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Speaking in public, photography, standup comedy

An idea worth spreading

There is life after 70 and so much to discover and do

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  A comment on Conversation: Is capitalism sustainable?

  Mar 8 2013: When I was young adolescent in the communist Romania, because of the strong propaganda I did believe that 'capitalism is evil' . It took time, and real life experience to realise, alternatives are tyrannies and worse. It is possible, soon we will be anyway in Information Age, but creating a company and also offering work to others, creating wealth to be able to help children In university, as I did later is not 'evil' or bad. And nor is 'menial job' At some time in that communist country even that was that was denied to me. I do feel the talk about 'bad capitalism' is propaganda, that gets old anyway. Taking money, wealth from one does not makes the others happy or less poor. Free enterprise is what can do more then 'distribution of what is'

• A comment on Talk: Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead

  Feb 4 2013: Great and inspiring speech, and what a wonderful storyteller too! It begins with a unforgettable personal tale, detailed, funny and somehow telling so much about him and the military and human nature too. With other anecdotes and tales go to express a lot about new challenges in leadership.
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  A comment on Talk: Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

  Sep 11 2012: Well, I did smile a lot, from when at 20 I read that it makes you 'nice wrinkles'. But living to 80? No way! I am 78 and 80 is not enough at all!
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  A comment on Talk: Jane Fonda: Life's third act

  Jan 7 2012: yes! past revisited can change how we look at it, and also how we react can change our lifes,
  yes! the third act of our lives can be wonderful, creative, interesting!
  "il y a de la vie après 70 ans" and one can begin Stand Up and Storytelling at 77 even

• A comment on Conversation: Should software be free?

  Feb 17 2011: I have been in the "computers" business, as seller and as user, from 1980.
  
  There are some who made the most amazing software freely, for the pleasure of creating and the pleasure of letting know and be known. They did, some of them of course, as well or better then those who sold it for lot of money.
  
  The problem often was distribution.
  
  A software has to be known, used, and then entretained.
  
  Others, did "free software" inside a corporation. Bill Atkinson working at Apple gave from his free time, the Hypercard, so we can all program the Macintosh easy, free to use, easy to use, for the "rest of us". He gave it to Apple to distribute it freely, but alas did not look well into the loopwholes of contract and when they made a "new version" they begun to charge for it and the product, slowly died. And also, was no more well "made known" as the then director, Gasse, wanted to promote someone else software, which was not free.
  
  Personally, I would suggest, cheep software, to be distributed in a way that can give some recognition and money, perhaps new ways of "letting know" of their existence. As there are now blogs, complementing newspapers and tv, we could invent, if not yet existent also new ways of "making known".

• A comment on Talk: Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam

  Jan 24 2011: Great speech and ideas1
  Specially liked the bit about his child!
  I do not "do" comics but I will look up the 99 - also because it even has a Hungarian... 0;)

• A comment on Talk: Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome

  Jan 12 2011: Wonderful inspirational speech, I could not agree more!
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  A comment on Talk: Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability

  Jan 6 2011: wonderful, ! have send it on my facebook and blogged it
  I agree that one has to have to courage to be vulnerable and open to have also the joy - and sorrows
  I am amazed that she thinks "storyteller" is "only..." bacause it is important as much as a researcher
  and she is a wonderful storyteller too
  
  So much Wisdom in a few moments: one has to listen to it, again and again
  thanks! it does also validate what I do in my blog and my storytelling: true vulnerable personal stories
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  A comment on Talk: Tony Porter: A call to men

  Dec 16 2010: wonderful and extremely powerful speech too - an example and an inspiration
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  A comment on Talk: Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner

  Jun 14 2009: As a Hungarian of Jewish origin, I was even more touched by this great speech, even if (with Ben's accent) took me some time to understand when he begun with the Hungarian sentence. I lived through his speech, seen what happened to the man and what he did consequently in an USA town. What an inspiration also the end of the talk.
  
  I was in Budapest, as child, when he took the beating, hiding. When first I arrived in Washington DC I did not understand what was happening, but did act, in my small level and way like he did: proposed a black talented man as President of our Club. Next year, he was elected! And I never stopped learning. Now days, I learn to speak better in Public and tell personal tales. We have lots to tell, but have to learn to tell them better.
  
  Ted is a wonderful place to learn from others, looking and listening to them!