Why TED talks don't change your life much: Neale Martin at TEDxPeachtree

The video description desperately needs to include the profile of speaker. I don’t want to be hearing somebody with unknown qualification. The current text about TED organization is secondary and can be kept only after his profile.

How can such a fascinating machine like the human brain come about through such a random, uncontrolled and nondiscriminatory process when every other impressive machine required an equally impressive mind to design and build it?
Evolution is a narcissist’s explanation for the lack of accountability they seek to have. Can we just for a second agree that if a lead pencil required an intelligent designer that perhaps a vastly more complex thing like the human brain probably needed a designer as well?
I wish for once someone would collate intelligence with design. Is not artificial intelligence designed? Than why not organic intelligence?
Great talk until he tried to tell me my brain happened by accident. Explain the process and probability of a house appearing in the middle of no where, out of no where. Or how a stick evolved into the walls of a mansion. I’m waiting 🤓

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i dont watch ted with the intention to change my lo life, only watch for informative, let loose purposes.

More people would be drawn to this talk if it was positively titled, "How to put TED talks into action" or "How YOU can make TED talks change your life". I skipped passed the current title for several weeks. Who wants to be told why all this time we spend listening is not going to change our lives?! It DOES change your life, but only IF you consciously decide to put it into action, sometimes having to fight our old subconscious habits. Thank you for the talk. It was interesting and worth the listen. :0)

Why TED talks don't change your life much. Because we have wine, beer and whiskey.

He is a baldy version of Tom Cruise XD
Great Talk btw...

Very excellent speech, thumb for it..., but I take step back about what they calling "evolution" and there is no scientist prove for it ...

He has to understand this....when one is specializing on habits he or she should know that habitual behaviours don't happen subconsciously but automatically. Atomatic is conscious habitual behaviour. If it wasnt so then driver would be unaware of what he's doing I.e. if they r asked what they r doing their brain would have to process their action. Even if the correct answer follows right away still the process of analizing happens...when it's subconscious behavior. So if a driver is driving subconsciously then consciously he thinks he is doing something else...for ex. Jogging.. messing up with subcoucious in Psychology is now beyond..it's sad cz sub/unconscious is indeed extremely important.

This was really interesting, thanks.

They should change the title of this talk because it's far more interesting than the title would suggest.

He's halfway there. Inspiration isn't enough- but it is required. Necessary but not sufficient. What makes us human is a huge amount of grey matter ontop of our lizard brain. Point being just doing what's unconscious as he's espousing can be called another term: sleepwalking.

thıs talk changed my lıfe

Bitconeeeeeeeeeeeeeeect!

Preach the truth.

Slow, lazy, and completly unreliable...
Yep that about me :D

RU-clip's recommendation algorithm is taking me on the change my life train. It's beautiful here.

A brain explaining the (brains)))😊

well, this is meta

Best Tedx Talk so far!

Lol

Great quote from this TedTalk: " *It's what we do that matters, not what we know* "

Buddha teaching: shut your mind off in order to light your awareness.
Almost all TED talks have Buddha concepts; you can translate this video that buddhism needs to be applied and not just be taught!

Stay 'til end. Write it down. Q

I see I've good understanding of my "self"

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so true i think about doing homework but i won't do it

Discipline is not punishment. It is when the two minds work together. Golden words.

Good talk. I guess being at the top tier of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when you have your balanced, stable life, hearing neat ideas can become just a pastime. You change when you need to change.

this video changed my life

Very good talk, Neale. Insightful.

someone forgot to convert the video format.

Great explanation of what drives and changes behavior (loved the spring analogy). However, as a hypnotherapist and practitioner of other modalities to change human behavior quickly and permanently (for 22 years), I disagree that discipline is the only way to change behavior (as your beginning slide declares). I have used these modalities on myself and thousands of my clients. Discipline is still a conscious-level reasoning process, which is inefficient at making changes quickly, easily and permanently. You can't use the conscious mind to change the conscious mind (at least, not quickly, easily and permanently); as Einstein said, "you cannot solve a problem with the level of the mind that created it." Using techniques such as hypnosis get at the subconscious to introduce in the new thoughts/emotions and make it more likely to stick--without the need for "discipline."

