These days, almost all of us feel pressed for time. Leadership expert Dorie Clark shares three hidden reasons people fall into an endless loop of feeling constantly busy, and invites you to question what really motivates how you spend your time.
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Dan Graig
June 8, 2022 at 6:02 pm
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June 8, 2022 at 6:04 pm
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Dan Graig
June 8, 2022 at 6:05 pm
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June 8, 2022 at 6:06 pm
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Dan Graig
June 8, 2022 at 6:07 pm
@Jane Foster Ok, just found his website, impressive, Thank you.
Little Voice
June 8, 2022 at 6:09 pm
I saved this to my watch later playlist because I was too busy.
But I realised you never “find time” you “make time” to do what matters. Sometimes that needs to be prioritising down time.
Richard Lopez
June 8, 2022 at 8:10 pm
Well said. I think a lot of what makes us busy can be redefined as thinking with someone else’s priorities to make *them* happy and that can be personally satisfying. But it comes at the expense of thinking for ourselves, which means that on some physiological level we’re not respecting our own happiness. It takes a certain degree of dissection, depends on communication between both parties, and enough time & resources to follow the matter through to completion. It sounds obvious in hindsight, but memory is there to remind us how complicated it actually was.
Good luck expressing yourself. (I mean that.)
Little Voice
June 9, 2022 at 5:46 pm
@Richard Lopez I need all the luck I can get when it comes to clearly articulating my thoughts in a way that others truly understand what I am trying to convey. But thank you for your thoughtful wise words.
Канал об интересном
June 8, 2022 at 7:47 pm
Thank you! It is very helpful 😌
Richard Lopez
June 8, 2022 at 7:57 pm
She looks a bit like Rhea Butcher.
But it doesn’t get in the way.
Yellow Tail Vineyards probably wouldn’t mind being associated with this.
frank Sina
June 8, 2022 at 10:49 pm
Most people think.investing in Crypto is all about buying coin and leaving it to rise.come, on it takes the wises to be successful while trading with a company’s guild
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June 8, 2022 at 11:30 pm
I’ve never heard or seen any of his clients complain of loss, I think his just too perfect.
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June 8, 2022 at 11:36 pm
Creo que michael ha hecho un nombre aquí en Canadá 👍
Peace Juan
June 8, 2022 at 11:48 pm
Having a companies expert that ensures profit is the best you can do, I lost over 12k trading on my own 😔
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June 8, 2022 at 11:54 pm
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Darlington Walls
June 9, 2022 at 12:03 am
I think his strategies are really cool 😎
m
June 8, 2022 at 10:54 pm
You have to schedule properly, including breaks.
lacerda bh
June 8, 2022 at 11:58 pm
Wow! Amazing! Thanks for this video!
Thankful Lally
June 9, 2022 at 1:34 am
Super fantastic. God bless. 💞💞
mg79277
June 9, 2022 at 1:48 am
Excellent talk. In the last little while I have tried to invest my time in strategic thinking to figure out exactly what I want for myself in the next coming years. What would truly make me happy.
Reading many comments from people who don’t relate or don’t get it.
Invest your time wisely life goes by fast people
Fenix Phucks
June 9, 2022 at 2:30 am
A lot of good points made but the presentation could have been more organized. I also liked how you compared staying busy constantly to drug addiction. It’s very true as both drug addicts and busy people can be using to numb their inner thoughts and problems . And you said too at the end that it’s good to give yourself space to think
Fenix Phucks
June 9, 2022 at 2:35 am
Nice TED talk tho👍 the criticism I made was because it seemed like you were jumping around to different points and the flow was a little off imo
Echi dna
June 9, 2022 at 8:24 am
Before I ask this, sorry if this sounds so “overthinker” but somehow I doubt myself, and these sentences appear in my head “what if the survey, the people you asked didn’t give a real data, not by they lying but they don’t really have that question before so they answered it that time, as you ask them immediately and not accurate”, basically it’s that feeling when someone asks you a question and you answered it after thinking for a while, but then the moment passed and you started to think again about the question and noticed that you have a better answer to it… but when you do a survey to some people, they might doesn’t like to answer much survey so I guess that’s isn’t easy to be proved nvm this is just an overthinking thingy of a frustrated collager, but I’ll appreciate it really if someone can answer and cure this doubt in my head thanks.
Brendan Tripp
June 9, 2022 at 8:31 am
Great talk … Dorie is a remarkable person!
Halil İbrahim Üçler
June 9, 2022 at 10:59 am
a mindfullness approach
pd Wang
June 9, 2022 at 11:50 am
The status that i am suffering is so busy.I need to go over the Accouting, Auditing and Strategy of the CPA,but i also be asked to publish an paper in order to meet the demand of a Master of degree.
Mohammad Miraz Chowdhury
June 9, 2022 at 11:52 am
intro is op
짐작허작
June 9, 2022 at 12:00 pm
인스타그램 Celeb을 준비하고 있어요. 초대 손님으로 최근 대한민국에서 정보로 뜬 천명 정도가 있는데 모두 미국인 입니다. 문화는 조금 감이 있는데 미국인과 영어로 대화를 해 본적이 없는 두려움에 강사를 따라 TED에 이제 왔습니다. 제가 방금 TED 영상을 보고 느낀점은 미국 생활이랄까요? 대학원을 다니고 고급을 주로 따오며 고급 생활은 익숙한 편인데 미국 생활은 정말 부러워서 이게 지금 내 Celeb일까 생각이 듭니다.
