The hidden power of smiling | Ron Gutman
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2011
- www.ted.com Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live -- and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.
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POV: you're here because of an online class.
LOL
goodness, how did you know? hahaha.
And that is true
it's the person development for me :)
It’s the accuracy for me 😂
I was feeling very depressed one day and I just said "F... IT!", if i cant think or feel my way out out this depression Ill just fake a smile. Within minutes i started feeling better so i kept doing it and within an hour is started laughing for no reason other than i was smiling for no reason. I felt genuinely happy. I was blown away by what happened. I started reading about all the benefits of smiling and seeing Ron Gutmans videos only after i experienced it myself.
I did the same. I started laughing out of nowhere and It felt pretty good :)
Man the exact same thing happened to me as well. Just need to reinforce it as a habit.
Same happened to me. I guess we don't need a reason to smile.
I tried it, and it worked until trutv posted a video about Adam ruins everything debunking smiling makes you happy. Adam connoted ruined my life ;-;
77brick77 Same here, I did the same thing you described. Feels great!
I honestly believe that smiling is an amazing thing, when I am having a bad day a nice smile from a stranger makes me feel a lot happier. You never know, just by smiling at someone you may make their day, a nice big genuine smile really shows a lot! :)
i agree. i like seeing real smiles and laughs and i like causing them. i do laughter yoga and my smile has improved alot. people react great. one thing is when someone has a shield up or RBF and you flash them a real smile and hold it with eye contact it's so cool to see them break down and smile.
On this subject, the happiest years of my life were the years I smiled round the clock and practised daily gratitude. I was on cloud nine all the time, resilient at the face of life's hurdles, had endless energy and vitality, and turned everything I touched into a blessing.
I can vouch for what he's preaching, as I've been there done that and am speaking from practical experience/wisdow backing it up.
When I see someone without a smile, I give them one of mine.
Free smiles, I like that
Nice
I just smiled reading that comment! 😊
OMG exactly!
Smiling builds one aspect of health that is rarely acknowledged by the medical establishment - communities. Our health does not stop with the body, the mind, the spirit - it extends to our communities. When we smile we make our communities healthier, and if we smile often, our healthier communities make us healthier.
Well spoken :)
Good point👍🏼
i love the whole idea. i have actually copied this to a piece of paper keep as a constant reminder.
Ron Gutman is an excellent speaker. Approachable, digestible material, and a quick view to boot. Thanks Ron.
Yeah, I live by this, and it works powerfully! I have finally got to the point where I can smile at anyone, almost any time and change their mood with a real, genuinely powerful smile that nothing can overcome!
Whenever I feel bad or stressed, etc. I make myself go for a walk for a long time and force myself to breath deep and I look up a lot to see the big picture and force myself to smile while I stare at the stars late at night! This has changed my life!
Thanks for sharing this. I love night walks too, I will try it with smiling
I have realised how powerful is a smile. Not just because what this video explains, but also instead of showing your true feelings, your pain, etc... You can just smile and people will like you without knowing what is really going inside your head. And I like thinking they will never know if behind that smile there are good or bad intentions, it makes it menancing too... but overall more charismatic
I tried to force smiles during this whole video.
How ya feel now?
Everdeep Naga II amazing and nourished again like I have no problems in the world and my confidence sky rocketed I now find beauty in little things and interact with others easier and with more love and interesting conversations I’m high on life now no more pills and marijuana for me anymore
Nigel Patterson but this comment make me smile thank you for that
Hahahhaha
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry,, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.....
i love to give and recieve smiles. no better feeling then breaking down someones shield with a smile. when they open the door and smile back it's so satisfying for both of us. 🙂
I was a smileless (if that is a real word) person, especially during my school years (high school and college). Now, I learn to smile more and that allows me to remember more.
This has been my research and designing for the past year. Very awesome
Smile could help us confidence and relieved stress ...very well said.
This is nice!!! Also loved the slides!
Made me smile throughout the presentation...I feel better already! Thanks Ron
Yes, I love too smile😃🥰...Song goes" when you're smiling, the whole world smiles back at you." Awesome video 😁👍🏾
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry,, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.....
