobbies, we are all things at different times and not just one all emcompassing self. But which selves do we choose to give more light to? Great talk and in need of more views.
I absolutley loved the questions and the approach,
I doubt the conclusions.
Thank you great talk.
One of my favourite talks.
There are some absolute truths; what is flawed is our interpretation of those truths. These interpretations are filtered through our perceptions which determine the faulty outcome/conclusions. For instance, a tree falling in the forest may not have made a noise but it definitely made a sound.
But if a sound is an audible wave, and nobody is around to sense the wave with their eardrum - did it really make a sound?
@@miischaqi2676 since a forest is a living biosphere, the "nobody" to whom you refer must be human? There would be worms, insects, etc....even the plants can feel the vibrations of the tree falling. So...yes. Makes a "sound".
Sound does not require that a person, or anything, hear it. It just requires a medium that can move in a way that transmits it. In a forest there is plenty of stuff that can do that, therefore there must also be sound.
Believing there are absolute truths is also a belief. There might not. We can imagine worlds in which there is no absolute truth. Your god is just truth.
Didn't Deja cover this in the talk, even an Absolute truth like gravity is only absolute in the context of Earth. Take away the planet or remove the molten core and the truth changes with the context. What if the forest has no atmosphere, without air for the sound wave to travel there is no sound?
The best Ted talk ever. For real
Thank YOU my brother 👏🏾👏🏼👍🏾
Great talk
absolute truth is that there is no contentment. the human flaw is believing there is.
Aldrich Benedict Maglantay
Thanks for watching my talk, love your insight
I'm content right now.
I was content...until I read your comment. Then I felt guilty.
There is no contentment as a permanent factor. Just as Happiness comes and goes.
He is very much on the right track. We need to understand that we are only light. Not male or female but only light. Letting go of our perceptions is easy in the moment but harder as moments pass. Keep seeking love and it will be found by you and will comfort you. Don't give up on believing that the Universe wants you to be healthy, happy and healed. ACIM
Tom Fleming Thanks Tom, great insight
This is one of the best Ted Talks ever! Such an enlightened soul. This is the key to heaven on earth. Erudite, articulate and deliberate in presentation. Thank you for illuminating the world 💜💜💜
Thanks 🙏 Tristan!
A mind expanding talk
I've always felt that our biggest problem as a whole is we are willing to kill each other over ideas. But i also feel that the mechanism that drives this was put in us for that purpose.
The authentic self is your true self which is the pure awareness that you are. Its nameless, all names exist within it, its noun-less and verb-less, all nouns and verbs exist within it, its shopping cart-less, all shopping carts exist within it. You are not the body, the identity, the ideas, all of that exists within your true self, i.e pure awareness. Since we all have the same awareness, yourself exists beyond your body, beyond your life, as all life is this self, is this awareness.
I have always said that " truth is subjective depending on your perpective". Thank u for thinking so deeply and helping me to know that im not the only one.
Thankyou !
Perception isn’t a flaw, to deal with the discrepancies and differences described we already have the mechanism to address them. It’s called empathy.
You aren’t wrong. If the mechanism to solve the issue with perception is that obvious, what’s the disconnect with humanity ?
@@PerceptionandEmpathyego?
Complicated but clear.
Powerful and insightful. One of the better Ted Talks that I’ve seen.
Very great and underrated talk. Thanks Deji
Majkl Skofild Thanks brother!
Amazing presentation at every level - thanks for promoting philosophy and making it available to more people than most philosophers ever do 🙂
Thank you for the talk. For sometime now, I've been hunting for clues to live life the way it was intended. But still stumbling around like the blind men who were trying to understand the elephant. This talk seems like a valuable clue....but I'm a bit obtuse, so didn't get a lot of it. I have a request .... please explain your ideas with a lot more examples for people like me.
Thank you ... hugely enlightening , great realisations . Brilliant presenter and thanks to the source .
