You Should Be Embarrassed | Melissa Dahl | TEDxPenn

An expert on the awkward moments that make us cringe, Melissa Dahl explores what “cringe-worthy” moments really are and what they reveal about human nature. Throughout her talk, she draws on embarrassment-what it is, where it comes from, and how we can use it to improve ourselves. Her conclusions are based on the research of top experts in the field, and her suggestions are worth considering to live an intentional, confident life. An expert on the awkward moments that make us human, Melissa
Dahl will be exploring why and how we “cringe,” and what they
can reveal about our priorities and personalities. Moreover, she
will be discussing what we can learn from these inevitable moments of embarrassment, and new ways to approach them. 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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  • @a.panagop9063
    @a.panagop90634 жыл бұрын

    ... the cringe. I tried being a photographer at a wedding I wasn't invited to without speaking to anyone. Take that memory.. I beg you

  • @SpicySpinach

    @SpicySpinach

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahha love that

  • @a.panagop9063

    @a.panagop9063

    4 жыл бұрын

    Needless to mention that I had never taken a photograph before at a wedding and that I was 13 at the time.

  • @SpicySpinach

    @SpicySpinach

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@a.panagop9063 damn you were confident. I wish more people would be like that.

  • @OriginalTheUsername

    @OriginalTheUsername

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Friend of the groom, or friend of the bride?" "Friend of myself" "lol you're in"

  • @cheekybananaboy3361

    @cheekybananaboy3361

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@a.panagop9063 how'd you get in a random wedding at 13??

  • @rennzwerg5085
    @rennzwerg50854 жыл бұрын

    If she finds this story cringy she has not watched minecon 2016 yet

  • @beautifulcatastrophe
    @beautifulcatastrophe4 жыл бұрын

    Awkwardness is my best friend.

  • @ReallifeUrk
    @ReallifeUrk4 жыл бұрын

    A talk I definitely needed to watch.

  • @dazai3874
    @dazai38744 жыл бұрын

    if i embrace my embarassment i will break every single wall in my house..

  • @michaelevans3942
    @michaelevans39423 күн бұрын

    Nice speech Melissa, much needed advice.

  • @CountryFriedZen
    @CountryFriedZen4 жыл бұрын

    Just wanted to say “Thank You” for taking the time to put together and deliver this talk. I found your stories entertaining and thought you did an awesome job of putting it all together and making it flow perfectly from start to finish. I got a lot of value out of this - it inspired me to take action toward my dream - and I’m grateful for it and am sending positive energy, love, peace and harmony to you and yours.

  • @tchrisou812
    @tchrisou8124 жыл бұрын

    This was a really interesting subject and talk, I enjoyed it. Good job.

  • @dungeontv143
    @dungeontv1434 жыл бұрын

    I loved this talk ❤❤

  • @TheMarc0202
    @TheMarc02024 жыл бұрын

    Interesting topic! Thanks for your view 🙏🏼 I’ve been pondering the cringe lately and this will help

  • @Kevin-sy8uf

    @Kevin-sy8uf

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nathan Fielder has entered chat

  • @NicoSmets
    @NicoSmets4 жыл бұрын

    cringing is what we come to do on the TED channel, in general

  • @Raphael4722

    @Raphael4722

    4 жыл бұрын

    Best comment 😄

  • @Wingedmagician
    @Wingedmagician4 жыл бұрын

    Oh man this one was made for me

  • @seekingthelost7
    @seekingthelost7 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Melissa, this really helped.

  • @Steven-ze2zk
    @Steven-ze2zk4 жыл бұрын

    00:20. She made me think she was sixteen, right up until I realized that, if this were true, it means that she has been covering psychological science as a journalist since she was around six, 02:47.

  • @MartyD

    @MartyD

    4 жыл бұрын

    jack me too! 🤣

  • @Gibon345

    @Gibon345

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same. wtf

  • @Gibon345

    @Gibon345

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh, now i get it. She meant that She WAS 16 when Her parents wanted Her to find a summer job.

  • @Teichbukkanier

    @Teichbukkanier

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah same

  • @SR-kd4wi

    @SR-kd4wi

    4 жыл бұрын

    mind blown

  • @Man.meno13
    @Man.meno134 жыл бұрын

    Nice and good to see that

  • @jacksonpercy8044
    @jacksonpercy80444 жыл бұрын

    I missed the part where she said how cringing and laughing is actually helpful.

  • @Cookiekeks

    @Cookiekeks

    3 жыл бұрын

    True. I think shes talking nonsense. I dont see any reason why people should use feelings of shame instead of guilt and empathie to be a good person.

  • @cabbage0dusk
    @cabbage0dusk4 жыл бұрын

    I didn't expect this talk to be as useful as it has been, thank you!!

  • @shakakaperry6034
    @shakakaperry60342 жыл бұрын

    I’ve have embarrassing things like texting my mom in the morning about is she awake and Craig and mom looked confused at first and later I felt embarrassed 😳 or high blood pressure and puberty can lead to ultimate humiliation

  • @jonpadrejuan5357
    @jonpadrejuan53574 жыл бұрын

    she's a very attractive person!

  • @MammaApa
    @MammaApa4 жыл бұрын

    I am 41 which means gen x, and I do not understand cringe. I understand WHEN people use this expression but I have not felt it. I am hugely self conscious, but I do not care how others percieve me. And the same goes for other people. Let people do and look whatever they want. How is this a problem to me?

  • @MammaApa

    @MammaApa

    4 жыл бұрын

    Connecting to the video - of course my past self is always not someone I would like to be again today, no growing person should and noone should stop growing as a person, but I can also see WHY I was like I was and what brought me there and forward to where I am now. It's just history. It doesn't embarrass me.

