Jacqueline Novogratz: Inspiring a life of immersion

[jissa683]

she is very sincere hetongue translates her heart without doubts

I love her and her inspiration

[United1ification]

Funny how people would kill just because the other is outnumbered or has less power etc. However this shows the oppressors weakness. They have a greed of power and that they fear something. People should think about it! What is it that makes the Mullahs so scared that they tell people to kill these innocent people. Maybe this shows that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community follows the truth and that we live by the motto of "LOVE FOR ALL, HATRED FOR NONE".

Loveforallhatredfornone org

[United1ification]

When she speaks about the Lahore attacks at 11:33 she is referring to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a sect in Islam that had two of their mosques attacked by suicide bombers. More than a 100 people were brutally murdered. They are being persecuted all the time in countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh and ofcourse Pakistan. For more information on the community, please visit: alislam.org

[Dumass88]

@TerhiTheFinn Yes it is, but talking about it when the opportunity to actually do something productive - is a waist of time. instead of trying to restrict competition - compete, instead of only thinking about the poor women - think of all people with unfair disadvantage.

Inequality between genders is a smaller problem than inequalities between classes and ethnicity.

[effortless35]

So many people are missing the point of the talk. It's not about young men being dangerous. It's not even just a "motivational speech". It's about how crucial social status is for human beings.

You can use this fact for positive social change or to incite terrible atrocities. It can be used to for personal happiness or just to understand people around you from a different point of view. Either way, it's fascinating.

[Tolstoievsky]

uhm, newsflash TED: motivational speech does not function on intelligent cynics. What's your target demographic... i'm going to have to unsubscribe if this keeps up

[kryptonickraze]

@Tolstoievsky Are you implying TED's target demographic should include only intelligent cynics? Newsflash: TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design. It seems their demographic aims to include more than simply intellectuals.

[Tolstoievsky]

@kryptonickraze yeah, well obviously not high end elites, but not idiots either. This motivational speech crap is lowest common denominator material - not soothing for TED

[ThatBookGirl]

@Tolstoievsky True, but it does succede in getting more people interesting, so it's still good in some way, right?

[rpm297]

Until such a time when we can provide abundance for all through technology, building bridges between nations through understanding and resolve, this is one way to try to achieve a solution. Adolescent minds are certainly impressionable, at a time in their lives when they're an their most uncertain as to who they are and who they're going to become, but so are the women. So unfair to generalize, but it serves to reveal where one's values are when does that.

[downstube]

Transcendence!

[TOUGHEYES]

"Focusing on honoring what is the most beautiful of our past, and buliding it into the promise of our future."

That's how the Hidden Leaf Village does it!

[Dumass88]

Why is it that all women always talk about women and inequality all the time?

At the same time men on TED always talk about humans and people?

Feels like men focus on problems and women nag on concepts...

[GeorgeFairweather91]

@Dumass88 maybe because its at TEDwomen

[Dumass88]

@GeorgeFairweather91 Well... That changes nothing, instead of giving space to something that might be interesting on TEDwomen - they perpetuate words that now fall on def ears. Isn't it better to show people what they can do?

[GHortaV]

horrible talk... spirits, souls, prayer... what's next, an astrologer?

[bentothetenthpower]

Holy Fuck. @7:26 she demonizes your sons! WTF! Prior to this point she sounded like someone sensible. The rest of her talk was even reasonable. Why did she need to equate every adolescent boy to Hitler Youth?

Feminists suck. They don't even realize they are part of the problem.

When you point at men and say "Look, the problem!", you seriously undermine your call for equality.

The overall talk was not terrible. But 7:26 was.

[humanist7117]

Love is better than hate because it's nicer.

Mammy Yokum

[Mrmoc7]

This was a fantastic talk. Period.

[drugaddict1235]

Real Talk

[wontonjohn321]

ugh, TED enough with this feminist bullshit, intelligence is impartial to gender, so stop treating it like it isn't.

