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Kristine Sargsyan
Yerevan
Armenia

Curator, TEDxYerevan

Associate TED Translator TEDx Organizer TED Attendee Language Coordinator

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Would world become better if there were no Ego??? How to overcome "ego" ???

Often I observe how EGO doesn’t allow people to do a social good …
And often think that world might become better if people were less Egocentric.

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Jun 4 2011: Balance is the key, as in one of the TEDxDanubia talk is told by István Joós, who described his career from a selfish bussiness to a adding something great to a social cause:

"Selfishness and altruism are things that I can present you with an image of a symbolic tree, where the root of the tree sucks everything but everything from the soil, that feeds him, in order to share this in his canopy."

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  Jun 4 2011: Thanks for posting this talk !

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