When we ditch our assumptions, new ideas can enter the world, says filmmaker Zach King. In an entertaining talk full of props and surprises, King shows us the trick to regaining our sense of childlike wonder through the power of storytelling — and a bit of magic.
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Ser Ta
September 16, 2022 at 7:36 pm
This is inspiring 😊
Justin A Mood
September 16, 2022 at 7:36 pm
Unbelievable, first he’s a champion on MrBeast’s video, a father and husband and now on a Ted Talk
bingus_gaming94
September 16, 2022 at 7:40 pm
Yoo
Ifrah M
September 16, 2022 at 7:55 pm
Awesome video
ADIMIRROR
September 16, 2022 at 8:12 pm
Great talk.what a Great story teller.
Squintillions
September 16, 2022 at 8:24 pm
1:01 In my house, that’s a transmogrifier.
Swirbl
September 16, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Pq
John Simon
September 16, 2022 at 8:39 pm
Wow.. perfect delivery
Gio Gio
September 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm
Omg Zach King i love u
Chang Zhuang
September 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
You can do it
Chang Zhuang
September 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
You can do it Zack
victor noagbodji
September 16, 2022 at 9:21 pm
Great talk. Ruined by the placement of the suggested video. Some of us with OCD care about what’s on the box LOL 😅
LordKiwii
September 17, 2022 at 12:08 am
You mean at the end? You can see it when he walks away its a big red circle with a cross through it 😊
Ryan Epps
September 16, 2022 at 9:30 pm
Wowsers. So true. So sad that we get normalized to be on constant schedule. I can see why ppl get depressed
ZEUS
September 16, 2022 at 9:35 pm
Who’s coming here from Zach kings post?
👇
Unpredictable
September 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm
That’s awesome
Messy Hair 147
September 16, 2022 at 10:01 pm
Wow you are so cool.
Vilas Jamdal
September 16, 2022 at 10:38 pm
Creativity level always goes up. Legendary Zach king 💯💯
Prestige Gamer
September 16, 2022 at 11:17 pm
I’ve always wanted to see him on the stage I imagined I would do the same I would use tricks just like him but also taken to the next level with technology like volumetric 4D videos and projection mapping. But it’s not there yet 🙂 You showed me so I don’t have to, thanks
Jordan Jeffrey Cowan
September 16, 2022 at 11:26 pm
I don’t think child-like wonder and creativity are synonymous…. Cool magic show though
Krista
September 16, 2022 at 11:54 pm
Beautiful!!!!
Ramsay Meldrum
September 17, 2022 at 12:00 am
Is the answer anything to do with abolishing capitalism? If not, I’m not wasting 8 minutes of my dismal wonder-free adulthood on it.
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September 17, 2022 at 12:02 am
📥📥📥
v
September 17, 2022 at 12:08 am
Nice presentation but childlike wonder regained = 0.
LordKiwii
September 17, 2022 at 12:14 am
Why are so many comments so negative? I thought the tricks were amazing and magical and although he might not have given a concrete step by step plan to get your childlike wonder back… isn’t that the point? To look differently at things, to think what could this be. Don’t look just at what is, look at what is possible. His magic tricks were the shift of perspective.
I personally really enjoyed it and wish I still had the abundance of imagination I had as a kid. A reminder to look at ordinary things and wonder is great in my opinion 😊💕
Jonathan Lee
September 17, 2022 at 1:13 am
🖐🌈imagination🌈🖐
XxKiraAnimatezZ
September 17, 2022 at 1:24 am
I have awaited this moment!!!🤩
Maybe You're Right😀
September 17, 2022 at 11:53 am
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Yes👍
and yes-.
MAYBE YOU’RE RIGHT 👍!.
YES 👍
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# Cop 26
SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!
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” we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to ” -why?
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Thank you.