  • @lucasbuenofm8760

    @lucasbuenofm8760

    4 жыл бұрын

    wow I envy you so much lol

  • @iwantmytrophy

    @iwantmytrophy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I understand social anxiety, but this seems to be people who expect they must always be positive and genuinely enthusiastic about things like office culture and "living life to the fullest"? In addition to people's "old self-concepts" hanging around longer to haunt them media wise, which probably doesn't help. I don't think it's a generational thing, although there's something to be said about a society that pits everyone against another (X v Y?) and yet everyone's still faking it to "get along" when it appears most don't enjoy it? People seem to be primed to blame themselves.

  • @khushbu1409

    @khushbu1409

    9 ай бұрын

    Wow that’s amazing mammaapa

  • @JeEhaO
    @JeEhaO4 жыл бұрын

    I need that book about farting!

  • @Cookiekeks
    @Cookiekeks3 жыл бұрын

    Why is it an "important question" how others percieve you

  • @ScorpioSilver1111
    @ScorpioSilver11114 жыл бұрын

    Saying cringe is cringe btw

  • @WINOFFICIAL

    @WINOFFICIAL

    4 жыл бұрын

    V No, it’s not.

  • @sammyjankis5145

    @sammyjankis5145

    4 жыл бұрын

    Writing it too

  • @TheUrbanEpicure

    @TheUrbanEpicure

    4 жыл бұрын

    Almost as bad as the other Millennial linguistic monstrosities 'flex' and 'lit'.

  • @K_masters
    @K_masters2 ай бұрын

    We're not living a drama, we are living a comedy, my, habibis. learn to laugh at yourself.

  • @ShafiqNazrin
    @ShafiqNazrin4 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone give a tldr of what she said?

  • @thisisthefoxe
    @thisisthefoxe4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, I'm Cingeeey xDD

  • @jacksonpercy8044

    @jacksonpercy8044

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL rawr *nuzzles you* xDDDD

  • @iamherek3420
    @iamherek34204 жыл бұрын

    لماذا لا توجد ترجمة للعربية ؟💔

  • @ShafiqNazrin

    @ShafiqNazrin

    4 жыл бұрын

    والله اعلام

  • @SandeepRawat1982
    @SandeepRawat19824 жыл бұрын

    I never knew that if you're good to cry about something, they have you your own TED talk.

  • @BlueSkyBS
    @BlueSkyBS4 жыл бұрын

    Wait until she discovers AvPD.

  • @Cookiekeks
    @Cookiekeks3 жыл бұрын

    No it isnt good

  • @yzoononononn
    @yzoononononn Жыл бұрын

    she is hilarious

  • @dianar6600
    @dianar66004 жыл бұрын

    She says that they did what they were embarrassed to do..... ..... Me: *keeps holding in the fart*

  • @champlife6353
    @champlife63534 жыл бұрын

    HENRY CRINGEJUDO wached this and put it to work

  • @Balancinglife
    @Balancinglife4 жыл бұрын

    She has the balls to get up on stage now she needs toastmasters to sharpen her skills.

  • @willb3368
    @willb33684 жыл бұрын

    clearly an audience full of clinical psychologists. :3

  • @Cookiekeks

    @Cookiekeks

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why

  • @user-vj4lr6eo6g
    @user-vj4lr6eo6gАй бұрын

    One day when i was in toilet doing stuff you my aunt walk in because the door was not locked properly, take this you embarassment

  • @elvanustun1387
    @elvanustun13874 жыл бұрын

    Türkçe altyazı eklerseniz çok mutlu olurum🙏🏻

  • @SUcC..
    @SUcC..4 жыл бұрын

    Kek your way to a better you

  • @shrutidubey4058
    @shrutidubey40584 жыл бұрын

    1st viewer

  • @MinbadTheFourth
    @MinbadTheFourth4 жыл бұрын

    I can’t wait for this Millenial cringe obsession trend to end and be replaced by another trend.

  • @suhae2175

    @suhae2175

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wait what did I miss this is supposed to be a trend?!

  • @cowbellysson1198
    @cowbellysson11984 жыл бұрын

    Friat

  • @shubhambarnwal8964
    @shubhambarnwal89644 жыл бұрын

    1st

  • @jezzermeii
    @jezzermeii4 жыл бұрын

    This talk is cringe. Lol. I see what she did there.

  • @suhae2175

    @suhae2175

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah mildly

  • @angrytedtalks
    @angrytedtalks4 жыл бұрын

    Fashion fail cringe. Sheesh...

  • @suhae2175

    @suhae2175

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well I actually like her pants xD

  • @autodite
    @autodite4 жыл бұрын

    You posted cringe, you’re going to lose subscriber!

  • @resonantconsciousness9248
    @resonantconsciousness92484 жыл бұрын

    Wow, do all sixteen year olds dress like that in Penn state? (like their mums)

  • @ExplaurenwithLauren

    @ExplaurenwithLauren

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a past story

  • @nataliakhawar2976

    @nataliakhawar2976

    4 жыл бұрын

    She isn’t actually 16, she’s talking about a past story

  • @angrytedtalks

    @angrytedtalks

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nataliakhawar2976 And still dresses cringilly.

  • @shaggar
    @shaggar4 жыл бұрын

    How on Earth she's only SIXTEEN? 😕

  • @kirateplinskiy3717

    @kirateplinskiy3717

    4 жыл бұрын

    She's not sixteen. That story about summer-job was a long time ago. She just told it like example of cringe situation (sorry bout my english, he's not very good)

  • @angrytedtalks

    @angrytedtalks

    4 жыл бұрын

    Born on Feb 29th.

  • @K_masters
    @K_masters2 ай бұрын

    We're not living a drama, we are living a comedy, my, habibis. learn to laugh at yourself.

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