I don’t normally post on a Saturday, but I just wanted to share some stuff with you.
I was browsing TED talks last night and decided to watch the Jill Bolte Taylor speech once again. I don’t think I have watched it for a year or so and I’d forgotten how truly AMAZING it is.
That started me thinking of other videos that blew me away and thought I’d like to share them with you wonderful people. It has to be said that most of these have been hammered online and you may have even seen them all, but all bear second viewings.
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What happens when a brain scientist has a stroke? Easy, she starts to study herself and comes up with absolutely amazing conclusions.
Sir Ken Robinsons (he of The Element, one of my favorite books of 09) brilliant and hilarious talk on creativity and education.
Think you’re open-minded? You may want to think again when you watch this. The greatest description of what being open-minded is all about.
If these next two don’t blow you away, you may already be dead.
Alan Watts talking about being in the moment. A classic.
These are my favorites, although there are so many brilliant talks at TED I could have embedded 20 quite easily including Al Gore, Elizabeth Gilbert, Tony Robbins, Dan Gilbert and more.
I’d love to know what your favorite YouTube and Ted clips are? Let us know in the comments.
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I saw the first two, brilliant indeed!
The other ones I did not see yet, but I am certainly going to watch them later.
The one with Elizabeth Gilbert is that about creativity, because that one I did see, fantastic.
One video I also love a lot is from Oliver Sacks, about how the brain reacts to music. It is called ‘Inside Oliver Sack’s brain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyY1ul_DbcQ
Also a brilliant video is from Leonard Bernstein who gave a lecture years ago at Harvard about music as a metaphorical language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14VhzlcSuT0
And a few weeks ago I found a series of 5 videos from David Bohm who talks about consciousness. Especially the third one was very interesting (if I remember well) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZernj1zl4U&feature=related
I just love how we now have access to all these brilliant minds!
Hey Tim.
This is good stuff. When I see TED talks, I remember how Alex Shalman had a tweet one time about watching TED talks in place of watching random YouTube videos.
They sure are mind-opening. I had seen a few of the ones you linked to here. The others I will likely check out at next desired video-watching time.
One other that someone recommend to me, which I still haven’t watched yet, is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTkKSJSqU-I.
I like a lot of them. The Tony Robbins one comes to mind, and also the one by Richard Dawkins. Also, I know Bill Gates and some other notable individuals will be speaking at the next one in February I think.
Glad you brought this up.
My very favorite Ted Talk is Benjamin Zander. Evelyn Glennie comes a close second.
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Tim, those were great, thank you. My favourite was the one by Sir Ken Robinson. That man is funny. I would love to know a subject so well as to be able to speak on it the way he does.
This is the second time I’ve seen this video. The first time I was blown away by it and resolved to nurture the talents of my children – a year on and I find I’m haven’t really done so.
The system as he describes it is so ingrained in me that I continue to perpetuate it without really knowing I’m doing it.
On a personal level I know that I continue to deny that I have any creative talents despite the fact I feel they’re bursting to get out. Talents that were perhaps suppressed in the name of conformity? Am I doing the same to my children?? Probably.
In my opinion, the absolute best thing about his presentation was “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you never come up with anything original.” This is what we should be pushing to our children and to ourselves. Instead, most of us follow the advice of Homer Simpson, “Never try, never fail.”
Thanks again.
Dave
@Annemieke – Thanks very much for the links, and yes you’re right about the Elizabeth Gilbert talk.
@ Armen – I’ll be checking them out, thanks!
@ rafferm – I don’t think I’ve seen those two, thanks for the heads up.
@ Dave – Yeh I agree, we need to keep battering ourselves with the good stuff if we want o change because if we don’t by default we get battered with the crap stuff.
Great stuff.
The first two vids are my favorite Ted talks. I actually interviewed Sir Ken on my radio show and he was such a lovley chap, really funny and totally engaging to the audience.
The two factual videos are very interesting, real eye openers.
Thanks for sharing Tim.
Hubby and I loved watching these Ted talks last night. Sir Ken Robinsons ought to be a comedian. Hilarious. Thanks for sharing!
@ Amit – That is WAAAAAY cool, good for you. Do you have a link to the interview?
@ Naomi – Cool stuff and I agree 100% about Sir Ken, he’s a real hero of mine and very funny too boot.
That first video is actually amazing. I’ve seen it 3-4 times and is a scientific based talk that eplains thins like out of body experiences.