Life
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Emilie Wapnick | October 6, 2015
Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you’re not sure you want to...
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BJ Miller | September 24, 2015
What Really Matters at the End of Life
At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect,...
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Jason Silva | August 18, 2015
Love
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Karima Hana-Meksem | August 18, 2015
The Most Successful Leaders Are Critical Thinkers
The Marquis de Sade is one of the most infamous, deviant and evil French writers of all times....
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Maria Popova | August 12, 2015
What Maturity Really Means
“Any experience carried out deeply to its ultimate leads you beyond yourself into a larger relation to the...
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Skye Cleary | July 30, 2015
7 Existential Life Lessons in Woody Allen’s Irrational Man
Could you murder, if it was for a good cause? Woody Allen’s movie Irrational Man toys with this question,...
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Jason Silva | July 30, 2015
How Being Bilingual Enhances Creativity
Disembodied language can allow you to understand the world in dazzling new ways. Knowing a second language is...
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Jon Ronson | July 30, 2015
When Online Shaming Spirals out of Control
Twitter gives a voice to the voiceless, a way to speak up and hit back at perceived injustice....
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Ash Beckham | July 16, 2015
When to Stand and When to Let it Go!
Ash Beckham recently found herself in a situation that made her ask: who am I? She felt pulled...
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Benjamin Hardy | July 6, 2015
8 things Every Person Should Do before 8am
Life is busy. It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. If you have a full-time job...
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Gnarly Bay | June 17, 2015
The Important Places
A stunning, heart and soul soaring 9-mimute short film. A Collaborative Film By Gnarly Bay + Forest Woodward...
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Trenna Probert | June 5, 2015
Respect!
On my very long list of subjects I have been thinking about writing are respect and personal brand. ...
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Jason Silva | June 5, 2015
The Power of Tears
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out...
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Tim Ferriss | May 8, 2015
Practical Thoughts on Suicide
In this post, I’m going to talk about suicide, and why I’m still on this planet. These are...
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Kern Carter | April 23, 2015
Is It Time to Restrict Freedom Of Expression
Was this ever real? Was there ever a point in history when people could express themselves any way...
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Jason Headley | April 14, 2015
Me and You and No Baby Makes Two
Picture this: I’m thirty-four years old. I’ve been married four and a half years. I don’t have any...
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Megan McDonough | March 17, 2015
Dead Ends Are New Beginnings
Dead Ends Are New Beginnings —an excerpt from A Minute for Me. Looking up at the steep hill,...
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Megan McDonough | March 10, 2015
The Art of Life
The Art of Life — an excerpt from A Minute for Me. My son Jon brought home a...
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Clint Smith | January 12, 2015
The Danger of Silence
“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to...
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Megan McDonough | January 8, 2015
Radically Receptive Resolutions
Goals are glorified, focus is overemphasized, and simplicity is under-appreciated. We are obsessed with getting things done and...
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medicine for the people | January 2, 2015
Nahko Bear
Potent. Powerful. Inspiring. Beautiful… A piece of art. Make a cup of tea, put up on the big...
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Marc Chernoff | January 1, 2015
Give it up for happiness
Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak; sometimes it simply means you are strong enough and smart enough...
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Yvette Hughes | December 24, 2014
Deatheningly Silent
As grief emerges from within and how I learned to be present to it’s unfolding. In February 2014...
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Yvette Hughes | December 5, 2014
Present to the Present
Transformational Change: You are most likely to Succeed if you are Present to the Present moment! In today’s...
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Kelly Bush | September 27, 2014
Let Me Take a Selfie
As a member of Generation X, I find selfies to be, well, almost comical. It’s photography taken by...
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Mac Barnett | September 21, 2014
Doorway to Wonder
Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn’t children’s books be? In this whimsical talk, award-winning author Mac Barnett speaks about...
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Emma Watson | September 16, 2014
HeForShe
UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson, delivers her moving remarks during the HeForShe Special Event at United...
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Laurel Braitman | August 23, 2014
Animal Madness
Behind those funny animal videos, sometimes, are oddly human-like problems. Laurel Braitman studies non-human animals who exhibit signs...
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Ze Frank | July 26, 2014
Are you human?
Have you ever wondered: Am I a human being? Ze Frank suggests a series of simple questions that...
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Andrew Bryant | July 21, 2014
Resilience for Life
Resilience, as you probably know, is the ability to ‘bounce back’, to recover from difficulties. Resilience is something...
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Renata Salecl | July 12, 2014
Obsession with Choice
We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy...
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Uri Alon | June 14, 2014
Scientific Leap of Faith
While studying for his PhD in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research...
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John Mooallem | May 31, 2014
Teddy’s Bear
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear — and prompted a plush...
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Deborah Beers | May 23, 2014
At a Loss?
As we find ourselves in the last few weeks of Autumn the hustle and bustle to get ready...
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John Rives | May 18, 2014
Four in the Morning
Beware: Rives has a contagious obsession with 4 a.m. At TED2007, the poet shared what was then a...
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Marie and Adam Forleo and Braun | March 22, 2014
Promise of a Pencil
It all started in the club. The music was thumping, the strobe lights were popping and this guy...
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Actualise Daily | January 14, 2014
Delivering happiness
Excerpt Introduction: Finding My Way Wow, I thought to myself. The room was packed. I was on stage...