[KakiharaVoorhees]

"woman woman woman, women women women"

[timabad]

what the fark

[frede1k]

I'm so cool, bla bla women bla bla women bla bla

[ootslaton]

I find it sad that after watching this, that so many want leave petty messages about how women are inferior.

[neokanzler]

TedTalksDirector should be separate from TedWoman.

[Kojak7snap]

@GrudgyDiablo How can you call bullshit on something that your comment indicates you've never heard of before? It doesn't happen much in North America, but these things most definitely happen. It's not exclusively a female thing, but statistically, it happens much more to women. In less developed parts of the world, males usually dominate in very overt ways, and therefore are able to oppress women in similarly overt ways.

[ZodyZody]

In a world in which women are still sold as slaves and stoned to death, for whatever reason, how can you maintain that "Inequality was truly real 20-30 years ago"? There's a bigger problem out there than your perception accounts for.

[1000wrongdecisions]

It is TEDWOMEN, isn't it?

[oclock1983]

do only men listen to TED, so many weird comments, as if nobody understood the speech

[austpom333]

That's great but don't forget to look after number one 

[Andybaby]

TED has officially been taken over by the Matriarchy. I'm hitting the unsubscribe button NOW.

[OgreMECH]

@Andybaby Why isn't there a TEDmen? We could have pretentious talks about boobs and explosions and other vital men's issues.

[TheObjectiveReality]

The feminism on this channel is getting retarded. In one sentence she's talking about her friend who became a monster, and she then apologizes for her, and then in then in the next, she talks about the evil in adolescent males. I'm on the verge of unsubscribing, it's getting old. The reason why discrimination won't end, is because some people insist on continually bringing up issues, such as feminism, as a way to create division. If you want to end division, stop bringing it up.

[kaisergrendel]

@TheObjectiveReality Agreed.

[gaiagale]

Brilliant! ...I'm speechless ... so full of inspiration ...

respect

[geragna]

I wonder if she married the Hippy-Dippy-Weatherman... man.

[AvgasStew]

Finally a good talk..........I was starting to wonder if TED had become women's movement.

[yavanna1969]

Ohhh great - It's Hippy Spice......

[tenisplayer]

POOR people live poor because they want it.

rich people its about sharing, do business that everybody wins and have a nice life.

not a crappy competitive one.

money its just a effect that appends by that.

[Crazylalalalala]

@tenisplayer

LOL "POOR people live poor because they want it."

yea right, im sure people LOVE it in their crime filled neighborhoods and even more so when they are in the brink of starvation.

and rich people are not about sharing either.

[tenisplayer]

@Crazylalalalala

i bet you live a poor life.

think just think about what rich really meant. and think about long term good decisions, planing, work for the future, really be a good person and live around good people..

there are plenty space and resources for everybody.

if you live a crappy life more probably its because you are crappy and live around crappy people.

[Crazylalalalala]

@tenisplayer

you must be a huge d-bag.

i actually live pretty well. To say that poor people are crappy and rich are good is one of the biggest act of douchebaggery i have ever witnessed.

that is just retarded statement.

just an example, Mubarak is filthy rich yet a big douchbag. Madoff become rich by screwing over hounders of people.

you gotta be kidding. Sure many poor people are poor because they cant handle money but to say they are not good people is just retarded.

[tenisplayer]

@Crazylalalalala

i never say that, rich people its not about money and power, its about good living and respect.

you can be extreme rich and still be poor.

[Crazylalalalala]

@tenisplayer

well you certainly could have use different words to convey that message. living well and being a good person is entirely different then being rich.

rich usually describes wealth not personal attributes just as been a good person and respecting others.

[tenisplayer]

@Crazylalalalala well im mexican.... but my point its that money and wealth comes wen you start thinking positive and caring and surrounding by good persons and good places good music and so on.

i mean its an effect of.

and money do sent mean anything sometimes. i live in mexico and security its a big issue, whats the point of have money if you live in fear, i want all the rich and greedy people get of of this country because they are the real problem not the criminals.

[Crazylalalalala]

@tenisplayer

i guess there was just a mis-communication at first between us.

I agree with your point. and good luck.

