This conversation is closed. Start a new conversation
or join one »
Do TED men set the new standard for 'real men'? Which TED men do you admire and why?
I have discovered that most of the men I truly admire at this time in history are TED men.
Perhaps it is just that TED shows me that there are great men out in the world doing great things not just for their own small spheres but for all of us around the world in so many different fields of endeavour.
After watching Phil Zimbaro's talk on the demise of guys, I started to think of the role of men in today's world and how truly complicated it is. As the mother of 4 sons and as a woman who has fought hard for a better place for women in our world, I have begun to realize that perhaps men need from us what we needed from men- a bit of acknowledgement when we are working hard, trying to make things better and facing tough odds with courage.
So I am asking you: Please share which TED men you admire. Please choose from TED talks, TED staff and TED conversations.
Why do you admire them? (Its OK if you think that they happen to be attractive too!)
If you happen to have a personal definition of what a 'real man' or a 'good man' is to you, I would be fascinated to read it.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not limited to women but the invitation includes the whole
TED community.
Juliette Zahn 50+
Jeong-Lan Kinser 200+
I think he is looking at the society as a whole as well (his talk on history of violence, for example).
He inspires us to go deeper what things we do mean to us, for example, how our usage of verbs connect to our cognitive level.
Farouk Anderson
Juliette Zahn 50+
Debra Smith 200+
What's not to like about Emilaino Salinas????
Juliette Zahn 50+
inthegarden beyondthecave
One of the most central roles of is to teach with love.
I look to my own father as an ideal as one who teaches and one who loves.
Ted is a place where we come to learn and to teach what we have learned, and generally to spread the love that is built in to teaching and learning.
I think that is why I experience TED men as exhibiting an ideal manhood.
(A similar thing could be said about women. Ideal mothers are also loving teachers. TED women exhibit this ideal.)
I would point to Daniel Goleman as one TED man who comes to mind. Reading his book on Environmental Intellegence was a genuine experience of being taught by a true teacher.
Debra Smith 200+
Daniel Goleman is a great TED teacher and his book is really a valuable read.
You are very fortunate to be able to say those lovely things about your father. The apple does not appear to have fallen far from the tree!
Thanks for sharing your choice of TED men!
inthegarden beyondthecave
My newest discovery is Daniel Amen. It does not appear that he has been a TED speaker yet, but he would certainly be a good one.
I have speant my life with a focus on Ethics and the Theory of Morality. But the problem that looms before me now is the question of implementation. Amen's book, Making a Goood Brain Great, talks about how brain health is the key to enabling us to consistently make good choices.
He has used scanning techniques to scan over 60,000 brains and has learned how problems in behavior and choices correlate with cetain resulting brain scan image types. The scans show where in the brain there is too much activity, where there is too little activity, and where there is an appropriate level of activity. Then he uses the scans to see how various diets, activities, supplements, and medications effect the activity level in various parts of the brain so that they reach the healthy level.
I have read the book twice and plan to chart out the advice from it that makes the most sense for me and begin to implement it. It appears to be a great tool in the effort to build a good life.
I would suggest him as a future ted speaker and one who fits the TED man mold.
Amir Azizi Sarajy
My TED men are
Paul Bloom,
watched his online psychology class on Yale website, loved it , saw his presentation on TED , loved it
Julian Treasure
he is so calm , even listening to him is relaxing
Marco Tempest
amazing and artistic presentation
Sir Ken Robinson
for his sense of humor
by the way , I personally do not have that many friends just 4 . I see them maybe once a month and we only talk about movies, art and culture . Most of the times I am at home reading or writing and I don't have a girl friend , so I really don't know where I would fit in Mr.Zimbardo's list but I am sure I am not one of his 12 olympians.
Debra Smith 200+
You have chosen a wonderful list of men who are doing interesting and worthwhile things. Thanks so much for sharing the talks and the speakers who have meant something to you.
I just want to say that you have come to the right place, Amir. You no longer have just four friends. I feel certain that with the wit and charm that I have read in some of your posts that you have made many more friends here on TED already. I admire your dedication to education and especially your struggle to make learning fun.
I am so glad that you are here and that Iran has a great teacher like you reaching out into the rest of the world through TED.
Amir Azizi Sarajy
It is really good to see so many amazing people in here and I am so happy that there is at least one community for people around the world to gather and share ideas that are inspiring and moving.
I am really curious to know how many TED members are somehow the outcasts of their society.
