First of all I love this video and lecture. I agree with almost everything the man says, now to my rant.

I recut this video a while back and edited it down to get rid of his various tangents. Posted it on VS by asking James to sift it, and it did extremely well here. Then YouTube came along and not only took down this video and other TEDtalks I edited down, but went on to delete my entire account.

Here now, it's some guy pretending to be from TEDTalks, has a directors account and is just posting them straight from the website. Like honestly what, am I a pirate for making information more concise and digestible?

Fascists.

Hear, hear, Farhad. Nice sift, Eric.

I feel your pain Farhad. Unlucky mate.

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There's so many damn videos on this site. How do I decide which ones to watch? What if I choose the wrong ones to watch and waste my time? There should be fewer.

I read his book after watching this video... I know it's gonna sound corny, but it truly changed my life, for the better I might say.

Go read it if what he says rings true with you.

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The examples he uses to prove his points are...cartoons? Interesting choice.

Barry should get a tailor.

I saw this after seeing his Plea for More Wisdom, which I though was great, but in this one, he just comes off as a bitter old fart with a dystopic view of human nature. I'm glad he got more optimistic later.

Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing (TED talks) has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

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