World Within: Living in the Fictionalized World | Yasmine Shen | TEDxBeijing 101 High School

The Power of Fiction

• Yasmin shares her experience of feeling detached from reality after watching the movie "Truman Show" at the age of 12, highlighting the fragility of the world we perceive and the importance of believing in the world we want to believe in.
• She emphasizes the significance of fictional stories and their ability to evoke real emotions, despite their lack of scientific basis, and their role in bringing people together and forming common fictional stories that enable cooperation and progress.

The Role of Fiction in Human Civilization

• Yasmin draws on the book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" to explain how human civilization originated from fiction and the ability to imagine new realities.
• She describes her personal experience as a passionate reader and writer, and how fiction allows her to see the world in a different way, adding dimensions to reality and promoting thought, love, and rage.

The Importance of Humanities

• Yasmin concludes by emphasizing the importance of Humanities subjects in promoting critical thinking, creativity, and the exploration of inner spirit, love, and the chase of freedom.

The Core of Civilization

• The core of every civilization is rooted in the combination of our beliefs and our stories.

The Power of Writing

• Writing can be a powerful tool to move people and create emotions.

The Value of Love and Belief

• Science should not make us forget the value of love and belief.
• We should embrace the wonderful emotions that come from believing in something.
• The speaker believes in the existence of love and wants others to believe in it as well.