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KF5
September 17, 2022 at 11:57 am
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September 17, 2022 at 11:59 am
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September 17, 2022 at 12:07 pm
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Amemji
September 17, 2022 at 12:32 pm
wow Zach king Ted talk wow
🌈ƦIȤMA𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙🇧ekasi⸽
September 17, 2022 at 12:33 pm
*Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
_Generally, as long as the human mind exists, the seed of compassion exists. Just by being born, the seed of compassion is present as a part of our mind. Moreover, of all the types of mind, the compassionate mind is the most powerful. Recognizing the existence of this fundamental potential of love and compassion, intrinsic within us all, and knowing how to develop it, is of the greatest significance. If we think about this carefully, a heavy responsibility is placed upon our physical, verbal, and mental activities._
─ His Holiness *Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
🌈ƦIȤMA𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙🇧ekasi⸽
September 17, 2022 at 12:33 pm
*Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
_In big cities, on farms, in remote places, throughout the countryside, people are moving busily. Why? We are all motivated by the desire to make ourselves happy. To do so is right. However, we must keep in mind that too much involvement in the superficial aspects of life will not solve our larger problem of discontentment. Love, compassion, and concern for others are the real sources of happiness. With these in abundance, you will not be disturbed by even the most uncomfortable circumstances. So, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is basic common sense._
─ His Holiness *Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
🌈ƦIȤMA𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙🇧ekasi⸽
September 17, 2022 at 12:33 pm
*Dalai Lama* ✍️ 🌿
_If you practice compassion, whether you believe in a religion or not, you will come to realize the value of compassion for your own peace of mind. The very atmosphere of your own life becomes happier, which promotes good health, perhaps even a longer life. By developing a warm heart, we can also transform others. As we become nicer human beings, our neighbors, friends, parents, spouses, and children experience less anger. They will become more warmhearted, compassionate, and harmonious. You will see the world around you change little by little. Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives_ .
─ His Holiness *Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
🌈ƦIȤMA𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙🇧ekasi⸽
September 17, 2022 at 12:33 pm
*Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
_It is our essential nature to be compassionate. From the moment we’re born our mother takes care of us. Without this care we would not survive. This experience is our first opportunity to learn that compassion is the root of all happiness. However, this natural appreciation of compassion seems to fade once we go to school. We need to be reminded that good health and a peaceful state of mind are founded on love and compassion._
─ His Holiness *Dalai Lama* ✍️🌿
bcprzygo
September 17, 2022 at 12:47 pm
Wait, how’d Zach King do that!?
Sanaz in the Universe
September 17, 2022 at 12:56 pm
Great, thanks.
WhiteWolf
September 17, 2022 at 1:55 pm
Unbelievable !!!
WhiteWolf
September 17, 2022 at 2:04 pm
This is meaningful for me
Dan-The-Man
September 17, 2022 at 2:49 pm
My man plagiarized the Spongebob episode of the box for his whole TED talk 🤧
Sorry I'm Late
September 17, 2022 at 4:40 pm
I need this kind of paranoid back to make fun games xD
The sense of “Why not” and “What if” are still extremely effective to let us feel curious and playful again.
Sorry I'm Late
September 17, 2022 at 4:40 pm
I need this kind of paranoid back to make fun games.
The sense of “Why not” and “What if” are still extremely effective to let us feel curious and playful again.
Sorry I'm Late
September 17, 2022 at 4:43 pm
To Rust programmer :
This is why you should never cast Box into types.
Why ? To regain your childhood wonder xD
Guess what type I’m hiding behind the Boxed object ?
Niranjan Hanasoge
September 17, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Hey, Calvin grew up—and is now giving TED talks! Who’d’ve thunk. At least, he still loves big cardboard boxes. 📦👍
What happened to Hobbes, though? 🐅
Аня Т
September 17, 2022 at 6:36 pm
It’s amazing 👏
Pengu King
September 17, 2022 at 7:04 pm
This was so cool to watch!!
you tou
September 17, 2022 at 9:08 pm
remember when you could learn stuff from ted talks?
ahtan2000
September 17, 2022 at 11:49 pm
Great speaker, amateur actor haha. Great speech!
