9 Inspiring TED Talks To Help You Get Back Up!
So, in this short post.
I am going to share some of my favorite TED Talks.
And the reason why I am going to share these is that at times we find ourselves in a place where we are unfamiliar, or we are tired.
Or, we’ve been beating ourselves against the wall to get results but haven’t gotten the results that we want.
It could be that you’re working towards something. Or maybe you’re just not fitting in.
Or maybe we’ve lost that drive that gave us all the energy we needed to start whatever it is we’re working for maybe it’s getting in better health, or maybe achieving the goal of doing everyone, maybe studying harder.
You know, improving the relationships that we have, or improving learning a new language, whatever it is that you want to achieve and be studying in business.
I know my pet, I know myself personally it’s always has been, about, you know, building on self-confidence, starting an online business and being in front of people and being able to look back and say I did everything and more. Right.
So, sometimes when we are there when we need, when we, When we are standing right at the edge and all we need is a push.
All we need is another belief in ourselves.
And all we truly need. At that moment, is just one small step forward and everything else wouldn’t matter so much. So, in when you’re there.
Sometimes it helps to have someone you look up to inspire you, or to see someone else who has been where you are but has made it, who has taken that step and leap forward and made it out. Just okay. And so, I wanted to share with you some of the best inspiring. Ted Talks as helped me and inspire
pushed me beyond if that makes sense.
So, enjoy.
Simon Sinek explores how leaders can inspire cooperation, trust and change. He’s the author of the classic “Start With Why”; his latest book is “Leaders Eat Last.”
Why you should listen
Fascinated by the leaders who make an impact in the world, companies, and politicians with the capacity to inspire, Simon Sinek has discovered some remarkable patterns in how they think, act, and communicate.
He wrote Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action to explore his idea of the Golden Circle, what he calls “a naturally occurring pattern, grounded in the biology of human decision making, that explains why we are inspired by some people, leaders, messages and organizations over others.”
His newest work explores “circles of safety,” exploring how to enhance feelings of trust and confidence in making bold decisions. It’s the subject of his latest book, Leaders Eat Last.
An ethnographer by training, Sinek is an adjunct of the RAND Corporation. He writes and comments regularly for major publications and teaches graduate-level strategic communications at Columbia University.
Amy Cuddy’s research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and perhaps even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions.
Why you should listen
Amy Cuddy wasn’t supposed to become a successful scientist. In fact, she wasn’t even supposed to finish her undergraduate degree. Early in her college career, Cuddy suffered a severe head injury in a car accident, and doctors said she would struggle to fully regain her mental capacity and finish her undergraduate degree.
But she proved them wrong.
Today, Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School, where she studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people from the classroom to the boardroom. And her training as a classical dancer (another skill she regained after her injury) is evident in her fascinating work on “power posing” — how your body position influences others and even your own brain.
A professor of economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Larry Smith coaches his students to find the careers that they will truly love.
Why you should listen
Larry Smith is a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo. A well-known storyteller and advocate for youth leadership, he has also mentored many of his students on start-up business management and career development.
The most notable start-up he advised in its infancy is Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry.
“What you see in the TED Talk is essentially thirty years of Smith’s frustrations reaching a boiling point,” wrote Carmine Gallo in Forbes. “‘Wasted talent is a waste I cannot stand,’ Smith told me.”
A self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved, Richard St. John spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success — and distilling them into 8 words, 3 minutes, and one successful book.
Why you should listen
Richard St. John was on his way to the TED conference when a girl on the plane asked him, “What really leads to success?” Even though he had achieved some success, he couldn’t explain how he did it. So he spent the next ten years researching success and asking over 500 extraordinarily successful people in many fields what helped them succeed.
After analyzing, sorting, and correlating millions of words of research, and building one of the most organized databases on the subject of success, he discovered “The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common” and wrote the bestseller 8 To Be Great.
