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Inestimable force among us: awareness of connection | Chon Meng (Joe) Chan | TEDxUniversityofMacau


okay everyone good afternoon ladies and

gentlemen today I’m going to tell you a

story about you and me maybe we will be

surprised what kind of connection we

have besides that I’m the speaker and

your audience is there anything else

connecting us yes we’re in the same room

sharing the same air

my voice is transferred to your ear and

your image refracting and eyes in fact

we are all closely connected first I

have story begins 200,000 years ago in

East Africa with the first Homo Sapien

appear in this planet we have the same

ancestor this is the face of the first

Homo Sapien whose skull was discovered

in Ethiopia at that time there’s a lot

of dangers and practice of anything I

say is periodic happening

how can a successor survive at that time

of heart condition a human body are weak

and vulnerable so was the key to our

success

most scientists attribute this to our

intelligence yes the capability of

controlling fire the manipulation of

different tools and the baked volume of

human brain all of this permanent good

in our human civilization but

nevertheless the most important point is

already forgotten it is the awareness of

the connection for a long time we are

easily forgotten the connection among us

as well the connection between us and

our mother we are just like most of the

children we are too ignorant to realize

the connection Here I am I’m not a

monkey yeah

I’m just a kid going in urban City

whereas more I am on Omaha buries to

cure a spider in my house because my

parents told me that they are all

harmful I could hardly see any

connection with them but later when my

parent who well I have to be tick with

my grandfather you know it took me to

the wild nature he told me everything

after quite a lot of time I gradually I

realized the connection between me and

even living creature I have to learn how

to appreciate the beauty of the nature

I’m so abstract by the fascinating story

of them finally I decided to study the

life science and the same time I started

dreaming a global journey to discover

the story among all earth villager who

are we what’s the connection between us

I have to wait and learn more after my

graduation are you returned to Macau to

become a budget teacher teaching and

promoting proper awareness of emam and

protection for more than 10 years I only

need for that we are all educated and we

are living in a so-called developed city

the GDP and Macau is higher than most of

the country in the world substations

finances of backup and high percentage

of education level we should already be

up a city Queen City that we believe

with power but in fact I’m so

disappointed money technology knowledge

doesn’t seem to be the key

now they we are living in a city too

disconnected with the mother nature we

do not grow our own food instead we

import them we don’t care much about

waste with this burning of thorium we

don’t realize the cycle of connection

with just two to ignore what is the best

way to solve this problem at that time I

was quite disappointed with this

situation

I was so desperate I was lost I just

buried my head in this country soul I

even intentionally avoid watching the

news related to do international world

pollution for Claire while I lost the

connection with nature the turning point

came in my life in 2014 when I heard the

news of the disappearance of Malaysia a

life right 371 it revolves me in my own

inner voice about a connection what is

the connection between life and death

what is the meaning of life what is the

story between human and nature with all

this correction I start my global

journey I spent one year travel for

39,000 our 39th go to the surface

novice richest and poorest try to write

down the story and the wisdom appearing

in the impact of globalization during

the journey by putting different piece

of perso together

I eventually become aware of our

connection what makes us human this is

the first tattoo created by human

finding Jordan Valley 10,000 years ago

look at it eyes I so seemed to be

connected the ability of using language

increased the effectiveness of our

communication we can share idea and most

of any feeling we have them we have the

most communicated communication system

official is fashioned in which the

content of our thought this is the

connection that make us human and this

is the connection there strengthen us to

survive in the hardest condition in my

journey I have interviewed more than 100

people for over the world only one

question for them what is the definition

of happiness over 80% people have the

same answer

bring with

and family now we all know that good

relationship with people bring you

happiness and it is the connection that

make us happy but when we start to

disconnect with each other

this is the first step created by human

8,000 years ago to show the ownership of

the poverty since then there’s a

boundary between me and you people have

been making up they’re saving up their

own resources even this is not necessary

the population help human gold breaker

from villages to country so so pasta

system have been established war become

more severe we are unwilling to share we

are disconnected there to our

self-interest and funniness human have

seen themselves as the master of

everything we just try to satisfy our

own desire

I tell me that in most of my time I

consider my own benefit period to the

benefit of our community right for

example when you buy a caffee a coffee

you bought it because maybe you know did

it because you want it only we don’t

care much about the connection for me

that’s the coffee bean we are drinking

using that the land game by devastation

is the container abided by degradable or

any damage to this our soil I’ll decide

rocking the cents actually we are all

connected to the environment the burden

on us a nature a dependent on us also

will be pollute the air the water the

land etc we take full responsibility

if you oppress the worker or farmer with

lower page they were also in return

treat badly to the soil sadly as a

result more chemical and pesticide are

being used to produce more food to earn

there are so many invisible language in

our economical and ecological cycle

whenever you purchase something is

surely a fact thousands of others if we

forgot our connection we can easily

damage the violence we will lead to a

collapse of us human civilization only

with the awareness of all this

connection can we change or better

future which is shift from consumerism

to sustainability which is the

correctness of sharing sharing economics

established in 1980 which have a trend

missus for in the past five years

for example cuff surfing Airbnb uber

co-working space I can name a few

it’s clear that sharing is the

successful lifestyle to balance the need

of our comfortable life and

environmental impact here’s a co-working

space I set up in Macao after the

journey is named 1930 dream corner since

we are trying to build up the length of

people back from 1930 and the connection

between alive and the old material

it is located in the old city and they

just build up by all of the waste

material panicking three people can

enter any time and the gay is a law we

use this pray for sharing working and

meeting we share dream food resource as

well as dream story and faith with each

other

moreover we do offer a simple and free

accommodation for truest with the same

faith with us

we believe that we are all earth village

a we are we we are sharing the passing

and burden all together we can share the

homemade food with us and even there are

a story in return during the time when I

go bow journey the only one thing

him in my mind it’s not the beautiful

sense other delicious food is the close

connection with the local people in

different ways so the time when you are

sharing is the moment you are receiving

are you willing to share of us the

connection not only between you and me

not only between human and the nature

rather we are connected with our next

generation the sauce the land the water

and all the natural resource in nature

are something and not something we all

we just borrow them from our offspring

we are all bound together without the

former’s of our connection

we are prying in our way we are going to

somewhere with no future only with the

heart of sharing together with this

connection knowledge and technology can

make our life a more convenient and

comfortable in future we human can

substrate for a longer time God give us

fire law knowledge language and

different advanced technology but more

importantly God give us the awareness of

our connection we are all earth villager

living in this beautiful planet it’s

time to change so let the world we to

the world we how can we achieve that

very simple in your daily dialogue try

to use the world we more instead of the

world we and beside there’s another way

look at the world me with your hand down

right now it’s time to change just live

up your both yoga try to hold hand with

the people next to you are you dare to

do it yeah try to hold your hand with

the one next to you maybe it’s done a

stranger

doesn’t matter we are all together

try-try yeah it’s time to change we are

we are not only alone in this planet we

are all tried to touch it yeah so only

to only hand right only hand yeah yeah

yeah

no more other place okay okay so you are

not alone yeah now you can feel it food

energy do you feel it oh maybe you sweat

a little bit right okay and do you feel

the love and the care among us and

remember don’t add them don’t

underestimate the power of wellness of

the connection yeah tag is the platform

for sharing and Tech is a platform for

connection we are all here we are all

one together and one is for all thank

you for your patient thank you [Applause]

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