The best TED Talks are Miracle Grow for the body, mind and soul!
They are cutting edge philosophy, psychology, science and insight, among many other wonderful “ideas worth sharing.”
The very first TED Talks were posted online in July 2006 and continue to serve as a phenomenal resource for seekers like us who are striving to make ourselves and this world a better place.
I jangan pernah run out of curiosity, or the need to grow into someone I like more than the day before.
I could cave and let berat situations and obstacles drive the essence of me deep into the ground, where not even a flicker of light existed.
The alternative was to start asking questions, to seek understanding and greater insight, and to let myself pelajari from events that might otherwise keep me in dark places.
I searched for answers in books on spirituality, religion, relationships, psychology and all other things self-help.
I attended seminars, twelve-step groups, webinars, and creative circles to untangle the beliefs I pelajaried early—beliefs and philosophies that no longer served me.
Eventually, I discovered TED Talks, which continue to disclose the answers I seek.
Whether you’re new to TED or an avid fan, the following best TED Talks are a must-watch and worth repeating.
I had a difficult time narrowing down my favorites, so these five are the first batch, with more to follow.
TED Description: Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate everyone’s actions — and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.
One of the first six TED Talks posted online in July 2006, Tony Robbins’s talk is worth watching again today.
Tony reveals his thirty-year obsession about what makes the difference in the quality of orang’s lives.
He is quick to point out how many of us have figured out the achievement part of kehidupan, but very few of us have pelajaried how to become fulfilled and impactful to the world around us.
“I look at kehidupan and say there are two master lessons.
One is: there’s the science of achievement, which almost everyone here has mastered amazingly.
How do you take the invisible and make it visible?
Your business, your contribution to society, money—whatever, your body, your family.
The other lesson that is rarely mastered is the art of fulfillment.
We know the rules, you write the code and you get the results.
Once you know the game, you just up the ante, don’t you?
But when it comes to fulfillment — that’s an art.
The reason is, it’s about appreciation and contribution.
You can only feel so much by dirimu.”
Growing up feeling lost with a sense of jangan pernah really belonging, I made an early decision to master achievement.
I made the best grades, won the contests, got great jobs and blew the company records off the wall.
I had everything I ever wanted, so why wasn’t I happy?
I hadn’t yet tapped into the second key: fulfillment.
We have to nurture the desires of our souls in a way that spills out and touches the orang around us in a significant way.
If you’re not there yet, don’t sweat it.
You’re still gathering lessons so keep searching.
TED Description: Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love.
In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.
Are you one of the more than twenty-three million viewers who’ve seen this TED talk?
Have you had the pleasure of watching Brene Brown demonstrate why it’s so kuat to be vulnerable, and what some might confuse with being “weak?”
As Brene Brown dug into her research and focused on connection, she realized how many of us actually feel disconnected, and what’s worse, we are ashamed of that, adding to our overall bad feelings.
“And shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection: Is there something about me that, if other orang know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy of connection?
The things I can tell you about it: It’s universal; we all have it.
The only orang who don’t experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection.
No one wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it, the more you have it.
What underpinned this shame, this ‘I’m not good enough,’ — which, we all know that feeling: ‘I’m not blank enough.
I’m not thin enough, rich enough, beautiful enough, smart enough, promoted enough.’
The thing that underpinned this was excruciating vulnerability.
This idea of, in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.”
Oh did this ever touch a nerve in me the first time I listened!
To act confident and to accomplish great things!
But that didn’t solve anything and in fact, it only buried my real problem which made it that much berater years later to excavate my soul and tell myself it’s okay to have the need to belong and feel connected.
We weren’t meant to live kehidupan separate from everyone else, and we certainly weren’t born unworthy and fearful.
Please watch this (again) as Brene shares the key differences between those of us who battle a grave sense of unworthiness and shame and those who don’t.
As a bonus, she manages to convey this soulful topic with laugh-out-loud humor.
TED Description: Body language affects how others see us, but it may also ubah how we see ourselves.
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for kesuksesan.
What I love about TED Talks is that many of them seem like good common sense but they are backed by science.
Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist who overcame a debilitating car accident that caused her identity and worthiness to plummet.
Her research is focused on nonverbal body language, but not so much what we observe in others, but what our brains conclude from our own nonverbal cues, including our thoughts and posture.
“So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are.
We tend to forget, though, the other audience that’s influenced by our nonverbals, and that’s ourselves.
We are also influenced by our nonverbals, our thoughts and our feelings and our physiology.
…When I tell orang about this, that our bodies ubah our minds and our minds can ubah our behavior, and our behavior can ubah our outcomes, they say to me, ‘It feels fake.’
She comes back to me months later, and I realized that she had not just faked it until she made it, she had actually faked it until she became it.”
One of the many ways I’ve rebuilt my psyche from a troubled past is by using positive affirmations and visualization.
In fact, the first few mantras I pelajaried as a teenager in twelve-step recovery was, “ Fake it till you make it,” and, “Take the actions first, and let the feelings follow.”
When our internal software is critically flawed, we can keep limping along with broken beliefs or we can take an active role in re-programming our internal language.