In his books and talks, he shares a wealth of wisdom from the world’s most successful people — knowledge that can help others succeed in their own way, whether it’s escaping poverty, building a business, raising a family, or changing the world.
John Doerr is an engineer, acclaimed venture capitalist and the chairman of Kleiner Perkins.
Why you should listen
For over 40 years, John Doerr has served entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, helping them build disruptive companies and bold teams. He was one of the pioneers in the venture capital community investing in breakthrough clean technologies, deploying more than a billion dollars towards more efficient solar cells, better batteries, biofuels, lower-carbon cement, alternate proteins and electric vehicles.
Doerr was an original investor and board member at Amazon and Google and has helped create more than a million jobs and some of the world’s most valuable companies. Outside of Kleiner Perkins, he works with social entrepreneurs for change in public education, the climate crisis and global poverty. Doerr serves on the board of Breakthrough Energy Ventures and ONE.org.
At the University of Pennsylvania, Angela Lee Duckworth studies intangible concepts such as self-control and grit to determine how they might predict both academic and professional success.
Why you should listen
In her late 20s, Angela Lee Duckworth left a demanding job as a management consultant at McKinsey to teach math in public schools in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York.
After five years of teaching seventh graders, she went back to grad school to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an assistant professor in the psychology department. Her research subjects include students, West Point cadets, and corporate salespeople, all of whom she studies to determine how “grit” is a better indicator of success than factors such as IQ or family income.
With Wait But Why, Tim Urban demonstrates that complex and long-form writing can stand out in an online wilderness choked with listicles and clickbait.
Why you should listen
Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure illustrations and occasionally epic prose on everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence, Urban’s blog, Wait But Why, has garnered millions of unique page views, thousands of patrons and famous fans like Elon Musk.
Cambridge research professor Brian Little analyzes and redefines the threads of our personalities — and suggests ways we can transform ourselves.
Why you should listen
Brian Little is an unapologetic introvert — but in front of a classroom or a lecture hall, he delivers impassioned and witty explorations of contemporary personality psychology. In Little’s view, we are as driven by spontaneous, “out of character” moments (and the projects we are passionate about) as we are by innate and learned traits.
Little’s book Me, Myself and Us not only beautifully outlines Little’s personality theories, but also imparts potentially life-changing advice for readers, while it warns of the hidden costs of hiding your true personality.
Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams made history in 2018 when she earned the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia.
Why you should listen
Stacey Abrams’s 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia turned more voters than any Democrat in Georgia history, including former President Barack Obama, and invested in critical infrastructure to build progress in the state. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the election by the Secretary of State’s office, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system.
Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Yale Law School. Dedicated to civic engagement, she founded the New Georgia Project, which submitted more than 200,000 registrations from voters of color between 2014 and 2016.
Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Abrams is the award-winning author of eight romantic suspense novels, which have sold more than 100,000 copies. As co-founder of NOW Account, a financial services firm that helps small businesses grow, Abrams has helped create and retain jobs in Georgia. And through her various business ventures, she has helped employ even more Georgians, including hundreds of young people starting out.
As House Minority Leader, she has worked strategically to recruit, train, elect and defend Democrats to prevent a Republican supermajority in the House, and she has worked across the aisle on behalf of all Georgians. During her tenure, she has stopped legislation to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and to roll back reproductive healthcare.
She has brokered compromises that led to progress on transportation, infrastructure, and education. In the legislature, she passed legislation to improve the welfare of grandparents and other kin raising children and secured increased funding to support these families.
Abrams and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi with three tenets: go to school, go to church, and take care of each other. Despite struggling to make ends meet for their family, her parents made service a way of life for their children — if someone was less fortunate, it was their job to serve that person. This ethic led the family to Georgia.
Abrams’s parents attended Emory University to pursue graduate studies in divinity and become United Methodist ministers. Abrams and her younger siblings attended DeKalb County Schools, and she graduated from Avondale High School.