TED

Peter Weyland ~ TED Talk 2023

Prometheus is Ridley Scott’s new film due out the summer of 2012. Rumors abound that it’s an extension of the Blader Runner or Alien franchises, but apparently Ridley Scott himself set those rumors straight. The only connection to those two films and Prometheus is the dystopian vision that corporations will rule the world, and the name Weyland, of Weyland-Yutani in Alien, the corporation that sent out the Nostromo.

In his TED Talk of 2023, Peter Weyland, played by Guy Pierce, introduces himself to us…and provides a tremendous teaser for the film. Great Scott! What good marketing!
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On shame, vulnerability, and feeling good enough ~ Brené Brown TEDx

My wife shared this TEDx video of researcher/story-teller Brené Brown, which amounts to an introduction to Brown’s work on studying how feelings of shame, vulnerability, not feeling good enough or worthy (etc.) get in the way of us feeling happy, doing what we want to do, and being satisfied with our lives.

The words she uses–shame, worthiness, vulnerability, courage, etc.–struck such a strong chord in me, even bringing me to tears, and I feel a bit of shame admitting that; those are feelings one tries to hide from others and numb ourselves to…

And that’s exactly Brown’s point.
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By Decaf, ago