Things I love about this video. * It frames the importance of living a life of purpose. * The three guests are very different from each other in every way and yet, each arrives at the same understanding about how to live a good life. * There isn't a single drop or hint of stereotyping of any of these individuals. Each is listened to and valued equally. * Jane Goodall, an 89 year old woman, models continuing to lead, continuing to live purposefully, continuing to be an over-the-top role model. She shows us exactly why an older person should never 'step aside' and stop gifting us with all that they are. Ageism would like to prevent her from giving us her gifts but she has no need to be concerned about that. Thank goodness. ❤

@AzureMenace

4 ай бұрын

And now I can use this for my assignment (jk)

@Zar2244

2 ай бұрын

She is also someone who respects all living beings, vegan, against cruelty to animals.

Jane Goodall's story about the hen and the egg was cool. It shows how asking questions as a kid can lead to big things. Her mom backing her up really made a difference. Shows how important it is to encourage kids when they're curious.

@nathaningram3047

4 ай бұрын

Something I got after the Terry Crew story was that Jane and him both got to tell their story because they made it and that it's both demonstrated how both right and wrong directions can lead to life goals just in a more direct or indirect way at the end of the day they got there but like with yin and Yan there is always balance so many don't make it for the same reason (story)

@Mr22thou

4 ай бұрын

I think "validation" is so important for children to develop into creative and well adjusted adults. Hearing of it, as in Jane's story, really resonated with me. By reading some of the other comments, I see that it resonated with many others who apparently also got little of it growing up. Positive reinforcement is another form of it. I came to see it's value when I was a young adult through learning about it from a therapist and self-help and psychology books as well as my own personal experience. I also recall that when I found myself in the position of teaching the ropes to new employees, I did not think that being impatient and letting my frustration and anger out, as my father and mother did, would be the expeditious way to get it done. Also, I feared I'd cause conflict and resentment and that scared me. I got too much of that growing up. Now days, I validate myself and I've been told that I am good at validating others.

@SearchOfSelf

4 ай бұрын

@@nathaningram3047 Yeah, both their stories show that even if we make mistakes or get lost, we can still find our way to something great.

@SearchOfSelf

4 ай бұрын

​@@Mr22thou Definitely, Jane's story is a great example of how early encouragement shapes a child's future. I get it because I didn't have much of that myself growing up and it somewhat crippled me. It makes a huge difference when someone listens and encourages your ideas, especially as a kid.

@Mr22thou

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Your comment is also an excellent example of validation!@@SearchOfSelf

“If you can do improvs, bomb them, and not care. Now, you can learn.” I love this right here! 😃💙

Wow it was unexpected to have Jane and Terry in the same presentation, but it was perfect. Both wise individuals who have so much to share with us all. Nicely done. Really great interviewing

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

We were so truly honored to have them as guests! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment ❤

She had that focus at four! And the freedom to sit quietly in the chicken coop.

I often walk around with stories in my head how to heal my own past, what happened to me ; and stories of others ,hopes and dreams for them or how to heal them. It’s who I am , it doesn’t rule me . I understand oh I spent 10 minutes during that drive daydreaming about someone’s problems . it’s only in my later years (57) that I can offer it up with grace take my own wishes off of it , as I offer it to the highest power. I love myself because I pay attention to others. With God. ❤

@moniqueengleman873

4 ай бұрын

I once heard that you can change your future, And your past. I just stopped all the negatives in my stories and it all makes sense and meaning later.

Watching this at 7 in the morning and I genuinely couldn’t be more grateful to exist in the midst of these powerful, beautiful and intelligent minds🥹 This video has so much to offer and it gifted me with several moments of epiphanies, that in the end, don’t ask me how, made me genuinely grateful for my shaky, chaotic and stressful past. It made me who I am today, it helped shape my values and created a mission for me to stand behind. It gave me purpose. I will do great things

@Tina-zz5kt

4 ай бұрын

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@humane123

4 ай бұрын

You will do great. All the best

What a beautiful story of us. Thank you all who helped make this possible ✌️💗🤘

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for being here to enjoy this project with us!

This was a great talk. Jane looks so young. I think that's what living authentically looks like--keeps you young. Thinking about writing a story (mine, yours) helps see yourself as well as others going forward is valuable--time not wasted but, constructive, as demonstrated by the stories told here. Really great. Thank you all.

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

"Going forward is valuable..." We absolutely love this. Thank you for your time and interpretation ❤

”Storytelling is the most easiest, most basic mode, by which we tend to understand each other and ourselves.“

I felt so much inspiration and presence from Jane even though it’s the first time I see her in an interview… Also Terry is so authentic… loved this video. Thanks for the feelings.

@AliceYoungCalligraphy

4 ай бұрын

I was lucky enough to see her in person at a bookstore talk around 1999. Sat at her feet as she talked... the energy coming from her is so peaceful and yet strong. Amazing woman.

