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vmwindustries
April 24, 2023 at 7:32 am
This is truth! You need nature! Lots of people from the city don’t realize how amazing just being in the woods is for your mind! Such a shame people don’t travel enough. Too bad the middleclass has been destroyed by the rich right wing
Lily Gazou
April 24, 2023 at 8:12 am
You do know there is also a rich left wing?
vmwindustries
April 24, 2023 at 8:32 am
@Lily Gazou Definitely! I just had my wife start talking to me so I cut my comment short.
Javy_Valen_Tain
April 24, 2023 at 7:56 am
Let’s make everyday a new adventure.
lirianoc
April 24, 2023 at 8:30 am
Public speaking is tricky. You should rehearse, but not memorize to the point of sounding like a robot.
JamesDom
April 24, 2023 at 8:47 am
Novel good intentions am i right?
clusterstage
April 24, 2023 at 8:49 am
His voice is like Morgan Freeman
Lex Wick
April 24, 2023 at 9:05 am
is this a fake TED test-bed scenario type of AI illusion whereby we have to interact with the video and in a future TED video the statistics from this video will be used for a talk about how human beings could be tricked into a world within which there is a formula for TED talks and that there would be a reasonable response to the talk such as a response as this and all the subsequent responses under this one that may say things like “this is a real person” or “you don’t get it” or “you didn’t listen” or other responses which one would expect from the subset of humans who are either AI bots too or humans who are only able to fathom reality on a superficial level
Make Racists Afraid Again
April 24, 2023 at 9:14 am
Two years ago a baby skunk came in our back door. Our cat saw her and the two went out to play together. I grabbed my phone to record them and when the kit saw me she ran up and climbed onto my bare feet. It changed my life. Now I’m a 70 year old skunk whisperer.
This Spring’s batch of kits should be venturing out from their dens for the first time any day now and their moms will bring them right to me….
RavenStealstheNight
April 24, 2023 at 9:17 am
Cultural capital is so very important and valuable in getting along in this world. It explains why so many are stuck in their ways and don’t bother to evolve and see and experience other people, religions, ideas, etc.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain
Harry Pearle
April 24, 2023 at 10:42 am
SUPER Idea
What about learning and sharing FIRST EXPERIENCES with other people, more often?
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Andrejs BOKA
April 24, 2023 at 10:45 am
sounds very inspiring. but sometimes new experience could ruin your life not change your life 🥴
Arav Singh
April 24, 2023 at 3:14 pm
listen carefully to the intention he mentioned, feed inspiration and courage instead.
No One Star
April 24, 2023 at 11:06 am
After too many catastrophically negative experiences… over and over and over and over and over again… it all gets way, way, WAAAYYY too old. I have no interest in “novelties”. I just want to be left the F alone. 😂🤣😂 These rich people and their stupid ideas have become non-sequitur and tiresome.
frankensteinlives
April 24, 2023 at 11:23 am
I really enjoyed this, thank you!
Ms. Right
April 24, 2023 at 11:36 am
What a coincidence! I just booked a flight to Bozeman today!
L Rebuck
April 24, 2023 at 12:14 pm
These experiences stay with you. No matter when they happened, 70 years or 70 days ago, once the demands of family, job and responsibilities no longer dominate your time, remembering these experiences brings joy. In my case, even the negative experiences caused positive long term changes.
Corliss Crabtree
April 24, 2023 at 12:33 pm
Thank you 🙏
Jim Barchuk
April 24, 2023 at 12:38 pm
The brain’s *job* is to Find New Patterns. Once you stop asking it to do that, stop gaining new input, is when atrophy begins.
Hélène Wandan
April 24, 2023 at 3:11 pm
I enjoy it.
Thank you
Bee Cee
April 24, 2023 at 5:17 pm
One of the better talks I’ve listened to in a while.
Closed AI
April 24, 2023 at 5:59 pm
This is awesome
Tony Pelliccio
April 24, 2023 at 7:42 pm
Oh snow angels and snow forts. I did that when I was a teen.
Tony Pelliccio
April 24, 2023 at 7:46 pm
And languages I’ve got those. English, Spanish and enough z Russian i could get what I want in Russia.
Remix247
April 24, 2023 at 8:37 pm
Thank you for showing me a good video. Wishing you a very nice new day!
Let's Go Brandon
April 24, 2023 at 8:44 pm
TED, go woke, go broke.
eddiedean davis
April 24, 2023 at 9:58 pm
To be successful in markets, traders should understand the crossover between asset classes & liquidity flow. Mrs. Gerald Martin Heilpern focuses on Multi-asset trading, a single strategy to manage risk, profit, and the code or the actual decision-making across multi-asset classes. Her skill set is top-notch.
Gary Angela
April 24, 2023 at 10:18 pm
This will encourage newbies to invest with an expert like Mrs Helipern who will help you handle your investment to make a better profit.