Thanks for this talk. I have been thinking for a good while on perceptions and what we are in the universe, Trying to figure out what our essence is. I don't assume that I will ever figure it out no more than anyone else has but it's interesting to ponder on and attempt to create who we are in this life. In looking throughout history and thinking on decisions that have been made all based upon perceptions, I believe that It's very important to always question one's ideas. It's interesting to note all the people who have made decisions and lost their lives throughout history based upon perceptions and while many of those perceptions may have been well grounded, how many were simple perceptions that were really flawed. I think about all the things going on in the world today and all the vitriol and anger people have for one another based on mere perceptions. Are those perceptions really our own or are they the work of someone else with an agenda who wants to persuade us follow them. Are they based on truth and reality. It really is amazing that every decision we make in this world is mere perception and how much we all suffer for it. Thanks for the talk Deji. I really enjoyed it.
BE FLUID. great talk.
I am amazed.
Wow! Absolutely wonderful! I can’t thank you enough for such a great, enlightening talk.
Human perception is limited we can’t see the whole spectrum of reality
Thank you man
That was absolutely beautiful!
it is Buddhism... perception is not culprit but reaction of liking and disliking to it ...which forces us to run after pleasure..or run against pain.. don't like or dislike perceptions and you are free from suffering and always at peace.
People need to watch this today..so many perceptions happening around Covid, President Trump, racism, the election....2020 has been quite a year of perceptions and projections, the dust doesn’t seem to settle so that we may see the reality...I hope we do!
Thanks and glad you enjoyed the talk
Thank you! Saved
There would not be any perception without the EGO, witch does not like the lack of control...
Excellent talk.
jbaby007 thanks
While i agree with the basic premise that we shouldn't take our perceptions as absolute truth and that we should constantly critically examine and question them I think there is one important aspect that the speaker ignores in the end. Some of the things we treat as quasi-absolute truths, fully aware that they are not absolute truths accepted by everyone. We do so because we critically examined them in the past and have examined all the major perspectives on the issue and have come to the conclusion that nothing is to be gained for now by further examination since the arguments tend to just go in circles and there is no sign that new evidence will arrive any time soon.
This is true of e.g. many atheists on the question of religion (the kind of atheists who know the arguments of the pro-religion side and the religion's holy book better than the average adherent of the religion), it is true of even more people on basic moral questions like equality, and other human rights. These and many other things are not universally agreed upon by all people on our planet, however there is at least usually sufficient agreement that the critical examination can be saved for an encounter with someone who actually disagrees...or someone who disagrees and brings up an interesting new argument instead of just repeating the same old arguments.
Taladar2003 glad you enjoyed my talk
Thanks for the thoughts
He says gravity is an absolute truth and no one would question it, because we all know it was an absolute truth.
Well. Today we know the earth is spherical. But it was not always believed - still, people's perception did not change the shape of the earth. That has always been an absolute truth - it was just not proved.
Today we don't know what comes after death - but one day we will know. Ergo there is an absolute truth about out exictence, we just don't know it for sure yet. So, it does metter what you believe today because it's either false or true.
I love this talk, it makes me reflect on my religion and my ultra fundamentalism believe, someday before ikind a questioned and leaving my believe as i see a lot of religious people are pretty judgemental and entitled when they seeing other people differs from their religion, there's still debates this dsy which one of them is the truth of all those many religions, probably they still have a long part of Journey to all this world problem you mentioned here .....
Thanks
I think this was an excellent talk
i found it very enlightening , thought provoking and fundamentally i believe it to be a profound observation u've made but I am of the belief that despite perspective some acts of humans are indubitably evil and perspective should not be used to cloud right from wrong
Thanks so much for sharing with us
I have subbed to your youtube page btw hope to see a lot more from u
femi thank you sir. I will be uploading videos soon!!
