The most important language you will EVER learn | Poet Ali | TEDxOrangeCoast

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do you speak this language? Do you share the experience? These are questions that Poet Ali masterfully tries to answer in an original narrative. This talk explains why we should all learn the most important language that unites us all.

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[kiryu]

“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”

“Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love.”

“Heart is a sea, Language is the shore. Whatever is in the sea hits the shore.”

“Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.”

-Jalal ad-Dinn Muhammad “Maulana” Rumi

[floridmonkey]

How does this not have more views?!?! This is one of the best ted talks I've seen.

[OperationXX]

The part about loved ones dying of cancer brought me to tears, because I speak that language.

[rattiofficial]

Never have I seen someone putting out to words so good what I feel or have felt. Never have I seen someone put it to words of what I've experienced.

[lcgaitan]

It was a privilege to see Poet Ali share this at last month's TEDxOC. Unfortunately, the 2-minute standing ovation at the end got edited down to a few seconds...

[sebastianelytron]

Top 10 TED talk of all time hands down

[rickbond]

12:23 Bravo! Beautiful description of the benefits of emotional intelligence as it relates to leadership:

“You probably know what it’s like to be left out. You know what it’s like that everyone is a part of something, and you’re not. You know what it’s like to be the outsider, and in fact you know what it’s like being the minority. Because I believe that this language of being a minority is one of the most important languages you can ever learn. Because at some point in our life we will all be in that position of compromise, and at some point we’ll all be in that position of power. And if you can tap into what you felt when you were that minority, how you handle that power will be an immense, immense gift that you can give to the world.”

[haileylineham]

This man is one of the most intelligent people I have seen, the way he conveyed his way of visualizing and portraying thought into such a way of understanding. And the way he bends language.

[jntim]

the learning language is giving a lot of different experience that seeing many circumstances. I was born in Seoul, Korea, I only spoke my mother tongue as a Korean, but since I learn English and any languages, it makes that possible to opening to different future to me. Currently, I'm meeting a lot of multi-ethnic people and making a lot of miracle situation with my friends. this is astonishing.

[threefour]

You had me in the first half when you spoke Farsi, and speaking about "ta'arof", but then you had me again in the 2nd half. Thanks for this amazing performance. Thank you Poet Ali.

[justjhakkas]

Most the girls in the world are complaining about it,
Most the poems in the world have been written about it,
Most the music on the radio is hitting about it,
or kicking about it, or ripping about it,

Most the verses in the game people are spitting about it,
Most the songs in the world people are talking about it,
Most the broken hearts I know are walking without it,
started to doubt it, lost without it,

Most the shadows in the dark have forgotten about it,
Everybody in the world would be tripping without it,
Every boy and every girl would be dead without it,
struggle without it, nothing without it,

Most the fingers that are drunk are dialling about it,
Most the people that are in it are smiling about it,
Most the people who have lost it are crying about it,
trying to get it back, or lying about it,

Most the pages that are filled are filled about it,
The tears that are spilled are spilled about it,
The people that have felt it are real about it,
A life without it would be lost without it,

When I'm in it and I feel it I am shouting about it,
Everybody in the whole world knowing about it,
When I’m hurt and broke down I be flowing about it,
going about it wrong, because I didn’t allow it,

Can’t a wound or scar heal without it,
Can’t the way that you feel be concealed about it,
Everybody has their own ideal about it,
dream about it, appeal about it,

So what’s the deal about it? Are you about it?
To know that life is a trip and unreal without it?
Everything that you feel is surreal about it,
But I’m just a writer, what can I reveal about it?”

– Poet Ali

[axb]

I've seen a lot of Ted talks but this was the best...

[chanmyaekoko]

So much heart in the man's voice, that's what I enjoyed most about this. Passion and anger forms love.

[ΜΑΡΙΑΜΑΥΡΟΜΙΧΑΛΗ-λε]

8 years later and still this ted talk and this guy give me inspitation
Thank you❤

[ZootZinBootZ]

I cried.
Before he spoke of buildings falling to the ground.
My body spoke to me in shivers, skin displayed tiny goosebumps as i quiver like text to empathise with his poetic sounds.
I spoke in tears; reflecting the most effective connected
ectiv communication by a facilitator Most profound.

He was engaging and comforting through real consideration;& shifted my isolation loneliness over to having some company, by being so broad in his inclusivity, i felt part of all crowds. Man you even say the right things silently unspoken, oozing positivity.
You deserve to be rewarded yet it's fund is
internally self approval hopefully reverberating a deserved entitlement to be extremely proud.

[thesabunaccount]

I was so entranced by this entire speech that I couldn't look away. Absolutely magnificent. This is going to be a speech that won't leave my mind for weeks.

[leehyun-jae]

I think it’s amazing how many different languages there are in the world & how each one has it’s own “World” for those who speak it.

[karolinaciucias]

It's rarely that a Ted talk makes me tear up. These are profound thoughts, thank you

[yaghoubiansepehrad]

I got shocked when he started speaking Persian, his talk was awesome :-) Mokhlesetam

[fiqrizain]

I "it" every single words came out of this man mouth