I love watching those amazing TED Talks. They represent years of thought, research, writing and teaching of the concepts about which the presenter is passionate all distilled into an eighteen-minute presentation!
Imagine it’s you giving one of those TED Talks. The crowd is waiting with full attention in anticipation of your presentation, the cameras are ready to capture and publish the Talk on the World Wide Web. What will your topic be?
Our answers reveal what’s most important to us; the thing in life that drives us. It’s the belief which makes us the least polite person in a conversation about it because we can’t shut up about this thing that grips us with frenzy and won’t let us go.
My TED Talk will be about Community.
Will you attend my TED Talk? I’ll attend yours.
What will it be about?
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I love TED talks! I have always told people to look them up because they are like a book in a 20 minute talk. Not only is it efficient and loaded with quality you get to match the person with the information.
I have also dreamed of doing a talk myself. Just to have enough figured out to have something to say would be awesome, I feel like I still have so much to learn and think on. Right now, if pressed, I would talk about intentional living. Creating a life around what I/you personally value instead of taking habit or societies expectations. Things like material goods, schedules, careers, and passions need to be individual choices. We need a world full of radically different people doing what they love and are great at.
@Lorilee Hi Lorilee! Welcome to Life, for instance!
You identify what I love about TED Talks too - "like a book in a 20-minute talk". A person has to be very well versed in their topic to carry that off well!
I like your topic and it's needed so get working on it! "We need a world full of radically different people..." we do and many of them are right here ;-)
What TED Talk(s) do you recommend most?
@Lori the ones that stick out as favorites are Sir Ken Robinson's talks and Larry Smith's 'Why you will fail to have a great career'.
what are your favorites? I am always looking for good ones to squeeze in when I have a free minute :)
@Lorilee Thanks for the recommendation - I'll check out Larry Smith's Talk (I've already seen Sir Ken Robinson's talk) This is a favourite of mine: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
I've watched it over and over again and even made changes on my web site (not this one, Terra Cotta Pendants) based on what I learned!
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The power of community is a good one.
"Creativity, life and the art of breaking out"
Maybe I could talk about how cool late bloomers are ;)
I still like Ken Robinson's first speech the best. Jill Bolte Taylor is a runner-up.
@Craig McBreen That's a good one Craig. They are important factors to a happy successful life. Would you have any advice for the pre-late bloomers?
I've seen both of those TED Talks, they're good. It's time for some new ones. Ours.
@Lori I have advice for my 18-year-old son ... All. The. Time. ;) But he isn't very receptive.
@Craig McBreen @Lori Late Bloomers unite: there is huge potential in that!
Children: haha, you should listen to my daughter now!
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@Lori @Craig McBreen Have I heard my name called? Is it time to go on stage?
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@Late_Bloomers @Lori Late bloomers unite ;)
@Lori @Craig McBreen Ouch, got me! Well, what I meant was: was I being so transparent? ;-)
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@Late_Bloomers @Craig McBreen Apparently there is a 7 minute version! It's called TEDx. No more excuses then ;-)
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@Lori @Craig McBreen Oh, dear, is there a MINI MINI TED talks series?
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@Late_Bloomers @Craig McBreen It is! Are you ready?
Lori, I'm ready, when do I go on? :) Mine would be about accessing and following your intuition and the signs and synchronicity, of course. I know, no suprises there!
@Julie | A Clear Sign No surprises for sure Julie, but thanks for weighing in. Do you think it would be hard to condense all that you know and feel about following your intuition into just 18 minutes?
@Lori Nope, I can keep it short and sweet. When you're called to go on, you have to be ready to be concise! Eighteen minutes is actually quite a long time to be up there, if memory serves.
Hi Lori! I would SO come to your TED talk! I am not surprised your talk would be about community - you are so great at it! For mine, I am going to try to narrow it down as much as possible - my TED talk would be about the craziness of weddings! And helping women realize what's important. We just attended wedding # twenty-something in the past two years, and all of the chaos that takes place is insane. It's so easy these days to get caught up in it all. My message would be to give women some perspective, before "wedding brain" takes over! ;)
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@Ali Mac Well I'd go to that talk Ali! "Wedding brain"! It's way too late for me! It would be very interesting to hear about the historical roots of the traditions we observe! Would you cover stuff like that?
@Lori Not so much historical roots, but more the darker side of weddings and how to manage it all and not get carried away. It can become so overwhelming and society gives brides permission to freak out and go over the top, but how much of that is really necessary? It's kind of crazy. And once you're in it, it's hard to see clearly through the storm. It's very easy to lose sight of what is important and to stay grounded. It doesn't help that the word "wedding" sometimes gives anyone involved a badge to freak out, too. My talk would use humor and real life situations to (hopefully) offer some perspective.
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@Lori HA! One can only hope, Lori!! PS I cannot wait for my Terra Cotta Pendants to get here!!! ;)
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@Ali Mac Let us know when you do that talk! It sound really relevant! :-)
You can't come to my talk without buying my book and taking my course first. Because if you didn't you would never understand it and that would ruin the experience. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you, no ma'am and no sir.
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@TheJackB Aw ruin it for us Jack! What would your topic be?
