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“All experience is local. All identity is experience. I’m not a national. I’m a local. I’m multi-local.”
In her TEDTalks Taiye Selasi says that people’s identity cannot be explained only through a national identity. Although countries remain important in shaping our identity, in order to really know who someone is, we would better ask “where are you local?”.
Is our obsession with efficiency actually making us less efficient?
In this revelatory talk, writer and historian Edward Tenner discusses the promises and dangers of our drive to get things done as quickly as possible and suggests seven ways we can use “inspired inefficiency” to be more productive.
You know how resolutions often go: you set a goal and start strong … then the motivation runs out and feelings of frustration and shame creep in. The struggle is real, but what if it doesn’t have to be?
Sociologist Christine Carter in this TED Talk shares a simple step to shift your mindset and keep you on track to achieving your grandest ambitions.
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In this TEDx Talk Prof. Richard Davidson, Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder & Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains how mind we can change the mechanisms of our mind to increase our well-being.
In 2011, a group of researchers conducted a scientific study to find an impossible result: that listening to certain songs can make you younger. So how did they do it?
According to this TED Talk, the answer lies in a statistical method scientists often use to try to figure out whether their results mean something or if they are random noise. Here is the method: you should calculate the possibility (p-value) to achieve randomly the expected result (null hypothesis). If that possibility is below 5%, normally it is considered significant, meaning that there is enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis (the fact you are examining).
Though p-values are commonly used by both researchers and journals to evaluate scientific results, they’re really confusing, even for many scientists. That is partly because all a p-value actually tells us is the probability of getting a certain result, assuming the null hypothesis is true. Even though a p-value does not directly state the probability that the results are due to random chance, it usually gives a reliable indication.
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs.
In this interesting TED Talk, Julia Galef examines the motivations behind different mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from 19th-century France.
English has become the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language?
In this TED talk, Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue, which can be summarised as:
Stress makes our heart pound, our breathing quicken and our forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for us if we believe that to be the case.
In this TED Talk, Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.
Have you ever seen or experienced something and wished you spoke up?
In this TED Talk, the writer Sakinah Hofler makes the case for writing as a tool to help you process difficult memories and reclaim the power they may hold.
Pick up a pen or pull up a keyboard and follow along as she walks you through how to unburden your mind and inspire reflection!
In this TED Talk, Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live, and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being?
So whenever you want to look great and competent, reduce your stress or improve your marriage, or feel as if you just had a whole stack of high-quality chocolate without incurring the caloric cost, or whenever you want to tap into a superpower that will help you and everyone around you live a longer, healthier, happier life, smile.
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