we were designed to reproduce.
This is an exact quote out of a 'talk' delivered by Helen Fisher at TED.
Let's start with the ...beginning. As a respectable career woman that I am:), I have an account on this 'xing' network for professionals (or something like that). It doesn't really matter, the important thing is that I have an account there. And everytime I get into that account (which is linked to my G-mail, meaning I get an e-mail everytime I get messages in my inbox on xing...), I see this 'activity meter' which is never at 100 % (because I'm too lazy to think why it's not at 100%). But seeing that I'm a perfectionist, I sometimes have fits and want to 'improve'. So at some point I realized I might join an 'online community' to enhance my % activity meter. Not knowing or understanding anything and wanting results with no effort, I just chose one of the groups there...Business women or something because they had gold or platinum level, I don't remember. Turns out I had a good hand (though lazy) cause these women send a positive Monday booster, every Monday, obviously. Things like: hope, joy, amazing stories and the like. Great stuff actually, usually it makes me cry or rethink my existence:). I love those e-mails. I'm sad when I don't get them or when I forget to check them. Sometimes the messages are completey idiotic, you can't get 52 inspiring themes a year. Anyway...I checked today the message from last Monday. It was something with a brain specialist that had a stroke and was able to describe the experience as a specialist. Moving story. This was posted on a site called TED: Technology Entertainment Design. So I browsed through it and found (of course) something about love. Actually I was hesitating between this something on love and something called Why are we happy and why are we not happy:)). But I'm a woman, I watched Helen Fisher talking at TED about love:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/16
And just before she talks about completely obvious things (like why we love a person and not another, due to timing, proximity, mystery and the fact that we are gravitating towards complementary brain systems (????) ), she said this memorable quote:
'We were not designed to be happy, we were designed to reproduce'
That was the moment when I started suspecting that Helen Fisher was a man.
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2 comments:
cum is curios din fire m-am uitat asera la TED si domana asta antopolog are niste argumente sanatoase ;)
dragul meu, nu pun decat linkuri pe care merita sa dai click:), n-ai observat pana acu?:))
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