What are your take-aways from this video?
I learned the importance of the positive golden rule, and the importance of being a compassionate person. As far as being compassionate, Karen says you need to dethrone yourself from your own world, and encompass yourself in another. Not only do people have to be compassionate, but they have to be able to teach and model to others how to be compassionate, so that our world can come to work together in peace and harmony despite differences that once separated us. I also learned that compassion can be expressed artistically, technologically, in discussions, and during events. Finally, I learned that media can play an important role in dissolving stereotypical views that divide the world, to reach a world of true, entirely compassionate people.
What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
Karen was a great presenter and speaker! Her voice was an accurate level and an appropriate speed. She didn't scream or whisper, and she did speak too quickly or to slowly. All the while, emphasizing on that which needs to be.
His is his/her presentation style?
Karen did not have a power point presentation behind her, but she had a great TED talk. The background of the stage (I'm not sure whether it was specifically for her, or for that days TED talks) was history related with globes and figures all around, which was a personal connection to Karen, as she was a religious historian. Karen made a lot of personal connections and expressed a lot of her personal characteristics. As she had a passion for religion, and accepting differences, she touched quite often on these two subjects tying them all back in to the golden rule (her main topic of discussion). She talked about many stories, personal and not personal, some religious, some not. Her dress included a rather nice, professional outfit, not too suited up or dressed down. Lastly, she mad her TED wish, she wants everyone to be compassionate and teach compassion, but teach that it is not just a feeling, it requires intelligence too.
What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
This video encourages compassion. Ms. Armstrong wants others to be compassionate,express compassion towards others, to educate, and stimulate, to teach them, and they teach someone else, so one so forth. Karen also emphasizes that religious preaches need to take action as well, not just preach. She wants people to challenge and question those instances of in-compassion. If the line of expression and teaching (while questioning the in-compassionate times) continues on, compassion could become a characteristic everyone has, around the world. If everyone around the world is compassionate, this allows them to come together, with their differences at hand, work together as a team, allowing those differences to dissolve away. Then the world would work together in peace. Karen challenged educators to give youth the dynamic and challenge of a compassionate lifestyle. I think that the younger generation is a great place to start in changing the world and it's people, as they are the ones who can teach the older ones, and they are the next generation to take on the world. I personally need to express compassion more than I do, as I learned it isn't just feeling but intelligence too, I can incorporate it into daily life more often and with more sincere value.
-Mikaela M.
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