Amy Whigham
September 18, 2022 at 1:00 am
That was great, Zach! Loved it! Box, what box? It’s so much more! 🥰😍💖😊❤️
#greatlifeformyfriends
September 18, 2022 at 1:07 am
Amazing wow
The Minecraft Guy
September 18, 2022 at 1:36 am
Cool
Olu Unction
September 18, 2022 at 4:46 am
Beautiful presentation….
jiazhi zhou
September 18, 2022 at 6:51 am
when I was eight, i have slept in a box exactly like that
Liang Yanda
September 18, 2022 at 7:29 am
Wow nice
J
September 18, 2022 at 8:38 am
Oh
AllanC_Me
September 18, 2022 at 8:54 am
Reminds me of the Little Prince book I read
fatma kobbia
September 18, 2022 at 8:57 am
i love this talke so much 😍
Phạm Hà
September 18, 2022 at 9:36 am
He is so amazing!!!
Prasanna Kotyal
September 18, 2022 at 9:38 am
Came with assumptions left with curiosity.
BiGBANG RiDERS
September 18, 2022 at 9:57 am
This might be the most amazing ted talk in ted talk’s history.
SONU JATAV
September 18, 2022 at 11:19 am
I was so into the video i didn’t even realize when my finger tapped the like button. Zach king is truly a magician. ❤️❤️❤️🇮🇳🇮🇳❤️❤️
Priyadarshi Siddharth
September 18, 2022 at 11:26 am
Beautiful!
Ritesh Man Tamrakar
September 18, 2022 at 2:14 pm
That’s n o t a b o x.
Ayush Zaveri
September 18, 2022 at 3:48 pm
“Nobody said it had to be a box”
Jacqueline Campbell
September 18, 2022 at 11:33 pm
So much to think over in Zach’s talk – definitely one to revisit.
Krimium
September 19, 2022 at 1:55 am
That was LEGENDARY!!!
Palomares Magic
September 19, 2022 at 3:12 am
The creativity in this TED Talk was inspiring! Loved the message ♥️ thank you Zach King!
R.Strong & T.Ries.
September 19, 2022 at 3:46 am
Perfect 💪💪
Country Leaders
September 19, 2022 at 3:46 am
Perfect 💪💪
Tanner Corder
September 19, 2022 at 4:07 am
Once you understand reality, there’s no going back.
Newbie-noob at English
September 19, 2022 at 5:42 am
I really like the energy and this kind of meaning. This is just like modern preaching has to be and not only on a scene, but in our lives.
Karl Harvy Marx
September 19, 2022 at 6:35 am
Maybe without trying, I think he made my favorite magic show too. The last time I can remember playing with a box was in college when my roommate invented box skiing. We tied a rope to a bike and took turns pulling each other across the athletic field. That gave way to sitting on the handlebars and riding the bike sitting backward which is actually more challenging than it sounds. It was fun and re-enforced my belief that it is important to have friends of all ages–he was a little younger. I’m in a situation now where there are no young adults to hang out with and I can actually feel myself stagnating. Old people are good for sharing wisdom so you know which rules to break to get the proper hard knocks to be wise like them. Young people help one maximize fun in rule breaking and getting up in the morning to do it again despite the headache.
MuntahaZad HeliX
September 20, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Damn man
nnylasoR
September 19, 2022 at 7:47 am
I’m 41 and not only am I proud to say my childlike wonder never went anywhere — it has really come into its own, now that I have a young son to imagine along with me, and I with him. ✊🥰
兔子的朋友山猫
September 19, 2022 at 1:59 pm
you are a good mother, that sounds very great.
Sandesh Kumar
September 19, 2022 at 8:10 am
One of the great presentations on ted ever
Hamza Başaran
September 19, 2022 at 8:25 am
Konuşulan kelimeler Türkçe olmalı yada çevirim olmalı anında Google bunu yapar bence
colebee
September 19, 2022 at 9:37 am
LOVE THIS !!
ilsontfouscesromains
September 19, 2022 at 10:47 am
Antoinette Portis made a children book called “Not a box”
Malucha Rosario
September 19, 2022 at 11:30 am
Amazing!
Hailey Hudson
September 19, 2022 at 2:01 pm
Zach and his family are awesome! This was so so good!
