A powerful antidote to distraction | Tania McMahon | TEDxQUT
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2020
- What do we miss out on if we live a life of constant distraction and stimulation? In this relatable talk, Clinical Psychologist Dr Tania McMahon takes a pointed, honest look at our modern-day world of screens, tech and instant gratification and makes an impassioned case for rediscovering the fading, yet powerful, art of self-reflection. Dr Tania McMahon enables people to recognise and overcome the obstacles that get in the way of living their best life. She urges us all to think critically about how our modern-day habits and vices impact on our psychological wellbeing. Ultimately, she wants everybody to live rich, meaningful and balanced lives. 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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Distraction is the best form of denial.
bahaha, i really like this. spot on.
This is what's needed! I can't tell you how many times I have sat down at the computer, determined to get things done and find myself with several tabs open and I'm just looping in circles from the first to the last. By the time I walk away, hardly anything is accomplished and I'm more frustrated. I'm struggling creatively. I'm at A and I can see Z, but there's 24 layers of glass in between. As I try to map this or that, my brain has a sudden craving for inspiration and off we go, to get it. What does it accomplish? Nothing, just beautiful colors that I didn't create. So I'm thinking, if I can close my eyes and see my own colors, I can probably make my own things. As a child, I didnt need [outside] inspiration to be creative, I just sat down and tried. There were no cell phones, no computer, no apps... You went outside, looked at the colors, saw shapes in the clouds and connected to your creative side. I need to find my way back there, asap!
Not gonna lie - had to restart this talk about 3 times because i kept getting distracted. And after finally reaching the end, I think I'll go sit and reflect for a while. I like this lady. I think there really could be something to this.
this made me smile. at least you got there!
Spending time with your self can be a little scary, why do you think we are trained to keep busy! This is a beautiful perspective and a lot more rewarding I dare say. Really enjoyed this topic!
isnt it the opposite like we naturally are drawn by our thoughts?
I really didn't need another excuse to sit around and daydream, but thanks for making me feel good about that. I always thought it was a waste of time. It gives me so much joy and inspiration though!
I am focusing on my internal world a lot these days, and I am mostly scared.
it can be very scary
What did you find dear?
this
It's the purpose and the feeling of knowing what you almost missed do not be distracted by others loss of distraction we all have a purpose and must get to know that which change us to our greater selves.
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More like the perfect antidote to distraction. What a fabulous woman, love her energy and her perspective. So many people are all about instant results but it just doesn't work that way, tiny little steps of progress in between distractions can get us very far.
this lady is so amazing. i am in awe of this talk. so many tools in here, so many ways to keep our brains on point! i love it.
we all just want another hit of dopamine! can you imagine if we had been forced to keep up journal writing all through elementary and high school? i feel like with this tech age, the simple act of sitting down and just word vomitting on a piece of paper with pen or pencil if so helpful. loved this talk Tania!
Stop instantly gratifying yourself, and living a life of pleasure. It's like constantly getting distracted on your path, while your route(values) are not being achieved, even though you'll be happier as a result of following your values. Not only will you live a fulfilled life, you'll be healthier psychologically.
Reflect on your values, your actions: your entire self. Then give yourself solutions which will help you change. Start, and don't stop, you will still encounter distractions, and want pleasure, so keep yourself accountable, and make yourself be in places which stop you from being lazy and pleasure-seeking. Do this by giving yourself goals, and having actual reasons for change, not: "I want to change", but: "I need to get better for this class/for this job", but actually join that class, and schedule that job interview!
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👏👏I love how the academic and traditional health world is moving more and more towards mindfulness!👏👏
Thanks you for sending this talk to me .. Namaste.
Yes to this! Most of the major therapeutic approaches nowadays incorporate some form of mindfulness, which to me really demonstrates what a powerful tool it is.
@@taniaclare busy is to keep us out of our emotion, mindfulness keeps us actively engaged in life. Train your puppy is brilliant!
unity happens in mindfulness
it offers hope doesnt it?
I was looking for something to focus on and I am glad to have found this video.
In a world full of information, all we need to do is focus on ourselves and take action.
Thank you!
Such an amazing video. Opened my perspective about life instantly. Thank you for such an insight!
Beautiful! Such a fabulous talk. I will say this though - many people stay busy as to not have to think about or process the negative emotions that rattle around in the back of their minds. So many people don't have the resources or capacity to be still and reflect, because what comes out when they really pay attention to what they're feeling... And we all know that seeking therapy doesn't come very cheap! And it's not very easily accessible. However, if we could start teaching things like this in schools, we might see we teach younger generations how to process grief, trauma and whatever else - and then we could all self-reflect without the help of a professional.
