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Adaratalaya (July 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm)
Malcolm is so interesting. Ive read his books and some of his archives and MAN! Great information.
richyyyy (July 6, 2008 at 11:41 pm)
I entirely agree with the message that accepting diversity or delving outside of your accepted social boundaries and embracing different circumstance absolutely contribute to happiness. This lecture could have been spoken in about 2 minutes rather then 18 as the point is simple. For the people that don't understand, I think the wordiness and the numerous examples used to try to illustrate similar points prevented people from grasping what is being discussed.
Kommaseir (May 23, 2008 at 12:16 am)
Sorry to say this Kotesu....but you're comments make you seem like a stupid goof.
cruelcruelcruelcruel (May 20, 2008 at 10:35 am)
Your girlfriend dumping you would also be an external source of happiness. Instead of deciding: "I'll be happy", you've decided: "I'll be depressed/mad/unhappy". But it's based on an external source whether it's sauce, mustard, coffee, or a girlfriend.
But the point seemed to be that everyone is different, and catering to differences makes the people with those difference happier than being shoehorned into generalized categories. Just the way it seems to me.
meowminx (March 9, 2008 at 4:13 am)
I just love love love this guy. Read The Tipping Point and his blog, gladwell dot com!
mrmckeifus (February 29, 2008 at 2:32 am)
I think you missed the entire point of that 17 minute speech. Please watch it again in it's entirety.
Hint: It's not about spaghetti sauce, or coffee, or how these things can make you happy.
Kotesu (February 26, 2008 at 10:27 pm)
The point I'm trying to make is that your perspective and mentality have a much greater impact on your perception of the experience. If that's the case, then you could have the best damn spaghetti sauce on the planet but if your girlfriend dumped you, you'd hardly even notice.
When you loose the dependency on external things to get you happiness, you have a type of happiness that nobody but you can take away.
Kotesu (February 26, 2008 at 10:23 pm)
That's enlightenment? I'm not so sure.
There's the assumption behind this talk that happiness is induced externally: coffee makes me "deliriously happy", a better spaghetti sauce will increase my quality of life. I can't buy that.
When you're eating; try to appreciate the amount of work it takes to grow it, harvest it, ship it, prepare it and present it. Or if that doesn't work, go do heavy labor for a few hours and see how much better food tastes when you're in a different frame of mind.
mrmckeifus (February 11, 2008 at 7:27 am)
brilliant
bloody fucking brilliant
17 minutes of solid edutainment and then BAM enlightenment.
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