Our loss of wanting | Lili Golestan, Reza Ghiabi & Niyosha Khatib | TEDxTehranStudio

Where do our desires drive us collectively? Do they make us ego-centric human beings, or can they take us to a collective good? After millions of Iranians watched and discussed her talk, "I wanted it, I made it happen," in TEDxTehran 2016, she now argues how Iranian young people lost their way to "want the right things." Golestan shows how our journey toward the art of wanting can make us freer and fulfilled in her book with the same title and this talk. (This conversation, hosted by Reza Ghiabi and Niyosha Khatib, is a part of the TEDxTehranStudio series.) Lili Golestan is an Iranian translator, owner, and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran. She is the daughter of the filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan, the sister of the late photojournalist Kaveh Golestan, and filmmaker Mani Haghighi's mother. Along with business advisory and strategy planning, Reza Ghiabi became the organizer of TEDxTehran in 2013 and has developed it as a local platform to discover and amplify ideas worth spreading. Visual artist and art researcher Niyosha Khatib is a TEDxTehran team member and head of the Worthy Ideas Publishing project. She is co-hosts some of of the TEDxTehranSudio series. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx