Name: 【TED】Ingrid Fetell Lee: Where joy hides and how to find it (Where joy hides and how to find it | Ingrid Fetell Lee)
Uploaded: 2018-06-11T18:00:11.000Z
Duration: 13 min 39 s
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and I'm just finishing my first year of design school.

which is a form of ritual torture for design students,

where they make you take everything you made over the course of the year

and stand next to it while a bunch of professors,

give you their unfiltered opinions of it.

So it's my turn and I'm standing next to my table,

and I'm just hoping that my professors can see

how much effort I've put into making my designs practical

because for a long time, no one says anything.

And then one of the professors starts to speak, and he says,

I wanted to be a designer because I wanted to solve real problems.

Joy is nice, I guess, but it's kind of light --

and how does that come from the stuff on the table next to me?

How do tangible things make us feel intangible joy?"

They hemmed and hawed and gestured a lot with their hands.

but I couldn't stop thinking about this question ...

one that I didn't know at the time would take me 10 years --

to understand the relationship between the physical world

and the mysterious, quixotic emotion we call "joy."

And what I discovered is that not only are they linked,

but that the physical world can be a powerful resource to us

And I found that even scientists don't always agree,

and they sometimes use the words "joy" and "happiness" and "positivity"

But broadly speaking, when psychologists use the word joy,

what they mean is an intense, momentary experience

one that makes us smile and laugh and feel like we want to jump up and down.

That feeling of wanting to jump up and down

is one of the ways that scientists measure joy.

which measures how good we feel over time.

because as a culture, we are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness,

and yet in the process, we kind of overlook joy.

and even people I just met on the street,

On the subway, in a café, on an airplane,

it was, "Hi, nice to meet you. What brings you joy?"

And after a few months of this, I noticed that there were certain things

that started to come up again and again and again.

and ice cream cones, especially the ones with the sprinkles.

These things seemed to cut across lines of age and gender and ethnicity.

we all stop and turn our heads to the sky

when the multicolored arc of a rainbow streaks across it.

we don't even need to know what they're for,

These things aren't joyful for just a few people;

it gave me this indescribably hopeful feeling.

The sharply divided, politically polarized world we live in

sometimes has the effect of making our differences feel so vast

there's a part of each of us that finds joy in the same things.

And though we're often told that these are just passing pleasures,

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