Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves

[crudhousefull]

I don't think that panicking is the only way to access your 'inner self', 'the oneness', 'reality', 'genius' etc. It's constantly attempting 'awareness'. Yes panicking gives you some access to it, but it's detrimental to your health. Stress also allows you to access this, but that's almost as bad as panicking. Also, the latter two methods only give you sporadic access

[leconfidant]

@GrudgyDiablo Well... He's well established enough as a director to be doing a TED Talk, so either he knows something else that he's not telling you or you failed to understand what he did say. As a writer, most of what he's saying is useful to me in terms of the purpose and technique of writing. It sounds a lot like the way Brecht talked about theatre. I don't like meaningless fluff either, but this is not that. Whose opinions about story-telling DO you respect?

[guerdon6]

i think most of ideas that shekhar believes in are understood best when experienced. he can say this insights only because he must have experienced it.

[gagzy1989]

we are the universe...it's all in us

[indiastore]

veery nice



[johnnyboyfart]

@GrudgyDiablo wtf are u talking abt moron, maybe u need to get your intelligence checked out before u start blaming the outside world.

[jagadeshg]

Looks like he has done his best for such a topic kudos !

[varrrunbedi]

too much fluff,not very insightful

[mjufpn]

At least I know why the movie confused me so much.

[charmingdevil84]

at 8:14 women in red sleeping... lolzzz

[123sidsid]

this is nonsense.

[Drog311]

one of the best speeches i ever heard. He just solved the mystery of the universe for me in those 20 minutes

[Madarezamin]

the screen in the back of the director is unfortunately disturbing to the eye. Powerful story, weak presentation.

[maglinjosvinn]

i'm 6 minutes into this.

loving every moment of it.

[poweredxbyxhope]

Not incredibly easy to follow, but very pure. You can tell that he's not trying to impress anyone. Just communicate.

People need to relax.

[Joshbuckler]

Not so sure if I agree with his point about emphasizing the architecture in that second scene he showed. The stone is bigger than her? Really? So she couldn't have it torn down if she wanted? She couldn't commission an equally massive palace to be built?

Also, when he puts the camera way up high, it doesn't feel "psychological", it just feels like there's a spy in the attic watching her.

Personally, I would have handled the psychology with a caged animal for the symbolism.

[Th3Wab3]

@Joshbuckler you can build anything as big as u want but as you cant control the universe your buildings will crumble at the onset of a storm, earthquake, volcanic eruption etc, human life is trivial short and fragile in comparison to natural order...

[Joshbuckler]

@Th3Wab3 quite right

[rainbowcatcher666]

This was an interesting insight into the thought processes of this director. I really enjoyed it and i agree with him we are the stories and dreams we tell ourselves.

[rainbowcatcher666]

This was an interesting insight into the thought processes of this director. I really enjoyed it and i agree with him we are the stories and dreams we tell ourselves.

[noarae]

His speech is much like the chaos he speaks of. The speech is more like A stream of consciousness. Not as entertaining or precise like other TED speeches but interesting to understand the art of Art.

[wsm1986]

he looks like Liam Neeson

[xjustamem0ryx]

"knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom."

[aflyonthewal1]

I love this - take away?

"knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom"

[jimbruno]

love mr. kapur's discussion of harmony as suggested by contradiction... toward the end of the segment. thoroughly enjoyed! thank you, sir!

[nonamechannel]

This guy is a meglomaniac with a huge ego and It is all about himself. thumbs down

[310sucks]

Fuck this new youtube. The layout sucks!!!!!!

[PhilippeMusique]

this is underrated, very interestin and very deep

[astrocrazy2005]

very nice talk...he did not use the standard ways of oration...But as he said earlier...he does not prepare his speeches.Gandhi also once remarked that he does not prepare in advance for his speeches...But Gandhi was a lawyer by profession and so was a trained speaker...I used to think that unprepared speeches are the best...But the message does not reach out to everyone..The purpose of this talk is to put a methodology...and I think a prepared speech would have reached more audiences...

[nowheregal]

you know how they say that the true brilliant writer knows where to remove text instead of just adding? I felt like he had something to say, but it was lost, misconnected and badly presented. I loved the ideas shown, but he could've synthetized them in much better ways.

[xwidget]

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

[isellsoap1]

Dunno why people didn't like it that much?

[TheDentist27]

I thought this talk was really great.

[theseanze]

confusion is the first step to understanding. Sometimes creating, writing a paper, whatever I'm doing...it usually works most satisfyingly when the process feels like a minor death and ressurection, but that's for us folks who take what we do seriously, put our soul into it...

[ravkes]

The correct relationship between mind and who you really are, is who you really are as being the master. Most people are controlled and enslaved by their minds, completely attached to logic that doesn't explain the intrinsic nature of anything in the universe. So let me pose a question to you all: Who are you? What is this? Only 'don't-know'.. Let go of the concepts your mind creates and you'll see everything for the first time; things as they are.

[Ipoonthecasbah]

not a cool video. Once again the new ratings system fucks 5 minutes of my life over. Not that I have a life, watching youtube videos and whatnot.

[papafox]

Interesting - I like how he incorporates different dimensions into the whole.

[1schwererziehbar1]

alright after watching the whole talk i do actually believe him that he doesn't prepare for anything.

[vraciudude]

no more star rating?!

[iwbagiai]

@vraciudude yeah come on, just show the stars. i like the rest of the stats.

[Zetimenvec]

this was uninteresting and really boring.

I wasn't impressed with his methodologies at all, but if they work for him, whatever.

[BigDickandLittleJon]

Retard.

[agwellin]

Try it in TEXT mode!!!

[Aprilshowersss]

@agwellin how do you try it in text mode?

[labrat882]

He was derailing way too much, I couldn't see how the things he said were connected even that he spent several minutes eplaining them.. ugh. For someone so interested in storytelling, he is quite bad at it, at least when it comes to telling them with speech and not film.

Still, worth listening to. I get the part about personal experience affecting the way we tell stories, I can totally relate to it.

[rah33ls99]

quasi-science + quasi-metaphysics = gibberish

[PointeBlank34]

I felt like that talk had snippets of very interesting ideas, but overall was too spacey and uninformative.

[ILOVEMYEVACHKA]

very interesting