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October 24, 2019 by Greg

List of Our Favorite TED Talks

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks are engaging, informative, and inspiring.  By request, I am compiling a list of talks that I have listened to and enjoyed, including some talks of a similar format that are not from TED.  I don’t necessarily agree with the ideas expressed within, but I did enjoy listening.  They are listed in reverse chronological order of how I listened to them.

  • Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything
  • Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform
  • Ted Harford: How frustration can make us more creative
  • Achenyo Idachaba: How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business
  • Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit
  • Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
  • Kang Lee: Can you really tell if a kid is lying?
  • Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other
  • Tom Hulme: What can we learn from shortcuts?
  • Julia Galef: Why you think you’re right – even if you’re wrong
  • Sal Khan: Let’s teach for mastery – not test scores
  • Alice Rawsthorn: Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers
  • Seema Bansal: How to fix a broken education system… without any more money
  • Todd Rose: They myth of average
  • Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers
  • Casey Gerald: The gospel of doubt
  • Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
  • Liz Danzico: The fringe benefits of quitting
  • Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
  • Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
  • Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door
  • Willaim Ury: The walk from “no” to “yes”
  • Sally Kohn: Let’s try emotional correctness
  • Sally Kohn: Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click
  • Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data
  • Sheryl Sandberg: So we leaned in… now what?
  • Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders
  • Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking you’re ugly is bad for you
  • Matthew O’Reilly: “Am I dying?” The honest answer
  • Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime
  • Lemon Anderson: Please don’t take my Air Jordans
  • Clint Smith: The danger of silence
  • Linsey Pollak: Carrot clarinet
  • Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea
  • David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet – and it’s magic
  • Charles Leadbeater: The era of open innovation
  • Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist”
  • Clifford Stoll: The call to learn
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we “have it all”?
  • Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
  • Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet’s immune system
  • Lorrie Faith Cranon: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
  • Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices
  • Anne Curzan: What makes a word “real”?
  • Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
  • Del Harvey: The strangeness of scale at Twitter
  • Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic
  • Richard St. John: 8 secrets of success
  • Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
  • Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar
  • Sarah Lewis: Celebrate the near win
  • David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
  • Randall Munroe: Comics that ask “what if?”
  • Stanley McChrystal: The military case for sharing knowledge
  • Aparno Rao: Art that craves your attention
  • McKenna Pope: Want to be an activist? Start with your toys
  • Tina Roth Eisenberg: Trust breeds magic
  • Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
  • Esther Gokhale: FInd your primal posture and sit without back pain
  • Diana Nyad: Never Give Up
  • Paul Piff: Does money make you mean?
  • Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
  • Allessandro Acquisti:  Why privacy matters
  • Jeff Speck:  The walkable city
  • Amy Webb:  How I hacked online dating
  • Onara O’Neil: What we don’t understand about trust
  • Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection
  • Frank Chimero: Do things the long, stupid, hard way
  • Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of “willful blindness”
  • Gavin Pretor-Pinnor:  Cloudy with a chance of joy
  • Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
  • Mark Shaw: One very dry demo
  • Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?
  • Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
  • Ramsey Musallarm: 3 rules to spark learning
  • Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
  • Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success?  Grit
  • Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s Death Valley
  • Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting?  Take a walk
  • John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
  • Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
  • Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
  • Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint
  • Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model.
  • Tyler Shields Speaks on Getting Attention as a Photographer
  • Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
  • Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help somebody?  Shut up and listen!
  • Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
  • Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see.
  • Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
  • Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand
  • Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
  • Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
  • Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test
  • Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix
  • Rames Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
  • Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
  • Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education
  • Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie an innovate!
  • Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out
  • Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting
  • Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
  • Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel
  • Dan Dennett: The illusion of our consciousness
  • Dan Dennett: Cuts, sexy, sweet, funny
  • Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
  • David Birch: Identity without a name
  • Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
  • David R Dow: Lessons from death row inmates
  • John Hockenberry: We are all designers
  • Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you
  • David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence
  • Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
  • Renny Gleeson on antisocial phone tricks
  • Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found
  • Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
  • Gary Kovacs: Tracking the Trackers
  • Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives
  • Michael Norton: How to buy happiness
  • Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter
  • Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
  • Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
  • Erik Johannson: Impossible photography
  • A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
  • Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
  • Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand
  • Luis von Ahn: Massive scale online collaboration
  • Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we’re born
  • Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
  • Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison
  • Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life
  • Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
  • Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds
  • Paul Zak: Trust, morality – and oxytocin
  • Yves Behar on designing objects that tell stories
  • Seth Godin on standing out
  • Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
  • Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
  • Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing
  • Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
  • Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through teaching
  • Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
  • Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
  • Susan Cain: The power of introverts
  • Carl Honore praises slowness
  • Dale Dougherty: We are makers
  • Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
  • Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
  • Sherry Turkle: Connected but alone?
  • Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
  • Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
  • Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
  • Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
  • Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
  • Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part
  • Amy Tan on creativity

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