TEDtalks
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TED Talk: Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different
http://www.ted.com "There's a flip side to everything," the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might...
TED Talk: Philippe Starck thinks deep on design
http://www.ted.com Designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question ""Why...
TED Talk: Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new
http://www.ted.com Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA...
TED Talk: Seth Godin on standing out
http://www.ted.com In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth...
TED Talk: Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
http://www.ted.com Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring...
TED Talk: Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
http://www.ted.com Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a...
TED Talk: Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice
http://www.ted.com When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice...
TED Talk: Ric Elias: 3 things I learned when my place crashed
http://www.ted.com Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009...
TED Talk: Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
http://www.ted.com Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days...
TED Talk: Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
http://www.ted.com Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big...
TED Talk: Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
http://www.ted.com Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a...
TED Talk: Jok Church: A Circle of Caring
http://www.ted.com In this 3-minute talk, cartoonist and educator Jok Church tells a moving story of the teacher who cared for him when no one else...
TED Talk: Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
http://www.ted.com Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest he lays out the main...
TED Talk: Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
http://www.ted.com What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine...
TED Talk: Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
http://www.ted.com "Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the...
TED Talk: Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
http://www.ted.com Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that well be miserable if we dont get what we want...
TED Talk: Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
http://www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers...
TED Talk: Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories
http://www.ted.com Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy spins a funny, wise and luminous tale of parents and kids, starring her Cuban mother...
TED Talk: Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
http://www.ted.com Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for practical wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy...
TED Talk: Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep
http://www.ted.com In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night's sleep...