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  A comment on Conversation: What is the first thing you tell yourself when you wake up to give yourself energy or courage?

  Nov 9 2011: I just recently saw this quote on Kathryn Budig's Facebook page and I think it's amazing, read what you will into it:
  
  Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "aww sh*t, they're up." - The Rock
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  A reply on Talk: Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar

  Oct 14 2011: Christian is right. Lie To Me works exactly like Pamela Meyer talks about it. No wonder, because it was written with dr. Paul Ekman's professional help.
  Don't get me wrong, I think this is a very fascinating topic and I read a lot about it, but the speaker in this video offers nothing new or revolutionary like most TED speakers do. She's walking in other people's footsteps without adding anything to it. And that's disappointing to me.
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  A comment on Talk: Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar

  Oct 13 2011: Weird how she talks about "Lie To Me" a bit scornfully, yet EVERYTHING she talks about WAS mentioned and explained in the show, and many of them numerous times. So how is she any better? She says nothing new.
  Not trying to be sour here, but at least she could have offered a different angle or something motivational...

• A reply on Conversation: What can we do about the constant rise of depression and suicide in young adults?

  Oct 11 2011: Yes, that's true. I haven't thought about it that way, maybe because bullying and depression are two sides of the same coin.
  However when I was in school - at least in my school - there was no bullying at all. So I have no experience in that. But some students, myself included, were still depressed. Probably this question is actually much more complicated than we think it is...

• A reply on Conversation: What can we do about the constant rise of depression and suicide in young adults?

  Oct 11 2011: I agree with you on this, Colleen, but I don't think there is much connection between violence and depression. Thinking about it, I think it's not the violence, but all the action, the excitement, whether it be negative or positive - in comparison, our real life seems pretty boring. To this day, sometimes when I watch movies or tv shows I think to myself, "oh, why can't my life be like that?" TVs and computers offer a substitue world instead of our own, and I think many of us consider the real one boring and depressing after that.
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  A reply on Conversation: What can we do about the constant rise of depression and suicide in young adults?

  Oct 11 2011: I think it's not so much WHAT is on the tv or the computer. Rather the fact that those things are solitary activities, and because they are (or we believe they are) entertaining, they are also kind of addicting. But it only causes people to be isolated and lonely and from there it's a straight way down the hill.
  I have dealt with such issues myself, sometimes still do, and in my opinion loneliness is a great part of depression. The feeling that you can't trust anyone and can't count on anyone. And if you isolate yourself from people, it's only going to get worse.

• A comment on Conversation: What motivated you (not) to have babies?

  Oct 8 2011: Very interesting answers here. I don't have children yet, and when I was younger I didn't even want to have any, for many logical reasons (overpopulation, financial reasons, etc.) But in the past few years I feel more and more like I want to have kids, it's a subconscious thought mostly, not an urge, just a desire. I know it will be challenging and in a way it's intimidating too, but I definitely want to experience it.

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think is the main reason why contemporary kids do not like / understand opera?

  Oct 8 2011: I studied film and media at university and in my experience, people generally don't like musical genres, whether it be on stage like opera and operetta, or musical movies. I personally love them, but in my opinion the reason why most people don't is because it's not really, well, life-like. You don't go around singing about your problems to people and you don't confess your feelings with an aria. Telling stories with songs is just not a thing you experience in your everyday life, plus there is the fact that especially in operas you have to listen very carefully to be able to make out the words. Songs and music require interpretation too, rather than just listening to a casual conversation and immediately understanding it. In a way this is the same problem as why prose is so much more popular than poetry. I think it might be estranging to them in a way.
  
  I don't think operas could ever be appealing to the masses, to be honest.

• A comment on Conversation: Why do you 'clap' or 'applaud' a talk or performance? For what reasons?

  Oct 8 2011: I only clap if I really like the performance/lecture or if I can relate to it, you know. Many people just do it out of courtesy. But I think even then you can feel the difference between a long and loud applause and a 'courtesy applause'. It's more than just a feedback for the speaker.
  Good question though, because I never really thought about this before. It would be interesting to know when and how the habit was formed.

• A reply on Conversation: Are you an Outcast ? TED Men and X-MEN

  Oct 8 2011: Definitely. I always hated when people said that it's harder to do certain things in certain areas (here Eastern Europe for example). Hated that people went to the USA or any other Western country to pursue their dreams. I thought that it was just a stupid excuse, but the more involved I am, the more I see the truth to it.
  
  TED, and the internet in general is not just an escape but also an opportunity for me because here it's nearly impossible to live the life I want to live, especially in this little town. I used to judge the people who left the country for a better life and now I'm about to do the same.
  
  Well, the cultural revolutions and innovations always reached us belated, so in a way it makes sense even now. What I don't understand is why, because the internet, the modern infrastructure would make it possible everywhere to change things. So I have to assume it's because of the way people are thinking...