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Mental Resilience | Surenthiran Pillai | TEDxUniversityofMalaya


hey guys good nobody’s dead after lunch
alright thank you um I would like to be
nervous but the issue is I’m talking
about mental resilience so I lost the
right to be nervous so ladies and
gentlemen I would I got excited
discretion raised by 10x um which goes
by what makes us human so I thought as I
speak I’ll take a little bit of I share
to answer this question which I believe
that so would be simply our choice to be
a human all right because City it’s
rather a choice but you still want to be
a human among you don’t trust me just go
through the papers today all right you
can see whether people are being human
or not so it’s your choice to be human
all right hey so I’ve got a little bit
of unpleasant news and also at the same
time I have some pleasant news so I’ll
give you both so you can decide but
before I start I would like to ask you
this simple question by Abraham Lincoln
right so how many licks does a dog have
if you call his tail a little what do
you think keep guessing
rather give you the answer at the end of
my speech it’s just for you to keep
looking at me right right so the
unpleasant news is ladies and gentlemen
we’ve got suicides rising day by day all
right ten years ago we hardly hear any
suicide news but today almost all the
time we do hear suicide especially right
now it’s a suicide season where you get
a scare results out so everybody’s in
fear that something might happen right
so even in malicious suicide is rising
on the world aspect there’s a suicide
happening every 40 seconds and those who
I involve are in the age group of 15 to
29
I believe that comprises all of us here
including me and so I fit myself in it
all right
so suicide is on the right what else is
on the rise we’ve got many more things
on the rise fear but mental health issue
depression is on the right we have got
divorced rice everything is rising up
all right so this is the unpleasant news
I have for you which is a reality so
what do we do about this how could we
deal with this so that’s where the
thought of as an idea worth sharing we
should work on mental resilience right
it’s it’s kind of jargon term but mental
resilience is simply how to make your
mind stronger mentally how to be
stronger right it’s basically the
ability to adapt to life’s difficult
situations
all right difficult situation comes in
finance family whatever it is right so
how do we basically build up our mental
resilience number one you have to have
some awareness if I were to ask any all
of you who are you I believe about 99
percent it’s gonna say your name right
well I am so ready yeah correct that’s
your name which even you didn’t choose
it was given to you right so is that how
much we know about ourselves okay with
the challenging situation right now he
should know yourself even better what
makes you happy what makes you sad what
makes you angry what makes you agitate
what makes you feel good what makes you
forget to eat you know so all these kind
of things when you know about yourself
half the battle is one you don’t get
into trouble because you know that is
that’s not going to excited right so
some awareness reason number two is all
about thinking positive but this is
rather cliche everyone tells you to
think positive carrot until we have
studies that showing that thinking
positive could also be a fallacy right
but then there is a twist to it right so
and the same time you should couple
thinking positive with thinking rational
all right so how do you think positive
right let me give you a scenario you
lose the key you lost key how do you
look at it positively positively you’re
gonna get a new set of keys
right and the other side of it you’re
good you’re going to be more careful not
to lose things on trees but it’s not
just that that is very service so how do
you avoid thinking negative I’ll give
you a trick negativity comes into your
mind in the form of questions alright
see you lose your key or something
happened to you you failed an exam
Christians can see why did that happen
right so how do you identify this is
that if you could answer the question
energy field right immediately because I
didn’t do well because I didn’t work
hard enough you just wore it off so it
doesn’t turn into negativity but then
the trick is when you linger with this
question
well I always happens to me I am rather
unlucky and you know things go on and on
that is very negativity it’s your it
sucks up all your in it right so
whenever there’s a question in your mind
try to answer it right it’s follow
without delay
when you delay negativity lose it
because as humans we tend to have a lot
of negativity less if I were to ask you
to take up a piece of paper and these
ten things good about you you can you
can definitely start off we want to what
Elsa please the dogs around what do you
think but if I see please stop any bad
things about you you might be asking
extra papers yes that is is something
wrong with you that is how we are we
tend to think negative now thinking
rational is is a way that you think with
logic right in a way that you think you
put it now responsibility accountability
into so what do you see when you lose
that key you see the key got lost or the
design lost the key
Kesey got lost you say I lost the key
that is very rational because you are
thinking the accountability of losing
that key as a rational answer there see
so that’s the trick so don’t go on
saying the key got Ross but he never had
links to this one good right next we
stick to reality this is something I
would like to emphasize all right life
is getting
which will every day by day they’re
getting virtual team ID we I believe all
of you we have more than 2,500 2,000
friends online right on your social
medias we hardly look up in a lofty and
train stations we hardly look up
everybody is always down but what
happens when your battery goes out and
you don’t have a bobbin the last time I
ask the question what happens when
you’re metric or somebody says I got out
of it
okay you don’t have a power bank only
thing we tend to look up will be like
very mine who want me dead and you know
somebody’s there with you having a meal
right so you have to be corn or
something and just like a tree I like to
use this tree the branches people reach
out to the skies but the root is always
on the ground so your reality is who is
with you physically so not everything is
virtual and life is not as easy as it
sounds
right next this is a crucial part we
have to manage our emotion right and
believe some of the speaker goes first
on this how do we manage emotion but how
do who decides what do you feel who
decides you feeling who decides you feel
and who decides you feel bogged down who
decides that’s what we see myself but is
that what we are doing come in the you
come early in the morning coffee spend
you get angry the only you say good
morning to someone it is it not you and
then you get a stop movie right so it’s
just like you are creating a remove to
