Hi guys welcome back to my blog! I love watching and spreading motivational videos that I find. These videos I am going to share with you guys are so inspiring and motivating to learning new ways of how people think and learn.
Kashfia Rahman came on TED Talk to share her research she’s done on how risk-taking changes teenagers brains. She stated “How can so many teens be so smart, skilled and responsible and careless risk-takers at the same time?” after she mentioned the online challenge of teens eating tide pods. So she began to wonder why teens take such big harmful risks. There has already been research done by neuroscientist that teenagers brains are still in the process of maturation and that is what makes them exceptionally poor cat decision making.
Rahman talks about how she started a research study involving 86 students aged 13-18 from her high school. She was measuring their emotional responses which meant she had measured the process of habituation and its effects on decision making. After 29 days to complete her research and countless nights of staying up late she was about to finalize her results.
Her results showed that habituation to risk-taking could actually change a teens brain by altering their emotional levels, causing greater risk taking. There are many things that drive and control risk taking which is a wake up call for teens. So I ask myself this: Do I really need to be taking as many risks as I do? Can I control my emotions when I am about to participate in risky behavior?
This next video I want to show you guys is how to motivate yourself to change your behavior. Tali Sharot talks about everyone has some behavior they would like to change about themselves and how we all want to help someone else change their behavior in a positive way.
Sharot explains how warning have very limited impacts on behavior change. She used the example of cigarette packets having very graphic images of the negative effects of smoking, but that didn’t stop smokers from quitting. She explains how people are more likely to change their belief and values based on positive feedback, not negative .
From this TED Talk I learned that there are three principles that are known to drive your brain and your behavior; social incentives, immediate reward, and progress monitoring. She also stated that if you want to get someones attention you might want to highlight the progress not the decline. Giving positive reinforcement will ultimately be the best way to change someone actions.
These motivational and inspirational TED Talks have opened my eyes to becoming more knowledgeable about why people do specific things, the way their brains work, and ultimately helping someone change in a positive way.
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