Why do some gatherings take off and others don't? Author Priya Parker shares three easy steps to turn your parties, dinners, meetings and holidays into meaningful, transformative gatherings.
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As long as we put down all technology and focus our attention on people we are with… it’s a great beginning.
Of course Priya Parker knows about transformative gatherings. Getting bitten by that radioactive spider and all….
She’s not Peter Parkee’s sis
@Critics thats right, shes Peter Parker from our universe
25th
How to quit life and reboot?
Do you guys only do text version of talks on certain ones? I used to see links to text.
that i so inspire me dude
She has a point. The table should be white too.
Let’s make it happen.
We need Arabic translations
Before the Facebook age of enlightenment, I would have agreed with your point on bringing up “risky” topics to spark discussion, but if you try to do that now, in any circle, and have a minority opinion, you will likely immediately be shutdown by the others and potentially ostracized by the rest of the group. Social media has really bolstered our personal biases because it’s allowed us to live in echo chambers, believing that most people think like us, and people that don’t are evil.
Truer words are seldom typed.
True.
honestly i find those stories cringey
Lol I thought this was prince Harry’s wife. Rachel Zane from Suits, don’t remember her name irl
Meghan Markle? lol
Culture etiquette is key
Tiny powerful actions
Can we simply enjoy some time without having to save the world, please!
Yeah. Just don’t go overboard and forget
Kurt E. Clothier did make a point about minority opinion and social media. However, I think the umbrella theme of doing what you can, where and when you can and as much as you can, is worth noting, and I think a lot of people do that, in their own ways. Even if it’s simply being yourself, where and when you can. And I think we can embrace tradition or we can start new traditions, or merge traditions, because everything and everyone wants to flourish, and even grow and evolve, in their own ways. And this runs across all classes, ages, colors, sizes, sexes and genders, etc. And even introverts go to gatherings, because humans are of a herd mentality, for good reason. We determine our own herds and behave accordingly. Some flourish and some stagnate, and we have a choice. And right now that choice seems to be stagnating in tradition or growing through change. Me, I like growing, and change is scary, but you grow.
I don’t know, mediocre. Not up to usual TED standards.