I think you are missing the point. He is talking about the metrics. If governments take into account the proposed "GNH" they might better provide the *conditions* that cause an improvement.
Actually, i don't know why I bother arguing as long as it makes sense to me and encourages me to live better then why would it matter if I am wrong?
@Rimsh7 you argue because in a democracy, a wrong opinion can count as much as a correct one. you are obligated by a democratic form of government to concern yourself with the opinions of the masses, because you have to live by those opinions whether they are wrong or not.
@gbiota1 What I am talking about is a more individual philosophy. A personal creed of sorts. I am not to impose my understanding of happiness on others.
Also, about my responsibility in a democratic society, I think it would be fair to say that my concern with the opinions of others is a natural result of Democracy but not directly a part of it. Democracy is meant to reflect the view of the majority, not the view of a more convincing minority.
this man knows more than the people posting foaming critiques XD
one forgets there is always upper and lower classes, and for there to be a winner everyone else must be a loser~ they might as well be happy instead of not
also numbers has no room to complain, I have like 70 cents to my name at the current moment :p but I dealt with it and planned out my stuff so that it's not an issue, because I pay attention to details and stuff :o
hey numbers abcdefg, don't listen to those "change your attitude" positive thinking people. I say, move to a different (better?) country where you'll be appreciated, and you won't be expected to sell yourself and be all sunshiney and "go me!".
Scrape the money together and get the hell out of Dodge.
yes this talk appeals to ppl who have money and are therefore looking for happiness after realizing money didn't buy it for them. It's not necessarily addressing ppl on their way to the gutter. it's easy to meet such positive inspiration with pessimistic resignation
How about less taxes and less government control. That would make me happy. Stop trying to control every aspect of our lives. Stay our of my business "happy boy." :(
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Although Taxes is a big one, what I mean is less mandates etc. low flow shower heads, low flow toilets (people just end up using more water by flushing repeatedly), there are many more but those are just two off the top of my head. I want the government out of every aspect of my life except those that are listed in the constitution.
Nice speech a bit naive though. If you open your eyes you will see world leaders rushing to rescue bankers with taxpayers' money or helping oil companies cleaning up their environmental disasters, or crafting the next war to obey to the requests of the arms industry. Leaders don't give a squad of people happiness, they are put there to serve people with money.
Nice speech a bit naive though. If you open your eyes you will see world leaders rushing to rescue bankers with taxpayers' money or helping oil companies cleaning up their environmental disasters, or crafting the next war to obey to the requests of the arms industry. Leaders don't give a squad of people happiness, they are put there to serve people with money.
Nice speech a bit naive though. If you open your eyes you will see world leaders rushing to rescue bankers with taxpayers' money or helping oil companies cleaning up their environmental disasters, or crafting the next war to obey to the requests of the arms industry. Leaders don't give a squad of people happiness, they are put there to serve people with money.
What a naive and pompous asshole. He couldn't get it less then he does. Oh and I love all the upper and upper middle class citizens applauding at the end. Great so this makes them happy because productive employees make them more money.
I HATE when people use the word ' actually' too much. Its so pompous, like I ACTUALLY have a great idea because I ACTUALLY am better than you. Did you ACTUALLY realise that ? ......... SAp
I agree with what he said about GNH and happiness vs. GDP and tangible measurements. I think that him saying Vivianne + employees are happy cleaning toilets for 20 years to make HIM more money is kind of a stretch.
very curious lecture. To me it seems that Chip and people like Tony Heisch of zappos are following a similar approach/theory/pattern of running their business and what matters most. I think there's very few in business that even have the option to do the same because its so ingrained in the business culture to run by the mundane numbers. Sadly, you would get laughed out of the office suggesting this kind of approach.
I just sat through 17 minutes of self-help bullshit from a CEO that thinks he's figured out how to please the ape-like peons (anyone who isn't a business CEO). Worthless.
@lazyd0g That is true, but what Chip Conley was saying is that we should start counting those things that were thought to be uncountable, such as happiness.
I think that complacency is brought into place by the idea that only money/ profit drives happiness. By urging industry leaders to defy that idea, Conley presents a strategy to make happiness drive the profits effectively proposing a solution to economic-crisis-related problems. The strategy: measuring intangibles. However – and this is my grumble – he provides insufficient information on how the intangibles are measured.
I finally got my break (a job) right after touching my lowest point: the two weeks that I shuffled a suitcase from friend to friend because I was homeless. (Yes, I found friends to help me because of all that socializing!) Today, I have the ability to fulfill some of those money-heavy desires but I realize that I'm not as happy as I was during those hard times. I think the difference is that I was proactive about finding happiness then but now, because I have money, I'm complacent about it.
I agree w/ Conley re: the happiness equation. My testimonial: I spent a year with no job and dwindling finances. I stayed happy by constantly crossing off items from my list of desires/ goals. A lot of that list had to do with what I didn't have: money. So I worked with what I had lots of: time. I prioritized all my time-heavy goals: running 5K, learning (on TED!), losing weight, having a busy social life, etc. Achieving those goals provided a source of constant happiness.
@triforcelink there is nobody above bashing today, at least online. the act of being positive alone attracts contempt. I think it's a fascinating thing worthy of study, how virtually anything anywhere online today gets bashed by Americans automatically, unless it is something negative. It is also practically impossible to make an assertion about anything whatsoever without an instant anti-assertion. I'd love to know why this is.
This guy has facial expresions, gestures, and speech patterns very similar to Eric von Markovik. He could be his older brother, only teaching business instead of social dynamics.
To all those complaining about not covering xyz topic of your fancy or that this is not the sort of talk that you like, each TED event covers a wide range of topics with many different talks and performances. You can choose what you listen to and if you don't like it, watch another video. The title of the clip generally gives you a good idea of what's coming up. I found him inspirational and this is the 1st time I have heard about GDH, perhaps not a perfect talk but I can look it up now. TY TED
@numbersabcdefg You need to try something radically different in your life.
