Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care | Cleo Wade 

“Start by being a BETTER listener..” because, more often than not, the world needs just that

TED talks are the best she have a point if you want to change something you have to care

Bravery is correct. If being good was easy, everyone would be.

The main problem that prevents this is tribalism. People say they value truth, love, and justice, but in practice, they often value & apply it only inside their own group. And they ignore those values when dealing with people outside of their group. Additionally, if such values interfere with the identity they have created for themselves, they'll ignore those values in favor of their own pride and vanity.

If you know someone who is losing his/her precious life to depression ; tell them to watch this one . Just might give them something to live for ! 🙏

YES!! Thank you for these beautiful and wise words! I cried both times I watched it and shared it with everyone I know! This is how we show LOVE!!!

The world's fine. It's the people that need to change.

There is a sense of dread at all times, the environment is degrading, politicians are not caring about the majority, the disparity between rich and poor is increasing, more access to media allows constant negative news to bombard us with more events even though we live in the safest time in history. We live in an age of scarcity, a culture of never enough. People are convinced this is due to the new narcissistic epidemic as it characteristics are associated with a pattern of behaviours that include grandiosity, a pervasive need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. This behaviour is originated from the shame based fear of being ordinary. The fear of never being enough to be noticed, to be loveable, to belong or cultivate a sense of purpose. We have cultural messages everywhere reminding us that an ordinary life is a meaningless life. Never good enough, never thin enough, never successful enough, never extraordinary enough. Fill in your never _____ enough. Reality tv, celebrity culture and extended use of social media can absorb this message and develop a skewed sense of the world. Ordinary = inadequate is the message. 50% of the population is considered average and it shouldn't be considered a bad label. These thoughts and behaviours ultimately cause more pain and lead to lead to more disconnection. We are viewing people in a filtered lens especially when their motivations of not being enough are the activators of publishment alongside spending less time face to face with human interaction and ultimately connection. Constantly Comparing ourselves, marriages and lives to unattainable, media visions of perfection. Scarcity is in the language we use. First waking thought is 'never enough sleep', next is 'I don't have much time' true or not, the not enough is integrated automatically before thinking or examining it. We start the day off feeling already behind, already losing, already inadequate and lacking something and end the the day with thoughts of what we didn't get or get done that day. This is the mindset most of us live in. Scarcity is the "never enough" problem. The treatment of this in through empathy and understanding and not to call out people on their inadequacies and smallness. This shame prone culture (suffering from worthiness) is fractured by disengagement. Unlike the past, we don't seem to stand together as a collective as much. Lots of incidents have torn at our sense of safety, closing ourselves off to vulnerability. We don't come together to heal. It is a very every man for himself culture which dynamic is prevalent in our work, family, school and community culture. SHAME COMPARISON DISENGAGEMENT. Brene brown (one of the most popular Ted talk videos) emphasis theses points. Please, stop the shame and extend your empathy out tomore people including yourself. Smiles to all of you :)

The whole video can be reduced to eleven wise words by Mahatma Gandhi - 'Be the change that you wish to see in the world.'

Great speech...be good to as many people as possible

Many talk about changing the world , and few Ever take the action to actually changing the world . Thank for the great message Peace

Your talk touch me. Thank you very much.

"you just have to be brave enough to care." i love her so much

For an answer to this: I did this, I cared for everyone, I cared for people that didn't give a good damn about me. This will maybe create peace at first...but hey maybe you can't save or care for everyone becuse you know sooner or later maybe you meet people that will take advantage of you. That is how the world is made, at least my psychologist told me this, and yes I meet a psychologist all because of this. There are us, we who care. Then there are those who take and use the care you are willing to give. In short I'm gotten almost depressed and what many of you will call a close to a burnout for giving to many fu*ks. So a warning while you see this, it maybe sound like the world we want to have, I want it too, but it it's hard. Remember to care for yourself as much as you care for others.

