Ingrid Fetell Lee at TED2018
Where joy hides and how to find it (transcript)
Summary
This is a very shocking story, especially for Japanese people.
It's because according to the speaker's study, there is no joy and happiness in Japan. People are packed into gray buildings, offices, and nursing homes, and of course, hospitals are also gray color and uniforms in the hospitals, offices, banks, high schools and business suits are dark colors in Japan. People are said to wear those. They can't try wearing colorful clothes because they will be frowned on.
Although l loved the speaker's vivid pink dress, they’d never speak it well.
In the TED talk, she tells us there is joy in colorfulness like cherry blossoms, rainbow, and fireworks and people seek joy instinctively for survival. Societies should be more colorful to find joy easily. Its drive must bring back youth.
Words in this story
humanity /noun/ humankind, mankind, compassion, brotherly love, fraternity, fellow feeling
frowned frown /verb/ furrow one's brow in an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration.
insurmountable /adj/ too great to be overcome.
aesthetics /esˈTHetiks/noun/ a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art.
This is a very shocking story, especially for Japanese people.
It's because according to the speaker's study, there is no joy and happiness in Japan. People are packed into gray buildings, offices, and nursing homes, and of course, hospitals are also gray color and uniforms in the hospitals, offices, banks, high schools and business suits are dark colors in Japan. People are said to wear those. They can't try wearing colorful clothes because they will be frowned on.
Although l loved the speaker's vivid pink dress, they’d never speak it well.
In the TED talk, she tells us there is joy in colorfulness like cherry blossoms, rainbow, and fireworks and people seek joy instinctively for survival. Societies should be more colorful to find joy easily. Its drive must bring back youth.
Words in this story
humanity /noun/ humankind, mankind, compassion, brotherly love, fraternity, fellow feeling
frowned frown /verb/ furrow one's brow in an expression of disapproval, displeasure, or concentration.
insurmountable /adj/ too great to be overcome.
aesthetics /esˈTHetiks/noun/ a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art.
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