I've been in worst spots (foreclosed on and evicted while starting my first biz while down to 12 bucks and homeless) and what got me out of it was radically changing how I thought and what I did.
@numbersabcdefg 4 degrees? seems a bit pointless. maybe a phd would have been a more worthwhile thing to do if you wanted to spend so many years in higher education.
@numbersabcdefg I'm 24, a grade 10 dropout and I make $110 an hour as an business automations consultant. People create their own opportunities. Stop handing out resumes and start asking for people who can actually hire you. Talk to them, tell them what you would personally do to improve their business. Meet with business leaders, look them in the eye, not on a cover letter or an e-mail, and tell them you can benefit their business. You'll have a job within a week if you're effective.
@malcolmbryant I have experience recruiting. I guarantee you the people who show more initiative and have some evidence to back them up shows that they're driven and confident. These are the kind of people we look to hire. You're right, not all places are going to respond that way; but odds are if he's submitted 700 applications and called every single one of them to follow up, he'd have at least a hundred interviews by now.
@Durgles I too have experience recruiting, And i take it very seriously knowing there's a human being behind each letter and CV. But from the other side it is so dispiriting to fill out the umpteenth app form having got zilch from all the previous. i feel for the guy and his experience is common.
Gee, 700 applications filled out and 0 calls. Maybe i'm going out on a limb here, but you ever think that you might be filling it out wrong?
Get over feeling sorry for yourself and learn how to do it right.
Here's a tiny look into it:
I'll bet you brag about your 4 degrees and 12 years of experience, and I bet you put those in applications for toilet scrubbing. Who wants to hire a proud applicant who thinks he's too good for the job when they can hire someone humble and appreciative.
@numbersabcdefg why don't you start a business? borrow money from your parents or something. put pride aside and try to start new. i'm 25 and i just spent my last dollar yesterday, living with my parents, and don't have a job but I'm looking it in a positive light. i have a start-up with some friends. we're buried in debt right now but at least we like what we're doing and eventually we're hoping we'll pay off the debt and make money from the business even if its small
@malcolmbryant what country are you from? that's the culture in our country cos i'm from a third world. life is harder here, the average monthly salary is what you first world people make in an hour/day. do you live in the first world? if you are, you're sheltered. get real
@orangepeelpeel It's your "culture"? Irrelevant, All this 'third world' baloney. People either have enough to get by or they don't. Wherever they live. And many people don't have parents to live off.
@malcolmbryant I have quite a few Lebanese friends, and all of them live at home until they get married; very few move out earlier. The idea is that they help out with the expenses at home and they get reduced expenses so they can build up their savings and go out to build a name for themselves without the risks of losing everything. It actually makes a lot more sense than what you and I were raised on. Starting a business would be less risky if you didn't have to worry about paying the rent!
@orangepeelpeel Hi, You know I am a business owner in the US and I know many people from third world countries and build huge business fast, yet I also know many Americans who do not build one here saying "it's easier over there". In the US, we have more capacity, a more catalyzed environment, but it's never location that determines success. Location is a "greener on the other side" argument. And as far as the salary, our cost of living and thusly quality of life is also much higher.
@numbersabcdefg Your comment gets my vote for Comment of the Year, Your experience is dommon. But no one wats to hear reality except when it is uplifting. But personally, I wish you luck mate. Knowing that even if you do succeed, many will not.
Well, wherever the heck you are, u need to up and move.
If you can get a job after 700 apps...AND u have a degree...move somewhere else where jobs are available.
North Dakota has PLENTY of jobs....not hard to get a job here. As well as many other states. Wherever you are is probably in a hard time...move somewhere that has opportunities. it doesnt cost alot to move.
@numbersabcdefg It is because of your situation that you see this guy as an ignorant rich person. Would you like the speaker to say "well, you're just screwed, the world sucks, thank you"? I feel for you but understand you need to change, 700 apps and NO call backs? IMO It's a good thing that this is something to do with your end, but this video is about happiness, the subjective satisfaction in any situation, not about changing the actual situation itself.
@numbersabcdefg you make a very good point why don't you email him and ask him yourself he has his own website he'd be more likely to reply back than any of those jobs you went for? As regards the whole what's the point of one more? Well none of us can predict the future can we?
@numbersabcdefg Unfortunately being 'overqualified' can end up being a downfall for many - has happened to a couple of my friends.
I'm sure most people realise that happiness is simply a matter of perception, Chip's 'ideas' are nothing new.
Although we can work on changing the way we perceive situations, it's an incredibly hard thing to do & Chip's "no shit" oversimplification of attaining happiness is just irritating and out of touch.
@numbersabcdefg It's very difficult to get a job with a job application these days. I never had success with it. But I often had success making connections with people and offering first, before asking for something. Maybe your understandably miserable attitude gets in your way. People want to know, what can you do for me, not how bad do you feel. Just like you.
@numbersabcdefg Interesting comment. Maybe you're still thinking with the hammer, as he said it in the Talks. Here in Brazil, we very frequently see that the poorest people here are most often the happiest. So, I guess happiness is totally not related to money. The problem is that our way of thinking makes us believe that it is. So, we become unhappy because we think we need money, above all else, to BE happy. Studies show that money has relation to happiness only when the person is too hungry.
@numbersabcdefg I believe the negative comments below miss the mark.. This is not about government control, economic job creation, religion, etc. His principle(s) are sound; despite all our "progress" in the industrial age, we are not ever satisfied and it's getting worse. The point is, let's measure it, and now we have something (formerly intangible) tangible to try and improve. (13:25 sums it up well.)
@numbersabcdefg buddy im on 51 bucks, certificate IV, and applied for that many job too it's ridiculous.... but I just keep going. and going, and going...
@numbersabcdefg Remember that there's always someone out there worse off than you. How about the man who has nothing ($0), has filled in 701 job applications, had 0 call backs, has 5 degress and 20 years of experience and has to support his wife and 8 children. How about the people with cancer, no money, no job and no hope? Or the rape victim with cancer, AIDS, no money, no job and pregnant? Or the starving children all over the world, who don't have any education, any experience or the 112.57?