Thanks again I am truly thrilled :)
Zanele Shongwe
Debra Smith 200+
I could not agree more with both your choice of Chris, your sense of loving him for giving us all an amazing gift and for this amazing community which now, happily, includes YOU!
Zanele Shongwe
Benjamin Robbins
Debra Smith 200+
Thank you for joining us and sharing your perspective.
Debra Smith 200+
His name is Will and he is the TED administrator.
Silvia Marinova 20+
As for the TEDsters:
Scot Armstrong - for never having a boring opinion,
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam - for his great view on music,
Salim Solaiman - for his tolerance and originality.
and some others that I find interesting as people but don't wanna mention yet! I guess I'll be editing my list ... hopefully soon. :)
Debra Smith 200+
Silvia Marinova 20+
Amily shaw 10+
Debra Smith 200+
I am happy about your ambivalence to define or redefine manhood. The quotation marks around 'real men' are there to draw attention to the idea that it is questionable as a concept.
Debra Smith 200+
TEDxNarimanPoint - Anand Chulani - Transformation in Education
http://youtu.be/RG884jMvSNE
TEDx NarimanPoint - Ashish Kumar Singh - Transformation in Education
http://youtu.be/G7_uLur1zIA
Kevin Hernandez
Debra Smith 200+
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_dunlap_talks_about_a_passionate_life.html
Debra Smith 200+
In case anyone has not made a point of going to that question I want to share the response of one young man named CHRIS RYAN.
" I was on my second tour in Iraq. In the same week, my girlfriend dumped me, my parents told me they were divorcing, my grandmother had a stroke, and I was told we were coming back to Iraq again 12 months after the end of the current rotation. My mind, body, and soul took such a beating, but somehow I was able to keep moving forward. It was after being completed decimated on all fronts, that I discovered the true potential of the human spirit."
All I could respond to this young man that I admire so much for his courage and human spirit is WOW!
I absolutely repeat my assertion that most of the men that I admire at this time in history are TED men.
Kevin Hernandez
Michael M 30+
Debra Smith 200+
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Your "incredible duality of male and female" Is a wonderful, embracing phrase that suggest something like a "co-intertwined existence of being."
Lovely definitions --
Andrea
Michael M 30+
Luigi Vampa
Michael M 30+
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Debra Smith 200+
I met a young 19 year old man here on TED who exemplifies kindness, caring for his fellow man, courage, and a whole host of other great qualities. He has profound faith and lives it out on a daily basis while genuinely and consistently including people of all perspectives. He is a faithful Muslim, a Malaysian and a student who reaches out into the world of TED and beyond to help his fellow man.
His name is Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam and he makes me believe that Islam has some wonderful human beings reaching out into the world for peace.
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Debra Smith 200+
Are there no speakers from TED talks that inspire you and make you think: there is a human being trying hard to do good in his lifetime? That is what makes someone worthy of admiration to me.
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
Sherrie von Sternberg
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
James Houston
Zimbardo likewise echoes this worry, that we do no have sex the way some would like, or communicate with the opposite sex in a way that people such as Zimbardo would prefer.
Honestly, none of the TED male speakers to actual male concerns or honest to God represent men in anyway. If you think they do then I pity you greatly.
Debra Smith 200+
Would you please accept my invitation to pick out the guys you admire here at TED? Which talks were shared by guys whom you admire? Which TED conversationalists do you think consistently present a strong presence with wisdom from a healthy male perspective?
James Houston
Jonathan Haidt is definitely the best in my book.
Debra Smith 200+
Luigi Vampa
Debra Smith 200+
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Many men embody the full potentials of a "real" man. Certainly there are many here on TED. But I encounter them in "real life," too.
My definition of good man is:
One who embraces his full complex, balanced and evolving true self with insight and expresses it through his most humane, constructive potentials with courage, compassion and confidence. And humbly commits these to consistently engaging others in sustained relationships that energize more of the same.
Andrea
Debra Smith 200+
One who embraces his full complex, balanced and evolving self with insight and expresses it through his most humane, constructive potentials with courage, compassion and confidence. And humbly commits these to consistently engaging others in sustained relationships that energize more of the same.
Bravo! That is one great inclusive definition of a good man. I love it that it equally applies to a good woman. (I am out of thumbs up for you but this response certainly is worthy of one!)