Some of our most valuable lessons are taught in our darkest of times. You can't do everything but you can do something. Having the emotional intelligence to understand someone isn't the enemy. Be understanding and empathetic. Find truth beyond the way things seem. Ask all the questions. We are more than our mistakes and to learn things we have to learn to forgive ourselves first. We cannot overcome what we ignore. We are all essentially connected. A small start will go a long way. If you see you don't qualify, how do you make yourself qualifiable. Talking about solutions and becoming part of the solution shows that it's never too late to start. You are deserving of the fruitions that will come out of being empathetic. Don't be afraid to tackle it steps at a time.

One simply can't change the world.. STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!!!

Honestly, colossal incidences are too big to our minds, also we got job and schools to think about more. However, her message is so lucid for everyone but it is farfetched to love everyone and help everyone. You may also do good to someone and receive an abysmal way of treating,but her message by starting to do something small to make an enormous metamorphosis in the world. I really like this woman as she is talking with confidence and calm which is something rare to find those kind of people. Thanks alot Ted talk!

For anyone who resonated with her poem, read 'Where to Begin' written by her. It is such a calming, positive and empowering read :)

The great changes in the world are not having doing by those people who "dream about great actions", but those ones, who take little steps. Cleo Wade is right, I totally agree that even little actions can have significance.

This is so beautiful. Yes, let's each do our best to daily do good, and be better.

I cried TWICE. Exactly what I needed

Just saw Cleo on the Today Show with Hoda and Jenna.I had to come and check out her talk. With what the current climate is right now in the world, everyone needs to watch this... Thank you Cleo...

Love this one. If you want to change the world, change yourself first

"We cannot overcome, what we ignore." To face your own flaws and defects, you must first be aware of them through your own eyes, and sometimes, through the eyes of others.

We cannot overcome what we ignore 😊

Yes I can do it One Day Or Day One Give me blessing

Want to change the world ? Start by yourself and does not engage in activity that limit freedom of others.

Thank you for this video,Cleo Wade. This made my day. 😊😊😊

the world need more people like you

Beautiful and true and simple. The all choices we all make always affect others. I've always believed this. I still forget it though. I forget it all the time actually.

This is the video that i want to watch every morning , before starting my day

I'm training myself to be positive, zero-reaction and peaceful-minded. please help me in this regard by suggesting the books, and movies. love you my international family.

You are so beautiful Cleo. Your talk was extraordinary ❤️

START is a good begining, yes, we can do always something, give your spirit and heart in everything you do, think and talk, being always brave and most of all ..I stay with your last words...BE GOOD TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE..leave your heart in it...Thankyou so much for your video...God bless you always and in all!!!

Im a proud Disney Artist and humanitarian and I love this TED Talk

Thank you for your message❤️

I've just lost one of my coworkers because of covid19 in hospital.She lived alone and her only daughter lived abroad. I wonder the only thing she needed was being supported mentally , healing her low spirit ....we influence on every one beyond imagination.

Beautiful. Thank you for this inspiring talk.

YES! aaag love this speech!

Be good to as many people as possible.

the best talk ever listened to...

While change is taking place, we have those who not equipped enough to see their way, who think things will stay as they wish it to be because of not having vision to see how things going to be. Is it stupidity, or immaturity that make a force of people to work hard to not see. That put roadblocks on the future that coming to be. Throughout the world countries that opened their eyes to see, understand how they use to be. Who now learn the compromising system they trying to spread to their neighbor so the benefits will be helpful for both sides to see. People in the same continent began to see that each country good that is on their lands can benefit each country growth first before any other countries. It make no sense for a body that functional, meaning continent, separate like the rest of the part are dead. Meaning to ignore what the other have to offer, who go other places outside their continent to be treated in the worst way. How do a country that is split in the middle, with both side are active, allow a outside country tell them how to treat their brother. Where both side have valuable information to share with each other to help their country to survive without bring any harm to each other, or anyone else. See modern technology bringing in changing times, and the old has to change to keep up with what about to go down. If not they will be a thing of the past that will be in the history book about not being able to change with time. There is no such thing anymore of bully power because the risk is to high for it to survive, from the outside, as while as the inside. No one country people will agree with what bully power do, when the information is spreading through their country of all the things being done. Where the people will weight the information to see if their country a bully, or a victim, that other country will never understand the decisions they make they feel is right for their country, and the people. Something the sellouts will never understand because they already sold out their right to have a voice in anything.