My Ted talk? and you PROMISE to come? I think I would have to do my own version of George Carlin 'STUFF'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
Having been on an unpaid leave of absence this year, I've really been able to realize how much 'extra' I was unnecessarily spending, and how little of it all I REALLY needed! it's mind-boggling!
@StaceyMJHughes Uh - yeah I'll come! I'll watch this video tomorrow - thanks! I've heard some of George Carlin's stuff - funny! Oh, I didn't mean to make a pun on "stuff". Now I can't wait to watch it! So your TED Talk would be about having too much stuff? Interesting!
@Lori I also show my students this Annie Leonard video on 'The Story of Stuff': http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/ It's also an excellent discussion and enlightens us as to what we are doing as consumers!!
@StaceyMJHughes @Lori I've seen this one - great share here Stacey! How do your students respond to it?
This is a fantastic question. I wish I had an answer. I know just what you mean about becoming impolite because you're so fired up about something, LOL. I know there are things like that, but I need to take note over the next week or so what topics do that for me. Thanks for the food for thought!
@Sue_Mitchell Hi Sue! You know what I mean? Cool! Come back here and let us know what makes you impolite ;-) Why wasn't this harder for ME to do :o
I want to say Welcome to Life, for instance but I've seen you around and I'm not sure it's your first time here. I'll say it just in case, Welcome and remember to come back with your answer okay?
Great conversation, Lori - I LOVE TED talks!
Mine would be taking a look at how we can all create mind, body, and soul balance in our own lives by truly listening to our intuition on what is really important for each of us in those areas and sharing tangibles on how those who inspire me have found this balance.
One of my fave TED talks is this one:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html
@Sabrina at MyMiBoSo That's a great talk Sabrina! "What you see changes you." Wow!
@Sabrina at MyMiBoSo Hi Sabrina! Thanks for the TED Talk link- I'll watch it tomorrow when I have more time! I could have guessed what your TED Talk would be about ;-) The ability to listen to your intuition is a great gift, worth developing. I'll be there for your TED Talk!
I would think mine would probably be titled "How Surfing saved my life."
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@skooloflife That would be a cool TED Talk Srin! I'm sure you'd fill the audience! I'm there!
Do you have a favorite TED Talk to share?
Hi Lori,
I thought you would never ask LOL. Whenever some topic really grabbed my attention, I used to put together a class/seminar and teach it. It was great fun to present but have moved on to other areas of interest. If you are interested, here is an old website listing various talks I assembled http://rileyharrison.net/
Riley
@Rileyhar RIley, why am I not surprised that you have many topics lined up for your TED Talk! LOL Those are a lot of topics! Am I right in condensing them to the topic of getting unstuck in life? ;-)
I'd definitely be at your talk. Lori! :) (I'm planning to get a preview on our hang out about the "drum" book as soon as we all get around to reading it!)
Mine would have to be on Connection. It's what I realize I value in many areas of my life. So connection would be what I talk about--connection to self-Source and each other.
@Steve_Rice Connection! This is great! I can imagine how amazing this Talk will be!
I'm there Steve! Do you notice that it's closely related to @bdorman264 's response - must be a Hangout theme.
As for The Different Drum, this is open to any LFIers who are interested! We're having a book discussion on The Different Drum, by M Scott Peck. It's about community building. Check out the book and contact me if you are interested!
Mine would be about dealing with the lizard brain and the fears that stop us! I'd cover Seth Godin, neuroscience and ways to crush someday thinking :)
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@Sandi Amorim Oooh Sandi. I read "crush someday thinking" as "crush somebody's thinking" and for no reason at all, I can't stop laughing. Must be that Monday thing!
@Vidya Sury Possible ;-) but not in a violent way of course!
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@Sandi Amorim @Vidya Sury LOL
@Sandi Amorim Hi Sandi! Would that be three Talks? It sounds interesting! I'm fascinated with neuroscience! Have you read Evolve Your Brain by Joe Dispenza? http://www.amazon.com/Evolve-Your-Brain-Science-Changing/dp/0757307655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336405360&sr=8-1
@Lori I've read Joe Dispenza, have liked his work since I first heard of him in What They Bleep Do We Know!
But I think it'd be just the one talk, combining my favourite topics. If you're going to make me choose just one, I'd say it'd be about eliminating someday thinking!!!
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@Sandi Amorim That would be cool! Let me know when you've scheduled it! Can you say anything about it here - a preview? :-)
How to have great hair, of course........
When I get involved with the kids in the Guardian ad Litem program, I can get pretty passionate about helping them get out of bad situations in their lives which they had no control over other than being born.
As you might guess, I too could get passionate about community and engagement. To me, it is the trigger that makes all other things possible.
Hola!
@bdorman264 You're talking about advocacy Bill? That's related to community-building, isn't it? So that's your deal? Cool! I'll attend your talk!
Oh you would make a wonderful speaker. I would be in the front row definitely!
My TED talk would be about laughing one's way through life. I feel we focus so much on stress and trouble and forget to laugh. We all need to learn to laugh it off at times!
@Hajra Who are you? Are you new to social?
@Hajra Well if you have to be that way about it, I'll save you a seat ;-) LOL
I'll be attending yours Hajra! Laughing your way through life - what a great topic! Can you give us a glimpse of your talk? How do YOU laugh your way through life?