Barry Schwartz is an American psychologist and sociology professor at Swarthmore College. He is also the author of 'The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less' and 'The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life'. Disclosure, I uploaded and edited the original talk to get this 9 minute version.

From TED.

....had to stop the post to comment, excellent stuff, by the way-Another by-product, and he may get to this, is that people are becomming increasingly less able to make decisions that will benefit them, in a healthy, tangible, and productive way. The fundamentals of morality, values, and personal responsibility, being eroded at a break-neck pace....

And, my personal peave, folks are, for the most part, either unwilling to, or incapable of dealing with confrontation....they simply turn into robots, reacting to stimulus, instead of dealing with it....This sick little disease, infecting most of the so-called "civilized" world..?? Passive Agressive Behaviour-saying or doing something as a reaction to stimulus they are unable to process....One of the reasons, no doubt, that my flagrant abuse of expletives, and my percieved Backward, Un-progressive, Fundamentalist, Arcane, andDe-Evolutionary(monkeys love labels) world view on this sift, is a thorn in some flesh for some....

Rambling as they can get, editorials are not meant to make folks feel cozy, warm, happy,etc...
they are catalytic ,and meant to produce discourse which leads to mutual understanding, awareness, and enlightenment, for whom it will....and to piss off the peanut gallery, of public mastubators, myself included....

....damn , did I get off a subject?? which waaaaaasss, oh yeah, TED, wish we had more Theodores like him!

this is really good.

maybe should have 'the secret to happiness' somewhere in the title (from 6min in).

Please, more stuff like this on tha Sif.

*NSFW for the breast drawing and I was at work when I saw it. DOH!

This video has been marked NSFW (called by gold star member ant)

*powerUP vote*

well ... now you guys know why i'm so happy!

Clever title.

The part just after the six minute mark explains why I still finds new Simpsons episodes amusing.

man these TED video's rock

if you haven't yet get the podcast 1 to 2 speakers per week there great.
i just watch the Purpose Driven life guy then watched Danel Dennet just tear him a new one and the guy was in the audance i just wish i could have seen his face.

Dan Gilbert's TED talk about happines is better IMO

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=d_gilbert

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/
For all the other TED talks

I subscribed to the TED podcast once the first video showed up here. Awesome.

haha Krupo, very good point

This is a post about another Daniel Gilbert talk - highly recommended.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/17/psychology_of_bad_pr.html

Hmph. I've honestly been saying this for at least a decade and a half. Friends often consider me somewhat "strange" or "enigmatic" or whatever neurotic label they can come up with, grinning and looking warmly at me while shaking their heads in amusement for the ways that I see and speak about things like this. I'm told I'm strange. This guy gets invited to give a TED talk.

This video was annexed by Youtube. Since I uploaded it no copy exists.

*discard

Discarding this video (discard called by gold star member farhad2000)