Matthieu Ricard 2 : How to let altruism be your guide

                            
TED 2014

Matthieu Ricard 2 : How to let altruism be your guide (transcript)

Summary

Altruism means unselfish devotion to others, philanthropy, benevolence, and the wish: you want others to be happy and to find the cause of happiness.

The speaker tells us that only an altruistic society can solve our world problems. It means that in the world, it should be simply having more consideration for others both individually and socially. And then, the most important thing we confirm again is that we humans have an extraordinarily potential for goodness. We're not irredeemably selfish and we can do behave altruistically. If we choose a little bit more voluntary simplicity than now and more qualitative growing than quantitative, we can save the world. We don't need sustainable growth anymore but need sustainable harmony. Cooperative learning, unconditional cooperation working and stop competition within corporation lead to a more altruistic society. We need to dare altruism.

Words in this story

altruism /noun/ altruistic /adj/  the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

irredeemable / not able to be saved, improved, or corrected.

voluntary / done, given, or acting of one's own free will.

vulnerable / susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.