Wendy MacNaughton: The art of paying attention | TED

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In an invitation to slow down and look at the world around you, graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton illustrates how drawing can spark deeply human, authentic connections. Ready to try? Grab a pencil and join MacNaughton for this delightful talk. "Drawing is looking, and looking is loving," she says.
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  • @Cencio108
    @Cencio1082 жыл бұрын

    I was in that audience, and struggled but ultimately enjoyed and was truly uplifted by the exercise. And Wendy’s talk and her presence were one of the most disarming, enlivening and touching experiences I’ve had in 14 years in the TED theater.

  • @picolonav
    @picolonav2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely love this talk, and how engaged she made everyone

  • @ShoshinShow
    @ShoshinShow2 жыл бұрын

    SUCH A LOVELY MESSAGE, WENDY!! Thank you for sharing your gift and perspective with us. I frequently do the blind portrait exercise in my PLAY workshops. I get the drawers to draw themselves and see themselves in a new light. Your exercise of drawing a stranger and practicing the art of "looking" is the perfect perspective shift I needed today. Thank you once again. And I'm excited to watch strangers draw each other in my future sessions!

  • @MrBasicHuman
    @MrBasicHuman Жыл бұрын

    One of the best lively connecting talk...she really pays attention to her audience and draws out the essential drawing i.e. attention out of them...nailed !

  • @t-man2612
    @t-man26122 жыл бұрын

    She moves like a performer. So graceful

  • @MitchellCrier
    @MitchellCrier2 жыл бұрын

    I began drawing again after a long hiatus solely to let go of judgement and my inner perfectionist. Glad to say I’ve been loving it and learning a lot more than I could have thought about the craft and myself. Great talk :)

  • @allou3570
    @allou35702 жыл бұрын

    The message at the latter part made me cry.

  • @Wendathena
    @Wendathena2 жыл бұрын

    Watching this was such a breath of fresh air for my day today! I'm inspired!

  • @kolitiokada9825
    @kolitiokada98252 жыл бұрын

    Love your story of your drawing class with the kids! And seeing all the kids with their drawings and happy faces! Wow, wow, wow!

  • @niamuun
    @niamuun2 жыл бұрын

    This is the best thing I’ve felt on the internet in a very long time! I fell back in love with life

  • @Noukz37
    @Noukz372 жыл бұрын

    Speeches like this restores my hope in TED, which was almost lost recently... Such a wonderful person she is!

  • @basilpa444

    @basilpa444

    2 жыл бұрын

    Okay

  • @giuliagriggio5166

    @giuliagriggio5166

    7 ай бұрын

    👏

  • @giuliagriggio5166

    @giuliagriggio5166

    7 ай бұрын

    She's amazing

  • @lauradavis4783
    @lauradavis47832 жыл бұрын

    Possibly one of THE best talks I've seen lately. Thank you!

  • @tinastoddard5411
    @tinastoddard54112 жыл бұрын

    I truly enjoyed your talk. It was inspirational and hopeful. Thank you.

  • @hectorl.campos994
    @hectorl.campos9942 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant! Through drawing reclaiming our humanity grounding each other in community. Thank you Wendy. Inspiring! Sharing this TED along as well. Kindness, LCA 💜🌷🌈

  • @misteryamo
    @misteryamo2 жыл бұрын

    You just gave me ideas for my 7th graders!!! You are amazing !

  • @Tera_B_Twilight
    @Tera_B_Twilight2 жыл бұрын

    This brought me to tears a little.

  • @umr0077
    @umr00772 жыл бұрын

    I loved watching it, Thank you Wendy !!!

  • @KhoaNguyen-mo1kh
    @KhoaNguyen-mo1kh2 жыл бұрын

    I difinitely love this video and the speaker. It's really important for us to pay attention to things and feel what they really are.

  • @yadanarkyaw284
    @yadanarkyaw2842 жыл бұрын

    I am learning drawing art. Art can touch everybody heart.