@numbersabcdefg The pointof the video is that we need to change our view of how we conduct business w/ customers. You may have filled out 700 hundred applcations but your outlook on life is sad and depressing , perhaps if you changed you attitude you would get a call back or even a job.
@numbersabcdefg Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Perhaps the time you spend hopelessly filling out applications could be more beneficially used in research of to write up your business plan? 4 degrees and 12 years of experience... have you considered packaging your valuable knowledge into a product or book? Don't give up... just try something else.
@numbersabcdefg it could be that you're completely unusable as an employee due to your attitude, which is the most important part, and that you're trying to rationalize your bad attitude, I'm amazed you've gotten so many thumbs up, the point he makes is "self pity filled people typically don't make the cut because of their way of approaching things
anyways the guy's pretty much right on, which is why he's rich and numbers serves as a warning whereas this guy serves as an example ;)
@noobler9 but he's still stuck with one hammer, which also makes everything look like a nail to him - the idea of businessprofits. cause actually that counters the idea of gnh.
well... ur right on the self pity thing... but u gotta admit it gets pretty disappointing after getting no call backs or constantly getting rejected w/o any explanation...
@abhi5a naw, I reject the notion of being allowed to be disappointed, actually fatalmystic should've gotten an answer from me which I didn't bother to do, but anyways, basically... when you have a winner's attitude, happiness is there because profits will come in later, but you'll be happy naturally too
that's the key, a lot of the happiness with what you have "gurus" always leave that out
the winners though, know that it's a small part, and that winning is the good part, only doable by smiling
Let's have some more hard science talks, or talks on discoveries, or ANYTHING interesting rather than this feel good, motivational speaker, subjective crap, TED.
Subject matter aside, too much wrong with it to even start that discussion, he is an awful speaker. He thinks he's so clever, and the first person to find these amazing quotes. He sounds like a motivational speaker (read: Wanker).
I don't think many of the people comenting are aware of the message. Clearly some people need to have things (usally bad things), before they understand the true messure of happy.
He keeps mentioning that he's a CEO, that he's a leader.
A false dichotamy, and an archaic authoritarian throwback.
If he so values people - why insist on labeling himself as above others ("THE CEO", "the main man", "the king")?
Also selling "an experience" to his customers inspires greater customer loyalty and employee retention. But it still boils down to "give me more of your money". Hollow capitalism, no amount of Greenwashing and clichéd Tibetan pilgrimages can save you.
"Why is it that business leaders and investors quite often don't see the connection between creating the intangible of employees happiness with creating the tangible of financial profit in their business?"
Because they care about return on investment. And they want it as quickly as possible. They don't care about happiness of employees. Only that they do their jobs.
Westerners need to learn from the so-called "developing nations." Stable marriages, strangers on the street that help you when you are in need... There was once a survey by the BBC that found that Nigerians were the happiest people on earth. I wonder why?! (sarcasm)
@fosibodu Thats hodgepodge. Ive never seen Nigeria near the top in happiness rating.
it must have been the rampant syphilis talking. Or maybe the women were not allowed to vote in the poll but give birth to 5.85 children (per adult woman) . But thats ok because only 60% of the women are literate.
@CognosSquare Excuse me sir, I grew up in Nigeria till I was 18. I love the U.S. as I have been given a window of opportunity,...but there was & is a true happiness in Nigeria, that I seldom find here...please...do not let the media fool you. Money is important...very important...but it truly doesn't always buy happiness, my friend.
All this talk says, is care. Care for your fellow human beings, care for your employees and employers, be willing to serve others. If we weren't so individualistic in this industrial age, happiness would reign supreme. Read the word of God people.
I hope the word of God you're referring to isn't the bible, because the bible is pretty much the opposite of all what you just said. Have you read the old testament?
I don't care what people can delude themselves into thinking they're happy about. There are states of affairs that allow for your survival and keep you free, and others which turn you into a serf.
Mental gymnastics can only take you so far. That being said, I'm sure there were a lot of happy slaves along with the miserable ones...
he's so good and white he found a slave who loves cleaning her toilets. isn't that the maslow way! where would these people be w/o a slave-class? oh where oh where would they be?
Nice talk, but it was twice as long as needed. It's amazing that one would think it necessary to deconstruct the idea of valuing the intangible to a crowd like that.
This video in one sentence: "Make the lower class people happy with their life so you can continue to make buckets of cash while paying them close to minimum wage."
@rafaravioli You sound like you believe there actually are classes that people can not get out of.
Everyone wins in a competing market. When it is cheap to produce something, someone will end up competing against any business trying to have big margins by marking up their products a lot.
Can you go into detail why you believe a high minimum wage is good? Please take into account how inflation works.
@RaWBLooD When industries exist within the market (ie: marketing, public relations, etc) to keep the customer AWAY from the information they need to make proper decisions, capitalism inevitably descends into the corporatism we have now.
Several Nobel Prizes in Economics have been awarded for analyses of market failures due to asymmetric information.
Was this filmed back in the late 80s? Who said that GDP is the only thing that people care about? This is a straw man argument. Why do Canada and Sweden always outrank the US in quality of life metrics? Because the GDP/capita is better??
This guy thinks that everyone thinks like a Californian businessman. They don't. It's the millionaire's fault if they are less happy than the toilet scrubber they employ. Go for a hike in the woods or something.... geez.
@philkapune I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that point. Don't get me wrong, I am all for capitalism and I think business is good, but in my experience (which is extensive) they are there to do business, not spread happy seeds.
2 Corinthians 4:18 (New American Standard Bible) 18while we (A)look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2:15 - emotional rabbit punch, that dude hit me in the chakras with the whole "she was taking care of people far from home and knew what that was like" thing.
