How to Create a Culture of Inherent Value

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When was the last time you did something, not because it's going to show up on your resume, but just because you enjoyed it? What this does is it softens our stants toward ourselves. It allows us a zoomed out perspective and gives us a chance to experience ourselves and others in a non conditional way. In our families, we need to nurture the unconditional self and respond with love and acceptance to successes and failures. And we need a culture that delineates the two and helps us see that one does not define the other. So i leave you with the challenge to get started on some of this.

“What am I doing with my life? Where am I going?” During this isolated time, many of us are having to readjust our identities because our visions for what life was supposed to look like completely shifted -- and so perhaps has the locus of our self-worth. Dr. Meag-gan O'Reilly is a licensed Staff Psychologist at Stanford University's Counseling and Psychological Services. In this episode, she offers helpful frameworks for cultivating a life --and society-- that can better recognize the basic intrinsic value of each person. Dr. O’Reilly’s research interests focus on social class, college student mental health, resilience, and multicultural identities, particularly gender and ethnicity. She also operates a private practice in downtown Palo Alto, Inherent Value Psychology, in which she provides clinical services to Silicon Valley professionals. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman