my best tedtalk

My best Ted Talk is “Explains How We Generate Our Own Happiness” by Dan Gilbert.

Outline：

a.       Speaker begins with introducing a special part of human’s brain as an experience simulator which can help us generate our own happiness.

b.      Speaker states that happiness can be synthesized.

c.       Speaker gives three examples of people feel happy after facing bad thing in their life to tell audience that we can synthesize happiness ourselves.

d.      Speaker describes two experiments to explain how we generate our own happiness. The one is compared normal people’s feeling to their favorite picture they choose to psychiatric patients with memory deficiency. The other is to compare the feeling of two group students in Harvard University after they choose the class they can change later or not.

e.       Speaker concludes his speech by Adam Smith’s words.

Reasons why this is a good TEDTalk

The speaker presents research which clearly makes the case that happiness is something we invent. It is not something that happens to us. He uses many funny and startling examples such as a life-long, wrongly-convicted prisoner who describes his 70+ years of confinement as “exquisite” to show that life is not all that it seems. The beginning of his speech is interesting enough to attract audience and his speech is easy to understanding. He explains a complicate psychology topic so simple that everyone understands what he is saying.

Reasons why it is a good subject to turn into an infographic

This speech contains theme, concept, examples and data to make the infographic vivid and full of logical information. The content of speech is easy to follow so it is not difficult to visualize the information. At the same time, the data in this speech can be shown more simply through infography.