Why Life Sucks | Param Srikantia | TEDxSyracuseUniversity
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- Life has so much potential and yet in our everyday lives, we seem to make so little of it. No matter how much money we make we are in perennial scarcity, despite labor saving devices we have no time to enjoy life and with all the social media the world is a lonelier place. Param Srikantia, a professor at the Baldwin Wallace University’s School of Business in Ohio, speaks to the heart of these contradictions and explores how the transformation of consciousness can unleash the deeply hidden potential of individuals in their professional and personal lives. His talk seeks to offer a fundamental shift in our consciousness to awaken us to a profound appreciation of life. Srikantia has authored 35 research papers, held leadership roles in six global conglomerates and delivers management and leadership seminars that blend wisdom and humor, reaching thousands of participants in nine cities. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Why does it make me feel a little better to know so many other people obviously searched. 'Life Sucks'
A curious phenomena. I have noticed when I'm having a bad day at work, which means I'm at work, and notice a coworker having a bad day, I often feel better.
Never works for me
Feel ya.
During fifth period I just randomly had this shock of realization about how horrible life is
@@silklavender
But the question is what do we do about it to make it better?
Life is just a pass time for reasons we will never know. We live, we die. Nothing matters at all.
The PURPOSE of your life is 'to experience and enjoy as much life as possible'.
This is not a casual, flippant statement. This is 100% true for every person on the planet.
You should spend your life doing what ever you like, or what ever you think you should, but this doesn't change your PURPOSE.
@@isaac1572 That's a pretty naive way of looking at it. The reality is there is nom universal purpose. The closest thing that comes to a purpose is surviving long enough to have pass on your genetic material then die when the time comes to make room. Your view of a purpose is subjective and completely made up by you, it isn't objective.
@@isaac1572 ok but i like nothing. nothing gives me meaning nor enjoyment. everything feels hollow. i cant live for enjoyment if there is nothing to enjoy
Modern life is driving humans to insanity
Ikr
It’s depressing just work to go home to do it all over again. It all ends one day so what’s the point lmao
Then stop doing that. Find something that doesn't feel like work or feels worth waking up for/ doing all over again. That or find things to do after work which make waking up and working worth the hassle.
Moon Turns The Tides I wish I could tell you there was a solution I wish I could tell you that
We got to school for at least 12 years just to have to do the same thing every day until we are too old to work. And if we don’t then there’s no one who is gonna help u get money not for free at least so your gonna have to go to work
DO YOU WANT TO DIE DOING NOTHING OR DO YOU WANT TO DIE DOING SOMETHING
@@halcyon1009 all work is work
Life sucks and i wish i wasn't a human or even born here
It's great being human. There is still a lot of good people in the Earth, but I'd recommend being wary of various sorts of city folk...
@@BenjaminGessel out of curiosity, why be wary of city folk?
@@BenjaminGessel None are good people...
It's rare to find good person who care about you.
@@bakatobijuu Not that rare...
@@BenjaminGessel
Shut up, the world will go end and its happy anyway
What a big disappointment this world ended up being.
Sadly the only good things are movies and games
Jared Martin I gotta agree in video games you can feel like something special you can be powerful do amazing things in life you will spend most of your time doing things you hate only to do a tiny bit of what you love be miserable then die
@@jaredmartin7040 And weed
@Cooler Rafael Suprayogi True you don't want to forget good old crack.
You're a disappointment for saying this world is a disappointment
"What exactly were you trying to accomplish?"
"I was trying to make a girl fall in love with me"
"Did it work?"
"No"
"So everything was for nothing?"
"Yes"
"Then why are you smiling?"
"Because i just realised something"
"What is it?"
"That life is a pathetic joke that we take way too seriously"
lame
Good one
"Why are you smiling"
".. you wouldn't get it"
Naw it’s not a joke bra.. ppl are dying & starving.. choose your word carefully when you speak 😂😂
Life is not a pathetic joke
Life is heartbreakingly disappointing. And it passes by so quickly…slipping through your fingers. You keep hoping it will get better, but it never does. And then you realize you’ll probably waste your whole life hoping it will get better and it never does and then you just die and it’s over. And it’s like what even was the point?
sadly I agree I feel the same
This is so true
that's the problem, i don't understand why people need to have a point in everything....
And yet, people keep breeding kids to join the misery. Isn't it time everyone wised up and stopped having kids?
This made me so sad. Relatable, I've always felt terrified with this thought.
I'm not sure if I should find solace in the fact that strangers around the world feel the way I have felt or if I should feel sad for all of us.
Life has turned out to be such a disappointnet
True bud
Yes, ☑️ that's why we are watching this ted talk 💬
Being a social outcast really sucks
Facts
That is only because the expectations set at the start where to high
Yesterday was my birthday, I am 27 now, and I searched "life sucks" and have found this video and just cry and watch. Feel sad but better now, thank you, kind man.
I wish you all the best.
@@Grapefruit5000 thank you 😊 you too🙌🏻
Life is good bruh
Your beauty will shine and you WILL get through this!
