Another week, another blog post. Professor Elek, another
shipwreck story? Really? At least this shipwreck story happened back in the
1800’s not in present day. Call me Ishmael, because this story is about Moby
Dick.
Anyways, this week’s post was a TED talk about fear. The presenter, Karen Thompson Walker was a
great presenter and made it feel like I could actually feel her fears. When she talked about her childhood in California,
I felt like I experienced those earthquakes that she went through. Walker tells
us that it is normal to experience fear, even though people are programmed to
be optimists. I like how she compares fear to unintentional story telling, that
made me feel much better about my fears, like they were just little stories
that I was writing in my head. The idea
that our fears can predict the future is crazy to me, even though it happens
every day. In a way, you do not expect
the expected. What stuck with me the most was Walker’s closing the TED talk,
saying that “And maybe if we all tried to read our fears, we too would be less
often swayed by the most salacious among them.” This stuck with me because she
then mentioned smaller fears like one’s cholesterol and global warning.
I agree completely with this blog post. When the speaker was talking about the earthquakes I found them so descriptive I felt like I was experiencing them too. I also like how Courtney said that this speaker told us it was normal to experience fear because sometimes I feel that half of my fear is stressing out about how I'm fearful and the speaker sort of put that stress to ease for me by saying its okay, it is normal to be fearful.
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