I struggle with the torture-pictures involved. Certainly, perpetrators always have a different perspective than their victims. But to present both perspectives here in the context of possibly both being equally "untrue" is a bit disconcerting. And when I look into my basket: My truth, which remains, is that no living being should suffer. And indeed, I'm not willing to question that perspective. And yes, this is why my suffering in misery won't end until the day I die. But I am not willing to give up that suffering for a life in ignorance.
well said, is it possible that suffering and wisdom have no correlation?
Very informative interesting
Wow!
Amen to that... u r wryt 👍am wrongful about my bad perception' sometimes... that's why... thanks u so much... good informative, watching fromDenmark 🇩🇰
Thanks Maria 🙏 Glad u enjoyed my talk
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You have made some really good points , thanks .
Thanks brother. I appreciate you
*I was waiting for him to say that there is no Absolute Truth, so that I could deduce the height of his understanding. But it turns out he knows his stuff. However, Absolute Truth need not necessarily be Absolute in Perception, because perceptions are limited.*
Wow.. this video is SO MUCH better than I thought it was going to be. Because he's umm... well, you know because he's so...🤔 what's the word I'm looking for..?
.... careful with your perceptions..
Wow. Came across this now. This makes a lot of sense.
hugh Mongus Thanks Hugh! Perception does make life painful
@@PerceptionandEmpathy Yes...thanks for the response. How can I engage in this type of learning? Is the only information available through the TED talks....? I would love to learn more about this.
@@PerceptionandEmpathy Isn't Perception also able to make life joyful, hapPy, beautiful, other things, etc? Isn't 'Perception' subjective or am I misunderstanding 'Perception' used in this context? Either way, kindly elaborate pls.
BTW. I appreciate & enjoyed your highly thought provoking, mind expanding & very well presented talk. Thank you.
Victor King You are right. Perception is a ying yang concept. Just as it can make life joyful, happy etc, it can also make life extremely painful. I think most people understand and can recognize perception when it has a positive influence on their lives. The challenge most people have is recognizing perception when it is making your life painful. So I try to focus on that half of the equation.
I am glad you enjoyed the talk.
This is so insightful, wondering if your book spoke on the same subject, if so, what is the title please?
Where could I see your fully recorded video about this topic Mr. Deji. Akingbade? Thank You
Fanfreakintastic.
I’m back here for the 2nd time. Earlier was at home (strong negative energy from the women i live with including a female baby, who I figured out was the grandma who passed before she was born) 2nd time at overnight shift of work. Told a millennial about this - they have no souls - they don’t care about spiritual things. I blame the parents of the millennials. sign 1985
1. At what age does a truth become absolute? A baby does not know that he can fall out of a chair until he learns it. Would you say absolute truths can be learned over time?
2. How can you make sense of love? Failing to put faith in an absolute concept of love is to live life in misery.
Heirarchies have been around since the primary evolution of the nervous system. Lobsters have heirarchies. (JP) they were not created by religion.
Talia Spencer Thanks again
Hierarchies are the opinion values versus the actuality of position and roles which does not inherently devalue nor exalt. Statuses are opinions/interpretations not material truth.
Pain hurts: is that an absolute truth? Does perception invalidate that statement?
Do flat earthers make the statement "the Earth is spherical" not true? Or at least not absolutely true?
@@jamesonskalinski6910 that's the difference between absolute truth and relative truth :-)
I can't tell if that was or was not sarcasm. The truth value of an empirical fact isn't dependent upon frame of reference.
Honestly, if you're true to yourself, or you're true in real life. People can only understand you at their own perception, of who they think of you. Your statements dont include absolute truth, they include your opinion. Verb noun, doesnt mater if someone perceives your word for Ultimate truth or reality....
I see the point you are making shane. People can only understand you from their point of view or filters. Unfortunately though, while their assessment of you is wrong, that perception can then become the reality you live.
Very interesting
I know of two absolutes , there exists right and wrong.
I see why and how you think that would be true. But every society throughout the decade has had different measures for what they believed to be right or wrong. The context of the society we live in shapes and defines what we will proclaim to be our morals and values. It is all subjective. I love your thoughts and i will be sharing more on the podcast tomorrow.
