The habits of highly boring people | Chris Sauve | TEDxCarletonU 

Thank you

Amazing!! Also, do you know by summarizing and writing this down, you have ensured that you will remember this far more effectively and for much longer.

@@PrateekJain-pi9jc so what is wrong with that anyting? You just need to chime in I think he made a lot of sense and I know it was a long complicated talk it wouldn't make as much sense because I wouldn't remember.

Thanks

Thnx

Yessss. Thanks for this. Coming in very handy just about now....

stay strong girl luv you anji that's exactly my history

***** thank you

that's what I am gonna do , can you give me few pointers or advices ?

Misery loves company. Keep working toward your goals.

+Smart Cat Collar Project Oh, thank God. Now I don't have to watch it. I was getting bored.

Well, first point done My question is how to reduce this list? :)

I will automatize mowing the lawn and cleaning the bathroom. Then I'll automotize my job so i can go skiing. I just need that robot....

Oshawa IS one of Canada's armpits.

Smart Cat Collar Project n

it's about mindfulness :)

great mind is in every place thank you mathias

Matthias Degroote i don't think his intention was to call people boring. i think he meant to say that to express our creativity and ideas, we need to focus on that, and not the things which we have to do anyway.

Exactly. Thank you.

if it works for u who are u subjecting it to criticism for?

I'm not criticizing him. I agree with him, and am adding to the conversation. The important part is the automation, and there are many creative ways to implement it.

Lmao I tried to wipe my screen fml

criztu Ignore it then. What is with OCD people.

criztu The misuse of the word "quote" is what gave me the shivers from the very beginning of this presentation.

Sal C hahahaha, now that may be the most important comment on the Internet. At least for people to whom this would be the most important comment.

Sophrosynicle bnujyhhhhbb

Sal C this may be the most boring talk on the Internet. It's like a person at a party talking about why we should talk even if there's nothing to say.

MissAshleyPants I pretty much do this too. Your calendar is your friend, not a tyrant, as Jordan Peterson has said!

Ikr?

exactly

Good to not go! The Elvis Costello Existential dilemma ...

Wim Grundy Hardy, har!

true, I think we take everything for granted. and we label everything. and now we're afraid of our creation. which in this case 'words' for instance if you use the word 'free' in anything, people would want it. e.g: free microwave if you purchase over $700.

The difference between Tedx and Ted

ZCrims: yeah, I noticed a huge difference between the channels. I prefer Tedx way more.

After 2 minutes, I've gotten bored and quit it. I understood the concept, though this was boring. His way of talking and presenting the material, his low energy, him not making the talk exciting and not making me understand what the talk is about immediately. What I want to see is straight to the point and passion in a person when presenting even if he has to give examples after. His way of presenting failed to do so. Hence, I will proceed to another talk.

Jalek24 + Plus the fact absolutely nothing is free.

তন্ময় nothing is wrong with the title. It's called being different.

No sense of humour about Ottawa being boring! How boring!

I'm a pinko-fascist anarcho-capitalist lib-tard commie vegetarian from the Austrian School. Vote Trump!

they probably watched the first 2 minutes, got offended at the microsoft/dumb consumers bit, then decided to mouth off. i disagree with some of his examples but the intent/moral was clear.

Yes, that's so true. Not having to think about what you'll wear makes life a lot easier. I have a stack of long-sleeved shirts for winter, and short-sleeved ones for summer. Some cardigans, some jeans. And usually I just take the first one off the stack, end of story. If the first one doesn't match the color of the jeans, well then the second or third one. But other than that, there's no choice.

Surprise for me too... everyone saying he was boring... and I thinking: Cool I´m on the right track! Because I mostly do what he said... and I feel that that´s the way... well maybe that´s why not everyone can shine...

Very true. You are only boring, if you live a life that you find boring. ;)

Thank you!

upvote+1000

says the broccoli

Haha. Don't worry, I'm crazy too. Being crazy is just being different than others. Being different than others is not uncommon. :P

I agree, this guy needs to look up 'boring' in the dictionary, he is seriously ignorant.

