How to redefine your self-worth (with Meag-gan O'Reilly)
How to Be a Better Human
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🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
“What am I doing with my life? Where am I going?” During this isolated time, many of us are having to readjust our identities because our visions for what life was supposed to look like completely shifted -- and so perhaps has the locus of our self-worth. Dr. Meag-gan O'Reilly is a licensed Staff Psychologist at Stanford University's Counseling and Psychological Services. In this episode, she offers helpful frameworks for cultivating a life --and society-- that can better recognize the basic intrinsic value of each person. Dr. O’Reilly’s research interests focus on social class, college student mental health, resilience, and multicultural identities, particularly gender and ethnicity. She also operates a private practice in downtown Palo Alto, Inherent Value Psychology, in which she provides clinical services to Silicon Valley professionals. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Who am I? |
| 0:08.0 | What am I? |
| 0:10.0 | What am I going to do? |
| 0:11.0 | What will my life look like? |
| 0:13.0 | These are questions that students are naturally asking themselves |
| 0:17.0 | as they graduate high school or college. |
| 0:19.0 | But there are also questions that all of the rest of us are asking ourselves too. I know that I am |
| 0:23.7 | certainly asking myself these questions all of the time right now. Who am I? What am I |
| 0:29.6 | doing? What am I doing right now? Well I mean right right now, right now I'm hosting a podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm a podcast host. |
| 0:36.0 | But I'm also a comedian, whatever that means, |
| 0:40.0 | and I used to teach fifth grade. |
| 0:42.0 | Maybe that's who I am. I don't know. During this time in the world |
| 0:46.4 | where so many of us are having to readjust our identities because our visions for what our life was supposed to look like have been blown off the rails. |
| 0:55.8 | A lot of us are having to recalibrate where our self-worth comes from. |
| 1:00.1 | So whether you are a student who is about to graduate and figuring out who you're going to be, or you're a teacher, or a parent, or maybe you're just a person like me who is having these questions brought to the forefront of your brain, I think that there is a lot to be gained |
| 1:14.9 | from talking to someone who knows how best to approach these questions. So today on the |
| 1:19.4 | podcast, we're going to be talking with a staff psychologist devoted to youth. |
| 1:24.0 | Here is a clip of what Dr. Megan O'Reilly had to say about self-worth at TEDX, |
| 1:28.7 | SJ, back in 2018. |
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