But this TED talk goes well beyond basic affirmations.
Amy offers an engaging talk and demonstrates scientifically how a confident person shows up in the world, versus someone less confident.
She offers a proven technique which only takes two minutes a day to literally ubah your hormone levels and boost your esteem.
You will present an improved version of “you” to the world, yes, but most pentingly … to dirimu.
Our sub-conscious believes what we tell it and I think yours is telling you to watch this TED talk (again) right now!
TED Description: Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the beratships of others.
Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous orang he’s met in the years since.
In a moving, heartfelt and at times downright funny talk, Solomon gives a kuat call to action to forge meaning from our biggest struggles.
Andrew Solomon’s TED Talk made me feel like I was listening to a gentle giant—gentle in nature and giant in reach.
His message of compassion shifted perspective and gratitude boldly amplifies a message so desperately needed in a world filled with daily tragedy and injustice.
His talk brings up a heated topic widely disagreed upon in our society.
This serves to only further demonstrate the purpose of his talk and offers us an even greater challenge.
While we may not understand or selalu agree with our neighbors, we can all strive for more empathy for one another.
“As a student of adversity, I’ve been struck over the years by how some orang with major challenges seem to draw strength from them, and I’ve heard the popular wisdom that that has to do with finding meaning.
And for a long time, I thought the meaning was out there, some great truth waiting to be found.
But over time, I’ve come to feel that the truth is irrelevant.
We call it finding meaning, but we might better call it forging meaning.”
This TED talk could aptly be named, “Finding the Gift,” the title of my own book and a topic that is near and dear to my heart.
We all face adversity, but it’s how we use that adversity that really defines us.
Or do we choose instead to see the opportunity for growth within it?
I found the use of “forge” to be curious so I looked up its definition: make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and beating or hammering it (Oxford Advanced pelajarier’s Dictionary).
How better to describe taking the tough stuff in kehidupan through a painful transition process, to ultimately mold it into something more desirable?
Gifts are often gift-wrapped in obstacles, so leave no gift unopened.
It may not be obvious at first glance, but if we keep looking, chances are good that with enough time and perspective, we can find reasons to be grateful in all things.
Even when I can’t find the gift, I choose to believe it’s there anyway—in some way being the lesser of two evils, in teaching me something I need to know, or simply in shaping my character to handle challenges down the road.
Adversity makes me more relatable to my fellows and can serve as a point of connection and hope.
We can’t ubah what’s happened to us, but we can ubah how we think and feel about it, and how we use it for good.
Watch and be inspired to transform your biggest struggles too.
TED Description: At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in kehidupan’s setbacks — including death itself.
I don’t even know where to begin on this one, much less decide which quotes to bring out.
I’d prefer to just give you the entire transcript, it’s that good!
Steve Jobs tells three stories about his kehidupan to illustrate three key lessons: connecting the dots, love and loss, and what we can pelajari from accepting that death is unavoidable.
Steve Jobs had the courage to find a career he loved, rather than simply follow suit with what everyone else was doing.
We pelajari how this college drop-out discovered what he was passionate about pursuing.
He jangan pernah settled for anything less and encourages others to keep looking if they haven’t found it yet.
Steve Jobs trusted his gut and arguably accomplished far more in his kehidupan following his heart than had he stuck to a prescribed, one-size-fits-all path.
“And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on …
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my kehidupan.
But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me….
Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward, when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward.
You can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your masa depan.
You have to trust in something— your gut, destiny, kehidupan, karma, whatever—because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.
And that will make all the difference.”
Personally, I did not consider what I loved or what my talents were when choosing my career path.
I grew up feeling invisible and we were extremely poor, so making money was my main objective.
Achieving external validation and recognition was a close second.
One was to fill my bank account and the other was supposed to fill the deficit inside my soul.
Unfortunately, I pelajaried that neither accomplishment made me happy or fulfilled.
For so many years, I was playing it safe instead of finding the courage to pursue my authentic, yet unknown calling.
My heart aches for anyone else who feels trapped in their present circumstances—certain there must be more to kehidupan, but not knowing what that might be and afraid to make a ubah.
Just as Steve Jobs getting fired from Apple led him to the most creative years of his kehidupan, my twelve year, award-winning sales career ending due to injury led me to the place where I can now make the most impact while loving every minute of my “work.”
Chase your heart first and let the paycheck follow.
That’s easier said than done so if you did it the other way around, like I did, just know it is jangan pernah, ever too late to ubah course and do what you really love.
I also subscribe to Steve’s last point: letting death shape how we approach kehidupan.
I have a weird habit of studying obituaries looking for orang who really lived.
If we think with the end in mind, what would we do differently now?
What do you want said about you when you’re gone?
Writing what we want read at our memorial service is the ultimate goal-setting session.
Steve Jobs asked himself every day for thirty-three years, “If today was the last day of my kehidupan, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?”
He shared how understanding his mortality helped him fearlessly make big kehidupan decisions.
Again, I could have chosen many more kehidupan-transforming quotes from these fifteen minutes so watch this talk to get them all!
Please enjoy these classic TED talks and stay tuned for part two!
Until then, cheers to you finding the gift!
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