Why we choose suicide | Mark Henick | TEDxToronto
The fifth annual TEDxToronto conference took place on September 26, 2013 at The Royal Conservatory of Music. For our 2013 TEDxToronto Conference, all talks, performances and demos were rooted...
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Translator: Robert Deliman Reviewer: Denise RQ I was barely a teenager the first time I tried to kill myself. If I knew then what I know now, well, it probably wouldn't have changed very much. And it probably wouldn't have changed very much because sometimes it doesn't matter what you know, what you feel just takes over. And there's so many ways like this, that our perception becomes limited. In fact, our perception is its limits. And these limits are created by our biology, by our psychology, by our society. These are the factors which create that bubble which surrounds us that is our perceptual field, our world as we know it. Now, this bubble, our perceptual field, has this incredible ability to expand and to contract based on chang...
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Translator: Robert Deliman Reviewer: Denise RQ I was barely a teenager the first time I tried to kill myself. If I knew then what I know now, well, it probably wouldn't have changed very much. And it probably wouldn't have changed very much because sometimes it doesn't matter what you know, what you feel just takes over. And there's so many ways like this, that our perception becomes limited. In fact, our perception is its limits. And these limits are created by our biology, by our psychology, by our society. These are the factors which create that bubble which surrounds us that is our perceptual field, our world as we know it. Now, this bubble, our perceptual field, has this incredible ability to expand and to contract based on chang...