  • @DemetriPanici
    @DemetriPanici2 жыл бұрын

    *“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” Wu-Men*

  • @artmichel5572
    @artmichel55722 жыл бұрын

    Wendy, what an outstanding message! It reminds me of so many instances in my life that I am now “re”pondering. My quick story: My wife and I were living overseas and decided to take a long trip by car throughout Italy. Because we wanted to “see” as many sites as possible in our timeframe, we more or less raced from city and site to city and site. When we reached Lake Cuomo and decided to spend the night or two, this is when we were brought down from our balloon. We inquired at the hotel’s front desk what the sites were in their town, where to find a good meal, etc. I think that we looked frantic and rushed to our hostess. This is when mama “directed” us to sit down, relax, take in the view (which was incredible) and to enjoy the moment. As we sat there for 10-15 minutes, she suddenly appeared with a bottle of red and two glasses. She poured for us and said something like “You Americans are such beautiful people, my family and I love you as you are kind and always giving. The problem with Americans is that they do not know how to relax. How to vacation. Always running from place to place and don’t remember where they’ve been or what they saw. Please just sit here while we bring you some lunch and another bottle of vino. When you are ready I will tell you about the sites around here.” My wife and I never left the hotel as the view and the people were great until later that evening. We stayed four nights and took the time to enjoy the many “moments” and can recall the entire stay. I agree with you, LOOKING with an open mind does wonders.

  • @tremerity
    @tremerity2 жыл бұрын

    You are wonder-full! I do Draw Together-it began as a teacher-thing-but now I do it to feel better. Thanks, Wendy. (I'm showing this to my middle schoolers together after we do the Five-Finger drawing podcast.)

  • @pnweerak
    @pnweerak2 жыл бұрын

    This talk has much of the power and it just touched me softly

  • @Kathysart
    @Kathysart Жыл бұрын

    Ohh my goodness! This is wonderful. Thank you.

  • @davidmacenko2073
    @davidmacenko20732 жыл бұрын

    had to rewatch it two times because i wasn't paying attention the first two times

  • @RajatShivankar
    @RajatShivankar9 ай бұрын

    Drawing helps us slow down and focus on reality than expectation. Wonderful talk. Appriciate it.

  • @mcabanas88
    @mcabanas882 жыл бұрын

    Details are life, thank you Wendy!

  • @chukwunta
    @chukwunta2 жыл бұрын

    Such a lovely talk. Thanks for this inspiring talk.

  • @Devibaba
    @Devibaba2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this. Very much appreciated.

  • @HaneefaTheHaneefa
    @HaneefaTheHaneefa2 жыл бұрын

    As an artist this hit so deep ♥️

  • @marcotigno2902
    @marcotigno29022 жыл бұрын

    I like how the room design complemented her talk about drawing with only a single stroke in order to demonstrate the topic of paying attention.

  • @priyanshikshetri4301
    @priyanshikshetri43012 жыл бұрын

    This video change the perspective of looking to another people. It's a very nice video and i am definitely inspired by this

  • @l0g1cseer47
    @l0g1cseer472 жыл бұрын

    Social fun to serendipity!

  • @user-ln6ne4xe9v

    @user-ln6ne4xe9v

    2 жыл бұрын

    u make me learn a new word, thanks a lot

  • @officetricks6303
    @officetricks63032 жыл бұрын

    Felt like - Living the life the presenter. Awesome naration.

  • @ira88878
    @ira888782 жыл бұрын

    Very very touching

  • @ndhi842
    @ndhi842 Жыл бұрын

    Such a Wonderful message!

  • @Sara-tp6zd
    @Sara-tp6zd2 жыл бұрын

    Most brilliant introduction! Straight to the topic

  • @carolstieve8490
    @carolstieve84902 жыл бұрын

    Quite lovely, thank you for this.

  • @user-tw9zq2tl9t
    @user-tw9zq2tl9t2 жыл бұрын

    I used to do that when I was young. I was sitting and starting to focus on one of the things around me, and then I start to draw it. when I grew up I lost this sense. I don't know why. Maybe the world has changed, especially after the invasion of spiritual reality into our life. And maybe I have changed and become unable to realize the beauty of things that surround me. Anyway, Wendy MacNaughton inspired me again to return to my old beautiful action. Thank you, Wendy.

  • @user-vy8gd3on4f
    @user-vy8gd3on4f2 жыл бұрын

    really this talk is important to us we really need to see more clear and looking with focus to ourselves and our people who is love to good see and more love 💜

  • @phongpham1058
    @phongpham10582 жыл бұрын

    One of the best talk

  • @txlee5513
    @txlee55132 жыл бұрын

    She sounds like such a lovely person.