your emotions making copies of it and
just giving it to everyone the friends
your maples can’t dogs no you want to
enjoy a real good meal in a shop
whatever you see I care you don’t like
the cat you start to feel irritated you
lost your enjoyment of the food
so the can just rest on the remote
and you were like a tick then we went
back to you did you decide what to watch
me when I was a kid I’ll recall this
story when I was a kid I was forced to
walk to a shop which is really really
fun so it’s really tired to walk to the
park so I initially I would feel so bad
oh please ye mean stuff right but then I
picked up on this thing that there’s
this thing that I would do every time
you need to go to the shop and choose a
small pebble and I’ll keep that purple
right after the shop and when I have
purchased my stuff on the way back and
kick the baby
mmm so what happened instead of focusing
on how far the shop is and in styling
it’s hot my aim was to bring the pebble
Trisha and bring it back
give her a me so instead of being bogged
down
I was I was having this challenge and
spirit can I do it so you just shift
your emotion what that’s one thing that
you can do and the next thing is you
have to expect less and if anyone was to
come up to you and say don’t expect
anything in mind you get disappointed
that is a fallacy my friends you you
can’t really run away from expecting and
you can’t really run away from people
expecting something from you right you
really can turn to that away so all you
can do is then keep your expectation
less and in the controllable way you won
number two always pay your expectation
with the package of when you expect on a
console of life is disappointing so be
ready to be disappointed it’s okay it
happens every now and then what happens
when you say you don’t want to get
disappointed by the same time in them
expectation it’s not gonna work it’s
gonna walk you know right but expect
less and this I would really really like
to emphasize to all of you then effort
and perseverance is something that you
have to really really hold on because we
are now in – we are facing this illusion
of convenience yes I agree life is more
convenient now right you can buy things
on
new everything online your parents were
searching for job through classifieds
newspapers and walking around and you
are now searching for jobs on bottles
and stuff but the point is both people
still search you get one of me
it doesn’t mean when it’s convenient
easier life is not easy
then there’s still effort either right
so if you are into a relationship you
need to put in the effort if you are
into a job you have to put in the effort
to study youth to put in yet it’s not
what can’t be carried away that
everything is called meeting I want even
happen one story to share with your no
relationship there was is very quickly
there was this a little bit money but
chasing some stuff so she is noticing
this cash a very young girl who has four
cheery eyes so is elderly woman asked
what happened you look sad so this guy
she said well I mean too much he was and
said so you can ask the unliving
using happy holiday you manatees are
married for 35 years it’s your surprise
is it how do you do that the other
elderly lady very beautifully said it’s
simple dinner I was born in the times
where something goes wrong I’ll fix it
you were born in the time that something
goes wrong you change it effort you get
whatever you know you have to have
effort in your relationship in some
whatever you do everything is done right
so after all this you still have to know
what is the damage that will happen if
you are unable to cope up with the
complexity of life you have to
understand what is the risk that you are
facing like I initially say impression
and throw help suicidal thoughts
radiation will stop here’s the norms
don’t just get caught up like yeah it’s
happening but I will be filling in to
the steady state
you won’t happen to know it might happen
to you what happens you so when you know
what is the damage then you will be more
lived right and once you know the damage
the next thing that you need to do is
that
you’ll definitely need to channel out
alright you need to channel out to
someone talk to someone if you’re facing
some situation share it with somebody
somebody trustworthy right you can talk
to your friends your family just to
don’t treat your heart and soul like a
garbage field where you put every bad
things in center let’s make it a
treasure box put in Nice stops inside
right so talk to someone someone that
will encourage you someone that won’t
wanted it if you feel it’s good to talk
to that tall brown handsome Council on
the stage drag him under the top or the
pony right next ladies anyone hold on to
a strength find something there is
always something to hold on there’s
always something to look up to right so
fine what is your strength maybe an
ideal maybe an inspiration maybe that
ops can help you right maybe your
religion whatever it is find something
to hold on before no difficult times
that you use right so now when you have
been when you are able to practice all
these things that I just shared right
I’m not ensuring you I’m not telling you
that when you practice all these you’re
not gonna face problems no I’m just
telling you how to face them you will be
facing more problems you will be facing
more challenges you will be facing
difficult times so when you have all
these in you you practice it you’ll be
more motivated and you’ll be able to
face rejections various you’ll be
stronger to cope with stress and you
will be able to pick things slightly
it’s not so serious after all you’ll be
more mindful and overall you’ll
eventually help me and overall in the
whole stuff when you are mentally
resilient you will have a meaningful
mouth right so this is what I’m talking
about so ladies and gentlemen you can
never avoid people out there who are
waiting to count how many times that
you’re gonna fall we are ready to wait
to count but all that you need to do is
that you must always be ready to count
how many times you rise up and even if
you
right so the take-home message from
means that the change for the better
begins not only on the stage or down
city begins from you and people in this
hall and you when you start to be
resilient eventually like like like that
like monitor speakers it it’s a ripple
effect let’s say all of us stuff to be
more resilient when we are done with
least at top in the nation will be even
more received and we could bring down
these statistics of suicide depression
okay so coming back to my question me SS
or you forget the question how many
licks does a dog have if you call it
linked fine the answer is still for y
because calling the tale and it doesn’t
make it a leap
same goes with you you might be saying
no I’m strong and mentally good and
strong and resilient he doesn’t make you
receive you just look back let’s look
back are you really really mentally
strong and on mental resilience ask yourself where I stay
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