CheaterXL
September 19, 2022 at 3:27 pm
What an awesome presentation ❤
Lim Boon Jiat
September 20, 2022 at 7:43 am
Thank you Zach King for the sharing
Михаил Арошенко
September 20, 2022 at 12:19 pm
* The war in Ukraine plows up the “historical” borders of Russia
(The forecast of the philosopher Mikhail Aroshenko, the city of Dnipro, Ukraine)
*When will the war in Ukraine end? The ancient Greek philosopher Plato argued that only the dead see the end of the war… The other day, near Kharkov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine not only defeated, but intellectually outplayed the troops of the Russian Federation, of which there were twice as many! The Armed Forces of Ukraine used the tactics of the famous boxer Muhammad Ali: “Fly like a moth and sting like a wasp!” As a result, Ukraine received trophies in a week – about 300 tanks, guns and armored vehicles. The myth of the invincible “second army of the world” has been dispelled once again.
* Roll call of centuries: After the defeat in the Crimean War of 1853-56. The Russian Tsar abolished serfdom. After the defeat in the “Crimean War” 2014-2023. Russia is waiting for historical changes…
* 54 thousand soldiers and officers of the Russian Federation, 11 generals have already died in battles … The flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser “Moskva”, lies at the bottom. In the Crimea, at the airfield near Saki, in one day on 08/09/22, 23 aircraft and helicopters of the 43rd Sevastopol Aviation Regiment (half of all fleet aircraft) were destroyed or damaged. This missile attack will go down in the history of wars. There have been no such one-time losses in the USSR-Russia since 1945. Russia has already lost 468 planes and helicopters, over 6,000 tanks and armored vehicles… This is a blow to the ambitions of the Kremlin, which has lost out to new war technologies….
* “Why do we need such a world if there is no Russia?” – said Putin. In the Caucasus, they answer: “Why do we need such a Russia, because of which there will be no peace?” To get away from sanctions, the USSR-2 will be created – the Siberian Soviet Social Republic with its center in Novosibirsk. An independent Tatarstan and a renewed Chechnya will receive Turkey’s support. The real Russia is no more than other average countries in the world. The rest of the national republics are its colonies, which one way or another will become free. The decolonization of Russia is inevitable, like the coming of dawn after night.
*Russia is still based on fear and professional slavery. She will face many years of rehabilitation and retribution for her manic desire to rewrite the history of the 20th century, because the Kremlin has long suffered from imperial “political schizophrenia” – megalomania and persecution delusions … The Putin era will end in disgrace, but “collective Putin” will remain. 70% of the population from the “generation of envy of the successful” supported the war.
* After the defeat of Putinism, a new stage of renewal will begin. Most of the “deep people” will rebuild. From the period of supporting the war – to freedom of expression, creative life, creative economy and politics!
* The historical genetics of Russia is the permanent seizure of foreign lands and property, the recognition of someone else’s as one’s own. After the defeat, Russia will have a chance to climb from the centuries-old imperial dress into democratic pants…
mello_5k
September 20, 2022 at 1:50 pm
Zach is so cool
Eiad Chaer
September 20, 2022 at 5:39 pm
It’s obviously a sheep!!
Ghm
September 21, 2022 at 12:42 am
Zack
WK GAMING
September 21, 2022 at 1:58 am
Reference zack king
ObsidianSnack
September 21, 2022 at 2:50 am
Zach has kids?!
pedram
September 21, 2022 at 6:55 am
wow it’s amazing
Hero Swag Productions
September 21, 2022 at 8:31 am
you have been watching to much sponge bob
Ranti Damayanti
September 22, 2022 at 2:39 pm
This video is titled “The Trick to Regaining Your Childlike Wonder” this video shows a man making a famous movie, performing magic tricks with the main focus is a box. The outline of this video is, as adults we need to see things from a child’s point of view, because by thinking like that, ideas that are beyond reason will emerge. I also really agree with this kind of thinking, as adults we often make assumptions about things, so our views are like what we see. When we think outside the box, we must leave our assumptions behind, we must have curiosity and wonder like a child. Having a child-like gaze, isn’t something wrong.
MARU Editora y animadora de video
September 22, 2022 at 6:38 pm
excelent!!!
yassine
September 23, 2022 at 12:01 am
Great
Tassanimart Inta
September 23, 2022 at 1:18 am
Really Fantastic Storyteller !
Amirreza Shakori
September 23, 2022 at 10:42 am
Best Ted talk I’ve seen in this year
aishaman
September 23, 2022 at 1:47 pm
Who is he after seeing zacks post