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your time, attention, and kind comment ❤We're so glad you're here!

Precious little video carrying huge ideas and inspirations ❤

This video should be a part of school curriculum globally

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

This is such an honor. Thank you very, very much ❤

Jane Goodalll is an icon...

When Terry Crews talks about 'daring to bomb' he describes the fool card in Tarot, this is where humans begin their true life path. The picture of the fool stepping of the cliff speaks about beginning to truly learn from experience. Only after this first step all the rest follows.

Amen to being in nature. It’s where the hope is & where you see miracles happen. So love Jane! Thank you for creating this video.👏👏👏🥰

this is *chef's kiss*

Bravo! I agree with all the positive comments I read. I couldn’t stop watching.

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

This is such a kind thing to say. Thank you so, so much ❤

This video was inspiring, even for an old fart. Thank you! It made me think about how most of us live in a culture that is fed to us by organizations (corporations, government, media, etc.) that do so only for financial gain and control. It is on us, as individuals to look past the facade, especially the out of control consumerism and social media and political false narratives, to see that most people have similar values, they just see the world thru a different lens, shaped by the world around them.

@Mr22thou

4 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. I have long feared that if the U.S. crumbled, it might be unbridled greed that would do us in. That seems to be what has brought us to the precipice we are at this moment. And inspiring videos like this could help us avoid ruin. Stay positive.

Thank you team Big think for bringing these inspiring stories.❤

@vincentcaudo-engelmann9057

4 ай бұрын

Actual real quality without silly dramatizations or AI speech and images.

This video gave me the push I needed to do something in my life. Hearing Jane and Terry gave answers to some of the questions I have. I always thought that I have never done anything in my life to reach where I am. But, now I understood that whatever I did, whatever I experienced has shaped my life and it's a part of me. Jane's curiosity and that sense of child like awe made me look up to her. Also I was inspired after hearing how Terry went in Football just to get out of a life and get at a point where he can think about his actual dream. So it is still not late for me. Thank you so much.

@ShubhraPandey

3 ай бұрын

waoooo

That was a wonderful podcast. I haven’t enjoyed a video so much for a long time. And what I must say is, it is all due to Kmele Foster’s interviewing skills. He brought out the very best in each of the interviewees. He listened so intently, valuing what they were saying so much, that they were so forthcoming and inspiring! I can’t praise him enough. So I “liked and “subscribed. I am 85 yrs old, and as my grandchild says, “I have experience!”. Give praise only where praise is due. ❤️❤️❤️

Great interviewer. Real moved by what Jane said about the "adventure of dying" and how the host brought it full circle by pointing out a person's relationship with the conceot of death and life purpose..or fulfillment thereof. Ms. Goodall seems like a truly self-actualized, realistic person with few or no regrets. Its in her demeanor and humility. Bravo Jane Goodall 👏 🙌 👍

Beautiful! Inspirational! Thank you Jane, Terry and all involved in the production of this video.

I love this woman soooo much.. the world needs more people like her!!! 😊❤

Home run, Mr. Foster. Inspiring and well done. Thank you.

"Your purpose is the intersection of the Earth's hunger and your skillset." ❤

Beautiful documentary 🙏🏾

Such good stuff. What an awesome combination of hosts and guests. ❤

Gentle and powerful- well made and well told. I enjoyed this video thoroughly, its guests and its presenter.

I think, no matter how big storys are, they are eventually just a different type of distractions in life to keep us distracted from the suffering and pure emptiness of our exsistence. It just more useful and nicer to have a distraction (like the ones presented in this beautiful episode) than to spend your time on your smartphone. It would be also fair to mention, that a lot of human beings don't even get to have a story or purpose, i lived in a third world country and i know what i'm talking about.

@maniathreya6974

4 ай бұрын

Is life about having a purpose?

@Kinan300BC

4 ай бұрын

@@maniathreya6974 i have no idea what life is about, everything you hear about purpose or meaning is just a mere opinion, no one really knows what life is about, and most people don't feel comfortable to admit that.

@maniathreya6974

4 ай бұрын

@@Kinan300BC isn't life about Art, Music, poetry, nature, love etc.... I know this is also someone else opinion but still it kinda fits

@Kinan300BC

4 ай бұрын

@@maniathreya6974 and this is also my opinion, i believe, this is the most peaceful way to spend our short time on earth in order to fill the inherent emptiness we all feel. unfortunately most people still act on their primal survival mechanisms, which is creating more conflict in their lives and increase suffering.

All amazing!! Truly inspiring work. Congratulations!

Beautiful stories. Thank you for the great inspiring content ❤

Omg. “Unembarassable!” Brilliant!

