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Mar 5, 2014 · Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius. Eat, Pray, Love. Courtney Martin: Reinventing Feminism. "A beautifully heartfelt talk, she describes the three paradoxes that define her generation ...
- Caitlin Moscatello
As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life. 08:23. Bill Gates.
When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was threatened to stop teaching -- and shares her vision for rebuilding her beloved country. 15:55.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'We should all be feminists' Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave this iconic TED Talk in 2012, which later got adapted into a book of the same title and was partially quoted in Beyoncé's 2013 song "Flawless."
- Sheryl Sandberg: 'Why we have too few women leaders' Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg sheds light on various reasons why women are missing from the top roles of all professions around the world.
- Kimberlé Crenshaw: 'The urgency of intersectionality' Civil rights advocate and Columbia Law School professor Kimberlé Crenshaw explains the term "intersectionality," which she first coined in 1989.
- Ashley Judd: 'How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control' Nearly a year before Ashley Judd publicly called out Harvey Weinstein for sexual harassment, she gave a TED Talk accusing Silicon Valley of not doing enough to stand up to misogynistic cyber-bullying.
- Tricia Goss
- Anne-Marie Slaughter: “Can We All ‘Have It All?'” Anne-Marie Slaughter questions the outdated notion that women must choose between a successful career and a fulfilling family life.
- Joy Buolamwini: “How I’m Fighting Bias in Algorithms” Joy Buolamwini shares her experience of being overlooked by facial recognition software due to her dark skin.
- Susan David: “The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage” Susan David explores how emotional courage can change our lives. Drawing on anecdotes from her life, David explains that emotional courage is the ability to acknowledge and embrace complicated feelings instead of suppressing them, allowing us to move forward.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Danger of a Single Story” In her TED Talk, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pushes against the oversimplification of people and cultures by telling multiple stories about groups.
Mar 8, 2024 · One of the great things that can nurture women leaders across the world is access to information. In one of the most moving TED talks by women, CEO of The Carter Centre, Paige Alexander talks about the irrefutable role of education that can help create well-aware women leaders and inspire women entrepreneurs to be more confident and self-reliant with their businesses.
Mar 1, 2021 · Here are some of my favorite TED Talks from inspirational women from a variety of backgrounds who have taught me lessons I try to utilize every day. 1. Overcoming obstacles. Diana Nyad, 64, is ...
