Replace Fear of the Unknown With Curiosity | Carl Ed Baker | TEDxWichitaStateUniversity

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  • Опубліковано 5 гру 2024
  • "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility.” Alan Watts, Philosopher (1915-1973) As a college professor I work with young people who have been taught to fear the unknown. It is my great desire to help them re-claim their courage and to build a culture of creativity, innovation and invention.
    Ed Baker is an Associate Professor of Theatre specializing in Technology, Innovation and Management at WSU, a Past Fellow of Entrepreneurship with the Coleman Foundation, Production Manager for Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and an aspiring practitioner of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu.He serves the School of Performing Arts at Wichita State University by heading up the Stage Management Certificate in the Theatre Program and as the Technical Director for SPA Productions. He has spent the majority of his career as a professional entertainment technician in theatre, film/television, concerts, and convention/exposition venues. He earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication with an emphasis in Theatre Arts from Wichita State University. After leaving Wichita he completed graduate studies, internship and residency to earn the M.F.A. in theatre from the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University.
    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

КОМЕНТАРІ • 26

  • @timmc8444
    @timmc8444 5 років тому +24

    If only the society I live in offered this type of hope and opportunity..much less the people who had the compassion to offer kindness or just enough possibility to believe you had a chance!

  • @thomascarrollphd9721
    @thomascarrollphd9721 Рік тому

    Really great talk Carl - thanks so much! By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility.......

  • @gaozongyang2455
    @gaozongyang2455 3 роки тому +5

    Yes let’s replace it with curiosity! I enjoyed this and it was a beautiful reminder as well as message. 💕🦋

  • @WINayKumR
    @WINayKumR Рік тому +1

    Great speech ❤️🙌🏻

  • @ocelotjockey9946
    @ocelotjockey9946 2 роки тому +1

    simple yet sophisticated, made me realise a few things. thank you

  • @farangisehsani592
    @farangisehsani592 3 роки тому +2

    Wonderful guy, wonderful speech🙏

  • @2570611
    @2570611 3 роки тому +1

    Super! Great speech!

  • @zhing836
    @zhing836 Рік тому

    thank you

  • @bankheadpolo
    @bankheadpolo 3 роки тому +1

    Great video i like how he ended by saying i wanna thank you for listening to me

  • @WINayKumR
    @WINayKumR Рік тому +1

    He looks like Heisenberg 🔥

  • @USABeauboy
    @USABeauboy Рік тому

    Like this guy

  • @Academiacaramelcurlz
    @Academiacaramelcurlz 2 роки тому +2

    It’s now 2022, are students still using scantrons? He mentioned those scantron cards.

  • @pranitmane
    @pranitmane 2 роки тому

    Great 👌🏼

  • @countfloydschillerhorrorth2090
    @countfloydschillerhorrorth2090 7 років тому +9

    We exist as a species because we had/have a fear of the unknown. Natural Selection and Common Sense teaches us to proceed with Caution.
    No, Nothing in that statement said we shouldn't explore, In fact your fear of exploring my comment to where it means what I intended it to mean versus how you are choosing to perceive it, Is your Fear of the Unknown.
    Or a great doze of Hypocrisy.

    • @thelonewanderer4624
      @thelonewanderer4624 4 роки тому +3

      Different settings, but our courage also help us evolve into what we are, we concur fire while other ran from it, we overcame apex preteros that dominated their ecological environment, we explored unknown land and tested unknown food just to see if we could eat them. I personality believe it depends on the situation

  • @mikeygifford
    @mikeygifford 2 роки тому +1

    Curiosity is just another word for fear

  • @logyscott
    @logyscott 7 років тому +13

    Jim Gaffigan does motivational speeches now

  • @pradeepprabhu7649
    @pradeepprabhu7649 2 роки тому

    👏👏👏

  • @mycatisromeo
    @mycatisromeo 4 роки тому +4

    Most of us are cogs in the corporate machine, helping the rich get richer. That, for sure, is known. We're slaves with white, blue, and pink collars. We're bread from our childhood to serve as producers and consumers. It's actually quite disturbing. We're incentivized and disinsentivised like rats in a machine to perform and avoid certain actions. Controlled from the moment we were born. To truly be creative and free is something most people will never experience.

    • @dianeibsen5994
      @dianeibsen5994 2 роки тому

      I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying here. Could you clarify what truly free and creative would even look like..feel like? What you meant by this.
      ?

    • @mycatisromeo
      @mycatisromeo 2 роки тому +1

      @@dianeibsen5994 The only thing I can think of are Buddhist monks living in a Buddhist monastery. Leading a life while trying to dissolve the ego. We're all still captives of our body as long as we live, but we can free our mind from the negative social conditions placed on us by culture and society since we were born. Practicing proper Meditation daily is one way to achieve this that I know of. Helping other people, animals and thinking of how our actions effect the environment and other creatures and being mindful about our choices, helps as well.

    • @dianeibsen5994
      @dianeibsen5994 2 роки тому

      @@mycatisromeo oh I see. It's so interesting how everybody has their own perception of what freedom is. For me being a Buddhist monk would feel like prison. I'm not judging because that works for them but it would not be something I would find freeing or creative. I studied meditation for about 11 years. It was helpful I learned a lot. Do you have a favorite meditation that helps you? Yes I'm a big fan of the environment and helping the environment. I wish more people were on same page.

  • @lucydalilaC
    @lucydalilaC 2 роки тому

    16:51

  • @oh_tha_crownlowlife8980
    @oh_tha_crownlowlife8980 4 роки тому +1

    So we create more groups of open minded society every day.,
    If only I could live to the standards of my forefathers I would be a creator as well. The world of today is now a disconnection from society and I watch as everyone fails and refuse to recover. Acceptance is Milennial of the here and now as Z and Alpha have had a now curious stage. X and Xennials rule everyone and preach as if they walk on water...they didn’t discover it though...The existence of the hear and now, knowledge they were ingrained with, never came to fruition until X and up. Look in these kids eyes. Most of them have seen everything the world has before they hit puberty! So generations are vastly gathering information that will overload society and crumble. As Internet was brought to my generation, personal touch became obsolete further the millennia. Word of mouth is a database and everything you say can and will be used against you as a daily art of war. There is no longer a peace, anyone can put together your puzzle only takes a few cliques and your solved. That being said, old morales are abolished and the turmoil and impending doom is the new horizon. Don’t have to bring god the Bible or any of the preachings of past to realize that yes the truth was written centuries ago. Plagues were created to decrease the population, deplete the knowledge, and allow elite control of said populus as now we live in the next kill off. Curiosity killed the cat; but it’s easier to feed one cat than many mice. Sheep,masks,fake news,bah. This whole world is an open would now and not a mortal being can mend it

    • @dianeibsen5994
      @dianeibsen5994 2 роки тому

      Super confused about what you wrote... Z, X, millennial? I have no idea what you're talking about?