An invitation to reexamine your familiar world | Gillian Tett

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4.1 • 11.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Before entering the world of financial journalism, Gillian Tett was a cultural anthropologist who studied how the past influences our present thoughts and behaviors. In an entertaining talk, she shows how you can use an anthropological outlook to see the world with fresh eyes -- and welcome new and different cultural truths into your life.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.2	What if we made a rather novel change in perspective?
0:10.6	For example, what if we examine things from a worm's eye view and not just a bird's eye
0:15.2	view?
0:16.2	In our talk from Ted Women 2021, journalist and author Jillian Ted shows us an entirely
0:21.9	different way to examine our own familiar surroundings, and in it shows how cultural change
0:28.6	is possible.
0:29.6	Hey Ted Talks Daily listeners, I'm Adam Grant.
0:34.0	I host another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective.
0:37.2	It's called Work Life, and it's about the science of making work not suck.
0:41.5	Next time, making change happen.
0:43.7	The number one mistake of leading change is that we try to change things with information,
0:48.9	but people have to have an emotional response that opens them up to change.
0:54.4	Find out how to champion change, even if you're not in a position of power.
0:58.6	When Work Life on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
1:03.3	Support for Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
1:06.0	Okay, every time you stay at an Airbnb, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually
1:12.2	be an Airbnb?
1:13.2	Could I rent it out?
1:14.7	And if I could, what would it earn?
1:16.9	I think about this sometimes, myself.
1:19.3	So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could
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