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Thanks for catching the gender inclusive theme. I recently completed phenomenological research, co-authored with a male-colleague that dealt with gender. We found it reductive to define full human expression by people of either gender by their respective sex.
Not to say that sex differences don't exist, and for sure, do add sensual spice!
Only that gender stereotyper minimize either and both sexes from "being all they can be -- and, indeed, are -- given the chance and courage to achieve their most intrinsic energies.
Andrea
Debra Smith 200+
Your definition gives us all that chance.
Juliette Zahn 50+
Yours wraps him all up in - yet another - wonderful way.
Expressing inner truth with " constructive courage " being the key to " balancing the evolving self "
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
I like your additions and, have amended my (our) definition to include yours...specifically regards "inner truth"...
Thanks!
Andrea
Debra Smith 200+
Sherrie von Sternberg
I suddenly realize why they intimidate me so!
Salim Solaiman 50+
After reading your explanation it's become clear
My TED Men are
Speakers :
Aaron Huey
Hans Rosling
Richard Dawkins
Sir Ken Robinson
Dan Dannet
From TED Sters
Joe Delsen
Richard Dawson
Tim Colgan
Luigi Vampa
Jamie Lubin
Nicholas Lukowiak
Scott Armstrong
Matthieu Miossec
Sabin Muntean
these are just top of the mind there are many more........list should get longer and longer and happy with that if I can make it longer longer longer..................& longer
Sorry for any spell mistakes of names as just writing for memory .....just let me know will edit accordingly
Debra Smith 200+
I also admire the people from TED conversations that you have chosen. I plan to check out Aroon Huey's TED talk to remember what he has said and discover what you admire in him!
Salim Solaiman 50+
Great storyteller, compassionate, empathetic, courageous ... check it and let me know what you feel about his talk.
Thanks Debra for your compliments as usual....obliged I am
Debra Smith 200+
Salim Solaiman 50+
http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey.html
Debra Smith 200+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Salim Solaiman 50+
Loved his imense passion soaked in heartfelt emotion for what he does, for what he believes, what he stands for, what he ready to fight for ...................
Comment deleted
Debra Smith 200+
I would really enjoy hearing about the men you know who display more 'male competencies'. And don't forget to fill us in on the relevant variables! but Who is whining?
Have you been watching the same TED talks that I have? I have lived a fairly long time. I was married for many years to a cop, worked in factories, academia and business and never have I found so many men I could admire and respect as I have discovered on TED. If these are Spice boys- pour on the spice!
Comment deleted
Debra Smith 200+
I absolutely disagree with your characterization of TED commenters and I wonder if you have been here long. I tried to check your profile and discovered as is the case with most people who are very critical in their posts that there is no information there. Lonely hearts club is so dismissive and belittling. And where you can only see a desire for affirmation I wonder if you do have the ability to perceive politeness and kindness when you see it.
I repeat, though, have you ever watched any TED talks? There are some pretty great guys doing great things. There are a lot of men on the Talks and on the conversations who fit into your preferred demographic. I invite you to really stay and really listen and contribute because after a life time of working with men of all stripes - I have to tell you that many of these men are the real deal.
Luigi Vampa
is nice to make a little "passegiatta" for the miths and for a nice sunday maybe the Riane Eisler book "The Chalice and the Blade" and a red wine glass are the best.
Debra Smith 200+
I will look up that book and hope to learn from it.
Jacob Miller 10+
Comment deleted
Debra Smith 200+
You can come or go.
You were, if you so choose, invited to offer some encouragement to hard working and caring people who are doing good things and who happen to be male.
Whether it serves any purpose or not is not for you to decide.
Frans Kellner 100+
Nothing really is changing in nature.
The way women look at men is recently investigated.
It appears that being questioned about men the answers of all women where substantial incongruent with the body responses in tests.
Advertisers aren't stupid. They know what they show.
Debra Smith 200+
Juliette Zahn 50+
It seems that we share an appreciation for the Italian language - and perhaps culture (?!) - wine ?! For me they loom (the art or the process of weaving) together a poetry.
I will gift you this and please hang on to it. It will make a great deal of sense down your path;
" If you don't drink wine,
don't mock the drunkards" - Omar Khayyam
Write me when you find the second verse.
lynn eschbach 30+
Debra Smith 200+
I can also see why you relate to him. The poet in you is also in his spirit! He is so TED in his spirit of inquiry!