2:47 - freedom fries. Hating the Dixie Chix for theories that Charlie Sheen now writes open letters to Barrack about. Good times...in Orwell's 1984. Big Brother will tell us who to hate, watch "The News"
"aspirational treadmill" "habitat of happiness" - Chip is kick-ass scintillating smart and an ace public speaking uber-genius
@philkapune Businesses are not about finding happiness. They are about turning a profit. I guarantee that's what this is about. That is one thing which does not change no matter how much they insist it has. Ask Henry Ford or John Rockefeller. It IS about productivity. I'm happy at my work, but I'm happy on my own terms. I refuse to swallow this "we care about your happiness" bullshit. No they don't. But they continue to make people sit through stuff like this because people like you fall for it.
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Qais369 2 months ago
We were honored to have Chip stop by our lifebyme.com and share what's most meaningful to him. Bravo, Chip!
sirplaytime 5 months ago
If you liked this talk, have a listen to some of Jacque Fresco's philosophies.
It's along these lines.
rpm297 1 year ago
I think you are missing the point. He is talking about the metrics. If governments take into account the proposed "GNH" they might better provide the *conditions* that cause an improvement.
Actually, i don't know why I bother arguing as long as it makes sense to me and encourages me to live better then why would it matter if I am wrong?
A bit of self-delusion goes a long way.
Rimsh7 1 year ago
@Rimsh7 you argue because in a democracy, a wrong opinion can count as much as a correct one. you are obligated by a democratic form of government to concern yourself with the opinions of the masses, because you have to live by those opinions whether they are wrong or not.
gbiota1 1 year ago
@gbiota1 What I am talking about is a more individual philosophy. A personal creed of sorts. I am not to impose my understanding of happiness on others.
Also, about my responsibility in a democratic society, I think it would be fair to say that my concern with the opinions of others is a natural result of Democracy but not directly a part of it. Democracy is meant to reflect the view of the majority, not the view of a more convincing minority.
Rimsh7 1 year ago
this man knows more than the people posting foaming critiques XD
one forgets there is always upper and lower classes, and for there to be a winner everyone else must be a loser~ they might as well be happy instead of not
noobler9 1 year ago
It would have been helpful to give a few examples of how Bhutan measures it's gnh.
Good idea here, but I think we are going to have a tough time here in the US. It has started, but the old mode will not die easily.
098anne 1 year ago
also numbers has no room to complain, I have like 70 cents to my name at the current moment :p but I dealt with it and planned out my stuff so that it's not an issue, because I pay attention to details and stuff :o
noobler9 1 year ago
A great speech. The idea he describes is the doorway to a more humane world.
khatack 1 year ago 2
hey numbers abcdefg, don't listen to those "change your attitude" positive thinking people. I say, move to a different (better?) country where you'll be appreciated, and you won't be expected to sell yourself and be all sunshiney and "go me!".
Scrape the money together and get the hell out of Dodge.
lewisrain 1 year ago
i liked the animation at the end!
thoms1986 1 year ago
you can both money and happiness at the same time.
kumsamut 1 year ago
I feel a Brave New World argument coming up somewhere...
Biligerent 1 year ago
yes this talk appeals to ppl who have money and are therefore looking for happiness after realizing money didn't buy it for them. It's not necessarily addressing ppl on their way to the gutter. it's easy to meet such positive inspiration with pessimistic resignation
earlyAMbirds 1 year ago
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cray32 1 year ago
Poor woman, still cleaning toilets under this asshole. I would kill myself.
etniko 1 year ago
Pretty words.
scrappylor 1 year ago
No buddhism bullship has ever brought anyone enlightment and inner peace.
elijah7k 1 year ago
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elijah7k 1 year ago
Gross National Happiness???
Are you insane?
How about less taxes and less government control. That would make me happy. Stop trying to control every aspect of our lives. Stay our of my business "happy boy." :(
Go jump in a lake. [rapsberry] :)>
LLGoldstein 1 year ago
@LLGoldstein
"less government control"
Can you be a bit more specific? I hear this said a lot, but I don't think I've heard anyone ever go into specifics (other than high taxes).
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 1 year ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Although Taxes is a big one, what I mean is less mandates etc. low flow shower heads, low flow toilets (people just end up using more water by flushing repeatedly), there are many more but those are just two off the top of my head. I want the government out of every aspect of my life except those that are listed in the constitution.
LLGoldstein 1 year ago
This TED talk disappoints.
solitary200 1 year ago
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Nice speech a bit naive though. If you open your eyes you will see world leaders rushing to rescue bankers with taxpayers' money or helping oil companies cleaning up their environmental disasters, or crafting the next war to obey to the requests of the arms industry. Leaders don't give a squad of people happiness, they are put there to serve people with money.
dec041 1 year ago
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Nice speech a bit naive though. If you open your eyes you will see world leaders rushing to rescue bankers with taxpayers' money or helping oil companies cleaning up their environmental disasters, or crafting the next war to obey to the requests of the arms industry. Leaders don't give a squad of people happiness, they are put there to serve people with money.
dec041 1 year ago
Nice speech a bit naive though. If you open your eyes you will see world leaders rushing to rescue bankers with taxpayers' money or helping oil companies cleaning up their environmental disasters, or crafting the next war to obey to the requests of the arms industry. Leaders don't give a squad of people happiness, they are put there to serve people with money.
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dec041 1 year ago
What a naive and pompous asshole. He couldn't get it less then he does. Oh and I love all the upper and upper middle class citizens applauding at the end. Great so this makes them happy because productive employees make them more money.
chasington89 1 year ago
I HATE when people use the word ' actually' too much. Its so pompous, like I ACTUALLY have a great idea because I ACTUALLY am better than you. Did you ACTUALLY realise that ? ......... SAp
helimax 1 year ago
I agree with what he said about GNH and happiness vs. GDP and tangible measurements. I think that him saying Vivianne + employees are happy cleaning toilets for 20 years to make HIM more money is kind of a stretch.
mclovin1617 1 year ago 2
basically saying obvious common sense things among business leaders is kind of revolutionary
nuvolenelcielo 1 year ago 2
You worked with her for 20 years and still can't pronounce her name right?