@@nomejest5919 what's ur age lmao
I love the talks that always say that we have to enjoy the life we have. When your life is a mandatory 9-5 and others have the power to tell you when you can sit down and when you can stay home and rest, you can't enjoy life.
If you're lucky to have weekends off and find yourself wishing it were Friday all the time, you're just wishing your life away. I do agree that you need to learn to love yourself before you can love anything else, but when the game has been rigged since the beginning, you can't and shouldn't feel bad for it.
Just accept that life is pointless and you don't have to try to give it a point. Pray you find a mentor while young and Pray that you find a tolerable career that pays enough to support a comfortable lifestyle. Just don't Pray to be happy, that will only lead to disappointment.
I have none of these things.....
well said
"If you're lucky to have weekends off and find yourself wishing it were Friday all the time, you're just wishing your life away." - this is so true. Never thought of it like that. Same as looking forward to pay day. Payday means another month has ended and the year is nearer to the end.
👏👏👏👏👏
He’s right however the world only understands having and doing. Just being doesn’t pay the bills.
Yep
you can still do what pays the bills, but doing it blissfully takes delicate art
True. 🫤
5 things that make life awful:
1-School
2-School
3-School
4-School
5-School
theres six actully , school
Add Food Service work.
So only school
LIFE IS GOOD
@Robert Roesch go drink water
Simple peace and wanting peace has been forgotten in our modern society.
Peace ha thats funny.
As if peace ever existed before
Facts
@@gazymerlelug6958 ikr
So true 😞
Osho is a great blessing to the whole world 🌍🌎 🙏🙏🙏
This is so true I was sleep walking through life and woke up not realizing 5 years had passed. It was unsettling.
We are trapped in a matrix like existence, it is contrived and the architect of it told me straight up he doesn’t care the way I need him to care.
Human beings and not human havings or human doings.
Love that. Just Be!
He says so many beautiful things, I wished I could believe any of them
Hahaha true so many take aways .. but he missed to add believe me
you reject to accept your own thoughts? how curious?
Join osho international channel and watch his full lectures. You'd undrestand. It takes time but worth it.
You don't have to believe everything in this world after all nothing really matters. Everything will past. Everyone will forget.
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation" - Sigmund Freud
I thought of life as a paradigm. Then I found and learned to not dig. And that is how I found Param.
Life is the best
@@nomejest5919 Yeah, for narcissists like you who would go crazy in the CZcams comment sections.
Thank you very much for pulling my life back.
Thank you ❤️
I needed to hear this talk tonight. Thanks 🙏
Life is the best
@@nomejest5919 life sucks
Congratulations and thank you for spreading these words of wisdom that would change lives ❤🙏
Param rules! Baldwin Wallace University!
People forget how much how life sucks.
That made me feel beter.
Good opening great understanding
Thanks for spreading Master’s vision
People can ignore the fact that life sucks by using drink or drugs.
Just watched this Ted Talk for the fourth time as a friendly reminder to recognize my faces and run my life like I am a robot. Thank you, Param, your management class (where I first heard this lecture) will forever be one of my favorite classes at Baldwin Wallace University!
Life is the best
@@nomejest5919 Tell that to those suffering with cancer and different diseases.
@@nomejest5919 You bragging about your delusional, flippant state of mania is of no help to anyone.
Wow that actually made me feel better. Thank you.
This man has a point, but it's small. The root is that the lust+greed of man has destroyed the balance necessary to live in Harmony with the earth. We have all been placed into states of dependency upon other men, when we should only be dependent upon an abundance of nature, a natural abundance. The question is not just happiness. The question is freedom.
Lust and greed has exactly destroyed the balance yes. Couldn't have said it better
I love this guy...
Some words of wisdom said which we all need to hear. i.e we are all special in our own way.
This is so good, the last video i watch the guy was saying you just got to blame yourself and not others, I was thinking that wasn’t right
Listening to things we already know sucks. New thoughts and new concepts are a pleasure to hear and are most welcome.
The impossible challenge in life is...
To
Survive
The
Worst
Life
EVER
Great talk
I have had the pleasure of taking 3 courses with Param. This talk is always my favorite.
I love this so much. Param was my favorite professor in college and his view on life is inspiring.
Life is the best
Wow! You had the chance to study with him. So lucky.
Life always sucks
This was just what I needed. Thank you 🙏
Life is the best
@@nomejest5919 you must live in lala land, is 💀th suppose to be the best too?
Damn dude this helped alot thank u like u speak like u Kno me but I'm not the only one I'm not alone fighting against life sucks without information was frustrating thank u
jai osho !!!! wonderful!!!!!!
This helped me on the other level ❤️
Level of no fuks given
Life is the best
This dude is an OG!!
Thank you Param, this is one of the most profound and moving Ted Talks I have ever experienced.
Same here. In fact this was the very first time to pay attention to TED talk in years. Something grvitated me toward this dude plus this clip showed up somehow somewhere, I think that's how I ended up here.