Thank you, the ancestors are guiding me and they guided me to this today. I spent around 2hrs doing a smile meditation, in which I attempt to hold a smile right throughout the meditation. It is fascinating,,,if you have not tried, I would urge you to! A bit mad, but what you find out is amazing!! I found out that I cannot think negative whilst smiling....i find it contagious after a while and find it hard to stop smiling......funny! TRUTH IS ALWAYS SIMPLE!
How?
This is because body and mind are connected. Similiarly if you keep your posture straight and take more space you will naturally feel more confident than you would doing opposite.
He put a smile in my heart
Smile! 😃 when I was a kid my New Year’s resolution was to smile more so that when others saw me smiling they’d smile too. Now my smile is my brand and I get to travel around the world smiling and connecting with people! Spreading happiness!
Mr. Gutman, you are a great public speaker! Bravo on the well-versed and convincing presentation! It brought a number of my smiles onto my face - thanks. I wonder, if we carry the same last name for a reason that is beyond the coincident?
He leaves out that, while smiling in general is very good and everyone should smile more, studies have also shown that you are more likely to take risks and expose yourself for danger when smiling, as it stimulates a kind of "assumed optimism", where subjects felt that things were going more well than it actually was. That is not the kind of person I would want as my doctor, nevermind his wonderful and contagious smile. Frowning, on the other hand, has actually seemed to improve concentration. It's also hard not to notice when your colleagues try so hard to smile when you're in the same room, yet keep making the same mistakes when working the samples, but that's a different story. The lesson here is that there's a time and place for everything. Most people suffer from too little smiling gestures, often owing to lack of social interaction.
Unknown Entity that’s what one tells themselves when they realize they never smile. Trust me buddy I don’t ooze confidence. Hey Machiavelli, relax.
This man is awesome...
just keep smiling...
Awesome, thank you sharing this one!!
WOW insightful! That would be a great study to attempt!
What a great presentation
couldnt help but smile the whole time - this is awsome!
@chillmeester Agreed. When my dad died when I was young my family always told me to smile because it would make me feel better and forcing it it did nothing but make me angry. Positive thinking is the message that should be focused on. If one wants to be happy they should set goals, get shit done. Nothing makes one happier than being useful to their species in some capacity - it is a built in, biological thing.
This is an amazing video. I like that smiling is contagious.
The talk was very engaging and well presented. What program/video/ppt template did Ron use?
Thank you for sharing!
I'm here to write a reflection paper 😃
It’s so easy to smile just smile and makes yourself feel better as well as everybody else around you
Wow great public speaking skills! Love the integration of media along with the presentation. I wonder if the speaker created the visuals or got help. I have a lot to learn about public speaking from you! Thanks, Ron.
Wonderful talk
After watching this video I can personally say that I agree with Ron on this subject. Now days with all the technology and new things with medicine coming out, everyone is always focused on the next drug to take or the next treatment that need to go to in order to better their health. I like people like Ron who sit back and simplify life, simplifying it to as little as a smile. I liked all the facts on how much a smile can actually stimulate your brain in a huge way, and equivalent to a lot of things that take so much more effort than just being happy. So I would like to say that videos like this and people like Ron are the ones that are truly important in the health world because I truly believe that things like smiling affect more people in a positive way and especially yourself more than any medicine can. I also liked when he went to the baseball cards and could predict how long those players lasted in the league. I thought that was amazing because baseball is such a mental game, that the ones that kept their composure and actually were happy played better. I might think about that the next time I play, or before a game, smiling can affect a lot more than people think.
This is wonderful, just perfect and true, thnxs so much, I am sharing it with everyone! Blessings :)
POV:your writing a reflection paper right now
Great talk!
this is homework for me ;)
same man
same for me
AYOO SAME
speech hw for me
PESL class hw for me
A good piece of information .This would be a very useful for laughter club.
TEDtalks ftw. this is actually a good talk per se!
Thanks!😊
That made me smile!