Dayvit78 1 year ago
very curious lecture. To me it seems that Chip and people like Tony Heisch of zappos are following a similar approach/theory/pattern of running their business and what matters most. I think there's very few in business that even have the option to do the same because its so ingrained in the business culture to run by the mundane numbers. Sadly, you would get laughed out of the office suggesting this kind of approach.
delatroy 1 year ago
Steve Job ?
DimitriRytsk 1 year ago
I just sat through 17 minutes of self-help bullshit from a CEO that thinks he's figured out how to please the ape-like peons (anyone who isn't a business CEO). Worthless.
ReasonedScience 1 year ago
@lazyd0g That is true, but what Chip Conley was saying is that we should start counting those things that were thought to be uncountable, such as happiness.
JustSmileLifeIsGreat 1 year ago
Really having a tough time getting into this. It comes across as a self help seminar, and this guy comes across as horribly arrogant.
cboehm24 1 year ago 2
I think that complacency is brought into place by the idea that only money/ profit drives happiness. By urging industry leaders to defy that idea, Conley presents a strategy to make happiness drive the profits effectively proposing a solution to economic-crisis-related problems. The strategy: measuring intangibles. However – and this is my grumble – he provides insufficient information on how the intangibles are measured.
raindanseuse 1 year ago 3
I finally got my break (a job) right after touching my lowest point: the two weeks that I shuffled a suitcase from friend to friend because I was homeless. (Yes, I found friends to help me because of all that socializing!) Today, I have the ability to fulfill some of those money-heavy desires but I realize that I'm not as happy as I was during those hard times. I think the difference is that I was proactive about finding happiness then but now, because I have money, I'm complacent about it.
raindanseuse 1 year ago
I agree w/ Conley re: the happiness equation. My testimonial: I spent a year with no job and dwindling finances. I stayed happy by constantly crossing off items from my list of desires/ goals. A lot of that list had to do with what I didn't have: money. So I worked with what I had lots of: time. I prioritized all my time-heavy goals: running 5K, learning (on TED!), losing weight, having a busy social life, etc. Achieving those goals provided a source of constant happiness.
raindanseuse 1 year ago
Chip Conley Drinking Game: take a drink every time he says the word, "Actually."
JasonMcMahanIsOnline 1 year ago
I quit watching. I couldn't take it anymore. If I heard the word "actually" 1 more time, ida killed myself.
Mtihc 1 year ago
why are so many people bashing this guy? The problem is not out there, its in our heads.
triforcelink 1 year ago
@triforcelink there is nobody above bashing today, at least online. the act of being positive alone attracts contempt. I think it's a fascinating thing worthy of study, how virtually anything anywhere online today gets bashed by Americans automatically, unless it is something negative. It is also practically impossible to make an assertion about anything whatsoever without an instant anti-assertion. I'd love to know why this is.
bearswilleatme 1 year ago 2
@bearswilleatme Anonymity perhaps? There seems to be pros and cons to it.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
Perhaps my dogma is a little too concrete. But...
Normally TED is about accurately expressing problems and identifying solutions.
I'm not seeing a framework for solutions to this. Otherwise, this is just a drive-by seminar.
kinsmed 1 year ago
Give me a break. "... so I took my CEO hat off for a week and went to the Himalayas..."
etniko 1 year ago 4
Is this the first gay man on TED?
stephenetienne 1 year ago
This guy has facial expresions, gestures, and speech patterns very similar to Eric von Markovik. He could be his older brother, only teaching business instead of social dynamics.
8legsFreak 1 year ago
To all those complaining about not covering xyz topic of your fancy or that this is not the sort of talk that you like, each TED event covers a wide range of topics with many different talks and performances. You can choose what you listen to and if you don't like it, watch another video. The title of the clip generally gives you a good idea of what's coming up. I found him inspirational and this is the 1st time I have heard about GDH, perhaps not a perfect talk but I can look it up now. TY TED
letsprocras 1 year ago 28
@letsprocras thanks for making sense dude
nublex 1 year ago
If your name is Chip your probably gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
TheBlitz1 1 year ago
hehe, no tell motel.
LazyOtaku 1 year ago
As someone who is depressed, suicidal and down to his last $112.57 bucks
I found this speaker nothing more than a rich guy who doesn't get it - like someone who doesn't understand why the middle east is so mad at america
Here is something you can count
700 job applications filled out
0 call backs
4 degrees
12 years experience
The hotels turned me down for a toilet scrubber job
anything worth the effort counts/matters
What is the point of one more no call back after a 7 page app filled in ?
numbersabcdefg 1 year ago 61
@numbersabcdefg You need to try something radically different in your life.
I've been in worst spots (foreclosed on and evicted while starting my first biz while down to 12 bucks and homeless) and what got me out of it was radically changing how I thought and what I did.
Bonne Chance.
Turieb 1 year ago 2
@numbersabcdefg I tried to message you but you have friend block on, Message me- what your education in?
mompm 1 year ago 3
@mompm Nice one mate! Actions speak louder than words.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg 4 degrees? seems a bit pointless. maybe a phd would have been a more worthwhile thing to do if you wanted to spend so many years in higher education.
rackslap 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg
move to the netherlands, with that resume you'll get a job within 2 seconds
TheCakeAintNoLie 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg I'm 24, a grade 10 dropout and I make $110 an hour as an business automations consultant. People create their own opportunities. Stop handing out resumes and start asking for people who can actually hire you. Talk to them, tell them what you would personally do to improve their business. Meet with business leaders, look them in the eye, not on a cover letter or an e-mail, and tell them you can benefit their business. You'll have a job within a week if you're effective.
Durgles 1 year ago 4
@Durgles I would be willing to bet against you.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@malcolmbryant I have experience recruiting. I guarantee you the people who show more initiative and have some evidence to back them up shows that they're driven and confident. These are the kind of people we look to hire. You're right, not all places are going to respond that way; but odds are if he's submitted 700 applications and called every single one of them to follow up, he'd have at least a hundred interviews by now.