Luigi Vampa
Jaime e Il Conte siamo amici e abbiamo studiato insieme. Faciamo quello que e la nostra devozione, e il nostro capolavoro. Non di piu. Grazi per la tua benevolenza
Luigi Vampa
lynn eschbach 30+
Benny boy
Aware of himself, honest with himself about who he is (or true to himself) and responsible for his life and death.
i add the death bit, because once his not afraid of 'the big one' all the little 'deaths' and losses won't be so painful and he can be more courageous and determined; and he can leave his body as he came to it.
Debra Smith 200+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Being responsible to these three things and then everything else does fall into place:
Being aware of himself,
Being honest with himself,
Being True to himself.
These are three little tools I carry with me to measure my own self moment to moment. And the grade I give myself , tells me where to self-direct to stay on course. ( I replace "himself" above with the word "myself" )
Scott Armstrong 50+
It should have been (more accurately) titled "Stereotypes for the 21st Century".
I once read that masculinity is defined by what femininity is not. Much of Mr Zimbardo's talk seems to be measuring 'guys' against the yardstick that is 'gals' - a problem that began with the campaigns in the mid-80's to try and get girls doing more maths and science (and a hangover from the way "we" perceive reality).
I wonder if women sometimes prefer the company of other women doing womanly things over mating with a man?
Have 20th Century stereotypes been so ingrained that we still believe men just want to fuck and women don't - so much so that we are stunned by evidence to the contrary?
A real man can balance his responsibilities and his pleasures and doesn't require an audience while doing so.
Benny boy
i like it.
Juliette Zahn 50+
While it may appear that women “prefer” the company of other women to “mating with men” , most often it is not. It appears that my companionship with men other than my man, adversely affects his happiness with me. Just as the companionship of my man with other females, confuses my senses and affects my happiness.
I too like "A real man can balance his responsibilities and his pleasures and doesn't require an audience while doing so."
Scott Armstrong 50+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0dVykd2i6g
Relationships are never easy - well, not the important ones, anyway. The hardships faced and overcoming them is what gives real weight to a relationship.
Juliette Zahn 50+
JOHN LENNON - Definitely belongs to the list of Amazing TED men.
I just watched the video and listened to the song.
Aren't we all fortunate that he left us with this
"gift"
Thank you for sending me the link. I Agree.
Jim Moonan 30+
Songs such as "Oh Yoko", "Woman", "Love (Is)" and "Oh My Love" are among the most emotionally honest and heart-felt love songs ever written. Another beautiful love song he wrote was "Julia" (for his mother I believe) when he was with the Beatles.
The most important aspect of his work post Beatles was that maturation of the man and the resetting of his priorites to be love, peace and truth.
Scott Armstrong 50+
John Lennon was a great song-writer and the messages he spread were often peace-oriented and enlightened.
As a person, he was far from perfect.
Jealous Guy is one of the great apologies by a man to a woman for his failings and imperfections.
Interesting when you hold that up against a lot of female artists today and how many "relationship" songs are not about reconciliation but flicking the other person off and moving on. Not all, but a heck of a lot.
Juliette Zahn 50+
I agree. Life is too short to listen to " flicking " songs :-)
Leaving us with such a song was what set John Lennon apart from the rest.
Thank you for making me hear it ; my first time ever!!
Debra Smith 200+
"A real man can balance his responsibilities and his pleasures and doesn't require an audience while doing so." What a great definition. I love it because you reached into yourself to listen to your own musical score for a sincere way of defining what it is for you to be a man. That aligns with what I think real men do - that is- let the media definitions and pressures of how to be run off their backs and be their true selves.
I am not as thrilled by defining manhood as opposite to womanhood because we now know that gender runs along a continuum and we need to make space for all the ways of being in the world. The point of my question really is to extol 'personhood' as a unique manifestation of an individual in the world. I am trying to counteract a creeping feeling that manhood is being defined unfairly.
As to your suggestion that women prefer the company of women, I could ask if men do not also sometimes prefer the company of men? This is as it should be but let me assure you that as much as my friends are a huge joy in my life and an ongoing source of love and support- they can never fill the role that a man fills in my life. Some of the sweetest moments of my life have been spent in communion with men and I utterly loved being the mother of 4 sons (and one daughter who provided the contrast). The sweetness of my little boys, their rough and tumble ways, their explorations and sincere questions make me love humanity itself even more.
