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IV********:

6:36 i see what he did there. that tarzan reference.

Ex*****************:

3:56 Yea, I fell for this one! Ha! And now I know the truth ...
Do work very, very hard for YOURSELF, but don't work very, very hard for others' (agenda).

Sa**:

9:43 Best part !!

 

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Top Comments : [TEDx Talks] Why you will fail to have a great career | Larry Smith | TEDxUW

aD***************:

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
-Jim Carrey

lo***********:

According to this I will have a great career. Work addiction FTW!

Ra**:

Rather than convincing you that you can do it by saying so, this guy makes you believe you can do it by saying you can't- it's reverse psychology, and I love it.

Su***********:

i dropped out of high school and now i have college people working for me.

Sh**********:

This man can even motivate a cat to be the lion.

Ni***********:

This video changed my life a few years ago.

Ja******:

This has always helped me in life. "Never have a plan B, it just distracts you from plan A" When you want to pursue your dream make sure you dont have a plan B in case you fail, because that only leaves one option, to not fail! Because you wount fail. NEVER HAVE A PLAN B!

Wa***************:

I am currently driving a school bus. Pay is shit, but the fact is, best job I have ever had. The shift is over before it begins, 4 hours, goes by fast, leaves me plenty of time to continue my education at a self pace. Getting paid to cruise around the city, while being admired by youth is fulfilling. Can't say I love it, but it beats most of the higher paying full time jobs I have held that only left me with a large bank account but in a dead end. At least this job gives me the free time and opportunity to upgrade my skills. Time is more valuable than money.

Va****:

Seek failure. Google's philosophy is the best. The sooner you fail, the sooner you'll be free to try something else. Help your children do whatever they wish, really well.

cr****:

I love the ending holy fuck. just ends in unless. just gave me tingles
he doesn't tell us what to do...
because he knows we already know what to do

Ch************************:

I love the way he speaks! 

du********:

this guy would play a great joker

Lo*******:

I like this guy.

mi************:

"I had a dream once and then you were born." - Larry Smith

Bo***************:

This almost had me crying. I'm sitting her at work (at an okay job) listening to him thinking "damn....". I've been mulling over the thought of going to med. school..... This TED talk, along with so many other conversations with peers, have made me make up my mind to go.

A*:

I think it's also important to note that passion can die.
Take me for example: I followed my dream. I did what I really wanted to do: I studied language and literature and I was really good at it. They offered me a job in research at college which was what I always dreamt of since my senior years in high school.
But then...
But then...
I realised the price you pay for "following your dream/your passion". And I'm not only talking about stress, insecurity concerning the renewal of your contract (at least that's how it works in research in the country I'm from), but also on a much deeper level.
Having to produce "results". Seeing oneself forced to "lower the standards of research", because of dead lines etc.
Having to agree with positions of superiors even though your research contradicts them and your conscience is not clear while doing so.
Notising after a while of working in your field, that research, especially in the humanities is not based on "truth" and "true findings", based on plausibility etc., but rather just a vast collection of simple opinions, ideas and your personal conclusion that you yourself and your whole field are actually not really "productive", but rather simply talking, discussing numerous topics.

I really did what I always wanted to do, what I was passionate about. But in the end after all the disappointments concerning the field I was in, the "laws" which structured it and much more, I actually lost my passion. I lost my respect for the field, and subsequently for myself as I was working in that field, as I chose something nobody could really benifit from, something that was just passion and dream and in the end not even that.

I know for a fact that there are many people who are at the same point as I am. Even if you succeed, even if you get the job you always dreamt of in the field you were always passionate about... you can still "fail". You can loose your passion due to so many aspects of your "job". For example a teacher: passionate about teaching but confronted with students who are not interested. Don't you think he will loose his passion in the long run? Or even if the students are participating and so on. What about bad working conditions, educational politics which make your job unnecessary hard etc.

If you follow your dream - even if you succeed - chances are you're going to not have a great career after all. And the thing is:
If you see your job as one part of the equation of life. If you just want it to be okay, to be somewhat secure etc., you'll probably succeed in achieving that and will be contempt. And there will be so much more which make life worth living, so many other factors in your life which add to the contempt in your job; add up to happiness. But if you "only" follow your passion, if you place all your bets on one card, if you're willing to sacrifice a lot for that passion, chances are, even if you succeed, even if you reach the goal you always dreamt of, it won't be the great thing you and your idealistic mind made it out to be and you will struggle with your "fate".

