Freedom leads the way to a healthy life! | Anne Kliebisch | TEDxHHL
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0:07 - 0:11Welcome to the journey
of freedom and a healthy life. -
0:12 - 0:14Before we start,
let me ask you a question: -
0:15 - 0:17if you take a scale from one to ten,
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0:17 - 0:19like one being the lowest,
ten being the highest, -
0:20 - 0:23how stressed are you today, or this week?
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0:31 - 0:33And in your life in general?
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0:34 - 0:35(Laughter)
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0:38 - 0:40And how do you feel with this number?
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0:44 - 0:48When I talk to people about this,
usually they say, like an eight or higher. -
0:50 - 0:52And when I ask them what it's all about
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0:52 - 0:55they usually say, well,
I feel like I'm not good enough. -
0:57 - 1:02They tend to want to be faster and better
and even perfect, in every sense. -
1:05 - 1:06And what we notice is,
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1:06 - 1:12stress is one of the most risky
disease symptoms -
1:13 - 1:15or causes for diseases.
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1:17 - 1:18That means,
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1:18 - 1:21we can have physical diseases
from that, heart attacks. -
1:21 - 1:22We even age faster.
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1:24 - 1:26Or we can have psychological diseases,
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1:30 - 1:32and depression is one of this.
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1:34 - 1:36The World Health Organization told us
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1:36 - 1:43that 300 million people
are affected by depression. -
1:45 - 1:47300 million people
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1:47 - 1:51is the whole population
of the United States! -
1:53 - 1:54This is enormous!
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1:57 - 2:00When I started my first job,
I noticed that I was stressed, -
2:03 - 2:07and when I talked to people
they just said, yeah well, me too. -
2:07 - 2:12And it was like a status:
here's my job, my car and my stress level. -
2:14 - 2:16And I wondered why is that,
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2:17 - 2:20and at some point I realized for myself,
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2:20 - 2:24my stress came from my current situation,
where I am right now, -
2:24 - 2:26and where I wanted to be.
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2:27 - 2:33Because I had so many dreams
and I didn't know how to follow them. -
2:36 - 2:39And when I pictured myself,
in this job that I had taken, -
2:39 - 2:45and I was where I just got promoted
and thought, the next three years? -
2:47 - 2:48The next five years?
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2:49 - 2:51Or the next ten years?
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2:52 - 2:54It just didn't feel right to stay.
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2:57 - 3:00And at the same time
they promised all the right things: -
3:00 - 3:06a good salary, an excellent career,
security, all for the future, -
3:06 - 3:09everything your parents want for you.
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3:10 - 3:12And it's a really tough decision:
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3:14 - 3:18do I go for the safety
or do I go for the 100%? -
3:23 - 3:29Scientists at the Max Planck Institute
found out that we are empathetic beings. -
3:30 - 3:31That's pretty cool.
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3:32 - 3:37So when I'm stressed, and you watch me,
you have the same stress symptoms as me, -
3:38 - 3:40and the same stress hormones.
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3:42 - 3:47But the good news about it is,
that if we infect each other with stress, -
3:48 - 3:51we can also infect each other
with happiness and freedom. -
3:53 - 3:57And I wanted to get to the root cause
of this happiness and freedom, -
3:59 - 4:02and I found a solution
in a really unexpected area. -
4:06 - 4:07This is Mark.
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4:10 - 4:14He has a chronical disease:
morbus crohn, it's a stomach disease. -
4:15 - 4:18His blood inflammation rate
was 20 times higher than normal. -
4:22 - 4:24I don't know if you know
what it feels like: -
4:24 - 4:29he can't eat a lot of stuff anymore,
he feels weak, sometimes it even hurts. -
4:30 - 4:33I mean, food that's supposed
to be good for your body and vitalize -
4:35 - 4:37now destroys your intestines.
