About a month ago I learned about TED by reading a post by Guy Kawasaki on his excellent blog. TED (an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an event that takes place once a year, and it provides a platform for “inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”.
I want to draw your attention to the talk by Dan Gilbert, about “What makes us happy”. I believe that happiness can be found in being authentic in life, and doing stuff that is congruent with my values and ambitions. Dan Gilbert talks about a concept called synthetic happiness, and sheds a light on another form of happiness. I wonder if there’s a difference in the emotional experience of synthetic and natural happiness. Synthetic sounds so “fake” to me.
I encourage you to browse through the talks. Some of them are really good, and the quality of the videos is good as well.
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You said “the quality of the videos is good” but perhaps you should say “the quality of the content is good”. The video is actually pretty mediocre. The talk by Gilbert is full of fuzzy illegible slides.
Yes, you’re absolutely right. Thankfully the quality of the videos at TED has also improved a lot over the past couple of years. I still consider it a rich source of inspiration and new ideas.