Durgles 1 year ago
@Durgles I too have experience recruiting, And i take it very seriously knowing there's a human being behind each letter and CV. But from the other side it is so dispiriting to fill out the umpteenth app form having got zilch from all the previous. i feel for the guy and his experience is common.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
Gee, 700 applications filled out and 0 calls. Maybe i'm going out on a limb here, but you ever think that you might be filling it out wrong?
Get over feeling sorry for yourself and learn how to do it right.
Here's a tiny look into it:
I'll bet you brag about your 4 degrees and 12 years of experience, and I bet you put those in applications for toilet scrubbing. Who wants to hire a proud applicant who thinks he's too good for the job when they can hire someone humble and appreciative.
pudicus2 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg why don't you start a business? borrow money from your parents or something. put pride aside and try to start new. i'm 25 and i just spent my last dollar yesterday, living with my parents, and don't have a job but I'm looking it in a positive light. i have a start-up with some friends. we're buried in debt right now but at least we like what we're doing and eventually we're hoping we'll pay off the debt and make money from the business even if its small
orangepeelpeel 1 year ago
@orangepeelpeel Living with your parents you are sheltered from the storm. Get real.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@malcolmbryant what country are you from? that's the culture in our country cos i'm from a third world. life is harder here, the average monthly salary is what you first world people make in an hour/day. do you live in the first world? if you are, you're sheltered. get real
orangepeelpeel 1 year ago
@orangepeelpeel It's your "culture"? Irrelevant, All this 'third world' baloney. People either have enough to get by or they don't. Wherever they live. And many people don't have parents to live off.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@malcolmbryant well then i'm lucky. give me a break i was just trying to make that broke jobless guy feel better about his situation.
orangepeelpeel 1 year ago
@orangepeelpeel I apologise unreservedly. Anyone who tries to help should be encoutaged. I'm sorry.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@malcolmbryant thanks for the apology, its not an issue
orangepeelpeel 1 year ago
@malcolmbryant I have quite a few Lebanese friends, and all of them live at home until they get married; very few move out earlier. The idea is that they help out with the expenses at home and they get reduced expenses so they can build up their savings and go out to build a name for themselves without the risks of losing everything. It actually makes a lot more sense than what you and I were raised on. Starting a business would be less risky if you didn't have to worry about paying the rent!
Durgles 1 year ago
@Durgles Mkaes sense to me too!
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@orangepeelpeel Hi, You know I am a business owner in the US and I know many people from third world countries and build huge business fast, yet I also know many Americans who do not build one here saying "it's easier over there". In the US, we have more capacity, a more catalyzed environment, but it's never location that determines success. Location is a "greener on the other side" argument. And as far as the salary, our cost of living and thusly quality of life is also much higher.
kenseavert 1 year ago
@kenseavert you know what. you're right
orangepeelpeel 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg Your comment gets my vote for Comment of the Year, Your experience is dommon. But no one wats to hear reality except when it is uplifting. But personally, I wish you luck mate. Knowing that even if you do succeed, many will not.
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg
Well, wherever the heck you are, u need to up and move.
If you can get a job after 700 apps...AND u have a degree...move somewhere else where jobs are available.
North Dakota has PLENTY of jobs....not hard to get a job here. As well as many other states. Wherever you are is probably in a hard time...move somewhere that has opportunities. it doesnt cost alot to move.
chrisadmaley 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg It is because of your situation that you see this guy as an ignorant rich person. Would you like the speaker to say "well, you're just screwed, the world sucks, thank you"? I feel for you but understand you need to change, 700 apps and NO call backs? IMO It's a good thing that this is something to do with your end, but this video is about happiness, the subjective satisfaction in any situation, not about changing the actual situation itself.
kenseavert 1 year ago 5
@numbersabcdefg Many of the greatest humans have been driven into the ground. Your misfortune isn't a reflection of your worth, obviously.
EclecticSceptic 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg you make a very good point why don't you email him and ask him yourself he has his own website he'd be more likely to reply back than any of those jobs you went for? As regards the whole what's the point of one more? Well none of us can predict the future can we?
seanankerr 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg try follow up calls ya nub
Contw2 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg Unfortunately being 'overqualified' can end up being a downfall for many - has happened to a couple of my friends.
I'm sure most people realise that happiness is simply a matter of perception, Chip's 'ideas' are nothing new.
Although we can work on changing the way we perceive situations, it's an incredibly hard thing to do & Chip's "no shit" oversimplification of attaining happiness is just irritating and out of touch.
gia303909 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg I also think it's important to realise that everything is relative, which makes this TEDtalk even less effective.
gia303909 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg It's very difficult to get a job with a job application these days. I never had success with it. But I often had success making connections with people and offering first, before asking for something. Maybe your understandably miserable attitude gets in your way. People want to know, what can you do for me, not how bad do you feel. Just like you.
gusphraba 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg Interesting comment. Maybe you're still thinking with the hammer, as he said it in the Talks. Here in Brazil, we very frequently see that the poorest people here are most often the happiest. So, I guess happiness is totally not related to money. The problem is that our way of thinking makes us believe that it is. So, we become unhappy because we think we need money, above all else, to BE happy. Studies show that money has relation to happiness only when the person is too hungry.
RenataVentura 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg How are things working out now?
ZirconCode 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg for me music works. so if u suicidal try this: youtube: madd maxxx - fuck life
lordrazi111693 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg I believe the negative comments below miss the mark.. This is not about government control, economic job creation, religion, etc. His principle(s) are sound; despite all our "progress" in the industrial age, we are not ever satisfied and it's getting worse. The point is, let's measure it, and now we have something (formerly intangible) tangible to try and improve. (13:25 sums it up well.)
gdsax 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg Every knock back is 1 step closer to getting somewhere.
What sort of degrees do you have?
Do you really think from an employer's view that someone with 4 degrees would be happy to stick around scrubbing toilets?
No one would employ you for such a lowly job with intentions to leave it as soon as possible.
What do you ideally WANT to do?
What step can you take to get there?