[sausage4mash]

how many more of these bloody TED women vids do with have to endure ,will the stupid ever stop ! it's just meaningless emotive waffle , I'm on a mission to thumb down this crap till it stops .

[megjett]

@ShApEsHiFt3r Inequality is STILL a very real issue, and not just between the sexes. Industrialized nations have come a long way for sure, though even they are more than ten years away from being perfect, but most of the world is still stuck in the gender, ethnic, financial, LGBTQ, etc. inequality rut.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@megjett

How did you reply to me? You got angry, you let your feelings control you and typed that out. But can I point out that there is a context to my post and you would have realised it if you weren't trying so hard to disprove me. I'm talking about gender inequality and, again, I didn't say it's gone, but:

1. There are more important things to worry about

2. It's diminishing and it will be gone. Maybe 10 years is an exaggeration, but it will happen(even without the constant reminding)

[megjett]

@ShApEsHiFt3r You thought that was an angry comment? Far from it. Had it been spoken, by tone would have been level, my words polite, and my demeanor calm. My comment had everything to do with logic and very little to do with any feeling other than compassion. There are plenty of issues that are worth addressing and solving, and to say that one issue is more important than another is a subjective statement. Sociopolitical ills do not just "diminish." It takes hard work to get there.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@megjett

As for the other types of inequality, they are unavoidable and we are not getting rid of them anytime soon. Capitalism is created so it gives power to the few. We are the lucky ones, the ones that get 24/7 water, electricity, internet and all the benefits such as education and so on. On the other hand, capitalism is getting old now and as the world is becoming interconnected, its system will most likely break down over the next 50 years(if we don't kill ourselves before it happens)

[megjett]

@ShApEsHiFt3r They are unavoidable only when good people do nothing to stop them.

[SobaniForce]

@ShApEsHiFt3r clearly inequality for you outside of your own country is non-existent. Grow up

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@SobaniForce

See, your argument breaks down once you learn that I've moved several times and I live in a different country from the one I was born in even now.

I didn't say inequality doesn't exist. I said it's diminishing. In 10 years' time it will either be gone or almost gone. Unless we keep remind ourselves about it all the time and focusing on the wrong problems. Basically, my argument is that inequality is the LEAST of humanity's problems at the moment.

[babybunnyberry]

@ShApEsHiFt3r I take it that you're not familiar with the fact that women in the UK and the US still make on average 0.70 cents to a man's dollar (with the same experience and qualifications), that women continue to do more than 80% of all housework and childrearing in developed countries; that rape goes unprosecuted and that rape crisis centers have a 5 year wait period in the UK? These are just a few issues, but your position is the same as white folks saying that there is no racism.

[sensori]

@babybunnyberry Those statistics are distortions and partial lies. Quit spreading them around.

[babybunnyberry]

@sensori Where is the basis of your assumptions? What do you know? I base my opinions on decades of research.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@babybunnyberry

You know what, there is no racism. I was just at a party and a black guy I know came up to me and said "You're pretty cool nigga". At which point I was shocked and said "A year ago I had a really close friend who I really respected and who was black. I made a joke, saying the word "nigga". He never talked to me again". The guy just laughed at me and said "Some people will cling to the past and worry about minor details, nothing you can do about it"

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@babybunnyberry

I'm just saying, it all exists in your mind and your perception of reality often twists it.

You're clinging to the past and living in the past. Women make 0.70 cents "on a man's dollar"(in popular terms, "wut?"). Answer one question, to yourself - how much did a woman make 20-30 years ago compared to a man? Go look that up. Now think about what diminishing means and what long- term trends are.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@babybunnyberry

Women have been responsible for childbearing(I assume you mean and wait, are you expecting men to be responsible for that? ) and housework for the past 100, 000 years, while men went out of the camp's security, killed and died for the food children and women ate. Do you think something hard-wired into our very nature over billions of years, in an evolutionary point of view, can completely change in 50 years?

