Excerpts from 10 of N TED Talks

Charchit Garg
4 min readJul 23, 2018

I’d like to share with you the 10 Excerpts from 10 of N TED Talks I watched. ’N’ stands for Number, which is infinite, because I will keep on watching TED and Keep on sharing the Excerpts. These are just 10 Excerpts from 10 TED Talks. I’ll share 10 Excerpts from 10 TED Talks in one article.

1. Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking

In this talk, A Musician examines the new relationship between artist and fan and encourage artists to ASK.

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Amanda Palmer’s TED Talk

Amanda Palmer: The art of Asking

2. Ken Robinson: Do School kills creativity?

In this talk, An Educator makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity

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Ken Robinson’s TED Talk

Ken Robinson: Do School kills creativity?

3. Tom Hulme: What can we learn from shortcuts?

In this talk, A Designer lays out three insightful examples of the intersection of design and user experience, where people have developed their own desire paths out of necessity. Once you know how to spot them, you’ll start noticing them everywhere.

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Tom Hulme’s TED Talk

Tom Hulme: What can we learn from shortcuts?

4. Pico Iyer: The art of stillness

In this talk, An Author takes a look at the incredible insight that comes with taking time for stillness. In our world of constant movement and distraction, he teases out strategies we all can use to take back a few minutes out of every day, or a few days out of every season. It’s the talk for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the demands for our world.

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Pico Iyer’s TED Talk

Pico Iyer: The art of stillness

5. Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe I’m a model.

In this talk, A Model admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she’s tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don’t judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16 years old.

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Cameron Russell’s TED Talk

Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe I’m a model.

6. Guy Winch: How to fix a broken heart

In this talk, A Psychologist, reveals how recovering from heartbreak starts with a determination to fight our instincts to idealize and search for answers that aren’t there — and offers a toolkit on how to, eventually, move on. Our hearts might sometimes be broken, but we don’t have to break with them.

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Guy Winch’s TED Talk

Guy Winch: How to fix a broken heart

7. Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?

In this talk, An Entrepreneur challenges us to let go of excuses, assumptions and fears, and accept the awesome responsibility of being the creators of our own reality.

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Isaac Lidsky’s TED Talk

Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?

8. Julia Galef: Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong

A Writer, examines the motivations behind the two mindsets of a Soldier and a Scout and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from 19th-century France. When your steadfast opinions are tested, Galef asks: “What do you most yearn for? Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs or do you yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can?”

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Julia Galef’s TED Talk

Julia Galef: Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong

9. Valarie Kaur: 3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage

An Activist, asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. We should love others by seeing no strangers in them, we should love our opponents by tending the wound in them and love ourselves by breathing & pushing.

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Valarie Kaur’s TED Talk

Valarie Kaur: 3 lessons of love in a time of rage

10. Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

A Sound Consultant shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening — to other people and the world around you.

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Julian Treasure’s TED Talk

Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

Thank you :)

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Charchit Garg

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