I have a regular listening diet of TED talks. Speakers are given 3-18 minutes to talk on any topic of their passion or expertise. It’s their 18-minute opportunity to change the world.
Tim Longhurst blogged about the TED commandments every speaker needs to know. No wonder the talks are so captivating.
I decided to compile a list of my favourite talks. They are not in any order of rating. I’ll add on the list as the days go by.
- Here’s a short one to start with: Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days. Hmm I’m thinking now what I should do for a 30-day challenge…
- Emiliano Salinas: A civil response to violence. The problem is not the things we feel victims of. The problem is that we play the role of victims. We need to open our eyes and see that we are not victims.
- My mother often talks about how as a child the toys she played with were ones they made out of scrap materials they could find. I did a lot of that myself myself growing up. Watch this delightful clip how Arvind Gupta is Turning trash into toys for learning.
- See Yemen through My Eyes — Nadia Al-Sakkaf, editor of the Yemen Times shares her vision and is bringing about change in a politically hostile environment where women are not embraced or welcomed in a man’s world. A role she has taken on not without great sacrifice, including taking over editor father when he was killed.
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