DMSO
April 24, 2023 at 10:21 pm
I can’t believe it🤗, I just bought a House🏠 after I invested $5000 and I now make $ 32,500 every 14 days. It’s been a life-changing experience🤗🤗
Poul Hellen
April 24, 2023 at 10:23 pm
I make a $23,450 weekly trading profit with her, I only trust Mrs Gerald Martin Heilpern with my investments. am now able to send my kids to a great school in LA, all thanks to Mrs Gerald Martin Heilpern
TO D MOON
April 24, 2023 at 10:25 pm
I have been scammed severally and it really hurts, interested in investing again, but can this Mrs Gerald Martin Heilpern be trusted?
Buana Earth
April 24, 2023 at 10:28 pm
Interesting! News of her winning is Everywhere🎉🎉
Nobody
April 24, 2023 at 10:56 pm
Whatever.
Doug Ewald
April 24, 2023 at 10:57 pm
Sadly the content of this had little to do with the title. He spent too much time talking about race stuff. Apparently he doesn’t understand that the mere statement “people who don’t look like me” is racist at its core.
Black people wonder why they are often seen as extremely racist by others. It’s because of very good reasons.
Examples:
BET – Black Entertainment Television.
C’mon – that’s extremely racist.
If there was a TV network called White Entertainment Television it would be called extremely racist.
How about the TV show Blackish?
Same thing –
If there was one called White-ish it wouldn’t be allowed on the air.
The double standards are so blatant & stupid.
Sareaesque
April 25, 2023 at 4:32 am
you seem to be reading far too much into what was a miniscule part of the discussion.
Doug Ewald
April 24, 2023 at 10:58 pm
Waste of time.
Sareaesque
April 25, 2023 at 4:29 am
why?
Darko Nomad
April 25, 2023 at 12:23 am
I really feel sorry for so many people who live in urban environment and don’t develop the proper connection and appreciation for nature. It’s not novelty at all, it’s where we belong. It must be awful to live in NYC to appreciate this things such late in your life, we all need it since early childhood.
Dalziel Kohel
April 25, 2023 at 1:58 am
I’m new to stock market /Crypto and would like to invest but I’ve go no idea on how to make good profits. Pls what’s the best approach you’d recommend?
Fernando Rodas
April 25, 2023 at 8:00 am
This is the kind of information that we don’t get from most Youtubers i will get in touch with her right now
Albert Cano
April 25, 2023 at 9:24 am
@John Edmund I just messaged her now and she replied thanks
Williams Hannah
April 25, 2023 at 1:26 pm
Good to see how you guys came up here to show keen appreciation to Mrs Evelyn Vera this how i got recommendation about Mrs Evelyn Vera, At first I was a bit scared.
Chris Gray
April 25, 2023 at 2:12 pm
I tried different form of trading, at a time they seems to be working but at the end I still couldn’t manage the stress of dealing with losses, Just sent her a message and she attended to me nicely
Jeff Jeff
April 25, 2023 at 2:19 pm
I’m from CANADA, I and two other of my friends tried her immediately we testified, she’s performing wonders. I know she can’t see this right now but she is changing people’s lives.
Janet Grant
April 25, 2023 at 7:06 am
I hope he rode a horse, that would be a powerful first experience for him.
George Goddiess
April 25, 2023 at 7:15 am
It’s funny this came up on my feed, one of my new years resolutions was 1 unique experience per week. I also work a job where I travel so that requires not one singular bland commute.
LetoDK
April 25, 2023 at 8:13 am
I believe this is what the kids these days call “touching grass”. Does “PNE” really need a name? The point is mostly just “get off your phone, and go out and try news stuff”.
A Person
April 25, 2023 at 9:13 am
“Development does not only mean increased production of goods- but also the development of people – the stimulation of their innate abilities, giving them a feeling of self-determination, self-respect, self-reliance and enthusiasm. Unless people are involved in the process of development and are given a chance to do something worthwhile, to grasp new ideas, acquire new skills and develop a sense of their own worth, no society can move out of misery and poverty”
Mansur Hoda
Simnikiwe Mpabanga
April 25, 2023 at 2:32 pm
0:24 “I’m kidding.”
Russell Allison
April 25, 2023 at 8:15 pm
Facebook 👇⤵️👇👇
Russell Allison
April 25, 2023 at 8:15 pm
OLIVERA JANE KHUMALO
Bobby L
April 26, 2023 at 7:35 am
you don’t have to travel….Public Speaking allow someone to tell their story who they are what they want in life etc
Bobby L
April 26, 2023 at 7:42 am
it is so sad that som0’s eone in their 70’s only talks about their teenage years….egotistical self centered recovering alcoholic/addict and telling you how wonderful life was. I am 73 and not me
Letis Riva
April 26, 2023 at 9:46 am
Thank you so much Mr. Chabert. PFE is a real thing than can empower a person whose life seems settled. People need to be inspired by new things to keep a young mindset! This is a remarkable speech I hope more people have the chance to watch it😊