TED Community » Winston R Diaz

Renewable energy, sustainability, ethnic music, behavioral sciences, history.

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A comment on Talk: Malcolm McLaren: Authentic creativity vs. karaoke culture

Jun 12 2011: I don{t know if I've been living under a rock, but it's only lately that I've started to hear multiple speakers over a broad number of disciplines talking about the importance of failure, and the importance of overcoming that fear of failure that we were brought up to feel. One can only hope more and more people will actually start their own "trial and error journey" to further their ideas.
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A comment on Talk: Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling

May 11 2011: According to Ekman, a sincere smile includes not only the stretching of the sides of the mouth, but also the wrinkling of the outer area on the sides of your eyes. On the other hand, a fake smile would be more than likely to lack the second characteristic. Furthermore, the cells responsible of the mimicking of the smile image, the mirror neurons, will also trigger a mimicking reaction on the observer after receiving information about almost any stimulating activity. This talk is not only fun to watch, it is also very well sourced and Mr. Gutman talks with an enjoyable grace.