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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