  • @jorblincobb412
    @jorblincobb4122 жыл бұрын

    I know exactly why I’m crying in the club rn

  • @dietzness
    @dietzness2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a personal success story to me. But, yes, I do agree that we as a people should learn to notice more details everywhere around us, drawing or not.

  • @azimvirani7866

    @azimvirani7866

    2 жыл бұрын

    Tim dietz, you need a diet.

  • @dietzness

    @dietzness

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@azimvirani7866 Or a more fortunate last name

  • @Aixman

    @Aixman

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dietzness Look on the bright side you could start a very successful weight less business.

  • @timetoexplore4100
    @timetoexplore41002 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much !

  • @TribeOfGaia
    @TribeOfGaia Жыл бұрын

    Impressive😌 Thank you🙏🏼🧡

  • @stevejette2329
    @stevejette23292 жыл бұрын

    EXCELLENT !!

  • @trailoverland6462
    @trailoverland64622 жыл бұрын

    That was beautiful

  • @briancole628
    @briancole6282 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver.

  • @Oliasn8
    @Oliasn82 жыл бұрын

    Bravo!! 🙏🏻

  • @yuliianedoruba
    @yuliianedoruba2 жыл бұрын

    She is amazing)💖💖💖

  • @user-qg7bu3zk4p
    @user-qg7bu3zk4p2 жыл бұрын

    It's really fun!! I want to do that.

  • @harshitkumar7901
    @harshitkumar79012 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 💖, Session

  • @takosmos
    @takosmos2 жыл бұрын

    Incredible

  • @hiepkhachnongdan
    @hiepkhachnongdan2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks goodjob

  • @vikramm3490
    @vikramm34902 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @beeee777
    @beeee7772 жыл бұрын

    Really nice job.

  • @saskiam2002
    @saskiam20022 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know what this drawing style is called? I love it

  • @NathalieLazo
    @NathalieLazo2 жыл бұрын

    Incredible person reading this, you have everything there is to succeed in life, whatever that is for you. Go after the life you truly want NOW! ✨ I believe in you! Love - Nat ❤️

  • @lauradavis4783

    @lauradavis4783

    2 жыл бұрын

    I caught YOUR message the second time I read it. THANK YOU.

  • @NathalieLazo

    @NathalieLazo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lauradavis4783 I love this! Thank you so much for sharing this! You’re amazing 😘❤️

  • @geraldineleonardis7318
    @geraldineleonardis73182 жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @colasrtney
    @colasrtney2 жыл бұрын

    She did the illustrations in Salt Fat Acid Heat, it's a great book about cooking.

  • @salmaelgch
    @salmaelgch2 жыл бұрын

    totally inspired

  • @Shreyaa20
    @Shreyaa202 жыл бұрын

    Very beautiful 🖤

  • @oke4975
    @oke49752 жыл бұрын

    i didn't expect that Rolando attend this lecture 1:40

  • @Stevenrooker
    @Stevenrooker2 жыл бұрын

    This is Genius!!! 🤘🏾👏🏾

  • @bggamingyt1000
    @bggamingyt10002 жыл бұрын

    So Nice

  • @Abdysch
    @Abdysch2 жыл бұрын

    I gave up my art school when I was 13, though everyone said I had a talent, I just didn't like my pictures because they weren't "perfect enough" 🤦‍♀️ and yes I still like drawing and painting

  • @gulahero
    @gulahero2 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @FIXDIY
    @FIXDIY2 жыл бұрын

    Great

  • @rishiaman2288
    @rishiaman22882 жыл бұрын

    3:21 the guy was dead serious

  • @brechodeproposito
    @brechodeproposito Жыл бұрын

    maravilhosoooooooo

  • @arcoyun
    @arcoyun2 жыл бұрын

    people might find inner peace when they are drawing.

  • @Haldun_
    @Haldun_2 жыл бұрын

    wow

  • @jshud3
    @jshud32 жыл бұрын

    Amen!!

  • @reemagulshaalikhan1235
    @reemagulshaalikhan12352 жыл бұрын

    Good information 💕💙💜🥰🤧💞🤧

  • @Pyslatein
    @Pyslatein2 жыл бұрын

    May I ask: what did they draw???