***** Rightly said.

Luna Root Yeah, I pretty much questioned his ideology throughout his presentation, but when I heard that people stop and question I immediately assumed the absurdity of it. also when he said that we a basically too un-intelligent that we rely on calculators, etc. i agree that he doesn't define what boring is, generalizing most of the time!

By"boring" people, he was referring to the meaning in standard usage. I have just recently been told that I was boring ..because I don't drink.

I think by boring, he meant to do boring thing like what he shows. The methods. Basically (imo) when we get boring we look for something exciting, what if we were boring because of doing the 2 grid thing? Try to look at it, instead of looking for new things to excite yourself, do what you write.

It's the mouse lol. Regardless, I still wiped my screen thinking it was dirt or something

Anthony DeFrancesco Thanks for the heads up

aboot.

While Yanks have a diverse range of stupid sounding accents.

I wasted 10 minutes of my life focusing on his words to hear “about”😂🤦🏻‍♀️

we don’t pronounce about like that... only french canadians 🤣

Prolly, nuh suh fur uff

st1k + Try studying many comments of many varied RU-vid videos. You probably won't be delighted at the character of the world overall.

Agreed.

I watched it several times, and I agree that it was boring... or more precisely, he said interesting things but in a manner which emphasized what he wanted us to agree with, rather than how to implement it. Repetition of the "how to" rather than the "benefits of" would have been better, I feel like he was more trying to convince us to join a cult than promoting a few simple concepts which we can all start to benefit from. So, don't let the presentation rob you of the tactical skills.

I made it to the 1:23 mark

1:43 here...uhm can somebody summarize it...please?

ChaosTyrant No.

I think the audio plays a role.

+Teguh Suryadi Holy hell no! Before I figured it out, I was trying to remove that "stain" on "my" laptop screen.

Totally agree with you here.

But he never said that the only way to free up mental energy was to limit your food choices. To us, it may not seem like that big of a deal, but because he doesn't like food/doesn't consider it a priority, it is for him. What he's basically trying to say is just to minimize whatever YOU consider to be a distraction, not what anyone else does. And, the way I saw it, a boring person is someone who is just... normal. They may not go traveling the world or skydive or have exciting stories to tell, and they usually have a set routine to go about the day. By doing this, it gives us the opportunity for original thought, whether we choose to take it or not.

As a person who eats the same thing everyday, I have to agree with him. It's not just choosing what you eat, but there is preparation and effort put into eating different things.

vinaloi41 Well, to each their own, I suppose. It would be wrong of me to say what I think is right as fact.

***** Well put. I thought this was one of the best TED talks that I have seen. Inklan Utterfield It doesn't have to be just what you eat for dinner. There is a lot of frustration people have with wanting to be "someone", what too few realize is that how you see Steve Jobs, or the guy at the grocery store is only your own judgemental perception, and I don't mean that in any form of negative conotation. The reality behind what makes up a successful person's life {somebody who is doing exactly what they want to be doing} and an unsuccessful {trapped by circumstance} is in how and where they focus their attention. Phrases like "pay attention" actually mean, pay. "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR". If you sit down and reflect on this you will find that people who focus all their attention on one thing have little time for anything else. It brings out some truth in certain stereotypes, like athlete's not being well read {this is not the same as unintelligent, but people take it that way}. They aren't, they don't have time for it. The girl that is into cosmo and her appearance isn't going to be the person to discuss quantum physics with. That's just how it is. All the time people spend making themselves APPEAR interesting by taking two hours to pick out an outfit is time somebody else isspending working on their business/passion/craft/ etc. Steve Jobs began paying for/investing in Apple when he was working out of his garage You only have so musch attention to give to things, so you pick computer dorkery over Pantene dorkery. Nothing, NOTHING, in life is free. I like thinking about through the phrase pay attention. Wherever my attention is, I can be sure I am paying for it, and I rarely know the real cost. With that, I should go get back to work on something worth paying for. Thanks, I hope that helps.

Tait Jones Thanks, I think I can appreciate the appeal of this way of thinking now, even if it isn't for me.

