Self-help or Self-alienation? | Ali Amhaz | TEDxLSE

Ali Amhaz is currently pursuing his MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology, with a focus on how ideas shape and standardise human experience and behaviour. As a student of psychology and philosophy enthusiast, Ali has dedicated his earliest years into personal development and understanding human behaviour. This journey has taken him through a multitude of schools of thought and paradigms to view the world, leading to a career focus on research and social impact. To that end, Ali has dedicated his early career to strategy, research, and supporting youth-led ventures. He is an active member of NEXUS MENA & Arab Diasporas, working with the region's leadership team to expand their strategic mandate across the Middle East and North Africa. Ali founded the Beirut Art Salon, an initiative that offers a creative space for emerging artists to display, teach, and speak through art, inviting them to cross-pollinate and forge partnerships together. He recently established a youth-led centre at the American University of Beirut to push a curriculum of leadership and organizational development for students.
Ali Amhaz is currently pursuing his MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology, with a focus on how ideas shape and standardise human experience and behaviour. As a student of psychology and philosophy enthusiast, Ali has dedicated his earliest years into personal development and understanding human behaviour. This journey has taken him through a multitude of schools of thought and paradigms to view the world, leading to a career focus on research and social impact. To that end, Ali has dedicated his early career to strategy, research, and supporting youth-led ventures. He is an active member of NEXUS MENA & Arab Diasporas, working with the region's leadership team to expand their strategic mandate across the Middle East and North Africa. Ali founded the Beirut Art Salon, an initiative that offers a creative space for emerging artists to display, teach, and speak through art, inviting them to cross-pollinate and forge partnerships together. He recently established a youth-led centre at the American University of Beirut to push a curriculum of leadership and organizational development for students. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@rodb66]

The Self Help Industry basically tell us that we have flaws that they have courses to fix. Self Help has made is way through fitness, finance, social life and religion. After engaging in Self Help in various capacities throughout my life, I just come to realize that all it has done was created a yearning for more.

[@heresene]

yo that first line goes crazy

[@viktoriaherzberg9519]

Amazing perspective. I wish more people will see this video in the future.

[@Mymh001]

Fascinating!

[@anne-mariewaugh4782]

Enlightening

[@Dee-sr4lt]

Insightful talk. People need to know more about this perspective as well. Self help is overrated

[@somewarcrafter]

Amazing talk! I feel enlightened

[@crucialhabitsforlife]

This is the best time ever to grow as a person. Simply take action

[@ambseyyy]

really interesting!

[@michaeljunga1432]

wallah that was one great talk!

[@mtkhalife]

Great talk Ali!

[@afafassas]

Super Ali !

[@kurt8263]

This definition of change is simply subjective to the individual. I’ve been studying the positives and negatives of self-help, and keep finding a contradictory rhetoric. Almost as contradictory as self-help itself, hm, imagine that. 😅

[@kurt8263]

The part about critically engaging with the material and cognitive biases are great points though!

[@Gabriel-bk3lm]

I went from loving self-help to loathing self-help to trying to approach it scientifically and i can't help but notice that you said self-help helped you to improve your grades, become top of the class, gain financial independence and all of those other things. And yet you're saying you haven't changed at all. It seems to me that those changes in your life had to change you, and not in some minor way. Just a thought.

[@aliamhaz2897]

Thanks for sharing. What I meant to say was that I achieved those things not through self-help but almost irrespective of it. I had been giving false credit to self-help literature, that's why "I hadn't change at all." Adopting many self-help beliefs (I talk about a few) only served to suppress many aspects of my authentic self -- one weaved into the social world I lived in. Happy to discuss this further :)

[@ripyungbruh8157]

Ali Amhaz self help is inherently flawed because of what each culture values. Also by reading self help you put your own experiences on the back burner for the truths others found in there life.

[@Aj-fd4ne]

The very fact that he can identify his core (consciousness) apart from external is proven that he no longer need self-help although it have act as a spark . So what u said is very true.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

Help yourself. Not self your your help.

[@chessacts1884]

The world is definitely changing. It's time we all take action, and you're doing just like that for one's growth. Likewise, to be more inspired and properly informed, just type: ‘gritheart’ on your KZbin search bar and click the desired video clip. Happy learning!

[@mattn6591]

yeah, wasn't feeling this one. Didn't really understand what he was getting at

[@juunataku]

Sorry but I cannot help to see. Is this a Jewish Jim?