  • @behaardeglimlach
    @behaardeglimlach2 жыл бұрын

    I'm fucking crying

  • @user-sg6nx2nd7n
    @user-sg6nx2nd7n2 жыл бұрын

    من الاعماق أشكر مشاعرك

  • @melarc4560
    @melarc45602 жыл бұрын

    💕

  • @AuthenticAna
    @AuthenticAna2 жыл бұрын

    Used to draw ...

  • @stephengopaul8090
    @stephengopaul80902 жыл бұрын

    I wish to like this video twice..

  • @musilicious973
    @musilicious9732 жыл бұрын

    the boys looking at girls or vice-versa in future be like : oh that son is how i met your mother/father

  • @RandyJames22
    @RandyJames222 жыл бұрын

    If I become a drawer, I'll might be part of one nightstand.

  • @notagain3732
    @notagain37322 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @user-by3io4gn6e
    @user-by3io4gn6e2 жыл бұрын

    ایجاد روش های نو در جذب مخاطب با توجه به حالات جسمی و روحی موجود ...مجری موفق بود

  • @user-tr2ej7hs7q
    @user-tr2ej7hs7q2 жыл бұрын

    I’m Japanese Could you put subtitle on for me?

  • @user-ti7cf9hh7e
    @user-ti7cf9hh7e2 жыл бұрын

    I wanna be a good ENGLISH speaker like her. I’m only Japanese high school student but I will be like.

  • @nisarnisar2597
    @nisarnisar25972 жыл бұрын

    Peace. Interest Processes. The greater the interest the greater the success. The brain processes interests, which make the heart it needs happy. Why often a human will run away from fear. Fear causes the heart the brain needs to pound harder at what is causing the fear, the brain then does not like this, for the brain loves the Heart the most.

  • @JasonMasque13
    @JasonMasque135 ай бұрын

    I’ve watch this before. This is tough.

  • @reemagulshaalikhan1235
    @reemagulshaalikhan12352 жыл бұрын

    Welcome 🤗😊😊😊👍 very good

  • @Novastar.SaberCombat
    @Novastar.SaberCombat2 жыл бұрын

    I publish the print version of 'Diamond Dragons' on 12.21.21. It contains 60+ illustrations, some of them, hand-drawn. A few, crafted by myself. But, unfortunately, my Time has been cut short. I doubt anyone will understand just how spiritual the book is (at a glance), but... I hope some people find out how far the portal of fire leads. *"Time is the only resource for which no creature may bargain."* 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart & soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge--hope's strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... ...before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ -- Diamond Dragons (book 1)

  • @Electriophile
    @Electriophile11 ай бұрын

    Me struggling to pay attention to this video about paying attention:

  • @luanbui6921
    @luanbui69212 жыл бұрын

    She makes me more powerful

  • @s0hlless
    @s0hlless2 жыл бұрын

    what is this video about?

  • @propps2253
    @propps22532 жыл бұрын

    Krishnamurti; When you teach a child that a bird is named 'bird,' the child will never see the bird again.

  • @TrinkBruder
    @TrinkBruder2 жыл бұрын

    Drawing aside, most public libraries will have a copy of Mahler's 8th Symphony and a listening room. Plenty you tube feeds of the same. Toward the end of the Symphony the text calls us not to a horizontal view, but a vertical one. Doctor Marianus and the chorus beckons us to "Blicket aut zum Retterblick," to look up to the redeeming gaze. Sometimes there is no hope to be found in this world, and yet, even a public library can point us in the right direction, which I am afraid, is not, horizontal.

  • @elayda93
    @elayda932 жыл бұрын

    *_"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others"_* - Ellen DeGeneres

  • @firstnamelastname59

    @firstnamelastname59

    2 жыл бұрын

    She was looking at at Charles Manson, when she said that.

  • @dougewald243
    @dougewald2432 жыл бұрын

    When I was homeless in Portland, Oregon they frowned on homeless people in the library. Portland (the liberal epicenter of a very liberal state) treats homeless people terribly. They have no idea what they're doing and are completely incompetent. Most of the people in the social services industry are ½ a step from homelessness themselves. They applied for the job because of their contact with social services when they were homeless.

  • @SharunvkRaj
    @SharunvkRaj2 жыл бұрын

    Oru hai tharumoo😜😜😜

  • @motivationbaychannel6891
    @motivationbaychannel68912 жыл бұрын

    Some think it is the big things that cause men to stumble. Often it is the minor ones that shake us the most. This shows the futility of self-confidence.

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