[LokiClock]

@ShApEsHiFt3r Once you decide that the status quo is evolutionary you can wave away any reason to change things. You have no grounds for the assumption that this sexual division of labor is evolutionary or hard-wired. In fact it seems quite flexible. Neolithic culture appeared ~12,000 years ago. Housework didn't exist before we had permanent settlements. In many societies, Women help hunt, or may be the primary hunters.[Wiki:Hunter-gatherer]­. In others, men or the village care/s for the young.

[LokiClock]

@ShApEsHiFt3r On top of that, we have no evolutionary trend going on to support this idea. Animals haven't been around nearly 1 billion years. Primates have been around less than 60 million years, and even in other primates, much less mammals, much less animals, males do the majority of child care.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@babybunnyberry

Sorry that there are lots of fucked up men around the world. I can't do anything about them, but do you know that in the time it took me to write these 4 posts, more than 400 people were killed around the world(33/ minute, or perhaps this is only for the US?)? How many of those crimes do you think will be solved? How much manpower do you think is necessary to solve them all promptly(within 1-2 months)? Rape is horrible, but people were killed. Which is worse?

[babybunnyberry]

@ShApEsHiFt3r For many people who have gone through traumatic experience, death would've been preferable to a life with no hope of dignity. Saying that 400 people got killed, while probably 600 died of diseases, or in a disaster, and then comparing that, doesn't diminish the suffering of other victims. Or when your mother/sister/wife/daughter gets raped, do you say to her, "pull yourself together, you didn't get shot." Sorry; I just think the comparison thing is a non-sequitur.

[solitarybun]

@ShApEsHiFt3r Well you do know that 80%+ of the world population is still living in developing countries and in these countries women are literally treated like shit right? Don't act as if the Americas & Europe are the only places that matter.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@solitarybun

You do know that 94% of statistics are made up on the spot, right?

[solitarybun]

@ShApEsHiFt3r Hmm. I thought you had something meaningful to say. Evidently not.

I should have known better... this is the internet after all. Well, never mind then dear :), run along now.

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@solitarybun

Do you have anything meaningful to say other than made-up statistics? I originally come from a developing country and I can't describe how annoyed your statement that "women are treated like shit in Those evil countriiies" makes me feel. Show me some statistics if you're going to make such brave statements. Yes, there are 2-3 countries in which PEOple, not just women, are treated like shit. Yes, there are 6-7 countries in which women are treated like shit. Status quo? Far from.

[solitarybun]

@ShApEsHiFt3r I came from a developing country too. If you're so keen on the statistic, you can go check it out on Population Reference Bureau itself :\ though common sense could've told you that, just assess the most heavily populated countries like China & India. Prenatal sex identification is illegal in these countries, and even with that China still manages to have 120 boys for every 100 girls. If you think those are made up too, simply google, there're pages of news articles about it.

[Traveler246]

@ShApEsHiFt3r I cannot believe you got 41 likes on your ignorant remark. You speak of the inequality between women and men as if it were not a serious issue because you have failed to get acquainted with all the facts about it and have no idea how bad things are for women in other parts of the world, which are dominated by social standards that are also being assimilated into your continent. It is people like you who, unable to see the gravity of the situation, allow your country to fall apart.

[Traveler246]

@ShApEsHiFt3r I'm sorry. I had not read the other comments. I posted my reply thinking naively that no one had realized how stupid you were.

[theseanze]

@ShApEsHiFt3r -- Idealistic determinism has never improved social change. To someone used to the way society operates, it may sound reasonable, but to people studying anthropology, biology, and/or sociology it's pretty obvious that our customs are built on male dominated ways of behaving. It's not just the constant reports of things like Islamic "honor killings," but domestic abuse within the U.S., the way our political system runs, economy (and lower female wages), trends in philosophy etc...

[MrJaiLeeworthy]

@ShApEsHiFt3r So many people listen to TED talks by woman and only listen to the parts that support this view. This talk is, for the most part, gender-ambiguous. Women talk about women because they are friends with women, they relate to them - but not all women are hardcore feminists. This talk was pretty balanced - but it's directed at the women who attended this conference, not you. How can you blame her for deciding that this is what she wants these women to hear?

