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What's the difference between heroes and leaders? In this insightful talk, Lorna Davis explains how our idolization of heroes is holding us back from solving big problems — and shows why we need "radical interdependence" to make real change happen.
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“The idea that one person has the answer is ludicrous.”
This is something that has become more clear to me over time. Just like Lorna is saying, the glorification of leaders in movies and books makes people feel as though they need to be a singular font of answers, whereas in reality, a good leader has support from a good team.
I disagree. Rather, the glorification of a single leader is trying to send us viewers the message that it only takes one to start something.
Better to attempt to lead than sit around and expect someone else to do it for you.
Is her accent American accent?
I think it sounds more british
She said New Zealand I think
Oreos use palm oil, which is destroying the rain forest.
I still love Oreos.
The real nightmare is when they breakthtough the line of unethical to hellish manufacturing
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one of the best talks ever. i watched it on the site weeks ago.
I am glad she brought up the fact that her standing on the stage, as well as this whole TED Talk process, makes it seem like she thinks she is a hero. I do not think she comes off as wanting to be a hero, but it resonates with me because I auditioned to give a TEDxTalk with my university and my talk was about suicide prevention and what we can do as a community (as well as debunking myths about what we think we should do and saying why they are wrong). I wrote that speech specifically so that I would not come across as a “hero” but ironically, I lost to someone who came off that way and also came off as a bit self-congratulatory, pretentious, and just generally like someone in the self-help industry who exploits the insecurities of others because “You, too, can be like them. Shouldn’t we all be so lucky?” (I will not name names but I can say their talk is not one of the more famous ones). I refuse to watch it on Youtube, but hopefully the revised version is better. I was confused as to why that one won in general because there were two other talks that were better. There are even more details that make the whole situation mildly sketchy and suspicious.
I felt like the speaker curator’s actions and the choices of him and the judges (yes, he was one of the judges despite helping us revise our speeches) made me realize that this whole process came across like they wanted me to be some “hero”; they did say my speech wasn’t agreed on because I didn’t make the speech personal enough in that way (though trust me when I say there were some personal elements that were used appropriately). I am not comfortable portraying myself in that way in a speech about such a serious topic and that should have been respected but it was not. I am telling this story because though I still watch TED Talks, I have lost faith in many of them after that incident. It is a breath of fresh air when I see a speaker like this expressing genuine humility and admitting this about the process, as well as trying to promote such good traits in others. Thank you.
This is absolutely amazing. How many of the world’s problems has she solved with this paradigm? To be fair it sounds like communist-esq static company style thinking. I am going to have to consider this a lot more.
Sounds like socialist BS.
A key part of true capitalism is community focused. It has to be that is where workers and customers come from. We are called to develop our communities through economics. It’s not socialist. Socialism is about same outcome. Capatilism is about fair opportunities.