Are you thinking of returning to school? Educator Candice Neveu shares three challenges you might face continuing your education mid-career — and three mindset shifts to speed up your learning, improve your confidence and achieve the results you want.

About this event: Featured Guest: Peter Sims LITTLE BETS How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries After extensive research and over 200 interviews with creators and innovators, Peter Sims discovered that successful creative thinkers and doers—from Ludwig van Beethoven to Thomas Edison and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos—practice a set of simple but ...

Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Prize winner who transformed our understanding of the biases that cloud our thinking. In this conversation, he and Adam explore when to trust our intuition and when to second-guess it. Danny explains how he finds joy in being wrong, spells out steps to smarter interviewing, and reveals how he—the master decoder of deci...

ReThinking with Adam Grant How Yo-Yo Ma sustains his creative energy February 28, 2023 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new w...

About this event: In 2013, the Trustees of Newark Academy issued a five-year strategic plan that included a call for an expansion of program initiatives aimed at helping NA students develop “the skills and qualities needed to meet the challenges of a complex, rapidly changing global environment.” These skills include: Analytical, creative thinking and prob...

Cognitive neuroscientist John Kounios was curious: what happens in the brain when someone has a great idea? And so the Drexel University psychology professor designed an experiment to measure subjects' brain activity as they solved problems. In a talk given at TED@New York -- one of 14 events that was part of the 2013 Talent Search -- Kounio...

About this event: Last year NASA, NIA and our industry and community partners worked together to combine the unique format and intrigue of TED with the ingenuity and reach of NASA. TED presenters are known for posing intriguing questions. NASA is known for inventive solutions. Together, in TEDxNASA, they create a vehicle for discovery, an opportunity for exposur...

Where does education go from here? On Tuesday, Sugata Mitra accepted the 2013 TED Prize and offered a bold wish for the world: that we encourage children to explore questions about our world in self-organized learning environments. He proposed the founding of a School in the Cloud based in India, and encouraged TED community members, wherever...

In the 1980s, psychologist James Flynn discovered that, over the past century, our average IQ has increased dramatically. The difference, in fact, is so stark that the phenomenon garnered its own name: the Flynn effect. In today’s talk, Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents', given at TED2013, Flynn explains that if you score...

Not a scientist? As David Lang shows, you can still play a meaningful role in solving science's hardest problems. It's hard to find a silver lining in the water crisis of Flint, Michigan. The striking images of jugs of brown water being held high in protest are a symbol of institutional failure on a grand scale. It's a disaster. But even as que...

A new word for a new profession Laura Snyder begins with a scene from June 24, 1833. It's a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elderly man stands up to make a comment. It's Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He stands up and demands, "You must stop calling yourselves Natural Philosophers." He believed that tru...

Veteran financier Ray Dalio has been in every kind of meeting: the good, the bad and the ugly. Here’s how he keeps his meetings focused and productive. In 1974, Ray Dalio founded the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, and it’s currently the world’s largest, managing roughly $160 billion. Besides its financial success, Bridgewater has become kno...

In 2012, IDEO founder and longtime Stanford professor David Kelley took the TED stage in Long Beach and shared a deeply personal story. It was the tale of his own cancer diagnosis, of finding a lump in his neck and being told he had a 40% chance of survival. This was clearly a sobering moment, but he wasn't sharing the story to seek our sympathy...

ReThinking with Adam Grant Finding–and becoming–great mentors and sponsors with Carla Harris January 10, 2023 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore ...

Mentored from childhood by Gregory Hines and Savion Glover, Andrew Nemr has tap-danced his way through life. Now, with the Tap Legacy Foundation, he's using new technology to augment oral tradition, passing on the craft he learned at the knees of the old masters. Tell us about your life as a dancer. I grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where...

In today’s talk, Pico Iyer looks at the complexity of the question, “Where do you come from?” If the question is code for, “Where are your family’s roots?” his answer is India -- although he has never lived there. If the question means, “Where were you born?” his answer is England -- though he left the country as soon as he was able to. If the q...

In his TEDTalk (watch now), Charles Limb reviews his groundbreaking work studying creativity and the brain -- by putting musicians inside an fMRI and watching as they improvise. For the past decade, he's been working with jazz piano players, revealing astonishing new data about the way the brain creates art. And his research has recently bra...

What we need sometimes is a little awe, a little wonder. This session of TED Talks was designed to provoke an exquisite human emotion: the sense that the world is bigger and stranger than you'd known. Without further ado, wow. A blueprint for how humans and machines can coexist. American researchers are leading AI discoveries, Chinese eng...

Yes, it takes enough time and energy to be a good person in the here and now, but we also need to start considering future generations, too. Writer Bina Venkataraman tells us how we can start acting in ways that benefit those to come. We live in a culture that encourages instant gratification, amid markets that turn on quarterly profits. Yet ma...

TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak has learned some key lessons about parenthood from her work as an archaeologist. At the same time, becoming a parent has given her new insights into what her work means. Parenthood is perhaps the most binary experience we go through -- there’s an "is not" and then there’s an "is." For a split moment during labor, y...

ReThinking The art of rough drafts with George Saunders October 31, 2023 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant Busting the myths of the brain with neuroscientist Chantel Prat October 4, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore n...

ReThinking with Adam Grant Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition (Re-release) December 26, 2023 Adam Grant: Hey listeners, today we're sharing a past episode of ReThinking from the archives. Enjoy! [Intro Music] Hi everyone, it’s Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizatio...

About this event: RESET: EXPLORING HORIZONS This time , “Reset: Exploring Horizons” has become the main theme of our very own TEDxMMUMelaka. The main idea is that we would like to cultivate growth in our audience, which would mainly consist of students from various backgrounds, to be able to see that there is so much more that the world has to offer. We believe...

How to Be a Better Human Stephen Satterfield wants his meals to match his ideals March 27, 2023 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You are listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. Before I moved to Los Angeles, I had never eaten Armenian food before. In fact, I would've been hard-pressed to even tell you what an example of Armen...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Season 4 is right around the corner, but today I wanted to share a special conversation in our “Taken For Granted” series. I’m talking to Daniel Kahneman. Danny won a Nobel Prize in Economics. He’s been named one of the most influential economists in the world. But he’s not o...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant March 16, 2021 Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Season 4 is right around the corner, but today I wanted to share a special conversation in our “Taken For Granted” series. I’m talking to Daniel Kahneman. Danny won a Nobel Prize in Economics. He’s been named one ...

Fixable Teresa - "How do I move fast without breaking things?" April 10, 2023 [00:00:00] Anne Morriss: I am super excited about the topic of this conversation which is very close to our heart, and, and something we're thinking about a lot right now, which is this idea of speed and trust, or speed and taking care of people somehow being at tensi...

TED2018 hit its stride on day 3, with talks from explorers of space and oceans, builders of cities and bridges, engineers of the future and many more. Here are some of the themes we heard echoing through the opening day, as well as some highlights from around the conference venue in Vancouver. Are we alone in the cosmos? The universe is 13...

We know that our world -- our data, our lives, our countries -- are becoming more and more connected. But what should we do with that? In two sessions of TED@IBM, the answer shaped up to be: Dream as big as you can. Speakers took the stage to pitch their ideas for using connected data and new forms of machine intelligence to make material ch...