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4:41 - 4:45In 2014, he participated in an experiment
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4:46 - 4:52and he won [a] basic income,
that is 1000 euros for 12 months. -
4:55 - 4:58And at the time he realized
he had won this money -
4:58 - 5:02and there were no strings attached,
he didn't owe anyone anything, -
5:04 - 5:05he could watch his body heal.
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5:08 - 5:11And from week to week, within seven weeks
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5:11 - 5:15his blood inflammation
dropped to a normal level. -
5:18 - 5:21And it's not just about the money:
the money didn't heal him. -
5:23 - 5:28But what he experienced
was dropping his existential fear -
5:29 - 5:33and experiencing existential relaxation.
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5:41 - 5:45"Mein Grundeinkommen",
or "My basic income" is this experiment: -
5:46 - 5:50we collect from almost
half a million people money, -
5:50 - 5:53and then as long -
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5:57 - 6:00until we have 12,000 euros,
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6:00 - 6:02and then we just give it out to someone.
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6:03 - 6:08With that we have distributed
or raffled out money -
6:08 - 6:10to over 100 people so far.
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6:12 - 6:14And we learned a lot about these stories.
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6:18 - 6:23This young man of nine years is Robin,
and he won a basic income as well. -
6:25 - 6:28And I don't know
if you can imagine what happened, -
6:28 - 6:30but this boy -
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6:31 - 6:35became from one day to another
a major earner in his family, -
6:37 - 6:38and it changed the whole dynamic:
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6:42 - 6:45the family said,
they didn't fight this much, -
6:45 - 6:48they spend more time,
they made a lot of trips, -
6:49 - 6:53even though Robin just wanted
one book every month from this money. -
6:57 - 7:01And what his mom said well,
what changed for us is not what we did: -
7:01 - 7:02it's how we did it.
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7:03 - 7:05We just spent our time more consciously.
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7:07 - 7:11We see how basic income,
or this feeling of freedom, -
7:11 - 7:15can ripple out to a lot more people,
for example our family. -
7:19 - 7:22And Robin put it just that like, well,
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7:22 - 7:26basic income just makes us
better feelings, that's what he said. -
7:30 - 7:32The third story is Jesta.
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7:33 - 7:36She is a self-employed woman with a kid.
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7:38 - 7:41And the worst nightmare
she could experience is, -
7:41 - 7:42if her kid got sick.
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7:44 - 7:46Because if she doesn't work,
she doesn't earn money, -
7:48 - 7:51and if the kid is sick
she can't work, and can't earn money. -
7:52 - 7:54And she came back
to this existential fear, -
7:55 - 7:58and she suffered from giving her child
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7:58 - 8:02the impression that sick
is like doing something wrong. -
8:05 - 8:09When she won a basic income,
she not only could stay at home, -
8:10 - 8:13she also rippled it out
to a lot of other people, -
8:13 - 8:16because she thought,
they should experience the same thing. -
8:19 - 8:21And she decided to make
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8:21 - 8:24a "Pay what you want"
concept with her clients, -
8:25 - 8:32because she wanted everyone to realize
what it's worth what they're doing -
8:32 - 8:35based on quality and sympathy,
and not on a price tag. -
8:37 - 8:39And we're so known, and so -
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8:40 - 8:45it's so common for us
to be worth what we earn, -
8:46 - 8:49and to work really hard
to be worth something. -
8:51 - 8:55And she wanted to destroy this cycle,
and make it to something bigger. -
8:57 - 9:02What we learned from these stories
and like all the different other stories -
9:02 - 9:05is this ripple from me
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9:06 - 9:09to my close surrounding like a family,
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9:09 - 9:12to even an ecosystem of trust.
