Realistischer Optimismus: eine praktische Lebensphilosophie | Peri-Kan Aqrawi Whitcomb | TEDxBolzano

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they just start to get away from there

most of my life is through

fate of the absence of

you could mark gravitation

call this fact zero gravity as well

agree that my family and me

My people have accompanied again and again

zero gravity is also something to me

again and again from my comfort zone

lets break out and new things

wait like 2014 as I mean mine

privileges life in vienna and

my well paid job at the un

left behind me to kurdistan iraq

to go and there a crisis center

build

This happens at a time when the

region is in one of the hardest

humanitarian catastrophes after the

second world war ride triggered

Also called by the Islamic state

as ices and the Syrian civil war

but it always helps me in too

my personal everyday life profession and

family about three continents to me

manager maybe a little helps

snapshot of my past my

decision to understand better

I was the most people per

Law belong to a specific place

it was different with me

I was born stateless in

Germany as a daughter of two

Kurdish diplomats in the political

Resistance to the dictator Saddam

hussein to exile

received from my political asylum

later became the German

nationality and then I became

also a proud citizen of

European Union

but none of these identities could change me

actually take care of themselves though

At the same time I feel

one hundred percent 100 percent German and

Rhenish and proud European

mother and wife of us americans

with a homeland in vienna

only should i or i can not only

paint a rosy picture because despite my

sheltered childhood and partly too

So for the most part became happy

I realized early what it means family

and friends in the world involuntarily

to have scattered

this fate one the us citizens

Of course, if you are not positive everywhere

Hotel has to pay and always somewhere

but riding is the best case

one of a steady feeling of

melancholy fern

wanderlust to the part of the family separately

does not draw then at 1 is

I was only three years old when mine

mother of the death of her younger

Brother Ivan knew he and a group

Young Kurdish students from Sweden

were betrayed by Iraqi

soldiers arrested for a year in

Baghdad tortured before being executed

were

Terror fear still haunts my family

to europe after fall tharandt

In 2003, documents emerged

they proved that some attentates

my parents even in bonn in

Germany were planned and only by

luck or foreign intervention prevented

could become

These are only fragments of the

Tragedy of my family and my people

is

I remember that well

My brother and I always complained

have wine parents why can you

do not plan why can not you

plan the diet like the parents of ours

friends especially when it comes to the

Holidays sometimes went spared

postpone the holidays or that

Date of departure over weeks and sometimes

we just drove in the middle of the night

Learned to deal with the chaos

but we did not understand what it was until later

meant that was something logic

behind it was and exported

safety measure my parents pulled

to live from moment to moment

but at the same time after all

at the same time they insisted that

we join the german society

but always integrate with the

ulterior motive sometime and we know

and what we have learned and

have taken

to take back to kurdistan and there

to help with the reconstruction of course

Internet intensifies that feeling of

Anka losigkeit and gives a ship that

to be aware that life is one

continuous change is undergone and

sometimes even overnight

you need a certain one

attitude to life that you can not

desperately in depression pays or

maybe still falling or still

it got worse

Fortunately , I never weighed it

speak of the realistic optimism

what is thinking is a force the one

helps with the arbitrariness of life

to deal with or withstand

There are many scientists who are

with the one with the relevance of

positivism in psychology

one of them is a professor

intel

cherry charity and her here

she is a professor of cognitive medicine

neuroscience in london

it raises something so-called above all else

optimism in it

It says that most people

despite the negative tide of negative

flood of news

Nevertheless, to a better future than that

past thinking and the majority

are actually optimists though

They think they are realists and they

even goes as far as some others

scientist to believe that the

optimism on the evolution us a

was programmed

colic as collective tend to be those

but rather to pessimism for example

when it comes to the future of our country

or politics but that can be done

also no blame with everything

happens and another disadvantage of the

optimism is that some really

with a pink glasses through life

go and that too serious

misjudgments can lead to

example at the check ups for

Health check up or save

for the old age but it is exactly

Despite this optimism of the weakness in