Don't give up
drukenhard 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg buddy im on 51 bucks, certificate IV, and applied for that many job too it's ridiculous.... but I just keep going. and going, and going...
brenyboy26 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg Remember that there's always someone out there worse off than you. How about the man who has nothing ($0), has filled in 701 job applications, had 0 call backs, has 5 degress and 20 years of experience and has to support his wife and 8 children. How about the people with cancer, no money, no job and no hope? Or the rape victim with cancer, AIDS, no money, no job and pregnant? Or the starving children all over the world, who don't have any education, any experience or the 112.57?
countryroo123 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg The pointof the video is that we need to change our view of how we conduct business w/ customers. You may have filled out 700 hundred applcations but your outlook on life is sad and depressing , perhaps if you changed you attitude you would get a call back or even a job.
VictoriaInnSparks 1 year ago 3
@numbersabcdefg Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Perhaps the time you spend hopelessly filling out applications could be more beneficially used in research of to write up your business plan? 4 degrees and 12 years of experience... have you considered packaging your valuable knowledge into a product or book? Don't give up... just try something else.
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MrArisBottle 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg Probably <50% of the world's population would kill to have your $112.57.
MrArisBottle 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg it could be that you're completely unusable as an employee due to your attitude, which is the most important part, and that you're trying to rationalize your bad attitude, I'm amazed you've gotten so many thumbs up, the point he makes is "self pity filled people typically don't make the cut because of their way of approaching things
anyways the guy's pretty much right on, which is why he's rich and numbers serves as a warning whereas this guy serves as an example ;)
noobler9 1 year ago
@noobler9 but he's still stuck with one hammer, which also makes everything look like a nail to him - the idea of businessprofits. cause actually that counters the idea of gnh.
fatalmystic 1 year ago
@noobler9
well... ur right on the self pity thing... but u gotta admit it gets pretty disappointing after getting no call backs or constantly getting rejected w/o any explanation...
abhi5a 1 year ago
@abhi5a naw, I reject the notion of being allowed to be disappointed, actually fatalmystic should've gotten an answer from me which I didn't bother to do, but anyways, basically... when you have a winner's attitude, happiness is there because profits will come in later, but you'll be happy naturally too
that's the key, a lot of the happiness with what you have "gurus" always leave that out
the winners though, know that it's a small part, and that winning is the good part, only doable by smiling
noobler9 1 year ago
@numbersabcdefg r u sure ur applying for the right kind of job?
abhi5a 1 year ago
Let's have some more hard science talks, or talks on discoveries, or ANYTHING interesting rather than this feel good, motivational speaker, subjective crap, TED.
Sconz32 1 year ago 3
CEO talk...does not address the real problems of social change, poverty, unemployment.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
agree to that 100%!
NILDALZ 1 year ago
Subject matter aside, too much wrong with it to even start that discussion, he is an awful speaker. He thinks he's so clever, and the first person to find these amazing quotes. He sounds like a motivational speaker (read: Wanker).
allthestarsinthesky 1 year ago 3
@allthestarsinthesky Ha Ha ha! Brilliant! Nice one mate!
malcolmbryant 1 year ago
I don't think many of the people comenting are aware of the message. Clearly some people need to have things (usally bad things), before they understand the true messure of happy.
Lesserthannone 1 year ago 6
@Lesserthannone I agree. all these pessimistic comments blow my mind. it's like none of them even listened to the guy.
mvans130 1 year ago
He does all this wordplay which sounds good, but don't always ring entirely true. Also I question what qualifies him to make the assertions he makes.
reeged 1 year ago
Now do you know what the hell on earth are you talking about sir?
This dont deserves TED time
next please
chernobila 1 year ago
He should have mentioned the United Nation's "Human Development Index" (HDI).
It's a combined measure of a society's Life expectancy (ie: health), Education, and per capita GDP (ie: standard of living).
roidroid 1 year ago
this guy just hashed up a bunch of ideas and applied them to his business. Stephen Covey goes over this type of stuff and way better.
rast123456789 1 year ago
He keeps mentioning that he's a CEO, that he's a leader.
A false dichotamy, and an archaic authoritarian throwback.
If he so values people - why insist on labeling himself as above others ("THE CEO", "the main man", "the king")?
Also selling "an experience" to his customers inspires greater customer loyalty and employee retention. But it still boils down to "give me more of your money". Hollow capitalism, no amount of Greenwashing and clichéd Tibetan pilgrimages can save you.
roidroid 1 year ago
Incredible mind.
humanist7117 1 year ago
Thank you for speaking such important truths for all of us.
marycath9 1 year ago
They probably measure what they measure with GDP because:
1 tangible things are easier to count
2 GDP generally coincides with happiness.
Shaunt1 1 year ago
"Why is it that business leaders and investors quite often don't see the connection between creating the intangible of employees happiness with creating the tangible of financial profit in their business?"
Because they care about return on investment. And they want it as quickly as possible. They don't care about happiness of employees. Only that they do their jobs.
dvdragon 1 year ago
G&H movement..?? Gay and Happy movement......?
plastof 1 year ago
@plastof GNH - Gross National Happiness
roidroid 1 year ago
lol that shit at the end
HakerzTM 1 year ago
I've though about this before how you feel from day to day or how happy you are is more important than how much money you have or whatever.
Shaunt1 1 year ago
In social engineering, intelligent people tend to overvalue intelligence.
GohanMH1 1 year ago
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GohanMH1 1 year ago
I hope Vivian has gotten a raise!
Mrmoc7 1 year ago
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3157570.stm
fosibodu 1 year ago
@fosibodu how the hell did you do that?!
Does youtube allow URLs now?
roidroid 1 year ago
Westerners need to learn from the so-called "developing nations." Stable marriages, strangers on the street that help you when you are in need... There was once a survey by the BBC that found that Nigerians were the happiest people on earth. I wonder why?! (sarcasm)
fosibodu 1 year ago
@fosibodu Thats hodgepodge. Ive never seen Nigeria near the top in happiness rating.
it must have been the rampant syphilis talking. Or maybe the women were not allowed to vote in the poll but give birth to 5.85 children (per adult woman) . But thats ok because only 60% of the women are literate.