Sucessfull actors and actresses, sucessful painters, musicians. Don't they all have a really high rate of suicide and mental ilness amongst them? Even those who weren't famous during their lifetime (Nietzsche (philosopher), Van Gogh etc.)... They had great careers, they followed their passions and succeeded. But still lots of them were unhappy...

And isn't that what it's all about? Being happy? The misleading conception a great career would make you happy?
Maybe it's time to rethink that concept. Maybe the "great career" is not the "sure ingredient for happiness" people always made and still make it out to be.

Jst a thought. :-)

 PS: Sorry for my English.

cr****:

I've heard Wim Hof say this: "I do not fear death, I fear not living fully"

Ja*************:

For God sake, could we keep the camera still for 2 seconds?  This isn't a Michael Bay film.

Pr************:

What's wrong with Velcro?  

Je**:

From what I understood, he ended with "unless" which same as saying "unless I do something". Notice that he didn't continue with "if only I had". It's the same as saying "No excuses".

Ab*******:

That last part about picking up relationships as human shields to justify our failures hit my head like a hammer

Se*****************:

I am so high right now and this was mind blowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fi******************:

The comments below are excuses based on hypothetical monetary, family, financial situations. Yes, but you are what you do. If you spend each day thinking of these things. This becomes your destiny. Steve Jobs, who collected coke bottles for cash said "Stay hungry, stay foolish". In other words, do stuff you want to and don't worry about the details as long as you hold on to your passion.

fe*******:

What if I don't know what my greatest passion in life is?? Like till in high school I thought Engineering was my greatest passion but when I joined college and discovered the actual detail working it does not fascinate me anymore, like right now I have a job in IT, and feel that journalism might be my passion but what if it turns out the same way it did with engineering?Plus like a job in journalism is that of much more struggle and low pay than than that of IT. Thinking that these factors are giving me second thoughts, it is really not that much of a passion for me but a mere interest.

An********:

bleh, the first part about passion was great... But I tell you what, passions are fleeting, they change with time, an ebb and flow of an ocean.... My love for my wife and kids, now that is an ever lasting force that inspires me to be a better person... ANYONE that looks at their wife and kids as jailers and blames them for their failures, is a coward, and is afraid to look at the real blame, themselves... because if your children don't inspire you to greatness, nothing will.

Sh***********:

It's videos like these that remind me of why I love TED Talks

Ar**************:

"Unless.."- my new favorite word.

ns*:

Crisis Alert!

we******:

He sounds like he is doing a cartoon character voice.

Ch*************:

I feel like this guy formulated a great point for a very small group of people...like he hasn't interacted with enough real people or something to actually apply a general idea.

Fa*************:

"If only I had...if you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt a lot." Such wise words. I always believed and still do that the happiest people in the world are those who have nothing to regret

Ki**:

What does it mean to have a great career anyway? I've heard people say that they want one but I don't know what it means. Does it mean you get paid a lot? Does it mean you get a lot of recognition for your achievements?

I just want to be able to have a job where I can come into work everyday and be able to be tired, hungry or stressed but not care because I love what I do. I want a job where I can touch people's hearts and influence them and put out new thoughts and conversations out into the world.

Ai**********:

After a year of watching videos like this and almost doing nothing about it, I left my advertising job to go to med school.

Jo******:

This talk always rubbed me the wrong way, and now I'm pretty sure I know why. It is Larry's assertion that: "If you're not optimally engaged in your life and career at all times, you are making excuses and not making the hard choices to follow your passion". So, many people who watch this, will feel some self-loathing. Well its BS. Not everyone has a singular "passion" and following a perceived passion will still lead you to a life where you sometimes question what you are doing, and have bad days and struggles. Resilience and resistance to jumping ship, just because you're not having a great time at the moment, are also what will get you somewhere.

I'd have to say that this is a bunch of fluff propped up by Larry Smith's forceful style. Just because Larry Smith says it doesn't make it true. I think next time I see Larry, on campus, I might just stop him and tell him its BS, in a nice way, but that wouldn't accomplish much. I'd get a lecture and look like a petty jerk, but I do believe it to be true. This is what I think every time I walk by big posters advertising Smith's Book. I think it will serve to accomplish the opposite of what he thinks it will.

