Today I would like to to share with you an interesting and funny speech made by Simone Giertz. She is known as an inventor of useless things and she posts her works on YouTube so maybe you already know her. You can recognise her as a comedian but I think that after this TED talk you will change your mind a bit.
Under her funny way of explaining things we can see what she really wants to teach us. When she was young, she was really afraid to fail in her life. She was a great student with best grades but every time her results were lower than 100% it was a failure for her. I have to admit that my attitude to life is pretty the same. I am a kind of perfectionist and it is really hard for me to be happy because of little successes. I am trying to change this in my life and she showed me that it is achievable.
She invents things which resolve our common problems. These inventions work but usually their big size or a way how they work makes them useless. Is there any sense to build something like that? I think after her speech, we can see some metaphor in her behaviour. She shows us that we always should try and not be afraid of trying to resolve our problems. She admits that she is conscious that her inventions are useless but she also pointed out how many interesting things she learns during the process of building them. For me it means that when we try to do something and even it will be a failure we should remember how much we have learnt during the process of trying.
Thank you for your time and I invite you to answer questions below.
1. Have you heard about her before my post?
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
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Yes she has made appearance several times on wykop.pl
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
Actually no, I have never achieved any success besides drinking and smoking weed. Nothing to achieve = nothing to blame and lose
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
It can be motivational and inspiring for people who believe that working 8 hours per day in their shitty job for 20 years will change something, however why bother?
In general I blame myself for not achieving success but there are some areas where I simply find excuses. If we are talking about things like work, self development, skills etc. I always try to do my best but for example I don’t blame myself too much when I stop running after I’ve started it 5 days ago. Her speech is good and it’s somehow inspiring. I often approach motivational and inspiring speeches with distance but I always believe that they are worth watching and thinking about them.
Yes, I blame myself for my mistakes because I am the only person who is responsible for the result of the life choices I made.
I like her attitude to life and how she is able to make fun of every little thing she talks about. I think her example should be a reminder for everyone of how important it is to believe in yourself and keep pushing until you reach your goal.
I really liked the level of confidence she had while talking to people at the stage, but the most inspiring thing about that speech was her enthusiasm and passion for creating these "useless" robots.
I have never heard about her.
Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
Of course i blame myself when i don't achieve success. It is usual thing. How can you say that you are "a good fellow", if you failed so many times, that you can't even count. But from another side, without fails, you can't achieve big results.
What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
I've heard so many motivational speeches. Her speech is a speech of a woman, i don't understand how woman can motivate, just because there are a small amount of really successful women nowadays. All the "empires", best startups were built by men.
Yes, I think I blame myself for failures. However, I hope that I am still at the stage where I strive for success.
Unfortunately, I do not really like motivating speeches. They do not motivate me. Usually, such speech depict life in such a way as if it was enough to just want to change something and suddenly the quality of our life will increase and we will be happy. I think that it is not always so easy.
I am not always blaming myself for failures, because if something depends on me I am always doing my best and if the result is still negative I am just analyzing the situation and trying to get some experience from my mistakes. I think I only blame myself if I didn`t do anything about the problem or I know that I could do it better. If I would always blame myself for all failures it could lead to stress)
To be honest, I really don`t like motivational speeches for the reason that for a little period of time they make me think the way the speaker does and after this effect disappears I am starting to feel myself like as if I lost something important in my life.
Every failure we face on our path to our goal is an experience. This experience can help us take the next steps towards success with less risk.
An interesting lecture, he taught the listener motivation to think and act appropriately.
Oh, you're so cool.
Well, sometimes. More then sometimes. Actually in every fall I am overthinking could I do better or where was the problem. If I could solve it or I had opportunity and I didn't use it, so I am totally blaming myself but if not I am blaming myself that I'm not good enough for it. So it's kind of depressing.
In my entire life I understood that the best motivator for yourself is you. So this speeches could gave "five minute" result and then you started think as you think always. It could move you a little further but never to lead you to success for years. So it nice to hear someones thought but it's not my conclusions, they just might suit me.
I think she presents an interesting point of view that is certainly motivating. Her „useless robots” are a great example of why doing things just for the sake of doing them is actually not that bad.
However, I feel her words might be misinterpreted. One might think that not achieving success is good enough – but it isn’t. You shouldn’t blame yourself for failing but you shouldn’t become lazy and not pursue better results with each subsequent attempt.
Her presentation was interesting and entertaining. While I find the general idea of motivational speeches neither attractive nor effective, hers wasn’t in that category. It was a beautiful showcase of her hobby.
