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After observing that women have trouble taking credit for their success, and therefore miss out on a lot of opportunities, Canadian-born Susan Macaulay grew frustrated.
Every one of us deserves to have the Summit Series message (metaphorically) tattooed on our wrists: You are awesome. Now act like it.
Bringing some much-needed positive energy to a country wracked by economic woes, the theme of this year's TEDx event was disruption. From politics to storm chasing to filmmaking; how do we change the rules of the game?
If you haven't yet sipped the TED Kool-Aid, get yourself a straw. I've been a public speaker for 35 years now but hit the Mt. Everest of conferences when I spoke for the TEDMED group this past October.
It's too easy for audiences to pass me off as "exceptional," "a prodigy," "gifted." The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make "big miracles" happen. We need a movement.
I'm not on the third act, but breaking life into a three-act play made me understand more about why I practice yoga, and how we become terribly annoyed with yoga translation overload.
Last month I had the enjoyable challenge of writing and giving a talk for TED.
I don't like resolutions. New Year's, Easter, summer or any other kind. I don't like them because they don't work. They have never worked. They put emphasis on what we don't do, don't have or don't know how to get. They put a focus on what's wrong with us. What we are lacking.
Human beings tend to assume that whatever group they happen to comprise is self-evidently the best, God's chosen ones -- and everyone else's equally passionately held belief that they are the chosen few is simply delusional.
Over the years I have met hundreds of parents. Some are helpless; some just stuck; some misguided; some are uber-confident. The most effective parents share one trait: they are mindful.
"Each time a person stands up for an idea, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, (s)he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert Kennedy
When my students are thrown into a super-heated crucible with a recipe for immediate and complete failure, they don't boil over or give up. They turn lead into gold. Why can't we adults do the same?
Just as YouTube serves as the world's archive of the human experience, so too can it serve as the world's biggest and most thrilling classroom.
Just as the 19th century abolished slavery and the 20th century established human rights, so too the 21st century is the one in which we can end torture.
Something Egyptians have proven to be true is that the power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.
To many people, the idea of growing replacement body parts in the lab sounds like modern-day science fiction. In truth, it's quickly becoming science fact.
