Why you need to grow up to be happier | Bruce Hood | TEDxUniversityofBristol

To be accepted, we need to change from self-centred, egocentric children into allocentric adults who are focused not just on ourselves, but on others as well. Developing into an individual who is independent but also interconnected with others. We should all make this transformation because the allocentric adult is not only healthier, but happier.
In this talk, Professor Bruce Hood will demonstrate how to go about this transformation. Professor Bruce Hood is an experimental psychologist and philosopher at our university specialising in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Bruce is a visiting professor at MIT and Harvard University and has contributed to substantial research on cognitive development in childhood. Bruce Hood has curated and delivers a course called The Science of Happiness, at several universities in association with Yale University and is now the basis for the BBC podcast The Happiness Half-Hour co-presented by Bruce.
Bruce is also a lifetime fellow of the Association Psychological Science and was President of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association and received the inaugural Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology award from the British Psychological Society. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @SeaBeeRUST
    @SeaBeeRUST Жыл бұрын

    Incredibly weird experience today: I wrote a short autobiography about all my goals and issues in my notes from a third person perspective this morning, because I thought it would be fun. This is the first time in my life I've wrote about myself in the third person.... Then this afternoon I hop on and this is the first video I watch. WTF... its almost like I manifested the action of writing in the third person from the future.

  • @killertofu

    @killertofu

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah, google just spying on you like usual

  • @smorts9336
    @smorts9336 Жыл бұрын

    Shout out to Bruce! I took his Science of Happiness course a few years ago, it's been my favourite unit at uni so far

  • @istp1967
    @istp1967 Жыл бұрын

    "Growing older is unavoidable; but growing up is a moral choice" -- Jordan Peterson.

  • @alfblue4734

    @alfblue4734

    Жыл бұрын

    Ain't that the dude who sells statues of his head

  • @jesutolaadeyemi3595
    @jesutolaadeyemi3595 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! So educative and mind transforming. Thanks Bruce

  • @AyushKumar-fg4uy
    @AyushKumar-fg4uy Жыл бұрын

    thanks Bruce, i really needed to hear this. Thanks for existing.

  • @09070605uty
    @09070605uty Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video! I needed this.

  • @cristybello
    @cristybello Жыл бұрын

    That’s a seriously genius tactic!👏🏾😊 Im gonna practice that

  • @ulugbeksaipov917
    @ulugbeksaipov917 Жыл бұрын

    Great, very useful video for teens, parents, for every person. Thanks a million! 😄👍🙏

  • @bigtam462
    @bigtam4622 ай бұрын

    He has a point...when life starts to stress me out...I look at the pale blue dot video by Carl Sagan....puts things back in perspective..

  • @coppersense999
    @coppersense999 Жыл бұрын

    A different perspective than I was expecting. I like that. Taken together with a powerful factor in what stops emotional development (trauma during crucial formative years) this is useful info. I also found CBT to be a great tool for dismantling cognitive distortions and disproving limiting beliefs.

  • @Speakyourmindgirly
    @Speakyourmindgirly Жыл бұрын

    This is genius! And right on time. 🎉

  • @poterror
    @poterror Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic content. Thank you very much.

  • @feyipitanigbowu
    @feyipitanigbowu Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @warrencanonigo
    @warrencanonigo Жыл бұрын

    Indeed, maturity can change your perspective on happiness.

  • @sami2612
    @sami2612 Жыл бұрын

    His smile is so warming❣️❣️

  • @zooneyl2248
    @zooneyl2248 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @moripiepenbrink4502
    @moripiepenbrink4502 Жыл бұрын

    omg tyvm for this

  • @tommasinibafford7272
    @tommasinibafford7272 Жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy that presentation. I want to know more psychological distance.

  • @niamhjennings9915
    @niamhjennings9915 Жыл бұрын

    Omg I love this! I only recently came across Brian Cox and listening to his work has had this affect on me. Not only in the sense that my problems are smaller but how impossible life itself came to be, it is a beautiful chaotic mystery.

  • @soumayasayegh1849
    @soumayasayegh1849 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting.. thank u

  • @littlecherub9817
    @littlecherub9817 Жыл бұрын

    truth!!!!

  • @yourspranayjain
    @yourspranayjain Жыл бұрын

    How do they maintain a graph of start to end maintaining linearity of concept while describing it? Like when to not jump to end?

  • @sharadsahu1745
    @sharadsahu1745 Жыл бұрын

    Wow..... That was Great 🔥🔥🔥

  • @jonstewart464
    @jonstewart464 Жыл бұрын

    A civilised species would put Bruce Hood in charge of everything... He'd probably need some help, so I reckon Robert Sapolsky and Natalie Wynn would also be great on this benign dictatorship deal. Sadly, but naturally, the people who would actually improve the lot of our species are the least likely to promote themselves to the positions of greatest influence. That's being human for you... But, sincerely, thank you Bruce for the important work, you're a giant.

