TEDx motivational speaker GREG BENNICK on creativity and transformation

[moscraciunsiprieteni]

i used to like TED , now its just a sitcom

[DavidStenham]

Engaging and easy to understand. This is a interesting angle amidst the endless debate of lifestyle activism vs real life activism. Personally, I didn't interpret his metaphorical approach as undermining the need for the day to day grinds of getting involved with social work and/or helping people. Quite the opposite. This talk works well as a statement of finding focus in the midst of confusion, which is a message anyone could use to better themselves, should they choose to embrace it.

[chicky6three]

Oh for God's sake! "The artist plays with lonliness..." Come work with me in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for one day and tell me how this inane pontificating "solves the human condition". A good speaker does not a cognitive behaviorist make.

You may have something to say but I feel that you need to get waaay farther outside yourself to have to have it resonate with your audience.

[dantean]

@chicky6three By "human condition" I believe what is meant not only by this guy (whoever he is) but by those credited w coining (or at least popularizing) the term (H. Arendt, A. Malraux) is a condition common to all humans (duh!)--as opposed to a circumstance in or under which a specific segment of the human population finds itself suffering at any given moment. U obviously weren't looking for ANYONE to motivational speak the homeless out of being homeless, right? Gotta love his self-promo tho!

[uberscheisse]

I think that in this case - if you do something that you're proud of, that you did on your own - if you talk about it, you're not boasting. If you're not doing anything - you think it's boasting - because you're ashamed that you're lazy.

[stevenxlionheart]

boasting? are you high

[andreaxoxoxoxo]

Nothing "profound" here, just 11 minutes of scattered thoughts and boasting.

[poisonedcrib]

you really think so? i actually liked what he said...we get creative when we need to express something,,,when in doubt and fear, of we expressed this emotions by being creative we'd be making the most of our lives....

[a7x1337]

@andreaxoxoxoxo I loled

[tomkut]

great speech! this struck a chord big time although it's not exactly clear to me how falling in love relates to being creative. but nice job mr. bennick!

[chirpieguy]

The relating thought there was the artist of the human condition.