I am going to disgust about the Ted talk “ There’s more to life than being happy” by Emily Esfahani Smith between “The power of passion and perseverance” by Angela Lee. In these two Ted talks, there are many ideas and pursuits in life mentioned. Both speakers speak about their own experiences and how they earned a lot from them.
Angela Lee talks about when she left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. She was teaching in the New York City public school like any other teacher. When she calculate the grade from her students, she got struck from the IQ was not the only difference between my best and worst students. Some of my strongest performers did not have stratospheric IQ scores. Some of smartest kids weren’t so doing so well. After 7 years of teaching, she came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective, psychological perspective. She decides to go to graduate school to become a psychologist. Angela Lee started studying kids and adults in all kinds of super challenging settings, and in every study, my question was: “ who is successful here and why? ”. One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn’t social intelligence; it wasn’t good looks, physical health, and it wasn’t IQ. It was grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals but the talent doesn’t make you gritty. We need to measure whether we ‘ve been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.
Emily Esfahani Smith mainly says in her speech having meaning in life — serving something beyond yourself and developing the best within you — gives you something to hold onto. About this speech, the purpose is to focus on finding meaning in your life rather than happiness, through the 4 pillars of meaning: belonging, purpose, transcendence, and storytelling. Learn more about the difference between being happy and having meaning as Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life. About this topic, the speaker makes very attractive to the audience because a lot of people thinks happiness is getting what you want like have an ideal job, a perfect boyfriend, a beautiful apartment. All of this makes people happy because is something that they want. Many people have a different way to think what is happiness to them so she discovered the data is showed that chasing happiness can make people unhappy.
In conclusion, both of these two Ted talks have something relate that is Angela Lee was talking about some have to fail to be successful. If you fail in something that is fine you just have to stand up and keep going to find what you want. Don’t be afraid to be failing, during the time we can find what we want and what we get. Emily Esfahani was talk about happiness. Sometimes people think to have happiness is very hard but other people think happy is very easy like have a handsome boyfriend, have a lot of money, a dream job or stay with their family all the time. Maybe both can be the truth, everyone has a different definition of happiness, and there is no right or wrong in this case.
For example, someone thinks to have a lot of money make him happy, and someone thinks health is more important and makes his happy they have a lot of money. Perhaps no one can give the real answer, no one can define it, because everyone’s definition of happiness is not the same.
Their point of connection is to succeed or to get something you want. During the process, you may learn a lot of things like what you want and what you don’t want. The result is to get what you really want and can make yourself happy. The best way to get what we want from life is to first know what we want. Sometimes true happiness doesn’t necessarily mean having a lot of money. While money can solve many things but it doesn’t mean everything. Some happiness cannot be replaced by money, such as time, health, love, family, and friendship. No friendship and affection of the people happy? Money cannot buy friendship and kinship. It’s okay to fail as long as you see the lessons in every mistake you make and use them to become even stronger. If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. We want to failures lessons learned, experience methods, the reasons for thinking so that we will change to mature, to be successful.
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