  • @debrasnook4714

    @debrasnook4714

    8 ай бұрын

    @jonstewart464 Would you offer a"name" or searchable video topic of Natalie Wynn? I'm unfamilier with her. Thanks 🙂

  • @henrycardona2940
    @henrycardona2940 Жыл бұрын

    First sentence was a run upon repeating the conjunction 'but' at least twice.

  • @haifahussein5962
    @haifahussein5962 Жыл бұрын

    💖

  • @nylonkid01
    @nylonkid01 Жыл бұрын

    what about the gifted that somehow got fearful of being successful? How is that feeling corrected?

  • @rubychew6535
    @rubychew6535 Жыл бұрын

    I had a teacher in jr. high school tell me that some adults act like children and I realized this in the work world.

  • @Dragam1
    @Dragam1 Жыл бұрын

    He looks like Robin williams ^^

  • @sai_beo
    @sai_beo Жыл бұрын

    Everyone needs to watch this lol

  • @BradTech.
    @BradTech. Жыл бұрын

    Seen 15:06 Joe Pera Takes You for a Flight?

  • @MotocrossEditor
    @MotocrossEditor Жыл бұрын

    When someone asks me “what’s wrong” from here on out. Well you see... Johnny he pissed off 😎👍🏼 thx Ted

  • @juthmusic
    @juthmusic Жыл бұрын

    This video needs a de-esser. Those S'ses are soooooo strong. Otherwise great!

  • @GuentherVanRaven
    @GuentherVanRaven Жыл бұрын

    „Grow up!“

  • @donaldfrederick501
    @donaldfrederick501 Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately have not found this to be true and found 1st/3rd person perspective just as stressful with only noticeable difference on what it is I'm stress about.

  • @NickAlphason
    @NickAlphason Жыл бұрын

    Him: "Smarties...M&Ms if you're American." Me, an American: What

  • @sandra.helianthus

    @sandra.helianthus

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you call them?

  • @NickAlphason

    @NickAlphason

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sandra.helianthus Both M&Ms and Smarties are common candy in US

  • @NickAlphason

    @NickAlphason

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sandra.helianthus how do you call them?

  • @How.Dare.You.
    @How.Dare.You. Жыл бұрын

    I google myself bc I want to ensure the info about me is actually limited and not the opposite

  • @javohirhalimjonov8826
    @javohirhalimjonov8826 Жыл бұрын

    My teacher once joked about a student who talked about himself in a third person that is the first stage of schizophrenia

  • @jabedahmed6093
    @jabedahmed6093 Жыл бұрын

    im from Bangladesh

  • @hippietinkerbell

    @hippietinkerbell

    Жыл бұрын

    Cool

  • @ahmedraza9672

    @ahmedraza9672

    Жыл бұрын

    Cool bro. I am from Pakistan. How are you doing?

  • @I.____.....__...__
    @I.____.....__...__ Жыл бұрын

    He completely ignored the people who felt less stressed by thinking about problems in first-person instead of third-person. In my case, thinking first-person means I only have to feel bad for myself, thinking in third-person makes me feel bad for myself AND a hypothetical other person. 😒 (That's why I try to avoid hearing about other people's problems, it only makes me feel worse, adding to the total misery in the world, especially when there's nothing I can do about any of it.)

  • @wendyrx
    @wendyrx Жыл бұрын

    Or maybe we googled ourselves to make sure our information isn't out there & available to just anyone. Not everyone is egocentric.

  • @RM-zu2nh
    @RM-zu2nh Жыл бұрын

    Maybe they think everyone thinks like them because they are always in a classroom where everyone does think like them. The teacher taught them all at the same time.

  • @joumaalmohammed2172
    @joumaalmohammed2172 Жыл бұрын

    I could not do it because i do not know their pronouns

  • @pinoybricks1275
    @pinoybricks1275 Жыл бұрын

    Is there anybody here who is not egocentric?

  • @thekidsavage4511
    @thekidsavage4511 Жыл бұрын

    i think for adults how to remember how to be child much more important. I think we have enough with the hyper motivated jordan peterson prickle gang

  • @henrycardona2940
    @henrycardona2940 Жыл бұрын

    This talk is filled with negativity, and should be seen from a positive view if better said.

  • @ANAMIKA_619
    @ANAMIKA_619 Жыл бұрын

    First

  • @pinoybricks1275

    @pinoybricks1275

    Жыл бұрын

    Congratulations!

  • @rayannehorne3468
    @rayannehorne3468 Жыл бұрын

    Life strangels kindness. Lucia

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