Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang

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🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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How do we find fulfillment in a world that's constantly changing? Raymond Tang struggled with this question until he came across the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Ching. In it, he found a passage comparing goodness to water, an idea he's now applying to his everyday life. In this charming talk, he shares three lessons he's learned so far from the "philosophy of water." "What would water do?" Tang asks. "This simple and powerful question ... has changed my life for the better."

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0:00.0	You're listening to a special archive presentation of TED Talks Daily.
0:05.7	This talk features IT manager Raymond Tang, recorded live at TED at Westpac, 2017.
0:13.7	You may know this feeling.
0:16.3	You wake up to multiple unread notifications on your mobile phone.
0:20.6	Your calendar is already packed with meetings,
0:23.6	sometimes double or triple booked.
0:25.6	You feel engaged, you feel busy.
0:28.6	In fact, you feel productive.
0:31.6	But at the end of it all,
0:33.6	something still feels missing.
0:39.3	You try to figure out what it is, but before you do,
0:41.3	the next day starts all over again.
0:45.3	That was how I felt two years ago.
0:49.3	I felt stressed. I felt anxious.
0:52.3	I felt a bit trapped. The world around me was moving very quickly,
0:58.0	and I didn't know what to do. I started wondering to myself, how do I keep up with all this?
1:05.0	How do we find fulfillment in a world that's literally changing as fast as we can think.
1:13.0	Or maybe even faster.
1:16.6	I started looking for answers.
1:19.0	I spoke to many people, I spoke to my friends, I spoke to my families.
1:23.4	I even read many self-help books.
1:26.7	But I couldn't find anything satisfactory. In fact, the more self-help books. But I couldn't find anything satisfactory.
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