Forever grateful to big think for these amazing videos

Can't like this enough! Have been blessed by stories all our lives. Now compiling life episodes an putting things down for friends etc..

Beautiful episode! Thank you!

Thank you Kmele!

Wonderful video or should I say "story" These people were extraordinarily inspiring, probably because they were such great storytellers. Well done!

I cry, this is so inspiring. Thank you.

"We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent. Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music. My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance. I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species. Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them. The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music. We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic. Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily. The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species." Oliver Sacks "Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music. There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul. One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind. A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature. Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination. Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs. The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us." Hazrat Inayat Khan "The medicine of the future will be music and sound. He who understands nature walks close with God. Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator. Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse. Make the world a better place because you have lived in it." Edgar Cayce "It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it. The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards. Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth." Helen Caldicott

Telling stories about story telling. Love this video. Very inspiring.

I loved this life affirming interview, with these amazing people. Everyone’s story and the grace of the interviewer touched heart. Thank you ❤

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. Our whole team appreciates you! ❤

Stories exist independently of their players. If you know that, the knowledge is power. Stories, great flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. - Sir Terry Pratchett

First time listening to your channel ❤ it! Ty 🕊️💕✨

A superb video in every way. Absolutely wonderful. The interviews were exceptional.

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for such a kind comment. We're so glad you're here ❤

Simply inspiring! Thank you!

Wonderful narrative and story. Thank you

Beautiful. Thank you ❣

i always like the content from this page i like any video before watching it because i know its gonna be informative and shout out to the team that puts the info together for us

I very much enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for this beautiful story... God bless you!

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! ❤

Wonderful🌠 Thank You very much!

Wow. This is good. So many great stories. What stories are to come?

She is my hero.

Wonderful! Live it a lot! Thanks for this video. Wow ❤

Children are the best scientists in many ways. We can learn from all the avenues, I'm thinking. Maybe...

Amazing lecture❤

Wow amazing. My favorite..I love the grounded reality of this channel!!. Greetings,from Mr Axel Vasa.❤

@The-Well

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, Mr Axel Vasa ❤

I totally loved the stories.

That was a very beautiful episode

Beautiful!

Amazing thank u for this

Thank you for this video!

Brilliant!

OMG this is marvelous

Genuineness ✨

Outstanding ✨✨✨👌🏽

How lucky she is... About her mother... Mine was absolutely different. And now I am helping people whose live are f*cked up by their mothers...

How lovely ❤

Mrs jane is burning to change the world ..like i was sensed the heatig reflected her 😄😄👍❤️

It's just because we found fire We didn't started the fire it was always burning

Great work

Inspiring

Love this - all about the stories, honesty, humanity. Hooray for homo-narrans!

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A+ content

Going to read Erik Erickson!

Wooow

Interesting

Also a question would be: what future legacy and stories do those who bring wars upon others leave for the upcoming generations? if any will remain 🤷‍♂️

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Thos is a brilliant countrrpoint to all of the "Free will is an illusion" nonsense that the algorithm has been promoting in my feed lately. The past is somewhat determined, but for an individual there is a perspective, and often no corroboration is possible. The story is about a deterministic chain of cause and effect, which is the platform or traajectory influencing what comes next. It may appear to be determistic, but actually a lot of it is our interpretation and (especially where the future is --or was-- concerned at each moment) our fabrication and selection.

Africa is a huge continent, he specific where she chose, which could be Kenya, Congo? All creatures differ on this continent. 🔮🌍 Majority of people have a story but most didn't get to live the dream though various circumstances. We all playing a roll on the journey of life, this isn't simple created by desires.🗣👥

. . . Thank Mr Eckleberg

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Tell yourself good stories.They're at least just as true as the other stories.

Story

So do it for the plot essentially?

Merhaba kolay gelsin

It seems to me that McAdams is making quite a personal judgment call - one that I catch myself making, particularly as an American who came of age in the midst of heavy competition most often won by those with qualities that they can take no personal credit for (enough resources/support in childhood, physical attractiveness, adequate psychosocial care, etc.) - regarding what is "having a purpose" and what is "taking up space". The use of the word "should" rang some alarm bells.

The Neverending Story

Jane Goodall should have focused on helping America and her veterans.

I hope people will understand, but the experience of Jane Goodall is exactly what’s happening in the United States. Border control on our southern border and the plate of people in South America is exactly what she’s talking about. To save our borders we need to save the people that are coming from South America, we need to have diplomats and our government find a solution. Find a solution to stop the madness in South America. To stop the need for these people to immigrate illegally.

Terry Crews was part of the me too movement. His butt was grabbed by some executive dude

Creating your own narrative to assign a purpose in your life is all good, but how do we deal with people with the main character syndrome? Or delusional people with no concept of reality check? How should we go about unreliable narratives?

@sokoli3253

4 ай бұрын

Discernment and intuition.

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