Ted Talks
Quite often I find myself at a point in life where I am unchanging in how I think and act. I don’t utilize my experiences in life as much as I should sometimes. I could definitely expand my comprehension. I just plain fail to realize how much I could be growing mentally if I would allow myself to. During the last few months I have been expelling this desire to change and grow, which has built up over the course of a year (possibly a few years) of dealing with the problems of life, pains of physical problems, and just generally still being kind of stagnate despite changing my scenery and social life.
With the many different attempts I am making in different areas, I have been trying to get a feel for what would help me change and what things I can do to improve my situation. Specifically referencing the “how I think” part of this whole equation I have been utilizing a few different sources for the motivation to improve and expand how I think and act.
Sometime last year my friend Sam and a few others showed me the series of Ted Talks that highlights speeches at a conference in Monterey, California by guest speakers who are invited to talk about “ideas worth spreading”. If you haven’t heard of ted.com and what they do, you are in for a treat. You are as long as you are in to expanding the way you think and seeing what some of the worlds brightest people have to say.
They are very good at choosing who they ask to speak usually. People who know their fields well, or have made an impact because they dared to do something no one else would. There are people with different kinds of wisdom who want to share it with the world, and are good at it. They discuss everything from art, music, global issues and human desire to physics, genetics, technology and even spirituality.
I wouldn’t say I have enjoyed ALL of these speeches, but I really appreciate TED and the effort they have put into organizing all that TED has become. The speakers come in a huge variety of people from Bill Clinton to Ze Frank, Bono to Tony Robbins.
Found below, I have embedded one of my favorite speeches from the TED Talks line of free videos, which is from Sir Ken Robinson.