Reasons why life sucks
1:money is the answer to your health problems
2:jobs don't pay well and not have health insurance
3:without money your nothing in today's society
4:ppl dont know how easy they have before it's too late
Wonderful insights from a unique and beloved Baldwin Wallace University business professor!
Life is the best
this gave me so much peace for the moment :)
Insightful 👍
It really hits me whe he said "fall in love with your self" ,i fcking hate my self for things that I've done , it's been hard for me this couple of years since i was highschool till now 2nd semester in college.damn growing up sucks and life to.but you know.. gotta keep ur self strong no matter what... It's not easy,i know that only you could understand yours ,and the same for mine.i hope it gets better,and this is depressing.
Because life is boring
very relatable
This doesn’t describe the inner struggles I’m trying to resolve at all.
the words just passed through my head. I don't even know why I thought I would find something here
This is really amazing
Just because you are unique and/or special doesn't mean you have any worth/worthiness. A fork that has been bent, twisted, & mangled will be unique and special.. but it'll also be completely useless junk that will be thrown away or buried in the junk drawer (by society).
This is a good man
*_The words you say_*
*_Never seem to live up to the ones inside your head..._*
*_The lives we make_*
*_Never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead..._*
Don't worry, something good will happen soon just wait. I realized life is like that, you'll suffer first and next you'll get a blessing as a reward for doing good things and not giving up.
Ha
You hit it exactly on the head - well said!
Life is good
Life is suffering! Look how many people search these types of videos because life sucks!!!!!
Very good, Keep going!
The reason I'm miserable is probably because my spine is effed up and I can't do anything anymore. Did I mention ME/CFS too?
I like this dude
Life is the best
Great storytelling and prop using
Hope to be an alien in the next life
It's so easy to say "Enjoy the present moment" when you're living the good life. What if your career is an embarrassment despite years of unending work and you haven't seen your wife in a year? Even lobsters get depressed after losing a fight. You'd have to go against hundreds of millions of years of evolution to feel good.
Good to see Guru Pathik is doing well in the modern world. (Those who know, know).
Life is a series of events....
That Seem Important At The Time.
It depends where you live. I live in New York City. You go from home to work to home everyday. It's like a 10 to 14 hour routine everyday. If you want people to feel happy. They should start paying $30 per hour salaries. So people won't get depressed.
With the current $15 per hour wage it's not enough. Those $15 have to make the monthly payments. Like rent and utilities bills.
I read Osho's book
Yeah
interesting how the break from the somnambulant state involved connection: a dog, other children
You just described my thoughts
Stop thinking that
I've done a lot of research, and heard it all million times.
I know the reason life sucks.....
Because it sucks!
Practically all the people I know are robots-no humans.
Wowwwww.
Never judge a video by the amount of views it has.
13:40 WISDOM ⚠️”Something that takes a lifetime to learn at 13:40” ❤
No money.
It's easy.
I think it all depends heavily on luck, then some planning and brain wiring. If you have those 3 things going for you, then life is good imo.
I agree
Don't pay attention to our thoughts. Create mindfulness
Healing from our past tragedies
We wear masks to protect ourselves from others seeing our vulnerability.
When we can love ourselves fully, only then we can love others
Expect nothing you'll never be disappointed...
But enjoy the good moments when they happen.
Childhood sucks and then your adulthood feels and makes you feel insecure cause your childhood traumas and problems aren’t and worst of all weren’t fixed that long ago and so now you feel it’s unsolvable unfixable and undoable , in other words your life can never be perfect considering the situations with childhood the time of your life that you have the most energy but not using all that energy to do stuff that you love and enjoy and truly want to do with life
Life sucks.
Live anyway.
I wish peace exist forever
All of us: like that’s gonna happen
That is gonna happen u pessimist
I found it very useful.Thank you very much
Not much to life except sleeping, really.
One thing I've learned that helps when I feel like life sucks and is pointless....marijuana.
Brilliant
Everybody in this comment thread didn’t even watch the video and doesn’t get it.
14:04 THE UN-ENCOURAGER “I like that” the little voice inside your head that says “You aren’t alright!” Something is wrong!” You’ve forgotten something!” Something you’re doing is going to end you!” Something you look like is too much to take!” 🤮🤓😉🙏💥💯
90% of you just searched ''life sucks'' right? lol
😂😂
Life sucks so much...
The PURPOSE of your life is 'to experience and enjoy as much life as possible'.
This is not a casual, flippant statement. This is 100% true for every person on the planet.
You should spend your life doing what ever you like, or what ever you think you should, but this doesn't change your PURPOSE.
What if the purpose is neither made clear of mor fulfilled? Life's absurd in lot of ways, when it comes to the thing called self. Because self doesn't even exist really.
We should, but many of us can’t.
❤️❤️❤️ OshO ❤️❤️❤️
We have fewer excuses now to why it sucks a lot is our own making
Living in this world sucks you have to study for 20 years then work for 40 years without money you can’t do anything I would rather have been a gorilla’s kid at least I could explore the wild and as a human to explore it we need to pay
I agree with the both of you