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#JoinTheCountdown How do you want to be seen by others? How to present yourself in a self-confident and not arrogant way? According to Stefan Verra, everyone can change his or her body language in three simple steps that will have an enormous impact on the person opposite. Click on the video below, to find out more on Stefan Verra’s TEDxMedUniGraz 2020 Talk “The Body Language Of Self ...
- "Success, Failure, & The Drive to Keep Creating" by Elizabeth Gilbert
- "The Power of Believing You Can Improve" by Carol Dweck
- "How to Live Passionately -- No Matter Your Age" by Isabel Allende
- "How to Build Your Creative Confidence" by David Kelley
- "The Day I Stood Up Alone" by Boniface Mwangi
- "How I Beat Stage Fright" by Joe Kowan
- "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" by Amy Cuddy
- "The Game That Can Give You 10 Extra Years of Life" by Jane Mcgonigal
- "Where Does Creativity Hide?" by Amy Tan
- "The Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get" by Susan Colantuono
Length: 7 min. 14 sec.
Before she authored the book Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert was an "unpublished young diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And even after she published the book and it became a huge success, she found herself identifying strongly with her former self -- and feeling the urge to quit the fame game and move to the country to raise corgis. In this TED talk, Gilbert reflects on the strange and unlikely psychological connection between how we experience great failure and how we exp...
Length: 10 min. 20 sec.
Carol Dweck starts her talk off with a short but powerful story about a high school in Chicago where students didn't receive failing grades. Instead, they received the grade "Not Yet." The grade implies that not passing the course doesn't mean you're going nowhere, but rather you're on a learning curve. Dweck uses this story to frame the rest of her TED talk, where she talks about her research on "growth mindset" -- the idea that we can actually grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve...
Length: 8 min. 16 sec.
I'm a long-time fan of Isabel Allende, author of (among other wonderful books) The House of Spirits. She's 71 years old, but says she's still 17. Hey, why let society decide when you're old? In her TED talk, she talks about how we all experience age differently. She talks about her fears as she gets older, and shares how she plans to keep living passionately. Through aging, she says she's gained freedom -- mainly, the freedom from having to prove things to people anymore. "My body may be fall...
Length: 11 min. 29 sec.
When have you, or others in your life, opted out of being creative? Many organizations divided people into categories: Either you're a "creative," or you're not. But designer and educator David Kelley suggests that creativity is not limited to a chosen few. In this TED talk, Kelley tells really interesting, touching stories from his legendary design career and his own life, and offers ways to build the confidence to create. He believes that when people gain this confidence, they start working...
Length: 7 min. 20 sec.
(Warning:NSFW. There are graphic images in this video.) Boniface Mwangi is a photographer whose job was to document the horrific violence in his home country of Kenya -- and watched as his government kept it silent. Finally, he made a plan to protest against the corruption: During a large public meeting where the Kenyan president was speaking, he and a few friends would stand up and heckle the president to get his attention. But his friends never showed. "I was scared,but I knew very well tha...
Length: 8 min. 3 sec.
Humans are fearful for a reason. It served us well as a species for thousands of years so we wouldn't be killed off by predators. But, as Joe Kowan explains, it's a little less wonderful when that same, visceral, body-hijacking sense of fear kicks in in front of 20 folk-music fans at an open mic night. Kowan used to just write songs, but at some point, that wasn't enough anymore. He had all these stories and ideas he wanted to share with people, but his stage fright was keeping him from doing...
Length: 20 min. 55 sec.
Body language can have profound effects on how others see us. We make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language, and those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes -- like whom we hire or promote, whom we ask out on a date, and so on. But, even more importantly, body language can affect how we see ourselves. Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy's research on body language proves that we can actually change other people's perceptions of us (and even our own body chemistry) sim...
Length: 19 min. 23 sec.
Now here's a wild story: Two years prior to giving this TED talk, game designer Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion and became bedridden and suicidal. Suicidal ideation is common following traumatic brain injuries, and hers became so bad that she began to fear for her life. At one point -- and she says she'll never forget this moment -- she said to herself, "I'm either going to kill myself, or I'm going to turn this into a game." That was her ticket to getting better: turning it into...
Length: 22 min. 42 sec.
Where does creativity come from? Are some people born with it? Is creativity a function of some other neurological quirk, like psychosis or depression? Are some people equipped with certain skills that enable creativity, like artistic ability? Or is creativity developed mostly through experience? You may know Amy Tan as the author of The Joy Luck Club, or one of her other well known books. In this TED talk, she dives into her own creative process and stories of her life that could lend a clue...
Length: 13 min. 57 sec.
Some people, Susan Colantuono included, believe that leadership manifests at every level of management. There'sa tremendous number of awesome leaders in middle management, and many of them are women. But for Colantuono, this raises the question:Why are there so many womenstuckin the middle -- even when they're doing everything right at work and taking all the right advice? In this TED talk, Colantuono shares a simple and surprising piece of advice. The talk's aimed primarily at women, but the...
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- Joe Kowan : How I Beat Stage Fright. An entertaining and uplifting video that details how singer-songwriter Joe Kowan eventually learned how to overcome his fear of being on stage.
- Amy Cuddy : Your Body Shapes Who You Are. This is an extremely inspirational video by Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy. She provides amazing insight into how research is starting to suggest that we are influenced by our own non-verbal communication to ourselves.
- Jia Jiang : Overcoming Fear with Rejection Therapy. Author of ‘Rejection Proof’, Jia Jiang, provides a very funny, informative, and helpful video for overcoming our fears.
- Tim Ferris : Learning How to Smash Fear. Author of ‘Tools of Titans’ and productivity guru Tim Ferris gives a nice intellectual breakdown on how he learned to deconstruct his fears so he can eventually conquer them.
- Martin Seligman: The New Era of Positive Psychology. Martin Seligman. It’s impossible to understand positive psychology without knowing about its founder Martin Seligman.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the Secret to Happiness. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The serenity, absorption, and complete engagement we feel when we’re entirely wrapped up in something we love has a name in positive psychology: flow.
- Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness. Dan Gilbert. Have you worked hard on becoming happier only to see your happiness level become stagnant?
- Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work. Shawn Achor. If you want to hear about how unicorns, fake graphs, and weirdos related to happiness, this funny and very personal TED talk is for you.
Sep 11, 2019 · Adia Gooden expresses how important it is to accept yourself unconditionally . This life-changing TED Talk covers forgiveness and self-acceptance. It’s about being there for yourself, as well as connecting with supportive people who accept you. 3. What if There’s Nothing Wrong With You | Susan Henkels.