Go*************:

He makes a lot of great points. Just a few additional thoughts:

1) A meaningful life certainly relies on the pursuit of one's passion. BUT this doesn't have to be in the form of a career (e.g. a person could be incredibly passionate about raising children as such and therefore also not be bitter about their children's dreams later on because they DID pursue their own passion by having children). In other words, finding and pursuing one's passion is vital, but the concept of what constitutes "meaning" is more general. It might not always be in the form of what we commonly regard as a "career", although it may well deserve that name in terms of the effort and skill that people put into it.
I say this not because one shouldn't pursue the kind of great corporate or artistic career that many might think of when watching this video, but simply to argue that the points of Mr. Smith should not be viewed in a restrictive sense.

2) If you have found your passion, pursue it relentlessly, but don't expect that you will be able to make a) money right away b) a lot of money c) money at all. Pursuing your passion may come at the price of having to work odd jobs until you can monetize your passion or it may involve pursuing your passion (e.g. painting) privately as a hobby if the market currently doesn't value your work a lot. Still, the most depressing thing you can do is to remove your passion from your life completely, just because it doesn't make money or doesn't make money yet. Passions are at the center of a fulfilling life and so they HAVE to be pursued if we want to live a life that we won't regret in the end. But rather than to think that our passions will either a) lead to an amazingly successful career right away or b) lead to nothing, we should focus on how we can incorporate our passion into our life under all circumstances. That way, our lives will always contain that which is most meaningful to us and we still give ourselves the chance for it to grow into something bigger.

3) A "great" career might include high status and wealth, but in the end, it is fulfillment that matters the most. The rest is a bonus. Hence, if a person realizes that they are most passionate about being a kindergarten teacher or gardener or nurse, they might not make the most money or have the highest social status, but they will be able to claim that they followed their passion and that they would not have wanted to choose a different career just because somebody told them that their's wasn't "great". (Of course, if you settle for a job that you don't really want and you simply try to rationalize that "this is really an honorable career, you know!", then you might want to reconsider if there isn't another thing that you would rather like to do, but haven't dared to pursue yet. Also, given the importance of certain jobs, we should certainly reconsider the wages of those who are actually willing to do those important jobs.)

4) In the same sense, a "passion" doesn't have to be an incredibly extroverted affair. A person's greatest passion may be to work as a forest warden, taking care of the local environment etc. Again, if that is fulfilling for this particular person and if that person, in their heart of hearts, would not want to be anywhere else, that would be a "great" career based on the pursuit of personal passion, even if it doesn't look like a spectacular, high-energy thing from the outside.

5) It is very true that fear is probably the greates obstacle in the pursuit of our passions: Fear of disapproval, fear of social isolation, fear of poverty, fear of uncertainty, fear of injury. But, while this is true, we should not think of this issue as a personal failure. Mr. Smith's comment should not be understood as an accusation of weakness, even though that's how many people might hear it (and how some people may actually say it).
Instead, we should recognize the obstacle of fear as a neutral fact, because once we have recognized it as an obstacle, we can now work on how to overcome it. We should not think of fear as a thing that successful people just don't have and the rest is unlucky. We should realize that emotional health and the ability to not stand in our own way is a matter of personal fitness & development and that personal development is just another part of striving for a great career (e.g. we would never "accuse" a person, like: "You know why you will never finish a marathon?!?! BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT IN SHAPE!!!". Well...duh! Instead, we would regard it as an obvious fact that anyone who wants to run a marathon has to improve their fitness to a sufficient degree first.) 
So, instead of treating your current emotional/cognitive configuration as an unchangeable fact, treat it as something that can be developed in such ways as to enable you to pursue what you're passionate about.

Sa************:

If you are desperate about having a great career or success, then, passion is not for you. Passion is for the passionate, not for the desperate.
Passion is knowing that it is going to be difficult. Passion is knowing that you may die poor and miserable. Passion is the determination to never give up. Passion is willingness to risk not having a career at all, forget about good or great career.
It is a personal choice to make - whether to play it safe or to pursue one's passion. One is not better or worse than the other. What is worse is mistaking one for the other. Pursuing passion and planning for career are two different things.

Sc*********:

He's saying to not give up on your dreams in order to have a family. First focus on achievement, and then when your satisfied, look for a partner. Because if you spent your youth on pursuing your passion and your career, you will have more potential partners to choose from. And when your kids one day want to pursue a risky dream, you won't look at them as the premature dream-destroyer that stopped you from satisfying your passion. Stop taking the path of parent so early, and take some damn risks for once in your lives!!

 

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