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I'm passionate about

Personal growth, discovering our full potential

An idea worth spreading

One sure thing we can do to help others is to develop ourselves.

My TED Story

I found out about TED when i stopped looking at the problems and started seeking out solutions...

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  A comment on Talk: Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on developmental disorders

  Jun 28 2010: Wow, it just hit me that it might be actually kind of criminal not to watch that...Imagine not watching that and living beside a friend's child with that condition...postponing a few years the time when they might discover that it can be cured...
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  A comment on Talk: Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

  Jun 15 2010: I agree about the fact that the monkey thing doesn't help making any point at all.
  However, the point he makes about dopamine is really interesting, I also believe ( based on personal experience, nothing proven scientifically ) that nehanced pattern recognition actually helps to understand what is going on inside. I used to have auditory hallucinations and noticed that every single one of them was related to something I was afraid to hear.
  The rorschach test for example has been used exactly for that, figuring out what the person is thinking on a deeper level through his/her interpretation of an ink stain
  Tribal rituals using hallucinogenics, I believe, also help the chamans finding answers.
  I think raising dopamine levels actually helps project what is going in our head to the outside world.

• A reply on Talk: Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

  May 11 2010: Anger and happiness are not mutually exclusive. When anger is expressed in the right way, its use is to set one's limits, which i guess is the kind you are talking about. In my opinion, you can get angry, express that anger, set your limits or just listen to it and know which of your limits has been crossed and, once this is done, go back to being happy. Usually takes me less than a half hour to figure out why i'm angry. Unexpressed anger can be very hurtful to a community...

• A comment on Talk: Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

  May 10 2010: Really good talk, let's just be happy so people can benefit from it !!
  
  I don't agree about the genes having anything to do it with it, though. I think behaviours just spread with education.
  A molecular biologist also has a theory that cells behave in the same way, getting feedback from their environnment defines how they will develop.
  Angry people are the cancer of society, let's try to find a way to make them happy...

• A comment on Talk: Catherine Mohr builds green

  Apr 18 2010: Thank you for that talk, even though i live in europe where the building process is quite different, this is interesting ( i guess i'll use my sponge more often now :-)
  There are two useless things that can be abolished to dramatically decrease energy consumption though : Mowing the lawn and ironing shirts. Ironing must be the most useless, energy and time consuming thing i can think of :-)
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  A comment on Talk: Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention

  Apr 7 2010: First of all, i think he's doing a fantastic job, and he really is speaking with his heart. He sounds like he has found a life long fight and is ready to carry it on. I really want to honour him for that and for his courage and dedication.
  One thing that bothered me though ( and it's just my opinion ) is that soldiers shouldn't lose arms and legs at war, this may sound pretty stupid and maybe hippy like but i couldn't stop thinking about the fact that their suffering was unnecessary.
  The only consolation to that thought is that soldiers from both sides will benefit from that and people who lost limbs in accident will too.
  Sorry but i had to say that, that's my truth.

• A reply on Talk: Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

  Sep 17 2009: It seems like you would get visual hallucinations too, at least that's what happens to people in this documentary : http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=5979976052909214366&ei=12iySoHJNMnm-AbQqdiKAg&q=psych isolation&hl=fr&client=firefox-a#