*Thanks TED× For Inspiring And Encouraging World*

Beautiful speech. I Agree.

Beautiful ideas, not so difficult to share. Make hearts grow!!!

Thank you ❤️

I like the way she talks

This message is so important, thanks

I needed this so much. Thank you for the reminder.

beautiful!

”Be better...” lol. I can see this going so many different ways.

STAND OUT AMAZING MESSAGE.

I showed nothing but love and peace but I ended up being stepped over. Nothing is achieved with peace. Just do whatever you want

I have an idea that we could all step out of this "reality" and begin to create the new on by raising all the data in the world up for everyone to see. Create a template where its easily ingestible. And teach everyone everything. So if they want to be passionate about what ever subject it is we could than duplicate that behavior and advance that field. The main focus of the educational portion would be future planning for humanity. No money involved. We are the power source to every idea realistically right. If we were to take the man power and direct it towards good. What would tomorrow look like.

Such an inspirational speech!

Yes ❤️

This is beautiful and i'm inspired!

Thank you 🙏

Apathy turns a blind eye; pity feels sad yet superior; sympathy sighs and says there's nothing i can do; but empathy rolls up its sleeves and gets to work to make the world a better place.

Nice job memorizing the poem.

Amazing thoughts

I am at a point where I can no longer care or give, because it is just too painful. If I continue to care and give as much as I already have, I will die. The suffering of the innocent, and the domination of evil ignorance, have planted in Mmy heart a time-bomb of infinite pain and misery. To care, means: that I actually have to care about the fact that our world is dying right now, that I have to carry the pain of a trillion lives lost in war and imperialism, that I have to feel the sorrow and loss for countless lives never given a chance for more, and that I have to live with the understanding that people cannot escape the endlessly tormenting prison complex they have built for themselves. I cannot live while feeling all that. I cannot live Mmy life while feeling other people's pain, because I know too much about the world; I know too much about how people's lives are just wasted for nothing but empty promises and arrogance. I can't care anymore, because Mmy caring will change nothing except Mmy will to live.

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Timely.

world peace

Magnifique

You can convey any one by with your speech(nice)

Awesome 👌

Is this available in your podcast?

i cried

This is important

Ok but her hair is great

Brave to care.

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So beautiful!

At 3 minutes and 8 Seconds... Peace cannot be generated within when the entire Society is trying to destroy you... when all of society devalues your entire existence... When we are constantly finding an economic battle both as individuals and as board game pieces.

Love should have Terms & Conditions apply

Cleo men. She's amazing. Thinking about being National Security President is just an incredible idea. | ¤ | 🙌 | 👏 | 💗 |

Yes. Because the problem of the current world is that people are not brave enough to care...

God it was so touching! Wish I had that courage to actually care.

It was really inspiring 👍

Amazing , great job!👍🏻

Superrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Beautiful

I loved it 🥰

This was one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.

Taiwan! Beautiful dress😍😍

beautiful

Hi theo!

Does anyone know what dress she’s wearing?

Wow.

Quite a religious message, I didn't expect this. One of the principles I think is just below the surface of this talk is to reject pride/arrogance, it is the most important principle shared between religious teachings. If you look at any wrong doing in the world or that you have taken part in, there is some form of pride underneath it.

The point made in the video is great. But i just want to add that I believe that this world will change "energetically". Mythical prophets or dictatorship/control are not that necessary. Although, we can be grateful to those who share their point of views w/ us online, and we can also be grateful for world leaders who are doing their best to manage their countries.

it's exactly what Quran says , beautiful.

So many people say they care about human rights. In fact they write it all over their CV and tell everyone how much they care about others. Yet again they turn a blind eye to injustice at work and everywhere else they see injustice.

This made me ugly cry.

nice

I tried caring once it was terrible.

Today when I talk into the tube in London, I'll greet everyone and give them a hug 😂 ambulance will be waiting me for me outside