CognosSquare 1 year ago
@CognosSquare Excuse me sir, I grew up in Nigeria till I was 18. I love the U.S. as I have been given a window of opportunity,...but there was & is a true happiness in Nigeria, that I seldom find here...please...do not let the media fool you. Money is important...very important...but it truly doesn't always buy happiness, my friend.
fosibodu 1 year ago 2
@fosibodu maybe you value things like aids, malaria more. Its nice that you have started executing homosexuals through the shaira courts.
I bet it was all laughs there that we simply could not understand.
Everyone says "dont believe the media".
It must be hard when defending such rule that media somehow makes up lies. Thats just what they do. Thats the way for them to make the big money.
Lile Amnesty who says 65% of Nigerias prisoners have not been convicted by any crime. Sounds great!
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fosibodu 1 year ago
I haven't been fooled by my tool.
DanDanTheSexMan 1 year ago
All this talk says, is care. Care for your fellow human beings, care for your employees and employers, be willing to serve others. If we weren't so individualistic in this industrial age, happiness would reign supreme. Read the word of God people.
fosibodu 1 year ago
@fosibodu
I hope the word of God you're referring to isn't the bible, because the bible is pretty much the opposite of all what you just said. Have you read the old testament?
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fosibodu 1 year ago
I don't care what people can delude themselves into thinking they're happy about. There are states of affairs that allow for your survival and keep you free, and others which turn you into a serf.
Mental gymnastics can only take you so far. That being said, I'm sure there were a lot of happy slaves along with the miserable ones...
Kreadus005 1 year ago
Now he just told us for 20 minutes that it 's better to be happy? Right on. -.-
Poolshrrrk 1 year ago
This guy comes off as a douchebag right from the get-go.
crimsoncitizen 1 year ago
Great, thanks.
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crimsoncitizen 1 year ago
he's so good and white he found a slave who loves cleaning her toilets. isn't that the maslow way! where would these people be w/o a slave-class? oh where oh where would they be?
TheLesbianMafia 1 year ago
@TheLesbianMafia Building Robots :)
hutchings000 1 year ago
@TheLesbianMafia They're called philipinos thank you very much!
rhiesa 1 year ago
@TheLesbianMafia there will always be an upper class and lower class. This will not change. You are either a haves or have nots.
madnessdexter 1 year ago
okay talk, but this type of thing has been talked about over and over. A little to long winded too
Louislane20042000 1 year ago
Nice talk, but it was twice as long as needed. It's amazing that one would think it necessary to deconstruct the idea of valuing the intangible to a crowd like that.
P00P0STER0US 1 year ago
i hate pseudo science, don't cover up your philosophy with fake equations that make no sense and scientific sounding terms.
GGAlice1 1 year ago 3
This video in one sentence: "Make the lower class people happy with their life so you can continue to make buckets of cash while paying them close to minimum wage."
rafaravioli 1 year ago 3
@rafaravioli You sound like you believe there actually are classes that people can not get out of.
Everyone wins in a competing market. When it is cheap to produce something, someone will end up competing against any business trying to have big margins by marking up their products a lot.
Can you go into detail why you believe a high minimum wage is good? Please take into account how inflation works.
RaWBLooD 1 year ago
@RaWBLooD When industries exist within the market (ie: marketing, public relations, etc) to keep the customer AWAY from the information they need to make proper decisions, capitalism inevitably descends into the corporatism we have now.
Several Nobel Prizes in Economics have been awarded for analyses of market failures due to asymmetric information.
roidroid 1 year ago
this guy has too much money
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pixelbind 1 year ago
Was this filmed back in the late 80s? Who said that GDP is the only thing that people care about? This is a straw man argument. Why do Canada and Sweden always outrank the US in quality of life metrics? Because the GDP/capita is better??
This guy thinks that everyone thinks like a Californian businessman. They don't. It's the millionaire's fault if they are less happy than the toilet scrubber they employ. Go for a hike in the woods or something.... geez.
mcwhite001 1 year ago 19
@mcwhite001 agreed
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shdwdrgn 1 year ago
I love when gay speakers do a good job.
StuartIsCheese 1 year ago 3
@philkapune I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that point. Don't get me wrong, I am all for capitalism and I think business is good, but in my experience (which is extensive) they are there to do business, not spread happy seeds.
dannypantsgm 1 year ago 2
2 Corinthians 4:18 (New American Standard Bible) 18while we (A)look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
doneright 1 year ago
2:15 - emotional rabbit punch, that dude hit me in the chakras with the whole "she was taking care of people far from home and knew what that was like" thing.
2:47 - freedom fries. Hating the Dixie Chix for theories that Charlie Sheen now writes open letters to Barrack about. Good times...in Orwell's 1984. Big Brother will tell us who to hate, watch "The News"
"aspirational treadmill" "habitat of happiness" - Chip is kick-ass scintillating smart and an ace public speaking uber-genius
TheElCabronsito 1 year ago
Important points he makes.
BFDK 1 year ago
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Wow. TED has become this self-masturbatory, self-congratulatory bullshit.
sugarkang 1 year ago
@sugarkang
unperson123 1 year ago
@philkapune Businesses are not about finding happiness. They are about turning a profit. I guarantee that's what this is about. That is one thing which does not change no matter how much they insist it has. Ask Henry Ford or John Rockefeller. It IS about productivity. I'm happy at my work, but I'm happy on my own terms. I refuse to swallow this "we care about your happiness" bullshit. No they don't. But they continue to make people sit through stuff like this because people like you fall for it.
dannypantsgm 1 year ago
@dannypantsgm Of course businesses are about making money! However if employees are happier more money can be made =)
unperson123 1 year ago
@dannypantsgm You seemed to miss the point which was summarized at the end; happiness increases profits in most sectors so you can have both.
RaWBLooD 1 year ago