Since one or two months I try this sometimes, in the street, in a shop, looking at someone and smiling, and it works most of time, the smile comes back..
I think it's because real smiles has become so rare these days, that when people actually see someone smiling for real, they confuse it with flirting, so their reaction is to "frown" at these people. It's sad :/ People should smile more often, it's good for them and for who sees it.
If it's genuine you. Can tell
Doesn't mean it's flirting
I smiled all through this talk. Great exercise.
Same brodie
I love it! Shared :)
thanks to my teacher , i love ted talk
It's very difficult to frown when looking at someone who smiles, but some shop assistants in Australia manage this feat again and again.
Ron Gutman is a speaker, writer, advisor, serial entrepreneur and angel investor. In May 2018, Gutman was reportedly fired from HealthTap by the board of directors. The reason, the board said in a letter to employees, was that it had finally heard too many complaints about Gutman's inappropriate behavior inside the company. The letter stated that Gutman engaged in repeated "acts of intimidation, abuse, and mistrust, and that [he] repeatedly mistreated, threatened, harassed and verbally abused employees," according to sources on Wikipedia page. How sarcastic. The power of smiling everybody.
How ironic.
well, well, well you must be very very talented to be able to give the world a genuine smile while oozing smugness....
@meekhra "yes." both can cause the other to occur and thus reinforce that same held positive action whether it were initiated as a smile or as a positive thought. Much like a yawn is contagious, so is a smile. Test it out and see how you feel and what response you get.
Love his energy and the mesage :)
@YouLoveBeef
I think it is better to say, people who feel better live longer. And that is probably due to being healthy(that's why they feel better.) And when you feel good, you tend to smile more often(naturally.) The smiling is the effect not the cause of feeling good. And feeling good is the cause of smiling and also what determines your longevity.
Smile=confident, got it
Good stuff!
@Manveet
"The funny thing is there have been studies done that show just by making a particular face (for instance smiling) can actually induce that particular emotion (happiness) in people"
[citation needed]
The funny thing is people keep telling me this, and then they can't actually back up there claims. And when they decide to do a quick google search I follow their link and quote it showing that they've greatly overstated the claims of the study, if there is a study to be found at all.
beautiful talk :)
Ron you nailed it. Thank you Man for this session. Epic
You can feel happy without smiling. If you are in a happy mood it's not necessary you smile. But Smile is a part of happiness, and it's portrays your happiness. It then generates positivity, for instance if someone sees you smile, they will think that a) You're friendly or b) They will attribute you in a positive manner. :)
Thank you!
@dookiecheez You forgot one point. Emotions are connected with facial expressions. So, if you smile (a real smile, which include your whole face, and not your mouth alone), you will also be more happy. Thereby, by smiling, you should also live longer.
I literally said, "That was a good talk." He was fit for this presentation, and made it all factual but still a story.
I have anger issues, and when I started smoking weed, I actually enjoyed my day for the first time in a long time.. and what i noticed is that everyones either afraid of me, or hates me.. which makes me sad to see what I become.. or even to see the faces and the reactions of people. I feel my mind is more opened, and I even apologized, to have been treating people a certain way. I see it in there eyes they see someone new.. i have empathy now.. we just enjoy our day, smile and have a good time.
My partner has anger issues. He's now going through therapy. Look into it because it's a very destructive force to yourself and everyone else around you.
@YouLoveBeef
You and this guy may have a valid point though. BUT, from my experience in life thus far, I have had times where I had to force smiles(because I wasn't happy,) and I have had times where I was naturally smiling(truly happy.) I guess being able to force a smile and look happy all the time is a great technique to look confident. lol. Although I am sure it is the confidence that the person already has that is creating the smiling, not the smiling creating confidence.
*Smiles* - I love smiling!