Sometimes I blame myself for failures, but it depends on situation. When I know that I could have done more and better, so lack of results is clearly my fault, I blame myself. I think it is somehow necessary for me to keep discipline, so that next time I will succeed. However there are situations when I couldn’t have done nothing more to achieve success and yet I failed. In such situations, there is no point in blaming yourself, it is just unlucky coincidence.
Her speech was quite funny although I don’t find it very inspiring. I agree that people should spend more time on their hobbies or find a job which is interesting, so they would have fun from what they are doing.
No, I haven not heard about her, but thank you - it was fun and interesting to watch this :)
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
In most cases - yes, I do blame myself. I am also a perfectionist, and it is hard for me to accept defeat.
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
I think her speech was great, it was hilarious and thought-provoking. I love the part when she says "...I'm a millennial, so I want everything to revolve around me.." :D
I have not heard about it before but I know many other people who are conducting such motivational speeches. The idea is always the same. Believe in yourself and act, no matter if you have humor or strength, just act.
As others have rightly noticed, in many such speeches the idea is still the same. We should simply face what awaits us.
A colleague above very pessimistic approached the subject, I understand that he could have an inferior day, each of us has some achievements, we can assess whether they are big or small according to their scale. For one person, a great achievement will be to finish the studies, for another pass the exam.
When I do not succeed, I do not blame myself, I just accept failure and if there is an opportunity to correct it, I’ll correct it. Most of the time, I just feel bad.
I saw a positive girl with a sense of humor. I was very inspired by the fact that unsuccessful inventions can be so successful. She was inspired by her attitude towards her robots because she does it with pleasure. It also became interesting that such a niche before it probably did not exist, only isolated cases for the sake of experiment. And of course, it is very motivating that the result may not be very practical in application, but by creating it you can learn a lot of new things for development.
It really depends on what kind of success I was about to achieve. If it mattered to me, I blame myself as I'm also kind of perfectionist, but if it was just a little thing I don't eat my heart out because of that.
The video was definitely fun to watch, I liked her approach that she can find positives in doing things that most people would consider completely useless. I think it can teach us that sometimes it's not the matter of the result, but rather the process of doing things and benefits that come form it.
It depends. If I have an influence on not succeeding then I blame myself but If I didn't have an impact on my failure then I don’t blame myself.
I really like her enthusiasm when she was presenting her ideas. For me, it was really inspiring and I think that I would like to see more of her TED presentation or more of her own videos that she posts on her YouTube channel.
Failure mostly often brings negative feelings. Many people give up after one failure but there are also people that get more motivated. In my case, it’s this second option. I learned how to deal with failures (smaller and bigger ones) and it’s a very important skill these days.
I like these kinds of speeches, and as I said before I really enjoyed this video. This felt real, not fake like a lot of stuff on the internet.
Unfortunately, I have not heard of it before. But very grateful for the opportunity to know her. Her performance impressed me!
Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
I consider myself a self-critical person. When I analyze my actions and decisions, it sometimes seems to me that I would classify myself as perfectionist. But when I make mistakes and do not achieve success in any field, I understand that I am not a superman, and all people can be wrong. The one who does nothing is not mistaken.
What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
I have to admit that her performance was original and fun. But I would not say that it has strong motivational energy. Perhaps everyone will see something different in this speech, and even someone may see himself in it.
Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
For the last few years it is my hot topic. I've been thinking about it a lot. I came out with that simple thought that blaming yourself will not help you in any possible way. Putting aside that it is just a wast of time, it can be really dangerous for your health. So in oder to blame myself, Im trying to find a way to fix the problem which I concerned about or if there is no solution I try to make a deduction so I can prevent that kind of problems.
I really enjoyed watching her performance. But I would say that I got motivated.
Sometimes when I know that I could achieve success I was aiming for- yes, I'm blame myself but not so often. I belive that every failure is a lesson (but sometimes you can avoid it [failure]).
I really like such speeches- it inspire me... for an hour but still I was enjoying it.
I have to check her other TED presentation!
When I fail to achieve something, I do indeed blame myself most of the time. I think it is right to do so, as being able to acknowledge that you made a mistake is important, and most of the time, even if a bad outcome is inevitable, it is possible to do something to lessen it's impact. However, blaming oneself can be a bit of a slippery slope, and it's entirely possible to dwell on failure a bit too much, as has happened to me in the past.
As for the motivational speech, I'm not really a person who enjoys listening to speeches or gets inspired by them, but I do think that all in all, her speech was a pretty good one.
Yeah, I do sometimes. But I’m trying to accept my fails, I’m learning something from it anyway and it’s increasing my future chances to achieve a success :)
Her speech was fun and inspiring, she shows us that you can do whatever you want and somehow even make money of it.