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9:15 - 9:18And we've been doing this
for the past three years. -
9:18 - 9:24I said we have already raffled out
to over 100 people this basic income. -
9:25 - 9:29And what is not the same in every story
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9:30 - 9:31is that they say
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9:31 - 9:34they feel a lot more self-esteem
when they go back to work. -
9:36 - 9:40They feel a lot less stressed
in their overall life. -
9:42 - 9:46And what we didn't experience
is that people would leave their jobs. -
9:47 - 9:51Usually if you ask someone,
Would you continue working? -
9:51 - 9:54Then the majority of people says,
yeah, well I would. -
9:55 - 9:58But my neighbour,
he is really lazy, he wouldn't. -
10:02 - 10:05And for us, in our experiment
only four people quit their jobs. -
10:06 - 10:10Three because they didn't like it
and they wanted to change what they did, -
10:10 - 10:12and one [wanted] to go and study.
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10:15 - 10:17And we can learn from these stories.
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10:19 - 10:21With winners of basic income
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10:23 - 10:25we have detected three phases
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10:25 - 10:29which I even went through
when I was thinking of quitting my job. -
10:31 - 10:35And the first is,
acknowledge - dependency. -
10:38 - 10:42When you first win this money,
they all say the same: -
10:42 - 10:46I'm so pressured, I have
to do something for the crowd. -
10:46 - 10:49I mean, they gave me this money for free,
I owe them something. -
10:50 - 10:54When I thought of quitting my job,
my first thought was, -
10:54 - 10:56I can't take unemployment benefits.
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10:57 - 11:01I want to give something to the community,
and not take something out of it. -
11:03 - 11:05But the truth is, we are dependent.
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11:06 - 11:08And this will not change.
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11:08 - 11:11This is a fact, and it's strengthening us.
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11:14 - 11:17Which leads directly to the next one:
tolerate your freedom. -
11:19 - 11:23We noticed that a lot of times
friends would tell the winners, -
11:25 - 11:29Why don't you just take the money
and do what's good for you right now? -
11:30 - 11:33What is it that you really,
really want to do? -
11:35 - 11:40And when I first experienced this freedom
of taking unemployment benefits, -
11:41 - 11:44I noticed I had a lot more ideas
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11:44 - 11:46and I didn't consume as much
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11:48 - 11:51as if I didn't have
to compensate for anything. -
11:53 - 11:56And it's a common story
around all of our winners as well. -
12:01 - 12:04The third phase
is self-responsible freedom. -
12:06 - 12:10Our society tends to skip
the first two phases, -
12:10 - 12:12and jump right into this one,
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12:13 - 12:15And this is nonsense.
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12:16 - 12:21Because because of this credit of trust
that you have been given, -
12:22 - 12:23something bigger can grow.
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12:27 - 12:32And we noticed that
I had more ideas, I did them, -
12:32 - 12:36I was asking myself, so how can I make
this freedom than I experience -
12:36 - 12:38and bring it into my work life,
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12:38 - 12:41and bring it into
other people's work life? -
12:42 - 12:46This is how "My basic income",
this experiment, has started: -
12:47 - 12:49because of this phase.
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12:50 - 12:52This is what made [me] just think,
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12:52 - 12:56how can I grow and give other people
this freedom as well. -
12:59 - 13:00Because we're so -
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13:01 - 13:04we still think we can earn
and purchase freedom. -
13:09 - 13:11But we can only live it.
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13:17 - 13:22So if you take nothing but one thing,
then I would say it's, -
13:23 - 13:27this basic income feeling,
this deep inner freedom, -
13:27 - 13:28can start with you.
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13:30 - 13:34And can start with you
asking yourself and your friends, -
13:34 - 13:37what would you do
if your income was taken care of? -
13:42 - 13:46And imagine what kind of society
we would live in, -
13:49 - 13:51if we could go for the freedom
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13:52 - 13:54and the things that are right
for us right now. -
13:58 - 14:00And it can start with you.
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14:00 - 14:02I wish us all the best of luck for that.
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14:03 - 14:06(Applause)
- Title:
- Freedom leads the way to a healthy life! | Anne Kliebisch | TEDxHHL
- Description:
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Freedom leads the way to a healthy life! Our new societal disease is depression. Not only the World health organization publishes that, we all know. But nothing changes. Anne Kliebisch found one part of a solution to healthy lives.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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