Name: 【TEDx】The power of seduction in our everyday lives: Chen Lizra at TEDxVancouver
Uploaded: 2014-09-24T15:20:03.000Z
Duration: 12 min 48 s
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Man: I'm just going to be in the green room in the back

if you really want to talk about some, after you're done.

CL: I guess you don't need coffee now, do you?

I'm a dancer, author and an entrepreneur.

because I want you to first feel the seduction,

I'm fascinated with seduction, but not just with the dance and the movements,

but also with how you can bring it in a practical way into day-to-day life.

Since 2005, I've been travelling back and forth to Cuba

in order to train with the best professional dancers.

This is when I first started seeing seduction as a valuable life skill.

but mostly because it's such a playful fun thing.

I truly believe that everyone has the power to seduce in them,

And I also believe that we need to develop this skill

and let's take a look at our perception of seduction,

The word has been sexualized so many times

that we can't even imagine it as a positive skillset.

We typically associate seduction with something negative,

because we consider it the less honest or acceptable form of influence.

to some degree feel manipulated into the situation.

When we think of gender roles, it's not even a question

that men are permitted a lot more freedom than women to seduce.

we merely go to sleeping your way to the top and being unprofessional.

You know how people say, some people say that money's bad,

and power can be used for good and for bad;

it comes down to your DNA and what you choose to do with it.

and to add to it my sense of loyalty and integrity.

Seduction is really about your untapped power

that you're not using, that you want to unleash.

Would we tell superman not to stop a bullet?

Seduction is about charm, connection, vulnerability, pride,

I'm one of those lucky ones, that gets to go to Cuba all the time.

And I've been observing this culture for a very long time,

seeing how aware they seem to be of their seductive powers.

Cuba has been like a seduction laboratory for me,

where I get to study seduction and understand how they use it better.

But it's not like Cubans are the only people in the world

that understand how to use seduction, right?

You can experience it in other countries in the world:

in Israel, in Brazil and the Dominicans and many other countries.

And yet in Cuba I found a combination of things,

that I haven't found yet anywhere else in the world,

And you'll probably agree with me when I say

that the chances of finding this kind of seduction out in the open

in North America is pretty close to slim, right?

I truly believe that we can learn a valuable life lesson

And having said that, if we were to try and take seduction

and break it into some kind of a formula, what would that look like?

and then having the willingness to go after it.

In Cuba, rumba is the game of seduction between the man and the woman.

The woman is the flirty hen and the guy is the seductive rooster.

The woman uses her body to seduce the men to say, "Want it? Come and get it."

The guy on the other hand will use his body

He's trying to pecker her and get her pregnant.

She'll notice the attack, she'll block it,

and she'll go, "Didn't make it. Try again."

Cubans interact on the streets everyday, as if they're playing the game of rumba.

They keep a tension, a sexy tension, always alive.

It's like, you could almost have it, but not.

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