There is no one else to blame except yourselfs but there should be a clear bound of your responcibility and what you can do in the future to be better. It's simply not healthy to be that hard into studing and rather indicate that you don't understand how a world works.
Inspiering to burn through time is not for me. Rather building interesting staff as some side project or may be an idea for when I would have kids.
2. Yes, always - I always try to achieve the best possible result, and a failure is always painful.
3. Good speech, but I must say that I don't feel inspired
It depends, if i know i could do more to create higher chance of succeding then sure, i blame myself mostly. But what can you do, just take a lesson and keep moving.
I believe it is generally needed but not for me. If i can't feel that something is imortant then i just can't make myself to do it with engagement.
Of course, I blame myself only because we are people who are only responsible for their mistakes and good luck, we should never blame anyone for this kind of thing.
I support women who are bold and see what they are saying in addition, as is the certainty contained in jokes, I was so excited about it and inspired me to act!
I am very much in favor of motivational speeches because they usually influence us.
I will answer your second question with the question: Who should I blame for my clumsiness as soon as only I am guilty?
Such speeches do not speak to me.
Nope, never heard about her
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
It's painful sometimes, but you know what? Everyone blames themselves deeply in their heart after failure. It's just human thing. But we need to try harder or just drop it at the right time. We sometimes cannot jump over it and need to face failure. It's sad but it's needed, it's very important for our lifes cause I belive that every failiure teaches us something.
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
It's quite good... for some people, not for me. I just belive in myself, looking at mine and other mistakes and learn from them. It's my way to deal with problems. None of motivation speakers could do ANYTHING for me / instead of me. When I have a problem I need to solve it myself, they will not come and help me. But I know many people who don't belive in theyselves and she would help them to do so.
Yes sometimes I blame myself but not always. This is depends on situation and my mood at that time. But usually I just find alternative solution and all bad makes good for me :)
Sometimes such motivation speeches needed for me and I'm get energy from them but not always. In most cases I need such speech when I think that all goes wrong.
It's hard to say that I blame myself for the failure, for sure I am sad because of it and next time I would like to improve my work to change it as a positive effect next time. I try not to give up and enjoy small victories that can lead to even greater success.
I don’t consider this movie as motivational, although I see some ideas in its meaning. Creating inventions from the head is a great idea, it can lead to success in the future if the invention would be innovative enough to be able to sell it for huge amounts of money. It is also a kind of hobby thanks to which you can see that this girl works on her faults and changes them into positives.
Not everyone has this kind of courage to start new adventures of learning new things - people are often afraid when confronted with new things. Just like my parents with their new mobile phone. "What if I will break something?", "I'm afraid to touch it, because I can make a mess and I will not know how to fix it". I often try to explain to them: I don't really know that much more about those things then you. But I'm not afraid to experiment, to try different things. And if I break something, I always can start again. So you can try that too. If you break something, I can fix it for you and you can try again.
Maybe this video would be inspirational for them :)
Only when I failed to do something which was my responsibility. Other than that I am okay with failures.
Usually no.
1. Have you heard about her before my post?
Unfortunately I haven’t heard of her but will surely get familiar with her posts after reading this
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
There is always a disappointment when something I put work into turns out not to be good enough but I am always eager to hear the feedback. Being told what could be done better is always good thing as success makes us happy but failures allow us to grow.
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
Things said in her speech are nothing new, the problem is that we, as people, often forget the most basic things and so appreciate them every time they are being reminded.
2. Not always. For me, defeat is a small victory. I believe that it is better to reach the end with defeat, rather than giving up halfway to the end.
3. Her speech is very interesting and instructive. I believe in this approach because I personally like to do small senseless, but funny things. This is interesting, allows you to discover something new with a smile.
No, I've never heard about her. It's the first time.
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
I used to blame myself, but now I try to take a lesson from each failure. I think it's much better behavior which can close us to achieve a success next time!
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
Do not understand me wrongly. I don't believe in such speeches. The motivational speeches, coach lectures and so on are good for people who are unhappy, bored and those whose life is a monotone. I can easily motivate myself in every aspect of my life.
Yes, I do blame myself for not achieving success and it makes the thing even worse. It’s very hard for me to admit that I haven’t put enough efforts or I could have done more in order to succeed. There is always an excuse like it’s just a bad day or I’ve done my best and so on. I thing that the biggest problem is that I just simply give up after the first try when I made a lot of efforts but didn’t get what I wanted.
Her speech was rather funny than inspiring. I didn’t become inspired after watching it, at least. Her life and her goals are definitely unusual but I wouldn’t say that it’s inspiring. She is on the right way, at least in her niche :)
Yes, but I can't really remember where I've heard about her.
