Excerpts from 10 of N TED Talks
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. Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don’t have one true calling
If you don’t know what one thing you have to do in your life or not sure what you want to become or don’t have that true calling and you have that multiple interests kind of thing, you’re not alone.
In this talk Emilie Wapnick, A Writer describes the kind of people she calls “multipotentialites”, who have a range of interests & jobs over one lifetime.
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Emilie Wapnick’s TED Talk
2. Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love
Scott Dinsmore, A Writer shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it.
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Scott Dinsmore’s TED Talk
3. Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit
If you feel like you’re a misfit, Ms. Lidia is here to tell you that there is a beauty in being a MISFIT.
In this talk, Lidia Yuknavitch, An Author shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame & slow process of self-acceptance
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Lidia Yuknavitch’s TED Talk
4. David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
Have been you called as a person who is ‘non-creative’ or your school or workplace has divided itself with the ‘creative’ and practical peoples/non-creative peoples?
Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few.
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David Kelley’s TED Talk
5. Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is…noticing
Remember when you were learning to drive a car, how you used to look around everywhere in your early days of driving, and you tried to avoid talking, listening songs and any other disturbing things because all you wanted to do is focus on driving. But eventually you got used to driving and started listening to songs or talking to people and maybe you must have started driving with one hand, now, right?
As human beings, we get used to “the way things are” really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity … Could things be better? How? In this talk the man behind the iPod and the Nest thermostat shares some of his tips for noticing — and driving — change.
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Tony Fadell’s TED Talk
6. Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a Master Procrastinator
I have to admit here that I procrastinate a lot, when I was working on this article, I first updated it with 4 TED Talks and then thought of doing it later, and I slept after taking that decision. And here I’m again, updating this article. My ‘Instant Gratification Monkey’ sometimes irritates me a lot :( and I’m still trying to improve myself by thinking what I’m really procrastinating on.
In this talk, Tim Urban, A blogger encourages us to think harder about what we’re really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.
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Tim Urban’s TED Talk
7. Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
The hard choices — what we most fear doing, asking, saying — are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action?
In this talk, Tim Ferriss, An Author, encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls “fear-setting.” Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot.
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Tim Ferriss’s TED Talk
8. Adam Grant: The Surprising habit of Original Thinkers
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world.
In this talk, Adam Grant, An Organizational Psychologist learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
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Adam Grant’s TED Talk
9. Luvvie Ajayi: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
In this Talk, A Creator shares three questions to ask yourself if you’re teetering on the edge of speaking up or quieting down.
‘Your Silence serves no one’
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Luvvie Ajayi’s TED Talk
10. Michael Bierut: How to Design a library that makes kids want to read
In this talk, Michael Bierut, A Designer tells how he had his library design project and he was only thinking of one foot ahead of him and was not aware of how his design project made an impact which he never thought of until a librarian makes him realize that unintended consequences are the best consequences.
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Michael Bierut’s TED Talk