+PimpMyDeckAustralia.COM I think he is talking about topics and not things. "The method of loci" sounds so nice for exams tho.

its really cool, imagine your ideal building, with rooms, fill the rooms with things you love, close your eyes and walk around, feel comfortable. then stick what you gotta know near each objext and make them interact bizzarly to remember, incorporate a sound and smell per each. and youll remember anything!!

You can try also the method of Loki, to become king of Aasgard (it works for brief periods)

sorry, replace the second "it's" with "logic that". Sorry, I was typing too fast!

Thus proving, you are a boring person.

***** Thank you

2:00, that's pretty good considering how boring this video is.

***** in fact, the guy was talking about interesting people, but you wouldn't understand because the guy himself is boring and most don't have the necessary faculties to see past that.

***** that is certainly true. However, it is just as important that you make every effort to listen and actively attempt to assign meaning to his message as it is for him to speak with clarity and fluidity. I'm sure what he said made sense to him (and a majority of his audience, I can only assume). For blame to be placed, you must first fall susceptible to your own perspective. In order to truly hear someone's message, you should disregard prior opinions / trivial disagreements and instead favor abstract associations that help to view the big picture and promote innovative ways to re-assess your perception of yourself and everything else

Well played.

You get fired precisely because you don't love your job. that's the point.

The issue being the things I love to do need money they don't provide until you're already successful in them, and to get to the starting point of actually being successful, one needs to shuffle through the miasma that is a job I hate. Which, if automated, gets me fired, which further increases the problem that I must focus where he suggests automation, and that necessary focus makes it even more difficult to ever pull out of that hated job.

then Alan Davies, show us the right way!. :DDDD

was he boring then? ...I think he said something very interesting and especially if he's only 22

+Brian Smith, but he speaks of doing "Amazing things". But has he done "amazing things"? Or if he makes conclusions from other people who have done "amazing things" instead of him, how does he know that these would be true and not subject to survivor bias, confirmation bias? Maybe that's just a way of dealing with his own boringness. The guy who studied business at a university and hates business. It says there on his university page that he loves to code, and points to a github accout. A empty github. No repos, no commits. As a person who loves to code myself, i shall say it's the opposite of "amazing" and very much on the boring side. You write things occasionally, but mostly you read, you think, you troubleshoot, you consider the pitfalls. It's OK to be boring, but it's not OK to pretend that it's special. The talk also ignores things that one has no direct control over. What about love and all those things life just throws at you? How are you going to "automate" them?

Sorry, I got bored and lost the first 3 of your points. I can only keep track of so many things!

there was a ted talk on this

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+WalterLiddy What I got from that was that you can use the time it takes for you to choose/buy clothes, doing the things you love. It's not that you cannot function in other aspects of life, but that you lose time and focus doing unimportant stuff.

That's absolutely not what the video was about. WATCH THE VIDEO

+Alex Cristescu What is "important stuff" though? I know this is TEDx talks and it is REALLY EASY to criticize and point flaws in the concepts portrayed, because they're mostly normal things tried to be presented as novel concepts. Some people like clothes, some people don't. Some people like variety, others like constancy. Even people who like variety, will eventually settle for a limited kind of variety, which is normally referred to as a person's style. The only people who spend more than 30 seconds wondering what to wear are teenage girls (or early 20's, or retarded women in their 30's), or people who work in the clothing business, or celebrities, etc. The vast majority of people don't spend too much time at supermarket isles having existential conflicts about what to buy. And the ones who do, actually enjoy the process. It's the "window shopping" thing, checking things out as an entertainment. The only problem is for obsessive compulsive, people with tendencies to addiction, etc. who then spend too much time or effort on things that are counterproductive in the long run. Everyone knows that serious things are boring, and that partying and leisure is more fun than work (yes, some people are lucky enough to find ways to make money out of their leisure activities, but they are the exception). And maybe it's about time I stop watching TEDx talks... and start focusing on more important things in life.

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X85gilreath _ Am I the only one who can't hear the difference between the American and Canadian "about"?

No