Get your brain in motion
In his brilliant TED2014 Talk Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab founder, reflects on predictions he has made in the last 30 years and presents some new ones for the future.
Negroponte’s advice is that “The best vision to use to see the future is peripheral vision.”
Elizabeth Gilbert in a recent Ted Talk analyses the way we experience great failure and the way we experience great success.
In this moving video she describes how “for most of our lives, we live out our existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults us abruptly way out over here into the blinding darkness of disappointment. Success catapults us just as abruptly but just as far way out over here into the equally blinding glare of fame and recognition and praise. And there’s a real equal danger in both cases of getting lost out there… in the hinterlands of the psyche.”
What is true leadership? Can it be taught?
During TEDxESCP, Bob Davids – entrepreneur and visionary – explains the difference between leadership and management and stresses the importance of leadership without ego.
According to Mr. Davids, management implies control and if you push people you cannot predict what they will do.
Analyzing examples of famous leaders like Gandhi, he affirms that if you can lead people and get them to follow you, then you have the skills to be a leader.
But leadership is a gift and cannot be bought.
Leadership without ego is thus the most valuable commodity and the rarest in the planet.
In his Ted Talk Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.
“The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.”
We do not know what kind of data cell phone companies are collecting. In this TED talk Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code – a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.
How much time do we need to learn a foreign language?
According to Joshua Foer, an American journalist who learnt Lingala – a Bantu language spoken in the North West of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-, you just need 22 hours spread over a period of 10 weeks.
He used Memrise, a web app that teaches foreign languages through a game based on the repetition of words and their audio pronunciation. The trick is to assign to each word a “memo”, that can be an image, a sound, a rhyme, a video or just a note on the etymology of the word.
The idea behind Memrise is making the study of a foreign language a fun practice by using the internet as a social gaming and by exploiting the potential of our memory.
Read full article http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months
How do you feel before speaking in public? Heart racing, palms sweating, labored breathing. This is a rather common situation and Mikael Cho, in his Ted Ed lesson, gives some useful advice to overcome the so-called “stage fright”.
Jason Fried explains what we all experience in the office
Working in the office? Not anymore, not like before.
From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. In this talk, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action. (Filmed at TEDxEast.)
In his TED talk, statistics guru Hans Rosling, makes a stunning presentation on broad social and economic trends. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be boring; but in Rosling’s hands trends come to life.
Rosling’s presentations are based on solid statistics, illustrated by the visualization software he developed. The animations transform development statistics into moving bubbles and flowing curves that make global trends intuitive and clear.
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