Get your brain in motion
A massive generation of young people is about to inherit the world, and it’s the duty of everyone to give them a fighting chance for their futures, says UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore.
In this TED talk, she explores the crises facing them and details an ambitious new global initiative, Generation Unlimited, which aims to ensure every young person is in school, training or employed by 2030.
We all claim to be multi-tasking. But it is not true. Multi-tasking is actually inefficient. Multi-tasking has a cost. In fact, distractions seriously risk to impact on our jobs, our carreer and, above all, our life. We are no more able to focus on a single thing. There’s a lot at stake. Do you want to give “it” away?, asks Tracy Davidson in this TEDx.
Tracy Davidson is anchor of NBC10 News Today. She has been awarded many different prizes related to her job and her commitment in empowering women both personally and professionally.
In this TED Talk, Lorna Davis, explains the difference between traditional “heroic leaders” and “interdependent leaders”.
There are three big differences between the two ways of leading:
According to Davis, we don’t need heroes. We need radical interdependence, which is just another way of saying we need each other. Even though other people can be really difficult, sometimes. There’s no recipe here, but time together has to be carefully curated and created so that people know that their time is valuable and important, and they can bring their best selves to the table.
Why does hero culture persist, and why don’t we work together more? Interdependence is a lot harder than being a hero. It requires us to be open and transparent and vulnerable, and that’s not what traditional leaders have been trained to do. However, the joy and success that comes from interdependence and vulnerability is worth the effort and the risk.
In a post published by Abhimanyu Das on ideas.ted.com, he summarises how we can improve our public speaking through some easy tweaks of our body language not limited only to our hands and arm gestures.
Here are the 7 ways listed by the author:
1) Lean towards your audience
2) Match your gestures to your words
3) Give your hands a rest
4) Tilt your head
5) Smile like you mean it
6) When you slip up, don’t panic
7) Practice — even when you’re not in front of a crowd
8) Watch this TEDxZagreb talk now
Read the full text here
When needing to make a choice, we are often conditioned by our fears more than our goals. Often we know where we want to go, but we are stuck. We’re just too afraid. Of what might happen. Of what others might think of us. Of whether we’re making a responsible choice or not. If we’re going to regret our decision.
“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life”
– Jerzy Gregorek
Tim Ferriss suggests we should change our approach to taking action and overcoming paralysis. In an exercise he calls “fear-setting” he asks us to envision and write down our fears in detail.
Hear all about it in his TED Talk.
Some investors look for IQ , some other looks for EQ (Emotional Quotient).
In this TED talk, the investor Natalie Fratto explains that she doesn’t just look for intelligence or charisma: she looks for adaptability. She then measures it according to an “adapyability Quotient” (AQ) and shows why the ability to respond to change really matters.
Wondering why you just can’t seem to find your one, true passion? Feeling frustrated and disappointed in yourself because you can’t foresee yourself doing just ONE thing?
In this TEDx talk, Emma Rosen makes a good point: maybe we are not all meant to be high achievers. Maybe some of us are meant to be wide achievers.
She shares three questions to understand what is the best kind of career for you:
What skills do you want to use and enjoy using?
What do you want to get out of your work?
What kind of working environment would you like?
View the full talk to get a lot more interesting tips to get to know yourself better and understand what your passion (or passions) is (are) and how to build your career around that!
According to Chris Anderson, there’s no single formula for a great TED talk, but there is a secret ingredient that all the best ones have in common: they build an idea inside the minds of the audience.
In this TED talk Chris Anderson, TED curator, describes this concept and provides four tips to be effective in it.
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