He's gone META

(Possibly) change happens in very minute increments; needing the constant pressure of conscious thought on an issue...and/or it can happen quickly through fear.....

I love this inspirational talk

Very good lectures ... Fun like during watching MTV about 1999 year ...

I've heard Jordan Peterson saying how habits can be seen as mundane, everyday and therefore trivial, which can't be further from the truth as habits dictate a lot in your life. When I saw the title of this talk, I had the hunch that it was going to be about this, and I was pleased at how the same message was expressed by a neuroscientist. I do believe that this is very good stuff, at a point in my life where I really need it.

Repeat it until it feels normal at 18

how i wish the "experts" can come up more strategies to trick the mind.. be it weight loss, dealing with anxiety and depression, productivity... and not just you know something like "believe in your power, you have the power" lmao!

Inception

Later on this man made a talk on bitconnect.

This was by far the best I have heard on good bad habits & conscious & unconscious, thanks.

This is Super Clear! Thank you !

Thank you...

its called the reptilian part of the brain and not the dinosaur brain. granted he is trying to simplify but it also has nothing to do with reptilians, it's​ just old.

If anything history has more emotional content than math, but I guess in math its easy to get excited or frustrated with the problems. But the content of math itself vs history is much less emotional imo than history.

Neale, you look a lot like Tom Cruise minus hair and the mole on his cheek.

who give you the right to take property my and distribute to lazy people ?
All hail capitalism.

ну длин! как теперь можно думать о чем-то кроме того, как сильно ты хочешь печеньку?!))

Thabkbyou so muvh, I just watch the TED Talk about the doctor that doesn't tell you anything or what doctors don't tell you and that's a great point it's not about what you know it's about what you do

So, action speaks louder than words

So watch Ted talks and make an habit of watching Ted by your unconscious mind.

alright. let’s see if i can follow his advice

This talk is so accurate it's not even funny...

ironicly, this Ted talk will change my life much.

He is one of the GREATEST

He lost my trust, when he said "alarm clocks are a great cue to wake up" 😂

These ted talks are amazing,
this video teaches you that behavior only changes through discipline.

When you do it, focus on the results, and remember to get that result you must do that again.

not very simple

This rolling shutter .___.

Pathetic speech. Useless. All ted talks are intellectual masterbation. Feels good but it does nothing.

Awesome speaker

I'm glad somebody addressed this.

I m Much Pleased With You

this guy HAS to be related to Bill Burr because he looks and acts just like him IMO hilarious

I'm a self-perpetuating slinky in a sea of bigger, self-perpetuating slinkies! :D

I feel like the more I know about the scientific evidences about any given subject, the better I understand my mind and emotions. Therefore, the more precise I become in overcoming my own obstacles. Knowing and understanding the facts alongside my personal experiences keeps me more grounded and disciplined rather than chasing after my own tail and wearing myself off into exhaustion. Great talk!

Because only God would be able to change your life (a lot). Jesus can do that, TED talks are useful but they can't make you change spiritually from doing bad in mind and action to doing good to others.

"Why TED talks don't change your life much"
THIS is the ONLY TURD or TURDx talk that I have ever thumbed up.
This guy gets it.

discipline turns talent into ability

Great speech, thank you Neale Martin! :)

Isn't mobile phone use whilst driving not illegal in USA?

He looks like a mix between tom cruise and trump

Very nice talk. Yet there is one that changed mine :D

gratification monkey vs rational decision maker

This title is crap !! If TED do not change our life much then why he is giving speech in TED. Acquired knowledge has deep impact in our life.

Looks like a bald Tom Cruise... sounds like him, too.

*said in a TED talk*

2 Reasons: 1.) because your life is like the Titanic, difficult to change course; and 2.) because TED talks are by and large vapid and clueless.

I decided when I was in Junior high that I would be a very careful driver--and I am. I tend toe hypervigilant, which is exhausting. And driving while exhausted is unsafe. Catch-22!

hitman in real life!

