Understanding anger in an age of outrage | Darren McGarvey | TEDxGlasgow
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2018
- In his talk, Darren will examine the role anger and other potentially toxic emotions can play in undermining our wellbeing as well as our ability to bring about broader social change.
Personal experience has taught Darren that while he often has every right to be angry about things, it doesn’t always lead to a good outcome. As well as the impact of anger on personal wellbeing, he’s found it makes him less effective at listening and communicating.
Anger is natural, but how do we wield it to our advantage? Going by the stage name Loki, Darren McGarvey is a Scottish rapper, hip hop recording artist, columnist, author and social commentator, who is passionate about exploring community and social responsibility.
Brought up in Pollok, in Glasgow’s south side, surrounded by poverty, addiction, and mental troubles, Darren went on to study journalism at Glasgow Clyde College and wrote and presented eight programmes about the cause of anti-social behaviours and social deprivation for BBC Radio Scotland.
In 2017, he published his first book Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass. 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
This guy is brilliant - truly impressive capacity to analyse social system dynamics and in explaining them. If anyone wants to know what intelligence is, this is it in its pure form.
i like the finale line, anger is a response to the problems inside and outside, it's a warning signal and we have to pay attention to it and understand it to make good decisions after
Wonderful talk! Darren's book Poverty Safari is a remarkable piece of writing, essential reading to anyone who wants to see positive change in society. Full of insight! Thank you, Darren.
breaking your personal life cycle can give you freedom to change.
Love your accent!! Trying to control my anger as well.
He is brilliant, etched his BBC interview bout the glasgweigan accent.. I have PTSD so I totally relate x
Watched
thank you :)
Don't ever tolerate people determing how you feel and what your boundaries are - it's ok to get a little healthy anger out about this (better than bottling it up).
"Excuse me, we have our own feelings!"
"No, I still don't like that... you don't dictate what I like."
Simple and assertive....eventually getting more experienced and quicker to defend the boundaries to prevent anger.
Alcohol let's out truth but unfortunately multiplies the anger as much as the drunkenness disables anger control. Anger that needs to get out through sober assertive communication, not alcoholic emotional tantrums of explosion and violence.
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Wit ah guy
I'm American, and most of what he talks about is the same here. The difference in life expectancy between rich and poor might be even more true here because we don't have universal health care. It should
Oops, hit the reply too soon. It should be obvious that low-income life is stressful and that the stress hurts us, but it's never talked about. He talks about taking out anger over our situation on our loved ones. They call that internalized classism when us poor and working-class folks do that, and
when we hate ourselves and our own people. It hurts us as much as abuse from other classes does.
"We" have to change to make the world a better place.
We have to consider our own greed and wickedness as well as that of others.
This is what God says. God knows man. Man is predominantly selfish and unjust. God tells us.
We have to learn from God. We have to wash the injustice of the world off us and embrace God's values. Truth, justice, compassion and righteousness. We have to develop and listen to our God given conscience and strive to be good. We have to accept God and his wisdom, knowledge. and ways.
We have to trust God not money.
I'm living in a hellhole but I'm not full of anger, just get on with it
Were you brought up in that hellhole?
@@riboid numerous hellholes. The worst was a hostel for the homeless(1982). This was when there was a lot more visible poverty and women were basically trapped in abusive marriages or relationships. I agree with most of what Darren McGarvey says.
Aaron Vincent
I know this comment is from like nine months ago but I just felt the need to share some words of encouragement to you.
I think you are extremely strong for coping with such difficult situations for such a long time and I really look up to you even though I don’t know you.
I’ve dealt with my own misfortunes and one thing I can say that really helped me was finding god through prayer and other means, having a more positive outlook on life, not isolating myself from people and meditation.
If you feel that things are becoming too much for you to handle, talk to someone. May be try and get some therapy. CBT might be beneficial for you. Speak to a doctor to see if you can receive it.
All the best x
@@NoIdea68 You know what helps, money. Not God.
The message seemed to be lost by the end
Give it another listen man, I feel I the message hit home loud and clear by the end, nothing in this world will ever change if we don't make the necessary changes first within are selves.
I'm from drumchapel 65 grow up chief you are what you want to be. Victim or victor.....you sort it
Whofftt
Subs on.
I come from your background. It is you who is not paying attention.
who, me?
It still amazes me that people will believe we evolved from a monkey, rather been created by an all loving, all merciful God. Who time after time has proven his existence. Yet we deliberately choose not to look at him. God bless you my brother. My Lord and Savior said be angry and do not sin. So yes, it is okay to be angry, it's only what you do in it that matters.
Jared Fukui Thank you for being that little spark of good in this cruel world. May god bless you x
Please let me know where to find the evidence which proves his existence. It's all fairytales.
I can honestly say, I’ve absolutely no idea what he’s on about.
That’s more a reflection of your (lack of) intelligence than his diction
@@ezo2161 - his diction’s fine. I understand exactly the words he’s using. I’ve just no idea what he’s on about.
I don't agree with Darren that anger causes stress. Anger is only stressful if we protect our parents from our justified anger about what they have done to us when we were very young children. The words of Alice Miller come into my mind when she wrote in From Rage to Courage "Your rage can become the door to your current life. Try to feel it as strong and clear as possible, then, NOT BEFORE, try to understand its cause."
Anger and stress have exactly the same physiological response. This, in turn, results in reduced cognitive functioning during the period adrenalin and/or cortisol is being produced. Long term effects include reduced immune function and decreased life expectancy as Darren points out.
@@gframe4215 As I wrote, anger is ONLY stressful when we protect our parents and it is not true what you say that anger and stress have exactly the same physiological responses.
I appreciate that anger and stress can feel different from an emotional point of view and that you can be stressed without being angry. However, the scientific and biological fact remains that when someone experiences the emotion of anger, the bodies physiological response to this is to secrete the stress hormone adrenaline. Therefore feeling angry which, again, I appreciate can feel emotionally different from stress, results in the physiological stress response kicking in.
"at 34 I'm already half way through my life" boo fricken who 68 is not bad. Go to Chad you only get about 49
soal opera the point is it’s one city in the uk with very bad life expectancy, it’s called the Glasgow effect it’s a well known thing
Kirsten Curran Yes it is Kirstin but I despise his patronising tone, somehow suggesting that everyone in the area is dying earlier because theyre all like angry children needing to be given a tedtalk by him because they somehow havent come upon what seems to him to be a revelation that he has made to control anger and control express their emotions
in words instead of "kicking the dog" behaviour. Its so patronising its unreal.
soal opera I think the point is people don’t realise the harm they are doing to themselves, not that he is going to solve it or anything
Kirsten Curran Ive got a guy who hacks into all my emails for his drug dealers and stalks me. He lives in clydebank but not glasgow. He has to project all his inner psychic conflicts on to me. He was born in drumchapel and raised by a single mother with no authority in the house. His behaviour reflects his inner conflict but i wouldnt say its a fair representation that everyone in glasgow is like that because they mismanage their stress like Lokis home upbringing or my clydebank stalker anad former collegue..
Kirsten Curran And at the end of the day, living to 68 is good. I don't really want to live long as an old person and I dont think people here really feel a deep seated angry about it as Loki does. You hear of wee kiddies growing up in war torn Somalia and all that so I dont think its worth being that angry over anyway