Excerpts from 10 of N TED Talks

Charchit Garg
4 min readSep 21, 2018

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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. David Carson: Design and Discovery

In this talk, A Designer walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck of his work and found images and tells us that Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery.

EXCERPT — 1

David Carson’s TED Talk

David Carson: Design and Discovery

2. Tiffany Watt Smith: The history of Human Emotions

In this talk, A Cultural Historian says that the words we used to describe our emotions affect us how we feel and they’ve changed from time to time (sometimes very dramatically) in response to new cultural expectations and ideas. For example, in 16th Century the word ‘Sadness’ was supposed to do things that the word ‘Happiness’ does today, like making the worth living or live longer.

Also Learn some new words and place them in your vocabulary to use them later.

EXCERPT — 2

Tiffany Watt Smith’s TED Talk

Tiffany Watt Smith: The history of Human Emotions

3. Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation.

In this talk, A writer shares ten useful ways to have a better conversation.

EXCERPT — 3

Celeste Headlee’s TED Talk

3. Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation.

4. Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear

In this talk, A Story Collector shares his experience of recording stories and how he realized this simple truth of life.

EXCERPT — 4

Dave Isay’s TED Talk

Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear

5. Evelyn Glennie: How to truly listen

In this talk, A Musician illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.

EXCERPT — 5

Evelyn Glennie’s TED Talk

Evelyn Glennie: How to truly listen

6. Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and Listen!

If people do not wished to be helped, leave them alone. This should be the first principle of aid. The first principle of aid is respect.

In this talk, An Author proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re trying to help

EXCERPT — 6

Ernesto Sirolli’s TED Talk

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and Listen!

7. Adam Galinsky: How to Speak Up for yourself?

In this talk, A Social Psychologist will tell you What does ‘Speaking Up for yourself’ means and Why & How we should speak up. He has this range concept for speaking up and some great tools which will help you in speaking up for yourself.

At last, He ends this talk with a Beautiful & Inspiring message from his Father.

EXCERPT — 7

Adam Galinsky’s TED Talk

Adam Galinsky: How to Speak Up for yourself?

8. Stanley McChrystal: Listen, Learn…then lead

In this talk, A Military shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military.

This is my favourite line — “Leaders can let you fail but not let you be a failure”

EXCERPT — 8

Stanley McChrystal’s TED Talk

Stanley McChrystal: Listen, Learn…then lead

9. Graham Shaw: Why people believe they can’t draw — and how to prove they can

In this talk, A Managing Director makes us draw some characters to break our belief of “We Can’t Draw” and then ends with an Inspirational Statement.

Let me know in comments, If this belief of yours is broken now

EXCERPT — 9

Graham Shaw’s TED Talk

Graham Shaw: Why people believe they can’t draw — and how to prove they can

10. Susan Cain: The power of Introverts

In this talk, An Author argues that introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world and should be encouraged and celebrated.

EXCERPT — 10

Susan Cain’s TED Talk

Susan Cain: The power of Introverts

Thank you :)

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Charchit Garg
Charchit Garg

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