You Should Be Embarrassed | Melissa Dahl | TEDxPenn

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июл 2019
  • 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

Комментарии • 91

  • @a.panagop9063
    @a.panagop9063 5 лет назад +70

    ... 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 5 лет назад +1

      Hahahahha love that

    • @a.panagop9063
      @a.panagop9063 5 лет назад +3

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

    • @SpicySpinach
      @SpicySpinach 5 лет назад +6

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

    • @OriginalTheUsername
      @OriginalTheUsername 5 лет назад +11

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

    • @cheekybananaboy3361
      @cheekybananaboy3361 5 лет назад +4

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

  • @beautifulcatastrophe
    @beautifulcatastrophe 5 лет назад +14

    Awkwardness is my best friend.

  • @rennzwerg5085
    @rennzwerg5085 5 лет назад +64

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

  • @dazai3874
    @dazai3874 5 лет назад +8

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

  • @Steven-ze2zk
    @Steven-ze2zk 5 лет назад +60

    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 5 лет назад

      jack me too! 🤣

    • @Gibon345
      @Gibon345 5 лет назад

      Same. wtf

    • @Gibon345
      @Gibon345 5 лет назад +9

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

    • @Teichbukkanier
      @Teichbukkanier 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah same

    • @SR-kd4wi
      @SR-kd4wi 5 лет назад +1

      mind blown

  • @ReallifeUrk
    @ReallifeUrk 5 лет назад +6

    A talk I definitely needed to watch.

  • @NicoSmets
    @NicoSmets 5 лет назад +36

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

  • @Wingedmagician
    @Wingedmagician 5 лет назад +17

    Oh man this one was made for me

  • @tchrisou812
    @tchrisou812 5 лет назад +7

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

  • @dungeontv143
    @dungeontv143 5 лет назад +4

    I loved this talk ❤❤

  • @CountryFriedZen
    @CountryFriedZen 5 лет назад +5

    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.

  • @TheMarc0202
    @TheMarc0202 5 лет назад +18

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

    • @Kevin-sy8uf
      @Kevin-sy8uf 5 лет назад

      Nathan Fielder has entered chat

  • @michaelevans3942
    @michaelevans3942 Месяц назад

    Nice speech Melissa, much needed advice.

  • @Man.meno13
    @Man.meno13 5 лет назад

    Nice and good to see that

  • @jacksonpercy8044
    @jacksonpercy8044 5 лет назад +8

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

    • @Cookiekeks
      @Cookiekeks 3 года назад +1

      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.

  • @seekingthelost7
    @seekingthelost7 Год назад

    Thanks Melissa, this really helped.

  • @MammaApa
    @MammaApa 5 лет назад +8

    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 5 лет назад +2

      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 5 лет назад +2

      wow I envy you so much lol

    • @iwantmytrophy
      @iwantmytrophy 5 лет назад

      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 11 месяцев назад

      Wow that’s amazing mammaapa

  • @shakakaperry6034
    @shakakaperry6034 2 года назад +1

    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
    @jonpadrejuan5357 5 лет назад +2

    she's a very attractive person!

  • @ShafiqNazrin
    @ShafiqNazrin 5 лет назад

    Can anyone give a tldr of what she said?

  • @JeEhaO
    @JeEhaO 5 лет назад +1

    I need that book about farting!

  • @Cookiekeks
    @Cookiekeks 3 года назад +1

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

  • @iamherek3420
    @iamherek3420 5 лет назад

    لماذا لا توجد ترجمة للعربية ؟💔

  • @ScorpioSilver1111
    @ScorpioSilver1111 5 лет назад +26

    Saying cringe is cringe btw

    • @WINOFFICIAL
      @WINOFFICIAL 5 лет назад +1

      V No, it’s not.

    • @sammyjankis5145
      @sammyjankis5145 5 лет назад +3

      Writing it too

    • @TheUrbanEpicure
      @TheUrbanEpicure 5 лет назад +4

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

  • @cabbage0dusk
    @cabbage0dusk 5 лет назад +5

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

  • @thisisthefoxe
    @thisisthefoxe 5 лет назад +5

    Hi, I'm Cingeeey xDD

  • @Balancinglife
    @Balancinglife 5 лет назад +6

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

  • @K_masters
    @K_masters 4 месяца назад

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

  • @dianar6600
    @dianar6600 4 года назад

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

  • @Cookiekeks
    @Cookiekeks 3 года назад

    No it isnt good

  • @SandeepRawat1982
    @SandeepRawat1982 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @champlife6353
    @champlife6353 5 лет назад +1

    HENRY CRINGEJUDO wached this and put it to work

  • @yzoononononn
    @yzoononononn Год назад

    she is hilarious

  • @user-vj4lr6eo6g
    @user-vj4lr6eo6g 2 месяца назад

    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

  • @willb3368
    @willb3368 5 лет назад +1

    clearly an audience full of clinical psychologists. :3

  • @elvanustun1387
    @elvanustun1387 5 лет назад

    Türkçe altyazı eklerseniz çok mutlu olurum🙏🏻

  • @BlueSkyBS
    @BlueSkyBS 5 лет назад

    Wait until she discovers AvPD.

  • @shrutidubey4058
    @shrutidubey4058 5 лет назад +2

    1st viewer

  • @SUcC..
    @SUcC.. 5 лет назад +3

    Kek your way to a better you

  • @shubhambarnwal8964
    @shubhambarnwal8964 5 лет назад

    1st

  • @jezzermeii
    @jezzermeii 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @autodite
    @autodite 5 лет назад

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

  • @cowbellysson1198
    @cowbellysson1198 5 лет назад +2

    Friat

  • @MinbadTheFourth
    @MinbadTheFourth 5 лет назад +6

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

    • @suhae2175
      @suhae2175 4 года назад

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

  • @angrytedtalks
    @angrytedtalks 5 лет назад +1

    Fashion fail cringe. Sheesh...

    • @suhae2175
      @suhae2175 4 года назад

      Well I actually like her pants xD

  • @resonantconsciousness9248
    @resonantconsciousness9248 5 лет назад

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

  • @shaggar
    @shaggar 5 лет назад

    How on Earth she's only SIXTEEN? 😕

    • @kirateplinskiy3717
      @kirateplinskiy3717 5 лет назад +5

      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 5 лет назад +1

      Born on Feb 29th.

  • @K_masters
    @K_masters 4 месяца назад

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