Vaishali Patel
@vaishali_tedx · 3:23
If you gave a TEDx talk about what 2020 has taught you, what would the headline be?
But also they started to tell me that they were going to take on some of the tips that I had suggested, and it was great. And in December 2020, it was my one year anniversary of doing my TEDx talk, and I wanted to celebrate it in a really particular way. And that was running a master class with my TEDx speaker coach and the organizer of the TEDx event to empower and enable other people to fulfill on their dream of doing a TEDx talk
But also speaking on more like a geopolitical scale or a social scale in the United States, there was so much chaos, so much disjoint and jointedness. And we really are only going to see a resolution of that through this harmony that so many different groups around the country and around the world are trying to foster and create where they work together for the greater good, deliberately creating a world that is more peaceful for everybody in it. So I think that my title for my TEDx would be Victory through harmony
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:28
But what would keep me from having that Ted talk is shame, the shame of admitting that I'm no longer with somebody and that idea that someone will think I'm lonely or talking about touch in a way that seems maybe TMI too much information. But I would boldly go forward because I think there's a lot of people who don't have touch for other reasons. My mom is a woman who was married to her husband for 56 years and no longer has him
So nothing went as per plan this year, and online learning was and is still a bit of a nightmare. A home is also office. Now boundaries have blurred between work and personal life. There's so much of social distancing and yet longing for personal space. It's been a year of paradoxes, but we are a wrestling bunch, of course. And I think we've all come up with our own playbooks to deal with the challenges that we've faced
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 1:12
I also tend to ruminate a lot on things that are beyond my control, and focusing on these aspects has given me a lot of anxiety. Of course, our brain has a strong negativity bias, which I think in my case, is more pronounced. So if I if if if you gave a TEDx talk thousand and 20, I think the title would be drawn from the famous Buddhist saying, Relax, nothing is in control
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 1:03
How would you manage to find time to gaze at the stars once in a while? Enjoy leisure? I think the pause definitely helped. And for me personally, the understanding that going with the flow is all there is to life. So I would probably use the line when the world came to a standstill and life happened. If if you gave a TEDx talk thousand and 20
julian billups
@theblackghost · 1:01
Ted Talk X Well, where will we start? At the end or the beginning or the beginning? At the end? 2020 has taught me a lot humanity about myself, about individuality and divinity. It showed me conviction. It showed me people that walked by prescribed device and addictions additions to all of that derivatives. It showed me a lot about myself, most of all. So thank you for coming to my chat talk. If you want to talk about anything we can open Source we all learned
Vaishali Patel
@vaishali_tedx · 0:38
Hi, Taylor. I love what you just posted. And it reminds me of what President Joe Biden was talking about today in his inauguration, about unity and putting your whole soul in and stopping this uncivil war, like this real harmony is really what I hear. And I love the Thai to love your talk. Have you ever thought about putting your talk together and actually doing it
Vaishali Patel
@vaishali_tedx · 1:09
Hey, I love what you said about touch, and I also get how difficult it must be to go through the lockdown and pandemic on your own, especially when when you've had touch for such a long time, I live on my own. And I actually started a relationship during lockdown and I managed to see him twice and I had touch and it was beautiful. And since October, I haven't and it is really challenging. It's really hard. I miss it
Vaishali Patel
@vaishali_tedx · 1:57
Hi Guaran, thank you for your swell. And I can totally relate to relax. Nothing is in control. And it's really interesting because every wave of of the pandemic or locked down here in the UK reflected back to me or mirrored back to me like parts of my past that I haven't healed really or felt power over with things like control. How do I feel when my choices are taken away from me? And I feel like people are controlling me and I had to deal with that
Vaishali Patel
@vaishali_tedx · 0:13
I love that there's so much richness in what you just described. Yeah, that sounds amazing. What would you title your TEDx Talk then
julian billups
@theblackghost · 2:15
And also we talk about, like theories, not conspiracies but theories and science, rocket space articles, the Cosmos, the Great Void. I'll talk about just metaphysics and quantum mechanics and all of that stuff. I don't know what I would really talk about, but yeah, platform via another platform. That's my two cent TEDx
And I found myself in that same space becoming the co founder of two companies building some things that haven't ever been created, things for democracy, things for kids and social emotional intelligence and also adapting and innovating even in my own space, continue to be bringing joy and curiosity to people. Even when I go to a grocery store or to a place, I feel even more inspired to remind people of humanity. And it's easier. It's becoming easier because people forgetting it
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:41
Hey, indie. I love the word Renaissance. It's such a strange, awkward word to use during this time. I know, because we're talking about our own abilities to just create and become during a time when there's that's loss of life and the cognitive dissonance around this conversation in general is amazing because daily people are dying 4000 a time in this country, and it's amazing to hold both truths together. Truly amazing
That's a condition that's a cause of a certain type of living a lot of times. Right. And changing the diet and changing the parameters can actually help people get out of chronic illness so that's we need a really desperate Renaissance in the medical community. But they shut you down. You get censored. I've experienced it personally getting censored, and I've even hosted conversations about the COVID vaccine, everything
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
M.K. Liebmann
@mkliebmann · 2:15
And so for me, my 2020 Ted Hex talk would certainly be about how we have combated political apathy. But more specifically, how we have made people who normally wouldn't even address the issue aware of the very real and looming and continuing threat of wealth inequality in America and around the world
Vaishali Patel
@vaishali_tedx · 0:31
Oh, my. There's so much you could talk about. That's so interesting. If you were to pick one idea, which one would you pick to follow through on? I know, listening to everything you said. I love what you said about the Cosmos and the quantum space and science. That sounded really interesting. What would you actually talk about? There your idea be
MAXAYN G.
@WomenOfValor74 · 1:37
Yes, it was different, but it all depends on your mindset. And if you can see it from a different perspective, it was almost like God was saying, hey, sit still, listen to my voice. And let me tell you what all that I have for you and what your purpose is here to do. So it would definitely be about sitting in the stillness and the quietness and finding out your purpose and seeing your resiliency. And then 2021 would be so much a better year. Yeah
julian billups
@theblackghost · 3:47
But through this human connection, I've learned that humans have learned to disconnect from human connection. For example, on this platform, you can only use avatars right as your face. That's your face, your voice is your value. I always meet up with a friend on this other platform at least once a day, twice a day, three times a day. But we kind of have the same experience, and we've gone through the whole platform