Be the Cake: How Little Things Matter | Zach Cohen | TEDxWestPoint
After a life-saving surgery on my first birthday, I feel like the “little things” saved my life. There are little things we miss each and every day that have the opportunity to save our lives to some extent. We miss these things because we are often distracted by less meaningful objects and perceptions.
Zach Cohen grew up in Englewood, Colorado and is a Civil Engineering student interested in enhancing a community's sense of place through sustainable infrastructure development. Throughout his time as a cadet at West Point, he has been a member of Civil Engineering Club and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. While he is an Engineer officer in the United States Army, he wishes to pursue graduate-level education in sustainable infrastructure development.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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Thank you for sharing this…
I have now set an alarm to text, my parents, good morning.
This was excellent.
awesome...
God damn he's two years younger than me all of a sudden I feel super unaccomplished
hes 1000% correct
beatiful.
comment #4 frommarianapolis
I must have missed the point about how a cake made his life.
@eXitus4life
7 жыл бұрын
The cake symbolises the positivity and thoughtfulness the people had for him, the cake is the "silent message". It's not the cake that saved him, but the thoughts and drive the people had who gave that cake. It's a matter of how you interpret things, which is the whole point of his talk. Wether you interpret a truly well meant "Good morning! How are you?" as really that, or just your generic formality of everyday interactions, always depends on how you look at life and the people around you.
comment #5