Tag: TED

• Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist (TED)

  

  A beautifully told story and an inspiring testament to the power of human empathy: She looked at me with the weary eyes of someone who had experienced enough dogmatism to last a lifetime, and said, “I’m tired of hating people.”  

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  November 29, 2014

  Life, Love, Personalities, Self, Talks

  1993, bigotry, bombing, bullying, character, comedian, dogmatism, El Sayyid Nosair, empathy, Experience, extremism, father, father figure, FBI, gay, hatred, homosexuality, identity, ideology, inspiration, intolerance, Islam, Islamism, Jewish, Jon Stewart, Judaism, judgment, kindness, Life, New York, race, religion, stereotype, story, suffering, synagogue, TED, terrorism, terrorist, The Daily Show, tolerance, UN, victim, violence, World Trade Center, worldview, Zac Ebrahim

• Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (TED)

  

  … it’s bad enough not getting what you want. But it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn’t in fact what you wanted all along.

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  September 14, 2014

  Life, Psychology, Talks

  Alain de botton, anxiety, career, career crisis, crisis, envy, failure, Ferrari, greed, hierarchy, hope, human, job, judgment, loser, materialism, meritocracy, newspaper, ownership, respect, rewards, snob, snobbery, success, TED, time, tragedy

• The Beginning of the Universe (TED-Ed)

  

  For the curious-minded, Tom Whyntie on the beginning of the universe: Go here for the full ‘lesson’. And here for more from Whyntie. And because I feel guilty for not indicating the source of this interesting video, here. (You really shouldn’t be surprised.)

  valsaksornchai

  January 16, 2014

  Curiosities, Learning

  animated, beginners, Big Bang, CERN, particles, physics, TED, TED-Ed, Tom Whyntie, universe, videos, YouTube

• How Not To Worry: A 1934 Guide to Mastering Life (Maria)

  I’m finding interesting parallels between Maria’s “How Not To Worry: A 1934 Guide to Mastering Life” and this TED talk I posted earlier today. Maybe there is a higher wisdom after all.

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  January 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Humour, Learning, Life, Mind, Psychology, Random, Self

  1934, Book, Brainpickings, Dan Gilbert, guide, how to, James Gordon Gilkey, Life, Maria Popova, master, ripped, TED, vintage finds, worries, worrying, You Can Master Life

• Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy? (TED)

  

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  January 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Mind, Psychology, Talks

  affective, amnesiac, brain, choose, cortex, Dan Gilbert, Freedom, Happiness, mind, Monet prints, natural happiness, psychological immune system, Psychology, Stumbling on Happiness, synthetic happiness, TED, TED talks, want

• Hyeonseo Lee: My Escape from North Korea (TED)

  

  When I was young, I thought my country was the best on the planet.

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  December 21, 2013

  Life, Personalities, Politics, Talks

  China, escape, Hyeonseo Lee, Korean peninsula, North Korea, North Koreans, Politics, South Korea, TED, Thailand

• Kahneman on the Riddle of Experience v.s. Memory (TED)

  

  20 minutes that will shift your paradigm.

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  December 15, 2013

  Curiosities, Economics, Life, Mind, Psychology, Talks

  Daniel Kahneman, Experience, Happiness, Memory, TED