TED TALK Vol. Ideas worth Spreading

[law3001]

I, along with alot of NTers, am a HUGE fan of TED talk and its satellite talks. I think it be nice to post some videos and have dialogue based of those different videos.

Everyday I will post a video, if others would like to also, feel free. I hope that people who do wish to post keep to just videos from TED and TEDx and TED conferences or videos that have to do with the subject discussed in previous videos (ex. If i post a video of Steve Jobs at TED, other videos from his various talks and conferences).

The only reason I ask that (and I can only ask people are free to post whatever they want) is one thing I see on here that I think is big problem is peoples lack of listening to one other and just mindless bashing of one's ideas. I have done that from time to time on here(Mainly of posters like Nomad) and I like many of you, am still growing as a person. What I do ask from people is to follow suit from many of the videos and not label, condemn and disregard. When I say that I mean the idea of blaming someone, or something based on the idea being discussed.

I hope to keep race, politics, and finger pointing out of this thread. With that said I hope people do post and discuss. If not I'ma still post Talks from time to time.

With that said one that Caught my eye today from Dan Pink

Quick Dan Pink bio from Wiki (which he talks about in his talk)

Daniel H. Pink is an American author who has written five books about business, work and management. He worked as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and from 1995 to 1997 he was chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore

2012: To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
2009: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
2008: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need
2005: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future,
2001: Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself

 

[law3001]

Another by Geoffrey Canada, from Waiting For Superman



In the same vein of education, Bill Gates

 

[crazy ebw]

 

[law3001]

Patrick G. Awuah, Jr. is the founder and president of the Ashesi University—a private and not-for-profit institution in Accra, the capital of Ghana, established in 2001, which had its first students graduated in 2005. After living in the United States for two decades, Awuah returned to his native Ghana and set up Ashesi University in Accra. He began the college with only about 30 students but currently has more than 500.

journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.

 

[elcatfisho]

tons of NTers are most likely introverts and could learn something from this:

 

[law3001]

^ I appreciate your contribution.

 

[crazy ebw]

What EXACTLY is TedTalk though? I'm confused

 

[law3001]

What EXACTLY is TedTalk though? I'm confused

http://www.ted.com/talks

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference on the West Coast each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.

Everyone from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton, teachers, writiers, ceos, scientist, motivational speakers, entertainers, educators, mathematicians and pretty much some of the greatest minds in general hold talks worldwide weekly, monthly and yearly for the pursute of just spreading ideas to the public and change the world. Its amazing and its something everyone world wide should investigate. There are hundreds of videos, some long some short and they are Ted Talks going on every week.

 

[trelvis tha thrilla]

What EXACTLY is TedTalk though? I'm confused

Technology, Entertainment, Design.

http://www.ted.com/talks

 

[crazy ebw]

Ok. Ill check this out later. Seems like good stuff.

 

[law3001]

Ok. Ill check this out later. Seems like good stuff.

My goal is that these videos are like going to Wikipedia. Once you start on one and learn something new, it compels you to search more on the subject or to the other talks.


One thing I tell you about being overseas and consider myself a international citizen, self education and self improvement is pursued relentlessly by people in many parts of the world, I hope that my american brothers can do the same (Especially for alot of us on this site being under the age of 30 we are at the most important stage of our development)

 

[law3001]

tons of NTers are most likely introverts and could learn something from this:

I think this talk goes well with the video you posted

 

[law3001]

bump to keep on first page, the more watch the merrier

 

[JVII]

P4L

Might need to watch this later.

 

[based mod]

tons of NTers are most likely introverts and could learn something from this:

I think this talk goes well with the video you posted

and this

 

[law3001]

Glad to see people posting

 

[mangudai954]

Great post. Big fan of TED.

Being that cancer is something that affects us all whether it be something we develop or someone close to us does I think this is an intriguing and informative clip everyone should consider.

 

[law3001]

Great post. Big fan of TED.

Being that cancer is something that affects us all whether it be something we develop or someone close to us does I think this is an intriguing and informative clip everyone should consider.

Props for posting

 

[lil b]

a lot of these ted talks are great but make sure you watch this as well...

 

[zapatohead408]

didn't really look into this, seems cool. Will check back later.

 

[law3001]

 

[norcalhussla]

Ted talks are legit. a lot of stuff you can learn from them. they have a bunch on netflix. i just viewed eddie huang's ted talk on youtube a second ago.

 

[law3001]

bump

 

[Gill Baka Esq. LLC.]

I d/l ted talk podcasts religiously. Don't really get to all of them past my listenership of Billy Burr, YKWD, and Comedy Cellar podcast but these are really good:

 

[c hanna]

would love to give a motivational speech at something like this
was the keynote speaker at my hs graduation and really enjoyed it. Feel like I have grown a lot over my past 4 years and continue to learn and think I have some good things to say that people can learn from