If he's right, there is no point listening to any TED talk, including this one. If he's wrong, this is a bad talk. Either way, this is a pointless talk. Good bye.

16:17 After all the brain theory and behavioral concepts about habit formation... point where gives practical step of how "discipline" is used to form a new habit.

9:11: "My teacher did not make an emotional connection with me . . . my teacher was not good."Is that to say that your teacher was not sufficiently "infotaining"? Reminds me of the old "my teacher should have made me" (do whatever it was the teacher should have made the student do, as opposed to the student rising to the occasion and making himself do - what - study?) canard. How many attendees were compulsively checking their digital demigod devices during this presentation? Who should properly bear that blame? (Re: the introductory texting-while-driving segment) What is to be done about similar student behavior during, say, a calculus or organic chemistry lecture? How shall an "emotional connection" be made to taking the differential of ax^2 + bx + c or to the step-by-step synthesis of lithium aluminum hydride? Not a few teachers go home, sit still, and be quiet for an hour, recovering from an overdose of negative emotional connection with students, especially middle schoolers.

Had to come to rewatch this... all I remember from yesterday's session are cookies.

This talk has many issues.. first it does not refer to free will as a basic human trait. It is mixing up conscious and unconscious mind without taking into account our ability to over ride and make choices. Behaviour is manifestation of our choices... these could be emotive suported by reasoning or just following our base desires. Every thing we do in life has consequences whether we are aware of these or not...

this guy is johny woo all i need is 3 fingers

love the sharing of stories ..real people actually encouraging others this is a great thing
and I'm soaking itup and passing it on ..people are visionary and seek opportunity these stories open us to be about thinking differently.. just love them all !

Great talk!!!!!!

I've never heard so many false statements in one TED talk.

2:00 I'm amazed how stupid people are to be brainwashed recently in to believing touching your phone for 5 seconds is somehow significantly more dangerous different than touching the radio for 5 seconds, bucking up for 5 seconds, or scratching your nuts for 5 seconds, or looking in your rear view mirror for 5 seconds,hand your kids a drink for 5 seconds. Touching buttons the radio hasnt been a problem for nearly 100 years, but OMG touch buttons on a phone and suddenly people think you're in grave danger. (Of course if you DONT LOOK WHERE THE CAR IS GOING you're in grave danger, but thats not about using a phone,a radio, your mirrors, scratching an itch, commit acts of lewd behavior, thats about being an idiot and not watching where you're going, which can be done with and without a phone. There is nothing special about phones.)

he could've said everything in half the time if he took out the evolution bs

Truth: someone successful, standing on a stage, talking about their success does absolutely NOTHING for your own personal advancement. You want the breakdown of T.E.D? lead with a personal story of climbing the ladder.. Make a repetitive list of self improvement... Talk about your success.. Make it sound easy, but say it isn't guaranteed.. Vwala.. There you have it.. I've just saved you from watching almost every single TED Talk, except the ones such as this.

This talk is a brain explaining the brain.

Take my Upvote just for the title, before I've even listened.

So help me translate the habit ideas into my situation, because I can see how to do it in something like weight loss. That makes sense to me.
But I'm having anxiety right now. I'm worrying about everything. I'm stressed. I'm anxious at work, because I'm not sure of some of the tasks I'm working on.
I've always been a worrier. And I'd like to put some of what was said here into practice. But I'm not sure how to do that with something more intangible like my situation. Removing a cue like not having candy in the home makes sense with losing weight. But anxiety and worrying seems different to me, because the cues aren't as easy to define. And I'm not sure how to use what I've learned in this video.

You can't be yourself if you don't know yourself. People are living as
their false mortal mind self instead of their immortal conscious self. Know thy self
as Socrates said. The truth as it relates to conscious life has been
revealed, Search "Truth Contest" and read the top entry called The
Present. This is truth you can and should check for yourself, this is
truth the evidence says is true. The truth will set you free.

Ted talks talking about ted talks? Has science gone too far?