Nice ideas in some ways. Undermines his own point though. Assumes a lot. Confuses with his method of presentation. The first time I've watched a Ted Talk and felt like I was just being told something that already seems pretty obvious, but in a more confusing way than I would think it myself. Maybe I missed the point or something.
Well duh, science measures stuff we cannot perceive - so that we can perceive the universe more accurate without naturally being having the tools to do so.
I am unable to get his point.
Tough insight to convey, me thinks, but I liked it. ACIM - please check it out. You're already there. All knowledge is harmless until the ego applies its own perception to it.
Thursday Next
Thanks !
Thursdaynext....ACIM should be on everyone's reading list.
Life changing!
Brilliant talk in many respects but i disagree with his understanding of authentic self (ar 14:00) ,Personal identity is more relevant to what is being conveyed.
I see your point. And it is valid. What i mean by there is no such thing as an authentic self is that who we are and what we become is based on context. Ideas change and we go through experiences, some traumatic and some just from travelling that change our views on life. To believe in an authentic self is to miss the opportunity from growth that comes with a change in perspective.
Thanks for the thoughts desert breeze!
I agree. He misses understanding the point of authentic self, not as an identity but a consistency that does not change but only shifts how we move through life as we are informed by or subjected to life, which may look different to others.
Yeah I don't give humanity much of positive direction the way it's going
M A agreed!
13:23-13:40
the 10 commandments
He should be good at giving lectures at university or high school but that's all.Anyway thanks for sharing.And yes that's perception.
Thanks for the feedback
Omg brother i have been trying to articulate this exact idea...ted talks is the sh*t !
Chris Shergie
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there is just one problem. we dont actually have free will. Its just an elaborate illusion created by our three minds. Our conscious mind, our unconscious mind, and our subconscious mind. what we perceive as free will is really a quantifiable and predictable outcome that can be replicated by a computer. we will always make the same choices again and again if you remove the previous experience of making that choice. we all think we have the ability to choose, but its all a predetermined outcome based on the very thing that makes "you" you. your experiences and perceptions. but your perceptions are not even your own, they are every one elses around you. truly think about it. your perceptions are that of your parents, your teachers, your peers, your siblings, your society, your culture, your religion, your pets. and your experiences are based upon your perceptions. so. the reality is that we are not individuals. we are a single entity with many independent moving parts. What is wisdom? wisdom is the ability to look past that which you see as true and realize its just a small piece of a much larger picture, and others hold a different piece to the same picture.
To perceive is to attain awareness or understanding of .maybe you mean that our misperceptions are the problem .Not our perceptions my friend.That's seems fair to me!
I see where you are coming from Mark and understand the point you are making. However, you wouldn't know its a misconception, because it is your perception. And your perception (How you see things), is a misconception to somebody else. It is impossible to know what you take for granted, and that is because you take it for granted.
When did he explain "be the verb"?
be the verb wasn't recorded. However, to be the verb means to be an OMNI - PRESENT/Self aware individual. This is someone who seeks to understand and gain a 360 degree point of view.
"Be the verb" in this context means to do dillegence to understand the validity others understanding. Everyone's understanding is informed by their experience and is as valid as our own even if their views are based on misinformation or limited exposure. He goes on to define this repeatedly by exploring each part with examples.
kemuna p Thank you sir !
I do fully appreciate the ideas sent across however I feel the speaker is not giving enough light to the degrees of these perception in terms of ethical acceptance by general populace etc.
JohnAlamina you are absolutely right. I wish I could have gone further into the philosophy. However, I was already well above my allocated time. It does require more layers.... wish I had more time
This is his philosophy. A belief.
If there is no absolute truth, his whole speech is flawed.
Think about it.
i think he offered up that there was a paradox it what he was putting down
17:00 that killed me lol
If you believe life has no meaning, that there is no afterlife, and that there is no existence of supernatural forces in the universe, then that is your absolute truth. By all means it is your right to have that, it is ur free will.