Weakness is actually naivety

partly or the pink glasses is

the loud is what protects us and

Inspired to go further in the direction

future instead of giving up and then to

next slope

there are still innumerable

sciences, the much deeper the

Neurological processes go down

pessimism optimism but I am

not experts in it and I spare that

Just now we all

know those days where you have everything

looks black or these these

people who are always negative

and know the feeling is certainly not

this third variant inspires you like her

Call it realistic optimism

a hybrid one takes the positive ones

Attitude of optimism is connecting

you with the realist clear view of the

realist

nevertheless, I am often ridiculed and considered

as naive stamped because I like that

things believe like a potential one

peace in the middle east

innovations in climate change and even

a future of all star trek it was

I believe in it at the same time

i also smile for that because i supposedly

too overprotective

this has nothing to do with index cards

because I am someone of always ten arias

is thinking of all eventualities and thinks

try to minimize risks

Of course that’s not asking yourself

if you have a b in your travel bag

wants to pack a light travel bag

a baby but that’s exactly one

dash sofia 2 she is a scientist

for organization psychology

the special about relative optimistic

realistic optimists if you

challenges in life then meet

work creatively on a plan a

plan b or plan c

if you have not already prepared him

but there is also a disadvantage

realistic optimist and that is

that you often have an inner restlessness

also suffer very one-sided and that is

for a simple reason it is

often because things look awry

could go

but at the same time it helps one too

understand that you are not totally powerless

is opposite to life

one can

active in most situations or us

work with the exit of most and

but at the same time you also learn the

ability to put things in perspective

and almost always something positive from one

situation to draw

that of course to the suffering and insane

all the grumpy ones out there will be me

I know a few that I’m very much on the

go with my attitude the nerves

Although attitude to life will be in the

childhood a marked by the

world view of our environment or

parents house

but man has the ability to do so

We have already learned today

have with christians again and again

to reprogram his behavior

but at the same time I have today too

learned that one supposedly from the

same parent house can come and

different can be different because

my brother told me shortly before

the conference that he is a proud pessimist

is and that it works for him

Of course I also do everything

always as easy and as life

a steady process one should at his

personality has to work

This is also the attitude I am

not always in a good mood and I see too

not everything pink and above all things

when I worked in the crisis center

it was my job after the

worst things to scan bad

news bad bad events

everything was a crisis of disaster

could lead and something I ne also

ne social media babbel would have

I do not have the resilience and that would

seen by people over night

had lost everything

and most of all, it has the inside

cooperation between people in the

biggest catastrophes it can be

be earthquake

a terrorist attack terrorist

stop it be the fire at the

neighbors be then I would also

pessimists have become 100 percent and it

Often it’s just not talked about

and when you look at social media often

if you think the world is coming to an end tomorrow

So I think we should always more

Pay attention to the positive in the world and

not only on the negative but also

do not hide

but it’s important to us to be positive too

concentrate because then really

a better future

and the things the first moment

indissoluble appears strongly depends on it

to what extent do we know old thinking old

exchange with new innovations or

complete

you do not have to swap everything

just have to learn from it so needed

all this a zero gravity consideration

with a very strong optimism and

yielding because in the end if we

to look at everything what mankind is

Even invented by self driving cars

We now have cars driving them ourselves

of the smartphone yes even soy sausages

nothing alcoholic beer has anything

started with someone that one

crazy yes had optimistic idea

and I will not spend and

keep going

always in my academic work

the potential for peace and

economic cooperation and

Cultural cooperation in the Middle East

work because I have in the back of my mind

always the history of europe

and who believed in 1944 that

germany says to a world

democracy and europe is pacified and

We have also heard today about

the glass half empty half full

I think it does not matter if that works

glass half empty or half full as long as it is

is not broken as long as we are healthy

you can always refill it

Thank you very much

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