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About Me

My personal motto is „I am a simple man. I live an extraordinary life.”. The vision that inspires me to constantly innovate in the field of personal development and social entrepreneurship is: „A world of self aware and responsible people – for themselves and for the world they live in.”

I founded the biggest online community promoting good news about and from Romania (LumeBuna.ro) back in 2008 and ever since the project promoted thousands of causes, projects, initiatives and Romanians that do make a difference in the world.

Since 2002 I am a trainer and held trainings in Romania, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and Croatia, for organisations like Nestle, Junior Achievement, British Council and AIESEC. Since 2007 I am holding life coaching sessions too, in Romania and Belgium.

I published two books on personal development: „Eu Cine Sunt?” (Who am I?) and „Acum*” (Now*).

In 2009 I founded a project called WhichWay – Self Leadership support groups, that had as aim to promote continuous personal development. After two years it became the strongest group coaching program from Romania, that now has its own school for group coaching facilitators.

For a complete professional profile, you can visit my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mihailmusat

Location:
Romania, Bucharest
Current organization:
Lume Buna
Past organizations:
Hostway Romania, AIESEC, Nestle
Current role:
Coach. Trainer. Author. Social Entrepreneur.
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Social Entrepreneurship, Training and facilitation, Group Coaching, Small community development, Team Management, writing and blogging, Social Media, Project Management
I am:
Blogger, Change Agent, Connector, Entrepreneur, Life mentor, Parent, Social entrepreneur, Writer/Editor
Associations:
Lume Buna, Aiesec, Junior Achievement
Languages:
Romanian, English, Italian
My website links:
Mihail Musat, WhichWay, Lume Buna
Universities:
Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, SNSPA Bucharest - Master Degree
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I'm passionate about

Personal development (training, coaching, writing, board games etc).
Social entrepreneurship.
Small communities development.

An idea worth spreading

Time.

My TED Story

My TED story...is one that is being written as "we speak". What I mean is that on July 9th I will attend the first TEDx event (in Iasi, Romania) as a speaker. I will continue the story after the event...

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  • TEDCred score: +0.40 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

  • A reply on Conversation: Have a way to measure the impact of TED for the audience.

    Jul 22 2011: Like the idea with the thesis so that one can explore multiple ways to measure - both quantitative and qualitative impact.

  • A comment on Conversation: Having passion in your work is trainable. Being deeply passionate and driven is not. How does one pursue a deep desire to be doing more?

    Jul 20 2011: Great topic and would be great if more and more people would consider thinking at this and then, if course, living their lives this way. In a recent TEDx talk I was saying that we can build our own world/lives if we start from the right point - ourselves. Normally society tells us what to do, what to learn, who to be. We can start the other way around: we can decide what are Values are, what our Dreams are, what Skills do we need to acquire to achieve our Dreams, and last but not least who are the people we want to live surrounded by.
    Some insights and visuals, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8JNZ3CpC_U

  • A reply on Conversation: Have a way to measure the impact of TED for the audience.

    Jul 15 2011: Great question. Thanks! I gave an example below, but that is not real...is just a possible scenario (After watching http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html I decided to look for an organisation in my city/country that is working on such project. Let's say I found one and now I am volunteering / working for them to develop this alternative educational system. It would be cool to have a section at each video where people could leave their specific comments on "The impact of this TED video in my life / society.").

    One story: At the end of 2008 on TED I found the first resource that gave me a structure to resonate with for the New Year's resolution (is in Romanian http://www.musat.com.ro/2008/12/29/un-an-trece-altul-vine/) - I was inspired by this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html. Starting from the point I made so crucial changes in my life.

    Now, TED's mission (spreading ideas) is detailed as follows: "We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other."

    I believe that it would be much easier to say "change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world." if a measurement would be attached to each TED event and TED video. Of course, it might take a while to find the best way to measure this, but once launched I am sure that people would even start to ask themselves this question, question that maybe they were not thinking about before seeing it.

  • A reply on Conversation: Have a way to measure the impact of TED for the audience.

    Jul 15 2011: I was rather thinking that each person could have a way to maintain a self monitoring process...on a predefined TED page.
    e.g.: After watching http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html I decided to look for an organisation in my city/country that is working on such project. Let's say I found one and now I am volunteering / working for them to develop this alternative educational system. It would be cool to have a section at each video where people could leave their specific comments on "The impact of this TED video in my life / society."
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    A reply on Conversation: What have you learnt from watching TEDTalks?

    Jul 11 2011: Yes, I believe this is the case for me too. TED showed me that is possible to live up my dreams. TED gave me and still gives me inspiration. Speaking about facts, at the end of 2009 I used this speech http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html as a tool to evaluate my year and plan the year ahead. Thanks for this great topic!

  • A comment on Conversation: What makes a great TED/TEDx) talk? What advice would you give 2 a TED/TEDx speaker? What talks might a speaker watch 2 learn? Specifics, pls

    Jul 11 2011: I read the comments from this conversation while preparing my TEDx speech. I also looked for other resources and as a conclusion I wrote down a full case study on preparing a TEDx speech. I fully recommend it: http://www.musat.com.ro/2011/07/11/my-tedx-experience-preparing-a-ted-speech/

  • A reply on Conversation: What makes a great TED/TEDx) talk? What advice would you give 2 a TED/TEDx speaker? What talks might a speaker watch 2 learn? Specifics, pls

    Jul 6 2011: Great recommendations Nafissa. Thanks!

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