Thanks Carolyn. I really agree with this point, particularly re: early intervention. If self-reflection was taught as a skill at school alongside all the other skills we're taught in subjects like health and physical education, we'd have much more self-aware world! I know schools are much more focused on mental health nowadays than they used to be but there's definitely a long way to go.
This is an excellent talk, made even better by Dr Tania McMahon perfect example of how to deliver an undistracted, insightful, 100% focused talk with not an umm, er or ah in sight!
It's about time we started to wake up to this behaviour in ourselves, this talk was so very informative!
When everything was open I'd be on a train to and from work, everyone head down looking at phones, ZOMBIES!!!!
And sadly it seems like a vicious cycle....when we spend all those moments on our phones, it starts to undermine our ability to socialise and converse with other people, and then the worse our social skills get, the more socially anxious and avoidant we become, and the more we want to continue escaping to our devices :(
what was that I was checking twitter!
@@iamnotjustintrudeau7850 yes of course
at least it's quiet!
@@lorissolfa haha yes
These days we feed our children's inner puppy with smart phones and tablets, their eyes once alive and fun get glossy and dark.
Yes, as well as the fact that their 'inner puppies' are also much louder and less controllable than ours are (thanks to the fact that their frontal lobes and ability to inhibit their behaviours, are still developing)!
I used to see when I was out a restaurant (when we could go out) parents give their kids a phone or a tablet to occupy them. They will pay in the future for that!
I want to scream at parents when I see this...
yep. that's the point she was making!!
I see that all too often, children are becoming attention zombies
I needed that, thank you
Wow, yes I am hooked up to social media, but I am on youtube watching you now!
I was thinking along these lines, and I am glad I have listened to this talk. I feel calm by the end 😌
A new mindful & youthful self!
Really great speech
I need this like never before!
Very useful tip. Worth practising. Thanks.
Wow, everything she said was everything I think about daily, so I'm going to do exactly what she said
Thank you 💟
Awesome talk!
Instant gratification, well it is instant!
I found meditation, and in that found the practice of stillness.
Thanks for the send, I do love the Australian accent.
Brilliant talk, especially after the way the last year has gone. We are all learning a new line of thinking and how to best look after ourselves, and this woman's tips and tools are spot on.
Reflection is a very good thing, we must allow time for processing.
this is great i struggle with a very heavy adhd and its very frustrating cuz i just cant seem to get out my head😣
Greatest revelations. I hv been meditating past 50 years but now it is too late for those who are neckddep immersed in thousands of types
Of distractions. To be away from distractions u need to annihilate all your thoughts which are embedded in your conscious subconscious and subliminal mind But a true master of Zahaz yoga can give give u true spark of Truth ful Quantum Gaze on your 3rd eye which will end all your distraction journey into your own Self or Reflective journey
Self reflection is a powerful tool. You can build or break your will with it.
Learning how to ignore that puppy is the hardest part though! I spend so much time looking at my map, trying to figure it all out and the moment I have just a tiny bit of clarity my puppy is distracting me and I can't even remember when I stopped being on task! I have taken up meditation recently and that is helping, but it's a slow process!
I am currently trying to rewire my brain Rebecca, and I feel you on so many fronts. It's a lot easier said I think!
It may not have been what I think you meant, but this helps celebrate me finding who I was and coming out, and yes your talk helped me again feel it's okay to be so😌 😍 🥰 😘
Oh this gives me the the warm and fuzzies! I'm so glad my talk reached you on that level. I sometimes think of how much better the world would be if people took a compassionate look at their true selves and found something to celebrate, rather than hide :)
Comin out going where
Tania! You've managed to simplify something that so many people struggle with daily. You're such a good speak and this is a fantastic talk!!
Thanks Duncan! :)
that is the best description ever - instant gratification puppy. we really need to start gearing towards to no tech weeks. or at least no smart phones!
my whole life has been filled with deliberate daydreaming and self reflection.... all that's helped with is the ability to be more easily distracted!
Nice!!!
Love your breathe
❤She is spitting facts 💦.
Covid definitely introduced the word stop. Can't believe how connected and whole I began to feel.
The giant dog park, I love it!
I never stop so I don't really know what would happen.
i like being alone and quiet, however, what about larger scale distraction as a faulty coping mechanism?
i cant focus on goals or anything past whats in front of me anymore
i know ive done it to myself, but how do i learn to deal with it?