Scott Armstrong 50+
I think there are a lot of interactions in life that are not based around sex or gender - whether it be what people like to call male bonding (it gets it's own name like it's something different from what girls do) or platonic relationships between men and women.
What you say about definitions is true and this is my real beef with stats - you can identify trends in statistics but they cannot be liberally applied to the individual because, at the level of the individual person (as opposed to the group), many generalisations don't fit. The exception seems to take precedent over the rule at this level.
What defines one person does not always define the next despite them sharing many traits.
Sherrie von Sternberg
you know...my problem is not so much with the fact that men like to fuck, I particularly like to do that with a man I love, as often as possible. What bothers me, no...what drives me completely crazy is that it takes quite a long time to discover a man who is willing to make love and keep making love over the long term. Our society has not helped my plight in that a woman of 48, however open minded and fun loving I may be, is not a man magnet in the usual terms. I blame the generation before me and my generation for scaring the bejeezus out of men, for setting us back quite a few decades and causing the demise of probably 50 percent of the 50 percent of marriages that failed over the past 20 years. You see we women were taught that we could do ANYTHING on our own. Hmph...certain things I cannot do! Certain things I don't want to do!!! I drank the KoolAid all the way in to my early fourties and at 41 I found myself divorced and pretty unhappy about it.
Now I would like to be coupled and I can't figure out which way is up, so to speak. My point is that I appreciate a man who can stand up to the complete crap that I was sold in my early twenties (should it start to leak out of my mouth...) and who can see past it to the inner woman shining through.
I know that they exist, I'm just not sure that they want to brave getting involved with women like me....
Scott Armstrong 50+
sorry about the profanity but it helps shake people up.
relationships are a tough one - there are times when I think we were all brainwashed into thinking we need relationships when in fact we don't and then I am quickly brought into line when I remember all of the benefits a strong, close relationship can bring for the people involved.
The guys I kick round with (mostly my band) have started what we call the menimism movement. I don't know whether it's anything more than an excuse to get together and drink a few beers but I think there are guys out there thinking "what about my needs?" (I think many modern men are a lot 'softer' than media stereotypes suggest).
I myself am lucky enough to have found a 'kind woman' (CSN&Y) and I am now consciously trying to fix my end up so that she doesn't get fed up and leave. In the process, I realised that, in the past, I was less forthcoming with relationship stuff than I thought I was.
It's a tough nut to crack, that's for sure. Keep on the lookout. It'll probably drop into your lap when you're least expecting it.
Sherrie von Sternberg
Funny that you should bring up men wondering about their needs being met....I have worried so much about meeting my partner's needs in the recent past that I forgot about my own and became the proverbial door mat. Also not a good thing to do, kindness aside, self respect is a must in a healthy relationship. You make me smile when you say that a good man will fall in to my lap when I am least expecting it; you could be my Aunt Katherine speaking to me from 1976. I was 13 years old and could have given two hoots about it.
The sweet thing about this conversation is that you are having it with me.
Hug your lady and I hope it works out for the two of you in what ever capacity it is meant to.
Oh, and trust me when I say to you that there is a kind and wise man who is going to be ever so happy to find me one day if for nothing other than the fact that we will make each other's bellies sore from laughing so much.
I believe in love and I believe it will happily find me. I also believe that more than one woman raised her son to be compassionate and strong enough to be open. I just think it took some people in my generation (myself included) longer to self actualize than most others. We were lucky in some ways, things came relatively easy.
In today's environment when an individual's character is more important than it has been for decades; I believe that we are being called to become a deeper, more caring version of ourselves. That has to create a positive impact on our relationships no matter what the definition, yes?
Congratulations on your metamorphosis in to a better man, you sir, have become one of my heroes!
Zanele Shongwe
Sherrie von Sternberg
Debra Smith 200+
n.
1. The state or time of being an adult male human.
2. The composite of qualities, such as courage, determination, and vigor, often thought to be appropriate to a man.
3. Adult males considered as a group; men.
4. The state of being human.
Luigi Vampa
Really I think that we have to preserve the values of the manhood, as you say corage, determination and vigor among others as tenderness, imagination and originality that are in common with women. We are not alone, you are the equilibrium. The manhood is not a intellectual matter to be defined or redefined in the stream of time. Is a character from genre. a seal for the way to be.
Juliette Zahn 50+
"A seal for the way to be"...."equilibrium" ....
Isn't everything an intellectual matter to be defined or redefined in the stream of time !! What else sets the human apart from other animals in general and apes in particular ??