[olivierreuland]

@ShApEsHiFt3r Where does she speak specifically about women!? If you don't like the subject that's on thing, but criticizing this talk because of "Women this, women that" just shows you've not even looked at it... And this is sad.

[NWforager]

@ShApEsHiFt3r fortunately , most young people like you are not as wrong as you . This is not actually a normal Ted talk . BUT a 'TED WOMEN' talk . Your comment only solidifies how uninformed you are .

Go learn how wrong you are.

[ThatBookGirl]

@ShApEsHiFt3r It's not really in the past, though.Consciously. yes. I don't think there is anyone (not a significant number, anyway) in developed countries today, who actively thinks that women are worth less than men or that we're somehow less capable. There are still subconsciously absorbed stereotypes and children are still taught that way. Girls wear pink and take ballet classes. Boys wear blue and play with trucks, for example...

[ShApEsHiFt3r]

@ThatBookGirl

Interesting fact:

Up until 1940 pink was the color for boys and blue was the color for girls :)

en.wikipedia org/wiki/Pink#In_gender

[ThatBookGirl]

@ShApEsHiFt3r I did not know that:) The idea is still valid, though. But I have to agree that this type of speech is a patronising and useless way to stuff feminism into our heads.

[ThatBookGirl]

@ShApEsHiFt3r And while I don't know what the situation is exactly in the USA or Britain, etc. in my own country I haven't seen a single commercial for a detergent or cooking equipment or an iron even, that isn't targeted solely at women. These things seem insignifigant, but they do, in the end, play a huge part in forming our mindset. I'm not even going to start on places, where women are still legally being stoned to death.I'd like to think otherwise, but sexism exists and we must talk about i

[zeeshan66]

EPIC 

[defect530]

men and women are not equal. we never will be. that's how nature works.

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great talk

[ConnerKleister]

@defect530 Are you saying that because people are different they cannot be equal?

[defect530]

@ConnerKleister no. im saying if i need to lift something heavy im not going to get my girlfriend to help, ill get her brother to help. duh. women have their role and so do men. how hard is this to understand?

[megjett]

@defect530 Well, if you're dating some thin little waif like me, that would make sense, but just because someone is female doesn't mean they have any less physical strength. I've seen just as many bulky women as I've seen scrawny guys. There are no "roles." When you start attributing certain activities and qualities to only one sex, it eventually becomes taboo for there to be any overlap or complete crossover, and that's where discrimination comes in.

[geragna]

@ConnerKleister This comment of yours made me very curious... Do you know of any two things in nature that can be considered equal in every aspect, though they are different?

[Heero066]

@defect530 I'm pretty sure when she said "equal" she was implying that their lives have equal VALUE, and not that they are equivalent in all ways (no two people, man or woman, are truly "equal"). If you knew nothing about two people except one was a woman and the other was man and you had to choose for one of them to die, then which would you say deserves to live? I hope your answer would be both.

[SiCGaming123]

@defect530

Notre Dame, the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, Taj Mahal

Law, Equality, Freedom

Napoleon, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne

Men have done more than woman did, as napoleon puts it:

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

[66kompis]

Well no one said different, we are talking the right to same salaries positions in companies, education etcetcetc, as a woman i don't want to be a man but I do want to have the same chances as a man if I fit for the task, and not be over looked because I'm a woman..

The right to all these things seems like some thing of yesterday but if you check out the reality you'd be surprised.

[twistedbass15]

@defect530 I agree women will always be better

[defect530]

@twistedbass15 better at cleaning the house.

[twistedbass15]

@defect530 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Buddhabr0t]

can someone summarize for me? i have this feeling, that she says everything and nothing.

[SexyRaww]

plus it's not that black and white. Not all successful people live in immersion. There are some famous people who's fame was based off of fear and strong emotions.

[SexyRaww]

fear is just natural. It doesn't just go away.

[zombiesmasher]

Powerful.

[DeceptiveSoul]

Wonderful heartfelt speaker. Well said.

[Powsser]

Yay! A talk to get ready for class to! (And a good one at that.)

[promotingdetails]

^A^