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Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED

Author David Larbi recites a poem about the journey toward joy, reminding us of all the ways it can be found: having a conversation with a stranger, tasting the perfect bite of food or enjoying a good stretch. Joy is all around us — you just need to know where to look. (Recorded at TEDNext…

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Author David Larbi recites a poem about the journey toward joy, reminding us of all the ways it can be found: having a conversation with a stranger, tasting the perfect bite of food or enjoying a good stretch. Joy is all around us — you just need to know where to look. (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 10, 2025)

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  1. @kennethj.knight6892

    April 30, 2026 at 11:02 am

    Great video

    • @TardigradeTough

      April 30, 2026 at 12:19 pm

      😂

  2. @HeatherPeterson-p4g

    April 30, 2026 at 11:05 am

    Wise wise words!!

  3. @welcome.421

    April 30, 2026 at 11:07 am

    TED | Help me for better again 🙏🏻

    • @TardigradeTough

      April 30, 2026 at 12:21 pm

      You need help with grammar there’s free online courses for children and adults at your level, completely free!!

  4. @JosieStev

    April 30, 2026 at 11:17 am

    When the nasal flare, how they dare

  5. @ИльдарГимазов-с8ъ

    April 30, 2026 at 11:29 am

    Why so difficult accent?

    • @usagirei5405

      April 30, 2026 at 11:57 am

      he spoke clearly. youre the issue.

    • @ArcticAnalysis

      April 30, 2026 at 12:10 pm

      why so difficult ears?

    • @NataleiFoster

      April 30, 2026 at 12:50 pm

      I understand English language isn’t your first, so turn on subtitles 🙂

    • @Paul.3026

      April 30, 2026 at 7:08 pm

      😂

  6. @eric----

    April 30, 2026 at 11:36 am

    absolutely amazing. Definitely needs an applause!! 👏👏👏

  7. @TardigradeTough

    April 30, 2026 at 12:19 pm

    I miss the intelligent thought provoking evidence based TED of old not this woke feelings based garbage for woke hippies, from high do they fall 🙄

    • @NataleiFoster

      April 30, 2026 at 12:52 pm

      I forgot being happy is woke.
      But also these ARE based in science. Take a little bit of time to look into it!! It’s been socially studied, it’s really interesting!

    • @TardigradeTough

      April 30, 2026 at 1:03 pm

      ​@NataleiFoster lol you do know to us physicists and to the rest of real science “social science” is a joke? Open to all kinds of biases and agendas it’s a travesty the word “science” has been stolen and misused to make it sound more intellectual than it actually is 😡

    • @woobthepinkbunny8661

      April 30, 2026 at 1:37 pm

      ​@TardigradeTough Have you heard there’s a BIG side of science for “social studies” and psychology?

      Woke as a term is discriminatory to many people and minorities.

      This place is made for Kindness, we shouldn’t leave people out of their possibilities for that.

    • @TardigradeTough

      April 30, 2026 at 1:48 pm

      ​@woobthepinkbunny8661 maybe do better research and read all the comments in this section before just repeating what some other person who thinks social studies is a science wrote? And Im not interested in who gets offended to able to think you have to risk being offensive if you dont like something I wrote move on and go and read something you do like snowflake

  8. @rhodadonovan975

    April 30, 2026 at 12:53 pm

    Hi there, David Larbi,
    Thanks for sharing this!
    Listening today, I wondered if you might be familiar with Letters From Love on Substack. I think you might enjoy it! Peace and Wonder!
    Rhoda

  9. @SquirrellyWriter

    April 30, 2026 at 12:55 pm

    Thank you, needed this today.

  10. @drumbum3.142

    April 30, 2026 at 1:24 pm

    Art, Music, and Dance are (my) Joy 🎭

  11. @AcselMitchell

    April 30, 2026 at 3:06 pm

    Brazil David! thanks

  12. @andyjulia

    April 30, 2026 at 3:53 pm

    That jacket brings joy 😊

  13. @Christine-e7b

    April 30, 2026 at 4:03 pm

    ❤❤❤❤😊

  14. @niccolom

    April 30, 2026 at 5:28 pm

    I’m waiting to see Depressed people complain about another “choose to be happy” advice.

    This guy is privileged to be good at writing. He can make a good life out of it. Plenty of people do not have that kind of luxury.

  15. @Paul.3026

    April 30, 2026 at 7:05 pm

    That’s a great 👍 talking, I’ve found joy interacting with ppl as my job request, it’s a simple significant thing that makes your day the best day ever. Also that guy should be a singer, nice voice!

  16. @Hawk259

    May 1, 2026 at 7:09 am

    Brilliant ❤

  17. @clementgavi7290

    May 1, 2026 at 1:39 pm

    Joy is a manifestation of the status of sentient beings. This is why animal beings who don’t talk nor smile use different ways to express joy. In this perspective, a child in a cradle as sentient being knows intrinsically what joy means. But, in every certainty that child has not the material nor psychological means to provide to himself the things that will trigger joy. The same goes to the elderly who can no more move nor talk.
    How a child who is hungry can be joyful?
    How the elderly who is thirsty but who can’t talk nor move can be joyful?

  18. @Jav13n

    May 1, 2026 at 3:36 pm

    Beautiful

  19. @sellenasong4120

    May 1, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    Awesome

  20. @Crackingitbywalnut

    May 2, 2026 at 4:29 am

    The piece that rarely gets addressed at work: high-performers often can’t receive joy — contentment reads as complacency in demanding environments. The coaches we work with find this is where the real shift happens. Not productivity. Just genuine permission to notice what’s actually going well.

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