How to protect your mental well-being online -- from a Gen-Zer | Peachy Liv

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🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Whether you have one follower or a million, we've all witnessed nastiness and hate speech on social media. YouTube content creator and mental well-being motivator Peachy Liv advocates for a kinder, more respectful digital world -- and urges us all to reflect before we share our thoughts online. Hear her tips for dealing with cyberbullying and personal insights on how we can all make the internet a safer place.

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Social media's downsides are pretty well known by now, but the platforms are still enjoying huge amounts of engagement and users anyway. In her 2021 talk from TED at UNICEF, mental well-being motivator, Pichi Liv describes how she's stood strong
0:23.2	against the power of social networks and what they can do to make young people feel unwanted
0:27.5	pressure or social comparison, and how she's found a way to leverage technology in a healthy way.
0:35.3	When I was 12, I had a dream to tell one million young people that it is possible to close the gap between how learning should feel like and how it actually feels.
0:46.1	All my friends went to school out of pressure to compete in gaining the highest grades, which leads to depending their self-worth on numbers, normalizing cheating,
0:56.7	and hating school. I had this mission because I wanted young people to fight for our right
1:02.7	to have an education that encourages us to learn out of internal curiosity instead of external
1:09.4	pressure, and one that feels rewarding, fun, self-fulfilling,
1:14.4	and collaborative. So I thought, if I could talk in front of a thousand people at a time,
1:20.9	I would just need to do that a thousand times, and then I would reach a million people, right?
1:27.2	Until I realized that I could reach millions of people all at once online.
1:33.0	For me, realizing that felt like finding a superpower.
1:37.3	That's when I started my journey as an educational content creator and change maker.
1:42.8	So, I created videos that challenged students to find the subjects they are curious and passionate
1:49.1	about, provided tips on making learning fun, and demonstrated how technology could transform
1:55.0	how we learn and help us reach our fullest potentials.
1:59.7	Since then, my videos on YouTube have been viewed more than 55 million
2:04.0	times. Plus, I've helped create social activism through my online work, starting online movements
2:10.3	that encourage young people to speak up about their own concerns in education and share how they
2:16.3	take action to solve them. I also became more involved
2:20.0	with the online community of UNICEF and Europort Indonesia. As a Europort ambassador, I initiated
2:26.2	large projects and invited other change makers to join forces. For example, I coordinated a workshop
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