We R free to believe what we want and accept it as our reality, but when we die there will be an answer. Maybe there’s nothing, maybe there is, but what we believed will no longer matter. It will just be what it always was.
So you will go to sleep and it didn’t matter what we believed, or there will be an afterlife and it will. But understand that if there is an afterlife, regardless of belief, it will not be a surprise.
When everything is removed from our baskets all that remains is a choice we cannot prove. Is there or isnt there? Even believers should understand there CANNOT be an absolute truth about God’s existence. If there were there would be no free will, there would be no faith.
TLDR: I think his presentation needs some work.
From what I understood of this talk, Deji Akingbade was trying to convey that he believed self-examination of one's beliefs and perceptions are a fundamental requirement for improvement in a person's life. I don't disagree with that assertion, however, I find that this presentation rambles on into different tangents way too much and it left me feeling like I was being dragged along till the end of the video. I didn't understand the point he was trying to make until the last minute of his presentation.
First, he goes into Plato's cave and asserts that one who leaves the world of the cave and reframes one's perception is no different than those still in the cave. I imagined that he would state that both those on the outside and inside had failed in their perceptions, as both groups still continued to define their perceptions by what they immediately saw. Instead, Deji states that perception itself is a "flaw" in the human design. I thought he would say how it was a flaw or elaborate on what he defined as a flaw, but instead, he shows examples of different groups of peoples who perceive each other to be opponents and what violent lengths they will go to eliminate their opposition. He tells of how every person sees themselves at the center of their lives as the hero of their own story. Now as protagonists, sure. I can buy that. But I doubt all of humanity is so selfish to believe they are "heroes" or thinks in such a binary process as "heroes and villains" when it comes to the state of their own lives and how they see the world. A child may see the world in such a light, but as one grows and is exposed to more and more of the world, such a perception will change upon continued confrontation with people and situations that refuse to be confined within those categories. To continue to function healthily, the mind will either expand its categories, reject its old system in favor of another process of categorization, or merely add more categories. Next in the lecture, Deji takes a quote from Einstein and asks the audience to take the quote out of context, then he reframes the quote to suit his presentation. It irritates me when people do this, and I cannot excuse Deji for it. When one quotes an individual and then reframes the quoted words to suit their needs, it is no longer a quote. All you are doing is stating someone else's name so that some measure of credence and respect can be given to your own words as you have yet the strength to stand on your own feet. A good quote is all about the context. If the quote matches your assertion, then you have earned the respect of your peers for, if nothing else, aligning with the thinking of a significant individual. Deji uses this quote to state that there are no "Absolute Truths" because the process of thought of the mind is fundamentally flawed. I may be to used to propositional logic here, but I don't see how he got from the quote that there are no absolute truths. I may be missing something but how does, "Bigotry of a Believer + Bigotry of Non-believer = Funny because both call each other bigots, yet they are really both bigots and can't see it," suddenly become, "(Bigotry + Bigotry = Funny because irony) = There are no truths; You thought the other person was a bigot, but in reality you're a bigot too, so everyone is a bigot, but we can't all be bigots, so there are really no bigots at all, because bigot is the concept of a flawed mind, unable to question what a bigot really was." Don't get me wrong, self-examination is a good thing. I just believe that this guy's presentation was all over the place when it came to what he wanted to convey and what he actually said. He then goes on to talk about the relation of nouns and absolutes, where people should endeavor to not be nouns but verbs instead. Deji states that nouns carry success in the eyes of people. I can say that people do associate success with who you associate yourself with and what titles you live by, but real success does not stem from what titles you carry, who you identify as sexually, or what faith you believe in. I can't explain that very well, but hopefully someone out there understands what I mean by that. There's a lot more to life than just those things. During this part in the presentation though, he totally lost me the first time, and only during writing this did I get what he meant by all the noun stuff he was talking about. After this, he puts up a slide indicating that there are more perceptions in the world