행복한 생선구이
June 9, 2022 at 12:00 pm
인스타그램 Celeb을 준비하고 있어요. 초대 손님으로 최근 대한민국에서 정보로 뜬 천명 정도가 있는데 모두 미국인 입니다. 문화는 조금 감이 있는데 미국인과 영어로 대화를 해 본적이 없는 두려움에 강사를 따라 TED에 이제 왔습니다. 제가 방금 TED 영상을 보고 느낀점은 미국 생활이랄까요? 대학원을 다니고 고급을 주로 따오며 고급 생활은 익숙한 편인데 미국 생활은 정말 부러워서 이게 지금 내 Celeb일까 생각이 듭니다.
외항상사 미쓰려
June 9, 2022 at 12:00 pm
인스타그램 Celeb을 준비하고 있어요. 초대 손님으로 최근 대한민국에서 정보로 뜬 천명 정도가 있는데 모두 미국인 입니다. 문화는 조금 감이 있는데 미국인과 영어로 대화를 해 본적이 없는 두려움에 강사를 따라 TED에 이제 왔습니다. 제가 방금 TED 영상을 보고 느낀점은 미국 생활이랄까요? 대학원을 다니고 고급을 주로 따오며 고급 생활은 익숙한 편인데 미국 생활은 정말 부러워서 이게 지금 내 Celeb일까 생각이 듭니다.
Josep G.
June 9, 2022 at 12:57 pm
He was refering to business men, executive and CEO, but there’s another reason to be overbusy, the fear to lose your job and the fear of not find another one in a few time. What about those people who isn’t executive ones? What about a simply worker exploited in his/her job under the menace to be fired?
Vladyslav
June 9, 2022 at 12:59 pm
🐋
Bulent Basaran
June 9, 2022 at 1:06 pm
62 meetings a month, 3 meetings a day.. If they were all the right meetings at the right time, they would help take care of not just short term fires, but also long term strategy… So, make your meetings work for you. Or cut them in half.
Bulent Basaran
June 9, 2022 at 1:19 pm
But, you would not do it, if you fear loss of status, experiencing uncertainty or pain and instead would revert to continuing to use work to numb out all that pain. That numbness though is itself suffering. The only way out is to take breaks to relax and reevaluate and rebalance. Wisdom and sanity return when we allow them to return.
ابوالفضل تیر گری
June 9, 2022 at 2:05 pm
It was a wise word.We did not learn to enjoy life..Because we do not know what our mission is on earth?
💰 Make $750 Per Day
June 9, 2022 at 2:15 pm
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” –Earl Nightingale
Menchu Gonzales
June 9, 2022 at 3:44 pm
I am 24 years old right now and I didn’t want to take the Bs Social way back then but now I appreciate it wholeheartedly because I can feel how it fulfils me🥰
Hevysmoker
June 9, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Awfully presumptuous title,no?
v
June 9, 2022 at 7:34 pm
Important topic, I’ve been conditioned to feel guilty when I’m doing nothing and now I’m so bloody tired. I also do probably less than other people.
RantKid
June 10, 2022 at 12:32 pm
I felt this comment
O M
June 10, 2022 at 5:41 am
Ehy is it marked TED when its TEDx?
Vinh Mandela
June 10, 2022 at 5:45 am
Great ! 🙂
No one star
June 10, 2022 at 7:43 am
I have been working to finish my six-book series. So far, first book of 147,000 words and 60+ illustrations published in 2021. Second book of 120,000 words and 100 illustrations will launch over the solstices of 2022. Book three will occur in 2023, and so on.
After that, I’ll probably be on my death bed, and that’s OK with me. I haven’t found much of anything uplifting nor worth getting involved in since around 2018, so… I’m looking forward to dying. Seriously! 🙂 I’m excited about it, and I’ll be EXTREMELY glad that I no longer have to suffer anymore.
John Doe
June 10, 2022 at 11:24 am
That’s so strange. I thought it was 40 years of failing Trickle Down economics by corrupt, materialistic types who couldn’t care less about anything other than themselves.
The Psyche Gym
June 10, 2022 at 2:19 pm
I know right? Status, Uncertainty, Numbness are very paramount reasons for assuming the ‘Busy’ title.
Great speech sage 👏
Seashells & Dreams
June 11, 2022 at 2:49 am
God is with us all, people need to wake up!!!! Buy XRP, and XLM.
Muniba Animations
June 12, 2022 at 12:01 pm
Thanks
MarcNeil Amandy
June 13, 2022 at 2:55 pm
HOW DID YOU KNOW??!!!!!!
El West
June 15, 2022 at 4:16 am
We are all over worked until we all chill out and this is on a whole
We want more so we work more… maybe if we have less wants – we won’t work as much cause at the end of the day. Maybe we work so much cause we want it to be easier for our kids but what are we setting them up for?? 🙂
El West
June 15, 2022 at 4:17 am
Do or do not there is no try yoda 🙂 gotta find a balance
Lệ Quyên TV
June 15, 2022 at 2:19 pm
noice talk