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John Wooden on true success - TED.com
With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom.John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, led UCLA to record wins that are still unmatched in the world of basketball. Today, he continues to share the values and life lessons he passed to his players, emphasizing success that’s about much more than winning.
Born in 1910, Coach John Wooden is the first person to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame both as a player and coach, while ESPN ranks him as the greatest coach of all time, across all sports. In his 40 years at UCLA, he has mentored legends such as Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. His career has been illustrious to say the least, and he has created a model, the Pyramid of Success, and authored several books to impart his insight on achievement to others.
Coach wanted his players to be victors in life and not just on the court, so he treated them as an extended family and emphasized that winning was more than scoring. Indeed, most of his inspiring theories were born from conversations with his father, as a boy on their farm in Indiana. One that sums up his ideology quite well is his often quoted definition of success: "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming.""Coach Wooden is a humble, private man who has selflessly given up his life to make other people’s lives better ... John Wooden gave us the necessary tools to overcome the adversity and obstacles that he knew from the beginning would always be in our way. He taught us to find a source of motivation to inspire us to ever higher levels of preparation and work."Bill Walton
Rick Warren on a life of purpose - TED.com
Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, reflects on his own crisis of purpose in the wake of his book's wild success.
Musical roller-coaster!
'My kind of music' reveals a lot about who we really are, in a way that that goes beyond vanity. Does sound affects us in more ways than we know?
A] 4 ways sound affects us:
Do open-plan offices reduce productivity; does noise repel customers? Why are marching bands popular in schools/ colleges before sports meets? Why are we calmed by the sounds of waves lapping or birds chirping? Why does silence make people uncomfortable after some time? Don't we instinctively choose music to turn-on a date or drown out irksome people. Can sound be used by individuals and businesses to create a more conducive environment? A fascinating TED talk by @juliantreasure explores the many ways sounds enhances productivity and destroys calm. What I find particularly interesting is that we often work with irritating sounds, masking them with louder music, but our senses detect the conflict even when we don't recognise it.What's your favourite mood-altering music?
B] 'How to lead'
Lets play a small game: Imagine yourself conducting an orchestra, before you watch this video.
Itay Talgam shares footage of 6 great orchestra conductors and how they lead with non-verbal signals - with amusing, and more often spectacular results. This amusing and thought provoking talk is a surprising exploration of leadership styles.The 'business' question it left me with: Do we treat employees as instruments or partners in growth?
These talks also brought home vividly that we can't mask what makes us all human - the ability to laugh and to choose, being happy.
Irwin Redlener on surviving a nuclear attack - TED.com
The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.After 9/11, Irwin Redlener emerged as a powerful voice in disaster medicine -- the discipline of medical care following natural and human-made catastrophes. He was a leading face of the relief effort after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now. He's the associate dean, professor of Clinical Public Health and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
His parallel passion is addressing the American disaster that happens every day: millions of kids living without proper health care. He and Paul Simon are the co-founders of the Children’s Health Fund, which raises money and awareness toward health care for homeless, neglected and poor children.
Bonus Bert the turtle:
Richard Dawkins on militant atheism - TED.com
Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.As an evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins has broadened our understanding of the genetic origin of our species; as a popular author, he has helped lay readers understand complex scientific concepts. He's best-known for the ideas laid out in his landmark book The Selfish Gene and fleshed out in The Extended Phenotype: the rather radical notion that Darwinian selection happens not at the level of the individual, but at the level of our DNA. The implication: We evolved for only one purpose — to serve our genes.
Of perhaps equal importance is Dawkins' concept of the meme, which he defines as a self-replicating unit of culture -- an idea, a chain letter, a catchy tune, an urban legend -- which is passed person-to-person, its longevity based on its ability to lodge in the brain and inspire transmission to others. Introduced in The Selfish Gene in 1976, the concept of memes has itself proven highly contagious, inspiring countless accounts and explanations of idea propagation in the information age. In recent years, Dawkins has become outspoken in his atheism, coining the word "bright" (as an alternate to atheist), and encouraging fellow non-believers to stand up and be identified. His controversial, confrontational 2002 TED talk was a seminal moment for the New Atheism, as was the publication of his 2006 book, The God Delusion, a bestselling critique of religion that championed atheism and promoted scientific principles over creationism and intelligent design."Dawkins ... is a master of scientific exposition and synthesis. When it comes to his own specialty, evolutionary biology, there is none better."Jim Holt, The New York Times
Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon - TED.com
How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?Stephen Petranek was the editor-in-chief of Discover magazine when he became fascinated by the dangers that face the human race. He has become an eloquent advocate for making policy decisions based on an unflinching look at our worst fears.
Although his apocalyptic predictions may seem dire and inevitable, he argues precisely the opposite, and presents plausible goals that will defuse most of these catastrophes. Just in case that isn't enough, he makes the case for humankind adopting a forward-looking policy of space exploration and colonization to get us out of here alive. For the first time in history, he argues, humans can control many of the threats to survival both on and off the planet.Petranek is now the editorial director of the Weider History Group, a collection of history magazines, and is working on a book titled The Flood, which warns of the impending danger posed to American cities by climate change and its attendant rising sea levels.
Why blog?
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Right, my first blog post. It took me a while to jump onto the blogosphere but I'm glad I finally did. So why am I doing this? A question i find myself asking a lot right about now. Is it because I want to state my opinion to others or is it cause I want to market my business or some other reasons. Possibly all, but neither of them are compelling enough reasons to make me start a blog.
Why blog? In essence, I want to share & collaborate. I want to put down ideas in my head so others can look at it and share their thoughts on it. I think the old-economy method of playing cloak n daggers with information is irrelevant in these times. I am convinced that progress in our time is via smart collaborations by good people.
Of course, you can expect me to go on and on about everything food... after all, SpicyGuy is nothing if not a Food loving Glutten ;) I will be sharing personal recipes & behind the scenes working of my current & future ventures.
But mainly, I want to share a fair amount of content (mostly from TED.com) that i find most valuable, the individuals & their ideas that inspire me the most. Which leads me to this video posted by Sir Ken Robinson. Personally this is a must watch Video for everyone (bar none)! So watch the video, if you haven't already. and after that, lets share & collaborate ;) I look forward to your feedback. Ciao guyz.
Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities - TED.com
Every day, in a city the size of London, 30 million meals are served. But where does all the food come from? Architect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routes shaped the modern world.
The question of how to feed cities may be one of the biggest contemporary questions, yet it's never asked: we take for granted that if we walk into a store or a restaurant, food will be there, magically coming from somewhere. Yet, think of it this way: just in London, every single day, 30 million meals must be provided. Without a reliable food supply, even the most modern city would collapse quickly. And most people today eat food of whose provenance they are unaware.
Architect and author Carolyn Steel uses food as a medium to "read" cities and understand how they work. In her book Hungry City she traces -- and puts into historical context -- food's journey from land to urban table and thence to sewer. Cities, like people, are what they eat."Hungry City is a smorgasbord of a book: dip into it and you will emerge with something fascinating."ReasonOnline