Luigi - you have fueled my engine....thoughts are being born in my mind and I am pondering ...."wheel"
Luigi Vampa
Boundaries are better than limits.
Luigi Vampa
Debra Smith 200+
Men do not need to reinvent manhood but we live in a period of history that I think has been defined by women and their struggle for human rights- and that has not always been for the best. We are the equilibrium you refer to above but I think that in our own journeys we have sometimes been out of balance with the needs of men as people, as human beings. I have loved and married and divorced and loved four sons. I have seen my men close up and I really like the critters!
Media has been so influential in defining women and either actively or by default it has redefined men in some very weird ways. When I was young, the Marlborough man was the rugged depiction of what a man should be. There was then the James Dean type of rebel without a cause. There was the strong silent type, the Jimmy Stewart type, the kill everything in sight kind of Silvester Stalone character that was redeemed by a cry for 'Andrian!" , and then bit by bit men began to become even more of a caricature in ways that made me squirm. Men were the butt of jokes in commercials that no one would have tolerated for one minute if women had been treated in such a way.
I was on the front line when women took non-traditional jobs and believe me I saw the worst of men as well. So I do think it is valid to give acknowledgement to men we admire and who are not just following some stereotype of what a man could or should be but following their own path, integrating women into their lives and doing great things in the process.
The secret of defining 'manhood' for me is the same as defining 'womanhood'- it is looking within for the core strengths and uniqueness and realizing that no other human being is designed to do exactly what you were designed to do. True personhood is becoming all you can be and living life usefully and joyfully as yourself.
Luigi Vampa
Juliette Zahn 50+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Rosso. Profondo, complesso e, preferibilmente a secco -- Naturalmente.
Andrea
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Ho avuto il piacere di una splendida Brunello di Montalcino. Sì, piuttosto bella.
Mettere in relazione al proprio immaginario spiaggia: onde multidynamic viene in mente.
Andrea
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
I, too, have had various family, personal and professional experiences with men that continually remind me how much I love "the critters," as you put men.
Some of the less pleasant have given me important insights into myself, in reflection. Some of the most valuable have given me important insights through intentional co-relational attempts to understand how we can construct newer horizons together.
You might be interested in this parallel Q I asked a while back. Far less embracing than yours. And there were tensions to traverse. I'm grateful for this conversation. It takes off where my intent was directed. In any case, there may be food for thought in it:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/4901/is_the_demise_of_guys_a_harb.html
Andrea
Luigi Vampa
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Boundaries, yes. Not limits.
And: Mea culpa for this saucy retort in advance:
But there are certain, ahem, flesh aspects of manhood nature has endowed that I don't think ought to be revised.
Add soul, plus perhaps good wine, and good timing and I think equilibrium via spiritual agape with the right woman is imminent....
Andrea
Debra Smith 200+
Luigi Vampa
Michael M 30+
Luigi Vampa
Debra Smith 200+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Luigi Vampa
Michelle tu sei presto?
Crediamo che questa tertullia si amigliora con un buon vino. Anche possiamo parlare dalla femminilita.
Michael M 30+
I would love it if the Count returned and we shared cafe again.
Debra Smith 200+
Luigi Vampa
Vi ringraziamo il tuo soriso. Grazie tanti e ciao.
Debra Smith 200+
Please accept my apologies.
Luigi is another of my favourite TED men.
Debra Smith 200+
I admire many but my top ones from TED talks include:
Dan Arielly for making us think more clearly about many things
Peter Eigen for chasing down corruption.
Sam Richards for encouraging us to be empathetic.
Michael Sandel for teaching us about justice and setting the highest example for public discussions
Martin Jacques for clarifying and demystifying Chiina.
Chris Anderson for giving us TED and for his quiet, ameliorative personality.
OH yes, and I have to add Misha Glenny for restoring my faith in investigative journalists!
These guys are the new standard for men for me. They help me to believe that a better world is possible. They all seem to assume that there is a place for women in the world so that we can be partners.
I have favourites from TED conversations too. I will post them sometime later.
Juliette Zahn 50+
I will have to go review my favorite talks and read more posts to come up with my list.
For now I will start with two men;
1. Chris Anderson - for most amazing man - having built this "Ark of awareness"
2. Hang Le - best looks.
Debra Smith 200+
Juliette Zahn 50+
Debra Smith 200+
Juliette Zahn 50+