than just one's own. Then Deji asks the audience to classify themselves within all the categories people frequently associate themselves with for the end of the presentation. He then begins to talk about Essentialism and Existentialism and how taking the ideologies of either as absolute truths just leads to an existential crisis. All I can say on this is that I have lived my life accepting pieces from both ideologies, while I may lean to one side or another at different points in my life, I have found that accepting that I may be wrong about either, yet still continuing to have and form new beliefs about life and the world around me using both the competency of my mind and what I truly feel are truths about the world has led me to a very fulfilling life where I can continue to grow and live without an existential crisis. Self-examination only helps in this regard as it allows me to respond to the world critically and to the best of my ability without falling into a sleep-like existence where I take the words and writings of others as fact. If you have or are having an existential crisis I would only encourage you to examine yourself and your beliefs and choose to adhere to what you believe of your own free will. People can tell you what to think your whole life, but you have your own voice. If you decide to believe in a faith, do it because that's what you have decided to do with your life, you have seen the benefits you desire, and you have found that faith to ultimately be within your goals for this existence of life we're all a part of. If you choose to not believe in any sort of faith, likewise do it because you choose to, not because of mere feelings, reactions to all the faiths of the world, or because someone was wrong about their beliefs. I don't think Deji made a mistake in making this video, but I think a number of his arguments are flawed or could be done better. A truth is not invalidated because someone perceives it differently than others. We humans see the sky as blue, but to many different creatures on the earth, the sky is a number of different colors depending upon what their eyes can perceive. That does not invalidate that the sky is colorful nor does it take away from the sky being the color blue. Deji tells how humanity learns and grows and changes. And that is all true, but what he keeps going back to are categories, where people hold themselves to ever more "nouns" to offer significance to their lives. He does make a clever instruction out of the whole shopping cart example at the end. But altogether, I think the title is misleading for this video, I think his presentation could have been better if he explained more clearly and didn't go off on these tangent examples so much, I think he should have stated his thesis better, and I think the whole segment about beliefs and free will being an "Arrogance" and sharing your beliefs with others to be "Arrogant" is just loathsome. Arrogance has a negative context in the English language, and is taught in many belief systems to be a trait to be avoided. By categorizing as he did, he arranged the whole pair merely to state that by sharing yourself with others, you are engaging in negative behavior. Humanity grows by sharing its beliefs, eliminating harmful ones, and embracing helpful ones. If everyone kept to themselves, we could not grow as emotional, competent, social human beings. All that to say, I think this presentation could be done better.
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I have read your thoughts on my talk
Thanks for the review
I hope my words come across as constructive and not harmful to you. Keep speaking out at events such as these, learning more in your craft, and keep following your passions. It takes a great deal of courage to go up in front of people and reveal yourself like this. And If you continue to grow in public speaking, I could see you truly moving hearts and minds with your experience and the conclusions you have come to in your own life. I encourage you to continue to grow and positively influence others through your speaking. Altogether, I wish you well, and hope your experience at TEDx was a good one. And if you have the opportunity, come on back in the future and tell of the results of what you spoke in your life. Nothing touches people more than true accounts of personal experiences.
doomerator0G thank you sir
Rhadames Julian thank you for your support. I am really glad you liked the video
Was there a trigger warning at the start of this video about graphic images? I missed it if there was.
i didn't see one.
I don't know what does it mean to have faith any more.
thats for you to decide
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Anyone else hear him almost say atheist instead of existentialist.
I cringed at that apology
yeah
Jesuscrist is only the true the way and the life if you rejected that true your life is gonna be truly miserable
Never heard such meaningless content! It fools only the one who isn't aware of what reality is!
The absolute truth that, there is no absolute truth? Now follow the servant LeaderJesus Christ
I think their are some absolute truths and i don't think jesus is one of them but a lot of people do
Rubbish