Get your brain in motion
Emtithal was 10 when she learned what the word “genocide” meant. She lived in Darfur and she didn’t understand why they were burying so many people.
She started writing poems to convince people to hear and see what was happening.
Emtithal “Emi” Mahmoud continues writing poetry to witness and to make people more sensitized to the humanity who stands behind such tragedies.
In this TED, Emi shares two wonderful poems with the public.
If you’re happy and you know it… you also know how to count your blessings. Noticing what you have – and learning to appreciate it – is the first step towards being happy, says Stefano Baldi, the Italian Ambassador to Bulgaria, in this TED talk.
And luckily, you don’t HAVE to have Italian food or clothes to be happy. Though it certainly won’t hurt.
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In this TED talk, psychologist Susan David introduces the concept of emotional agility: the ability to recognise and manage our thoughts and feelings for what they are, without judging them through the veil of preconceptions. Susan reminds us of the importance of detaching ourselves from our emotions so that they do not own us, but at the same time allowing ourselves to feel them. In fact, keeping emotions bottled up inside is one of the elements which can lead to depression in the longterm.
Being hooked to our emotions can cause distress and make us take irrational decisions. On the other hand, emotional agility can help people alleviate stress, reduce errors, tap into their creativity and improve their overall job performance.
If you wish to learn more about emotional agility I suggest reading the following article on the HBR or picking up a copy of Susan David’s book “Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, embrace change and thrive in work and life.”
HBR article: https://hbr.org/2013/11/emotional-agility
In this TEDx, Patti Dobrowolski discusses the importance and power of imagination. Imagination is the engine of our life. It can be used in an expected and confined way and we call ii “brainstorming”. However we can also use imagination in unconstrained ways, as children do. In these cases, imagination becomes the fuel of everything, as the experience of genius like Eisntein can prove.
In this TED talk, Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows how to become a liespotter and why to go the extra mile and go from liespotting to truth seeking, and ultimately to trust building.
First of all, we should start by accepting the following proposition: lying is a cooperative act. Any lie’s power emerges when someone else agrees to believe it. Furthermore, we’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries.
According to her, the key is to combine the science of recognizing deceptionwith the art of looking, listening,exempting from collaborating in a lie. Doing so we may signal to everyone around that we are not going to cooperate in any lie.
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What are the ingredients of a great conversation? Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. Celeste Headlee, in her TEDx talk shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations.
Here are some of them:
1) “Be present (in the conversation)”
2) “Don’t pontificate”
3) “Use open ended questions”
4) “Go with the flow”
5) “If you don’t know, say it”
6) “Don’t mix your experience with theirs”
7)”Try not to repeat yourself”
8) “Stay out of the details”
9) “Listen”
10) “Be brief”
In this TED talk, Ida Abdalkhani enagages the audience in a laughter yoga session. Laughter session forces oneself to laugh but within 2 minutes the forced laughter becomes real. “We laugh 300 times a day as children but only 30 as adults”. Laugh makes people release a flood of positive neurotrasmitters which stimulate our brains, our immune and our nervous system.
As Ida Abdalkahni concludes, “it’s within your power to make your narrative a joyful one”.
Today we focus more on how to talk and less on how to listen Others. We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we’re not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear. This is not trivial, because listening is our access to understanding. Conscious listening always creates understanding.
In this interesting TED Talk, Julian Treasure, sound consultant, shares five ways to re-tune our ears for conscious listening, to other people and the world around us.
Our body shapes who we are.
In this TED talk, Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist, explains how our body language can influence our life, detrmining what people think of us. This is why she suggests to take few minutes before our next stressful situation to change our body language in a way to cope with that situation. Our bodies change our mind, our minds cand change our behaviour and our behaviour can change our outcomes.
Image source: Flickr – Obama White House
The future will be without oil.
In this engaging TED talk, Rob Hopkins, proposes a unique solution to this problem, the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels.
Image source: Flickr – Imseong Kang (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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