Barry Schwartz 's Ted Talk

“She used a great mentality ro overcome her pain,” I thought to myself as I watched Janine Shepard’s TED Talk.

Everyone has choices in life, and these choices are what define us. Sometimes they can affect not only the decision maker, but it can affect others too, whether it is just a few people or it is millions of people. This is why a choice

In this TED talk, the speaker is Joshua Foer, he start's the talk by having the audience close there eyes, and imagine themselves standing in their doorway. Next, he has them visualize a group of nudist bikers heading straight for the door, imaging them crashing into the front door. Then, he says to imagine stepping into your foyer, and to appreciate the light shining down on cookie monster sitting on a tan talking horse. Head into your living room, and picture Britney spears dancing on your coffee table, he then goes on to have you imagine walking into your kitchen, the floor is a yellow brick road, then you and see Dorothy, and the tin man coming towards you.

Also these choices can lead us to our own fate and that is to have an eternal life with God or

This quote confirms to the readers that the reasons why choosing the beneficial choices are vital. Whether you make a choice to a difficult path or a tranquil path in a life, the desired choice is the finest thing you need in life. The choice can be justifying foolish beliefs, making bad decisions, or performing hurtful acts, but we will all learn from our mistakes and prevent them from happening again in the future. As this quote is very short, it allows the reader to take this vital lesson and apply it into our lives.

In this TED Talk by Robert Sapolsky, a neurobiologist, Sapolsky describes his outlook on humans and what makes up unique and not unique. His outlook stems from in depth studies that he has performed on baboons. Humans are primates. He then goes on to describe that what makes us unique has nothing to do with our genes or neurons.

In the TED-talk video that I chose, Bart Weetjens explains how he got rats to sniff out mines. Having a passion for both rodents and Africa, Weetjens decided to quit his industrial engineering job to focus on training rats to detect for landmines and tuberculosis. Rats were chosen for this task because of their highly functioning olfactory senses. When training, the rats are given food for them to properly associate the clicker sound with a reward. After the rat learns to stick its nose in the hole were the scent is, the number of holes is increased to ten holes. This is the training that leads up to the actual mine sniffing in which mines are hidden and a rat must find them all. Weetjens goes on to talk about the numerous of people that die

In life we need to be reminded that we have choices. That’s why the poem Choices by Tom Krause should be kept in the course, the poem gives a motivating message plus shows the many choices one may choose from in life.

The ted talk “The Linguistic Genius of Babies” by Kuhl (2010) tells about babies are genius on language learning, and shows some results of research as proof of this idea. The article “Learning a Language as an Adult” by Pakenham, McEntire, and Williams (2013) shows an idea about the “critical period hypothesis”, children during this period learn much better than people older than this age, especially in pronunciation, because their brain activities are different than adults during this time. Personally, I totally believe the idea of children younger learn better, because the scientific research and data are shown to audiences, and they are persuasive enough. And I do see proof in my life, like four of my Korean friends who came China around

When making choices there are two ways of doing it. Choosing by default or choosing by knowledge. Either you as the person take every possible option to making a decision to how it affects you or how it affects you later. While choosing by default, or as in the get Shia Labeouf said people who “just do it” and not think about it. Or another name for ways of decision is deciding verses sliding.

In existential philosophy, a great deal of importance is placed on the concept of choice. An existential hero

People choose every day in different circumstances and degrees either small imperceptible one, such as the color of the shirt that they will wear, or huge emotional and moral dilemmas like an abort or a high-risk surgery. Nonetheless, there is always a decision made that has its consequences (want or not). Albert Camus uses characterization to address the importance of choices.

People deal with plenty of choices in their everyday lives. At the moment we open our eyes, we have to make decisions. For instance, should we get up and prepare ourselves for a new day, or should we continue resting in our beds? Even after when we have made this decision, we will still face choices after choices. However, we cannot get all the things we want as according to Mankiw, scarcity exists in our society. In other words, scarcity means that society has limited resources and therefore cannot produce all the goods and services people wish to have. To get one thing that we like, we usually have to give up other things that we like. Making decisions require trading off one goal against another. This phenomenon is also called

People want more choices and options, it’s why we, as a society, have progressed into a world where we emulate the power of choosing. Whether it’s something small like choosing a brand of peanut butter to something big like a car. A world without choice is bleak, and a world with choice is big and scary. We can’t be scared of consequences are whole life, we can’t truly live if we don’t make wrong choices. Being wrong is what makes us human. It’s easier to hold someone’s hand and have them make every decision for you, but where’s the life in that? How can you grow as a person when you don’t make wrong choices? When you make a bad decision then you learn from it, you grow, and you know what not to do next time.

“In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices” (James E. Faust)