Summary Of The Ted Talk

In Dr. Winch’s Ted Talk he addresses three “emotional injuries,” and discusses how people tend to make their emotional injury worse than it has to be. He also reassures us on how we can lessen the damage of our emotional injuries. The three emotional injuries are loneliness, failure, and rejection. Dr. Winch believes that people who experience one of these feelings tend to make matters worse by convincing themselves that they can’t change their feelings and ultimately they end up contributing to their injury. People tend to think of their faults or they play an event or situation over and over again in their head. Thinking negatively does nothing to improve their injury. Dr. Winch believes that thinking positively can help reduce the emotional

The text my partner and I were originally going to analyze was Robb Willer’s Ted Talk called How to have better political conversations. We decided not do analyze his speech however we did take inspiration from it. The text we analyzed in the end were article titles posted on The Washington Post written by a variety of people.

Managers are leaders, leaders are managers, these concepts have long been thought to be synonymous. Ideally, for a manager to be good, the former is the case, but this is not always the case. Further, one doesn’t have to be a manager to be a leader. Anyone can be a leader. They are the people who exhibit superior interpersonal qualities that allows them to create connections to obtain a desired outcome; these are informal leaders (Sullivan). Everyone knows that one or two informal leaders, the people you just get behind and follow because they are so charismatic and influential. They don’t stand up to be recognized, they simply do it, as it comes natural to them. Managers on the other hand are placed in a position of power by an organization

In the Ted Talk, The Why and the How of Effective Altruism, Singer presents the story of two-year old, Wang Yue. Wang Yue was hit by a van and left bleeding on the road. Many people walked by her without helping and by the time Wang Yue was taken to the hospital she was pronounced dead. However, when Singer asked the crowd if they would have stopped to help, many people affirmed that they would. Singer believes that you cannot give yourself so much moral credit because a person’s decision not to help a child like Wang Yue when put in that position is no different than someone who doesn’t help a child when not in this position. 19,000 children a day are dying from preventable diseases while people spend excess money to go on cruises, buy new

This argument will be based off Dan Buettner’s Ted talk video, which is “How to live to

I decided to watch Steve Howard's Ted Talk titled: "Let's go all-in on selling sustainability."

Shirin Neshat’s TED talk was an eye-opening insight into life as an artist within other cultures. The oppression faced in Iran, particularly by women, provides ample material for Neshat to create politically charged artwork. The subject matter addressed includes the negative treatment of women, an artist’s place in Iran combined with eventual exile, and the western world’s position as it applies to the eastern world. Each theme Neshat has chosen to employ is admirable as fine art and as a political statement.

In the Ted Talk, Every kid needs a champion, by Rita Pierson goes over the importance of a teacher and student connection. I have watched this Ted Talk many times since but never get tired because of the passion and motivation Ms. Pierson demonstrate. There are many instances when Ms. Pierson demonstrated how she implemented Glasser’s theory of fulfillment in the classroom. When Ms. Pierson talks about the class she was given of lower level students but still made them feel worthy. “I am somebody. I was somebody when I came and I’ll be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful and I am strong. I deserve the education that I get here. I have things to do people to impress and places to go.” This saying helped the student feel belong, freedom, and power.

Computers will soon know us better than we know ourselves. A recent study made by Quartz Media published findings that revealed the average American stares at a screen for about 7.5 hours a day. The more we interact with someone or something for that matter, the more they will know of us. As we head into an age of technological advancement, artificial intelligent is facilitating the devices to become our best friends. In Jeremy Howard’s Ted Talk, The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn, he explains the complicated algorithm that technology has with tracking and remembering your every click. We have the misconception that we can do everything that computers can, however, with software’s like “deep learning that

The Ted Talk by Sherry Turkle, "Alone Together" embraces a strong dependency of modern day technology, and it's power to replace human contact with the "Illusion of companionship". With a respected background, a degree in Psychology and extensive research, Sherry Turkle emphasizes just how much we're letting technology take us to a place we do not want to go. It is one thing to reflect upon a professional, and another thing to adopt imagery in personal lyrical emotion. The two videos that grasped my attention were Gary Turk's "Look up" and Prince EA's "Autocorrect Humanity." Both videos display a lot of similarities, such as rhymes, an emotional connection, and expressing the overall picture of putting down your phone, but Gary Turks "Look Up" has made a larger impact of the two. The video "Look Up" has a significantly powerful, and emotional appeal to it and the message it conveys.

In “Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent,” Safwat Saleem, shows his passion and his courageous side when speaking in his Ted Talk, describing the main idea of there not being such a thing of normalcy, as well as arguing that individuals should be confident and accept who they are from their special qualities. Agreeing with Saleem (2016), however to also consider it has become common in today’s society to want to be normal. Therefore many people would not agree with wanting to be exactly known as quote on quote ‘normal’ but they may want to assimilate to norms because that person is or may be in a unique way socially accepted.

I chose this TED talk because I am interested in science. Krane begins with a joke as an introduction, which helps to lighten up the audience as chronic pain is a serious topic. The primary purpose of the TED talk is to inform the audience, what chronic pain is. He does this through the use of visual aids, anecdotes, and analogy. Such visual aids include a blowtorch and feather, which allows Krane to compare them to a physical condition one of his patients, Chandler, had. This comparison establishes exigency in the audience as they can then see how painful chronic pain is. Krane’s depiction of Chandler’s chronic pain allows the audience to relate to her. Krane then uses an analogy to a house to better explain how chronic pain works in the nervous system, a gentle

Christopher Emdin, a longtime teacher and now science advocate, believes that educators should focus on theories and content, but also include magic in their teaching. His TED talk begins with him saying that there are students enrolled in teacher education programs listening to their professors talk about how to be engaging in the most disengaging way possible. These individuals want to be effective teachers, but are either disinterested in the content or have no model to follow. He then describes magic as having the power to engage an audience. The people who have this “magic” are far removed from the classroom. In fact, those people may not have a degree of any kind. Those who possess the magic to engage did not attend a college or university, but learned it from hanging out at places like barber shops, rap concerts, or the Black church. Christopher believes that teachers who need help engaging their students and making their classrooms livelier should attend these places and observe how to engage an audience. He says that by doing this boring classrooms can come to life and students can actually become interested in learning the material (Emdin, 2013, 1:7).

When it comes to choice it always seems to be a love hate relationship: we hate making them, but we can’t live without them. Anyone can all look back to a time in our lives where they wish someone could just pick for us, or times when we wish there were more to choose from. All Americans have many choices, and it is such a part of our daily lives that we don’t even realize it. Barry Schwartz and Sheena Iyengar‘s TED talks bring up interesting ideas about choice, how people deal with them and their affects. They both state that although choice is good, it can also have negative effects. Schwartz explains what most people believe and experience with choice, while Iyengar shows cultural differences in choice making. Both Schwartz and Iyengar

The idea that Steven Pinker discussed in his Ted Talk was that over time our world has become a more peaceful place to reside in. Breaking his evidence down into the viewpoint of millenniums, centuries, and decades, he utilized mortality rates due to warfare, homicide, and death penalty. Furthermore, Pinker analyzes the history of warfare from a social perspective that investigates the effect that anarchy, the value of life, and the expanding of one’s circle of acceptance.