Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? | Jon Jandai | TEDxDoiSuthep
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2011-08-03に共有
Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It regularly hosts training on simple techniques to live more sustainably. Outside of Pun Pun, Jon is a leader in bringing the natural building movement to Thailand, appearing as a spokesperson on dozens of publications and TV programs for the past 10 years. He continually strives to find easier ways for people to fulfill their basic needs. For more information visit www.punpunthailand.org/
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normally ted talkers show you how to fix yourself when you don't fit into the sytem. this man shows that the system is the problem, not we
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12:37 "Food, Clothes, House, and Medicine must be cheap and easy for everybody, that is Civilisation. But if we make these four things very hard for people to get; that's uncivilised."
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He's not telling everyone to do agriculture, build mud houses and wear torn clothes.
He's enabling us to differentiate need from desire. We need to learn when to stop in the pursuit of achievement before it's too late when we realize that we missed life in search of greed. -
that was good.
1. don't follow
2. have time to think
3. self reflect
4. "lower expectations"
5. be simple
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"People are becoming smarter, just to make the world more complicated"
Very well said sir -
He calls himself uneducated, but gives better answers than most „educated“ people. Education does not define wisdom and intelligence. This man clearly is intelligent and I‘m happy that he found his way in life!
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He just opened my eyes. Life is easy, but we make it complicated to reach our unnecessary desires.
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Can we come together and make this a global norm? I mean, let’s truly realize this. Life is easy. We allow ourselves to become convinced it’s hard!
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Most of us don't live our lives, we live other people's life.
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"I spent one month to save money to buy a pair of jeans. Every time i look, i am the same person".
The most intelligent person i've heard in my life. -
At present (July 2023), this video is 11years old and have 14 million views. But, I don't know how many people have learnt to live a simple life after watching this. Now a days, everyone is busy, frustrated and not satisfied with their lives. I believe in what he said ☺️
Thanks & lots of love 💕 -
"I can't change anything outside of myself, the only thing I can do is manage my mind" beautiful.
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Reminds me of the Dennis McKenna quote: “As human beings, we’re very clever, but we’re not wise.”
This guy is wise. -
“ when I work hard, still my life is hard”. This line caught me, .
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There's absolutely no way he can say he is uneducated, when he delivered such a powerful TEDx Talk 🙌🏾👏🏾💙 I am mind blown.
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He isn't the hero we deserve, but he is the hero we need right now.
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“A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.” Albert Einstein
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Simplicity is the key of happiness. This man lives like that - and me too! I had a very so called “rich“ life for 38 years, but I understood: RICH IS NOT WHO OWNS EVERYTHING. RICH IS WHO DOESN'T NEED IT...! I collected companies, materialistic things, had stress and got sick. So I gave all up and changed my life to a simple one. Now, after 30 years, I live on a beautiful beach on a beautiful island in a warm country with warm hearted people, replanting my own food, getting eggs from my chickens, eating fishes from the sea, learned instruments to play autodidacticly, also painting, and live from playing saxophone in summertime some hours. I live mobile in a horse trailer, after travelling on a boat for many years, together with lots of stray cats and dogs and I'm very happy.
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I think it is human comparison that leads to our life becoming more and more complicated and difficult!
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I cried after listening to him. I dunno how to start the simple life. But I'll do my best and encrypt this in my mind. Thank you.
