Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for how we can choose to replace our stress, fear and anxiety with feelings of joy and deep inner peace.| www.ted.com
Journalist Carl Honoré believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives.| www.ted.com
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."| www.ted.com
Dan Gilbert, author of "Stumbling on Happiness," challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.| www.ted.com
Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.| www.ted.com
Tome un libro, una revista o en la pantalla y seguramente se encontrará con alguna tipografía diseñada por Matthew Carter. En esta encantadora charla, el hombre detrás de tipos de letra como Verdana, Georgia y Bell Centennial (diseñado solo para la guía telefónica, ¿lo recuerda?), nos lleva a una gira a través de una carrera centrada en el último píxel de cada letra de una fuente.| www.ted.com
En TEDGlobal2010, el autor Matt Ridley explica como, a través de nuestra historia, el motor del progreso humano ha sido la unión y el apareamiento de ideas para crear ideas nuevas. La inteligencia individual no es tan importante, según él, sino que lo que realmente importa es cuan inteligente es el cerebro grupal.| www.ted.com
La locutora de radio Julie Burstein conversa con gente creativa para ganarse la vida -y comparte cuatro lecciones para crear, de cara al desafío, la duda y la pérdida. Escucha ideas de la cineasta Mira Nair, del escritor Richard Ford, del escultor Richard Serra y del fotógrafo Joel Meyerowitz.| www.ted.com
¿Tu escuela o trabajo se divide en personas “creativas” y personas prácticas? Seguro, pero David Kelley sugiere que la creatividad no es dominio exclusivo de unos pocos elegidos. Mediante historias de su legendaria carrera de diseño y de su propia vida, ofrece maneras de construir la confianza para crear (de la sesión Design Studio de TED2012, con la curación de los invitados Chee Pearman y David Rockwell).| www.ted.com
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.| www.ted.com
The pastoralists in Africa sustainably produce meat and milk to help feed the continent. But their way of life — and work — is under threat. Food systems advocate Shruthi Baskaran-Makanju explains how best to preserve these vital communities and why they're key to solving the nutritional challenges of Africa's children.| www.ted.com
Social entrepreneur Julie Cordua works on a problem that isn't easy to talk about: the sexual abuse of children in images and videos on the internet. At Thorn, she's building technology to connect the dots between the tech industry, law enforcement and government -- so we can swiftly end the viral distribution of abuse material and rescue children faster. Learn more about how this scalable solution could help dismantle the communities normalizing child sexual abuse around the world today. (Th...| www.ted.com
(NOTE: Some of the findings presented in this talk have been referenced in an ongoing debate among social scientists about robustness and reproducibility. Read "Corrections & Updates" below for more details as well as Amy Cuddy's response.) Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can boost feelings of confidence, an...| www.ted.com
Too busy to take care of yourself? These talks offer simple ways to stay healthy -- both emotionally and physically.| www.ted.com
Like all of us, economist Tyler Cowen loves a good story. But in this intriguing talk, he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in terms of a simple narrative.| www.ted.com
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question: "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers ...| www.ted.com
Often described as a force to be reckoned with, Nova Reid is a diversity and anti-racism campaigner and consultant who uses her professional background in mental well-being to focus on mindset change, working with organisations and individuals to improve diversity and systems of discrimination from the inside out. Nova has worked with leading social justice organisations including Change.org and is a popular keynote speaker and regular mentor at the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World (WO...| www.ted.com
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.| www.ted.com
Carol Dweck a fejlődési szemléletmódot kutatja. A felismerést, hogy elménk tanulási és problémamegoldó képessége fejleszthető. Ebben az előadásban a nehézséget jelentő problémák kétféle megközelítési módját ismerteti. Nem vagy elég okos ahhoz, hogy megoldd a feladatot ... vagy csak "még" nem oldottad meg? A nagy hatású kutatási terület kiváló bemutatása.| www.ted.com
“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. Her rallying cry: resist data harvesting and mass surveillance, and support others ...| www.ted.com
Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.| www.ted.com
What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think -- even calling out the boss is fair game. Learn more about how these strategies helped Dalio create one of the world's most successful hedge funds and how you might harness the power of data-driven group decision-making.| www.ted.com
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.| www.ted.com
TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages. Ideas free to stream and download.| www.ted.com
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.| www.ted.com