His slide show was amazing. Does anybody know what software he was using?? It is so much more dynamic than a linear Power Point presentation
Love this! Smiles from The English Sisters in Rome
This made me smile, I love smiling
Great talk :)
Wonderful and true
@chillmeester It seems the point here is that it is better to be optimistic than pessimistic if you are referring to individual health. People who are excessively negative or the like are more likely to suffer from cardiovascular and stress related illness. The problem is the focus on the smile - it is like saying that pooping more is a way to fight starvation because people who poop a lot generally aren't starving. Smiling is the result of positive, optimistic thinking, not a cause of it.
And managed to get millions of people to agree with him with that smile...smile = power. Help take over the world, one smile at a time.
Always smile. Everybody will love us❤👍
THANK YOU ♥️
Laughing is more powerful than smiling. So when you're in bad mood for some reason, and you feel smiling just doesn't feel right, try to giggle then laugh..
You'll still feel awkward at first but the laughing would be too powerful that your feeling can't help it but to get along and feel better gradually..
Good one, cause sometimes I feel too down to fake a smile. But a deliberate giggle leading to laughter seems doable on those occasions.
wibie4Life yea but being in constant laughter will make u look crazy especially if it’s not authentic when smiling is more natural and plus laughter can represent multiple things such as positive humor or making fun of someone or in an offensive way while smiling will always represent happiness and or security and cleverness
love the facts!
@dookiecheez True. This is roughshod speech. Some of the science does hold up though. Smiling and happiness is very much causal. Smiling triggers certain neurotransmitters to be released, just as griping and frowning causes others. To a small degree we can control the chemical cocktails being mixed in our brain by the way we respond to life. Saying that it'll make you "live longer" might be a stretch, but smiling may improve health. Malcolm Gladwell's book "Blink" covers this topic some.
@Ko252
I didn't forget a point. If you're going to reply to someone who was making a reply, make an effort to read more than one message of the discourse, ok?
So here's a small recap.
The assertion that smiling can cause happiness is baseless. Or give citations.
The assertion that smiling as a form of social mimicry can cause chemical changes associated with a positive mood is not baseless, citations were given.
LOVE IT!
was für eine geile präsentation!
@justthebestgolfer proper smile, and a chuckle...
@chillmeester Well, when you think about it, smiles suggest greater satisfaction and life and perhaps show a reduction in stress. That may in fact, contribute to a person's well-being, long life and success. True, you may have very positive thoughts in your mind, but it is also likely that you'd smile specially if that positive thought has been exacted. Perhaps the smile he's referring to is having the positive outlook emanate outwardly as smiles -- not merely flexing cheek muscles :)
His voice is fit for presentation
@justthebestgolfer that comment made me smile!
Bringing a smile to your face will indtantly raise your spirits.
Also people treat you differently. We are literally trained in a subconscious way to respond differently to someone who is smiling.
WONDERFUL!!!
I loved this video - the presentation was wonderful and the content was inspiring but I just want to point out one interesting premise: money CAN buy happiness. Little disruptive of the anti-big-money morals learnt as a child but hey, just as long as we all keep smiling.... :)
@TerminalSulcus Looks like he is using Prezi. Do a web search for it, its a finite canvas idea, allows you to layer data in deep zooms and spatially. Supports embedding of multiple media types too.
"It's difficult to frown when looking at someone who is smiling"
Ah jeez, guess I shouldn't frown when the school bully humiliates me in front of everyone then 😅
@ajayy
"What I and some others are saying, is that even fake smiling does cause you to feel better"
Well that would be a different assertion then. Although the studies involved are more about mimicking than just plain fake smiling. They used mirrors or images of other people smiling, so in order to not extend the reach of their conclusions it would be fake smiling with the qualifier of mimicry can cause chemical changes associated with a positive mood.
Thanks. I've gotten help. My depression is mostly situational: my life sucks.
A smile is a cause !
Thankyou
@Cajaquarius I can't cite it, but I have seen research that says that simply faking a smile can improve your mood. So it's not a Chicken OR egg situation it is a chicken AND egg situation. Either can help.
From now on, I always smile even if is not funny! 😊
@smoothbanana Exactly.
Though, that probably refers to faking a smile to make other people think you're smiling, rather than to change your mood.
"quite a few kids feel like Mark Zuckerberg everyday" priceless! :)