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How We Can Navigate the Pandemic with Courage and Hope

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Overview

Explore a thought-provoking TED Talk featuring Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as he offers insights on navigating the coronavirus pandemic with courage, hope, and empathy. Gain valuable perspectives on leadership, fear, death, and hope, and discover how this challenging moment could be leveraged to build a more just world. Delve into topics such as the importance of community, shifting from individualism to collectivism, and finding optimism in difficult times. Learn about supporting healthcare workers, addressing moral imperatives for executives, and coping with death. Discover the power of poetry, music, and rituals in times of crisis, and gain advice on discussing the pandemic with children. This hour-long conversation, part of the TED Connects series, provides a unique blend of wisdom, clarity, and even includes an impromptu prayer, offering viewers a comprehensive exploration of how to face global challenges with resilience and compassion.

Syllabus

Welcome
How have you survived
How are you
What do you make of these times
What would you like to see leaders do well
A new kind of political leadership
What does this moment ask of us
How the community steps up
How to move from I to we
Two powerful arenas of competition
Why should we be optimistic
How can we help healthcare workers
Moral imperative for executives
Social goods game
Death
Poetry and music
Ritual
Holocaust survivors
How to include children in the pandemic
Advice for honesty with children
Be fearless
Beauty

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