This is solid work. A similar book I perused had a lasting impact on me. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
I saw stats and I can't remember where, but suggests suicide has gone up dramatically since the smart phone became so big.
Wow, that's pretty terrifying - I'd be really interested in seeing those stats or the article if you can find it again. There's certainly a lot coming out about the impacts of technology (particularly social media) on loneliness, self-esteem/self-worth, etc, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was a link there.
I believe that.
@@mariaciacci yes so do i obviously.
The book is called "iGen"
My little puppy just wants love, or maybe that's my inner child.
or both
hahaha
I agree, but, am I not distracting myself by watching dozens of TEDS a month?
Ted talks are this exact thing. Yet I watch them anyway
well the thing i want to do is fun
i don’t get bored when doing this thing
but i get distracted with not fun things
why
Le me searching how to get rid of distractions while leaving studies and spending time on this video!!!! 😭😭😭
Wonderful wonderful wonDerful
The unexamined life is not worth living. But in fact, distractibility is the product of previous thinking. One finds one's thoughts often accusative. Buddhists sometimes say one goal is to have a friendly relationship with monkey (or puppy) mind. You want a mind that offers a stable foundation. Unfortunately, such a stable mind can support an orientation that might as likely tend to the dark side as to the light.
Maybe it is just a question of making a choice to will oneself along a path that seems right to you, perhaps in your heart. Taoism might have that kind of appeal; there are other candidates.
Some few have embraced a practice of repeatedly inquiring of themselves, 'Who am I'.
Becoming your own distraction is an antidote to a more self-aware lifestyle and overcoming distractions
This doesn't work for me :'0 I introspect and contemplate and self-reflect and what not every single waking minute even if I'm online on everything and anything, sometimes spending hours just staring at the wall, and yet I can get distracted by anything and everything even my own mind.
This is superbly crafted content. A book I read with analogous content was revelatory. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
Reflect meditate what is important to me
Distraction is a response to meaninglessness and fear of death.
That hungry hyper puppy is a monster is created by hyper action of the desire to succeed. We've been wired this way and it's so that we continue to consume at the rate we are. There is definitely a conscious shift happening though, I think it might be changing!
It definitely is, if anything has been taken on this last year it's that we all live for instant gratification and need to take some time to slow down and figure out what's important.
whoa, never thought about it like this
Perhaps if we put more funding into mental health and educated we wouldn't have this issue at all. There are cycles if inter-generational abuse flying around left, right and center. Most people don't want to sit and self-reflect because they lack resources and support.
Ok but where is my antidote
Her breathing was a distraction to Me!!!
Why it has 95k views and only 2.5k likes
I had something to do but then I didn't want to do it so I came for a distraction and its named A powerful antidote to distraction
Is watching TED talks distraction? Or learning?
I think this an interesting conundrum, because sometimes it's hard to know where the line is when the content we consume feels informative and productive. I believe it's about the intent and agency behind it - if I am intentionally searching for TED talks on a particular topic because I've decided I want to learn more about it, that to me is productive, goal-directed behaviour. If I'm lost in a maze of TED talks from my 'Recommended' list, that I didn't initially come to UA-cam to watch, and I'm just mindlessly consuming them without intent behind it, that to me would be distraction - even if they're great, informative talks!
my brain' s a distracted puppy
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I think once the puppy matures, the hunger becomes easier to manage.
Speech sounded like a children’s poem.
zen
she looks like ada shelby
Where's the Subway Surfers gameplay?
Distraction is the Devils main tool of its tool belt.
Cool, now im not distracted anymore 😂😂😂😂
Modern society is what brought us to this. How ironic.
First
Bro why don’t this got more views
She's cute :) 👌
A world of people that are more self aware, obviously we aren't talking about Trump's America then?
Thanks for the link TT
She obviously haven’t met people who stay in their minds😂. There are people who love to think and they can be trapped in there for hours just as you would with social media 😢
I am here for know how to focus and how to avoid distraction
But the you talk I am like when this us going to finish
When you are going to come to the point
Sorry this is upset the way you talk 5 mins ago between your every words
Bye
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Cat videos 60million views, tedx video 60thousand views. Harsh reality.
Iwas watching an anime then the ad/site itself took me here
My problem with these motivational red talks is that the people giving lectures on what to do what not to do, haven't themselves achieved much in life, of their above is so powerful why are they still leading mediocre life