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
Sometimes yes, but mainly I'm trying to learn from it and use this experience in the future to avoid situations like that. It's hard, but you can try to handle situations like that.
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
It's very hard for me to listen to motivational speeches. I think that noone of them work in my case and I find them very boring. I think it's my mentality and in case of someone else it may be very different.
- Yes, I have seen a couple of her videos on Imgur before.
2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
- Yes, because I could do something better to achieve my goal! Maybe I should have spent more hours on studying instead of watching Netflix or something like that.
3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
- I do not believe in motivational speeches. I know what works for me the best - in terms of achieving a success and how to be a happy person. I do not need an advice from a random person to motivate myself.
Yes, of course I blame myself when I don't achieve a success. I'm trying to do by best everyday. It's my 'global' goal. I don't like to waste my time... for example on Netflix and I have my personal limit (3 episodes per week). I like to manage my time and be sure that I'm honest to myself. I think that people with too much free time are lazy. When you are busy all day long you can't waste your time. It's working very well.
To be honest, I don't like motivational speeches. I like to spend some time everyday to think about my life, my goals and it's working very well. I don't need second person because I'm able to judge myself and motivate after that. Of course, I know people who needs that and it's normal for me. Everybody are different.
2. Usually I don’t try to blame myself for not achieving success, but sometimes I find myself repeating the same mistake again, so that’s time I can blame myself :D
3. It was interesting because she talked about an issue which I also experienced in my life. How social pressure and high expectations can influence on your performance and the way we perform our daily tasks. She gave precise examples, talking about her problems, then describing how she started to deal with them by actions(creating in this case useless things) and the problems were solved. Her fear changed to enthusiasm.
It's hard to answer your question, it's different. Sometimes I blame myself for my failure and try to draw conclusions for the future. Sometimes I just look for a person who has directly contributed to her or is complicit.
In my opinion, her speech was very good and inspiring.
2. Rather than blaming myself when I don’t achieve my goals I try to find the reasons for failure. If it turns out that those reasons were beyond my control then there is even nothing to be blamed for. If I could have done thing differently in order to be successful I usually capture lessons learned from given situation and remember them when challenging similar problem in the future.
3. I am kind of skeptical about all these “motivational” speakers but I find her a bit different. She doesn’t keep on repeating rubbish talks and saying things like : “you can be whoever you want to be“ etc. Instead she is sharing her experiences and giving examples from her life about how her seemingly strange inventions help her to release the pressure about her performance and start enjoying small things she’s working on.
2. I often blame myself when I don't achieve a success, but I'm trying to change that.
3. In general I don't like motivational speeches, but I enjoy this video expecially for comedic form. This talk reminded me of focusing not only on success.
Not every goal is so important that I blame myself for don't achieve it, but in many situations I do. I don't really like to lose, so when I set a goal and just make a mistake, fail something I start criticizing myself for it.
Her speech was insanely inspiring. It opened my eyes a little and clear few things. I believe in motivational speeches, it's hard to make a good one, but she made it, the perfect one.
The way she deals with her problems seems funny, yet it helps her and propably can help others.
Most of the times I blame myself for failures and in my opinion it’s responsible.
I hate when people blame everyone around and they do not see blame in themselves. Of course sometimes there are some cirtumstances which are not conducive to us or even make some things imposible to achive. However, in my case it’s not mindless and I try to draw conclusions every time.
For me this speech says that there are many solutions to deal with our anxiety about failure and we should find it if we have a simmilar problem.
Sometimes yes, always when you fail , you start thinking what you could've done better. Even after argueing with someone weeks, months later you come up with better arguments which would lead you to "victory".
I don't belive in such speeches, it's just not for me but I don not judge, maybe for some it would work :)
No, I have never heard about her before, But thank you for sharing this video.
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2. Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
Yes, But after that, I'll not blame myself anymore.
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3. What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
I think she is one of the best speeches I listened because of benefits, not because of speech way, In general, I believe in such motivational speeches.
2. Maybe blaming is too much, but I always try to be the best I can and I always do my best to achieve success.
3. She’s awesome! After your video I like her even more. She is very inspiring and the most awesome thing is, that she believed in herself.
Great speech, great person.
Thanks for this article :).
No, I have never hear about her before. Luckily :)
> Do you blame yourself when you don't achieve a success?
Sure! It's normal behavior for everyone who fail.
> What do you think about her speech? Was it inspiring or you don't believe in such motivational speeches?
In my opinion, her speech is rather weak for TED, because about "nothing", the fear of failure is a normal and important feeling. If she always create some useless things for yourself, where will she find motivation for create something useful for people? I don't think she can motivate someone like that.