Our brains are wired to collect things | Daniel Krawczyk | TEDxSMU

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I have downloaded this video and put it in my collection.

[@imminiman]

I see what you collected there.

[@cassandraknight8804]

Thank you: I am a collector often mistaken for a hoarder. I love history. Vintage clothing Antique furnishings ect.

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My brain collects stupidity!

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I loved this talk!

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A bunch of human squirrels! 😂

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Can we see a text of this talk? Is it possible? I am learning language)

[@ber1779]

You can turn on the closed captions with the CC button at the top right of the video

[@МейримЕсеналиева]

@@ber1779 thanks for your reply, but it often will be wrong and not understandable

[@imminiman]

@@МейримЕсеналиева this time it's spot on. overall i think it's becoming better and better all the time.

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Hello! Congrats on putting in the effort to learn English! I’m an undergraduate student learning a second language myself, so I know how hard it can be to find speeches like this. To help, I’ve typed out the whole speech for you! There were many parts where the speech sounded fine just by listening, but if you were to write the words down for an essay, they would’ve been run-on sentences or sentence fragments... Beware of that. Starting a sentence with “so” or “and” isn’t typically good for academic writing, especially in the quantity that was done for this speech. If there were some words that were obviously omitted or something like that, I put my edits in brackets [ ]. Good luck on your language learning journey. It’s worth all the time and effort, I promise! Female Narrator: A quick new idea, daily, from the world’s greatest TEDx talks. I’m your host, Atossa Leoni, and this is TEDx Shorts. From baseball cards to antique furniture, most of us have amassed a collection of some kinds. Daniel Krawcyzk explains the psychology behind why we collect. Daniel is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and professor of behavioral and brain science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Today, he explains several theories to argue that collecting is a hardwired human trait. Daniel Krawcyzk: I’m an experimental psychologist. I get to study how we remember, how we think, and how we reason. I’m also a brain researcher. I like to study how the brain’s structure enables its functions. And lastly, I like to collect things; I’m a collector. So [when] we think about humans, probably the first collectors would have been our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and that would’ve been critical for survival, so being a hunter or gatherer, you would need to save food, say for a rainy day. Or if you had useful tools now, it’s important to keep them and carry them with you, thus beginning the human need to pull around a U-Haul trailer everywhere we go. Probably starts there, and to do that behavior (which probably saved our ancestors in the past, because you would have what you need later), you have to be able to store episodes in time, so collecting may have really saved our species in the past [as] more than just a hobby. Art collectors are hobbyists and collectors, and part of art is communication between the artist and the viewer, and so we can reexperience those emotions. Again very abstract and interesting ways that we can encode and think about episodes in our lives. Children are collectors. You might have heard the phrase “collect them all”. [You] might’ve collected G.I. Joe figures or Cabbage Patch Dolls or Beanie Babies. Some of the most successful toy lines have capitalized on this idea: if you have one, this beautiful packaging suggests there’s all these other ones… Wouldn’t it be great to get these. And so this was a big part of my childhood and my kids’ childhoods, and so it’s just a big part of our lives when we’re young. So it’s not only artistic, it says something about the culture at that time. Some of us continue to be collectors as adults and it becomes must more embellished and amplified in adults. So back in 1991, Wayne Gretsky (the hockey star) and Bruce McNall (the owner of the LA Kings, who had acquired Gretsky in a famous trade) had bought a Honus Wagner baseball card from 1909. This was interesting; it made the news. That card is now worth 2.8 million dollars in its last trade, so collecting can be purely an investment. We can take value to an extreme like no other species. It’s not just a card; it’s a representation of baseball history, sports history, and it’s the human story behind these objects that we can appreciate and adds to their values. Autobiographical is one of the major features of human memory. It’s situations that happen to us: our early birthdays, our weddings, the birth of our children. So that’s one of the last reasons why we really collect. And it’s connecting with other people who are likeminded. Our brains are very social. We have social rewards. We experience the reward of being around other people, and we have a hormone called “oxytocin”. Oxytocin elevates when we’re around likeminded individuals in groups, as social psychologists would say. And so we can bond over these weird wonderful interesting facts that all of us share. So when you go to your relative or friend’s house and it’s just too cluttered, don’t call the psychologist just yet to complain that they might be a hoarder. Instead, ask them about their collection. You might find that there’s an interesting personal story [or] autobiographical details about these objects, and we can elevate value to such a tremendous degree because we integrate memories into these different objects. So my advice would be: collect things. Go on eBay and experience that thrill of the rush when you win an auction; it’s a great thing. And also connect with others. Discuss your hobbies with other people, and you’ll probably find that you can make friends and have interesting connections. It will enrich your life. Female Narrator: The TEDx talk you just listened to was recorded in Dallas, Texas. All TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers who believe in TED’s mission of “Ideas worth spreading”. Thanks to the organizing team at TEDxSNU. Want to listen to more TEDx talks? Explore the entire archive on the TEDx KZbin channel. I’m Atossa Leoni. Thanks for listening, and see you tomorrow.

[@futuregirl8803]

I'm a collector not a hoarder I'm clean tidy well organised and have a photographic memory of what I've got 😀👍💪💖

[@mikehess4494]

I collect wedding bands...been married 4 times so far.

[@a.o9656]

Lolllll do you keep them all?

[@mikehess4494]

@@a.o9656 Yes. Not because of sentimental value but because they are Gold.

[@a.o9656]

Makes sense! Are you afraid of marriage after so many divorces?

[@mikehess4494]

@@a.o9656 No, I like a great wedding especially when I'm the Groom. I only date women with money so the divorces go pretty smooth.

[@a.o9656]

Very interesting. I need a lesson lol

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them

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Nice

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thanks

[@rainstromme1203]

I'm on my way to see the Dream Collector now....

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@@rainstromme1203 yes

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remember everyone, always put handlebars on your pillows so you never have to let go of your dreams. :)

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great programs

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🟰Hunters & Gatherers 🔍🦘

[@friendlyone2706]

So hoarders are more super normal than exceptional?

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