Your inner voice is a powerful tool for self-reflection and planning, but it can also trap you in negative thought loops — “chatter,” as psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross calls it. He shares tips for quieting the less helpful aspects of the voice inside your head as well as how to harness chatter to overcome doubt, enhance your focus a...

In need of a shot of inspiration to be a better you? Level up with these inspiring and insightful talks designed to expand your mindset, invite reflection and redefine your sense of self.

Tom Nash engages audiences about self-reflection and realization, encouraging people to take a fresh look at their human experience.

Rébecca Kleinberger is a voice expert pursuing research as a PhD candidate in the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group.

Paul Catchlove believes strongly in the power of reflection. Through every career he's held -- from priest to opera singer to senior management consultant -- he's benefitted from a habit of considering and analyzing his goals, needs and performance. Learn more about how a regular practice of reflection can improve your decision-making, career an...

About this event: In accordance with this year’s theme, this Salon event aims to guide attendees to learn from the self, for the self, in the process of self-reflection. Through a series of TED Talks and activities, we hope to transform how we look at life’s hardest moments and grow and move on.

About this event: The theme 'Sit, Reflect, and Reconnect' provides us with an opportunity to create a platform for the community, especially the youth, to engage in self-reflection and reestablish connections with the often-overlooked small moments in life. TEDxUNS 2023 adopts the theme 'Sit, Reflect, and Reconnect,' inspired by the philosophy of Indonesian tea, ...

About this event: "Harmony in Growth: Balancing Health, Wealth and Self " seeks to inspire women to pursue a harmonized approach to personal and professional life, illustrating how the integration of health, wealth, and self-awareness leads to a more empowered, fulfilled existence. The theme explores strategies that empower women to achieve their goals across th...

About this event: The topic of this event was inspired by a quote from the book, “大島小島” (which literally means, “big island, small island”), written by a Taiwanese writer, HUNG-CHI LIAO (Mandarin: 廖鴻基). The main concept is from the quote of this book “ Fishes rely on the flow of water to move forward, but the definite direction that the fish choose depends on co...

In this delightful talk, philosopher Yann Dall'Aglio explores the universal search for tenderness and connection in a world that's ever more focused on the individual. As it turns out, it's easier than you think. A wise and witty reflection on the state of love in the modern age. In French with subtitles.

Have you ever seen or experienced something and wished you spoke up? Writer Sakinah Hofler makes the case for writing as a tool to help you process difficult memories and reclaim the power they may hold. Pick up a pen or pull up a keyboard and follow along as she walks you through how to unburden your mind and inspire reflection.

About this event: TEDxGramercy: Dare To Be Different hosted a night of ideas shared around innovation through creativity, education, storytelling, truth-seeking, ally-ship, self-reflection, entertainment, and growth with local and global communities. The event occurred on Saturday, October 15, 2022, from 5-8 PM at the beautiful Engelman Recital Hall, located at...

Obsessive navel-gazing can be satisfying, but the problem is, it can also be damaging. Organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich suggests ways to escape the loop of rumination and learn how to move forward for real. It was Tuesday evening around 11pm. Holed up in my dark office, I sat staring at a set of freshly analyzed data. A few weeks earlie...

Community member Sandy Weiner wrote this in response to Joshua Prager's TED Talk, In search of the man who broke my neck: "This talk resonated for me on so many levels. Courage, self-reflection, not accepting the status quo, not resigning to a life as a victim, and the ability for Joshua to move on to achieve great things in spite of the terr...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Just a moment ago Sherry Turkle's daughter texted her: "Mom, you will rock." Turkle loved it, she says. "Getting that text was like getting a hug." Turkle, who has written extensively on the nature of human relations on the internet, who evangelized the internet, who loves receiving that text, is here to tell ...

About this event: In our rapidly globalizing world, self-discovery and self-reflection are more important now than ever. Join high school students and business professionals as they explore the big ideas, personal shifts, and transformative experiences that shape their paths to self-awareness. From overcoming personal obstacles to challenging ingrained beliefs, d...

About this event: In today's world, marked by increasing division and conflict, finding ways to bridge these gaps is more important than ever. Our TEDx event, "Balancing Polarity," aims to explore the various polarisations in our society from multiple perspectives. We seek to inspire our audience to engage in self-reflection, embrace openness, and discover how ...

About this event: The concept revolves around the idea of "What if?" as a philosophical and emotional exploration. It represents the limitless potential of decisions and possibilities that humans face. It's about imagining alternative realities that could change your life or perspective. The core question is: What if I chose this path? What if the world unfolde...

About this event: “Big questions, small answers” refers to the idea that a number of obstacles and questions we face often require us to be proactive. They enforce upon us the necessity of starting with small steps in order to reach the pinnacle of life. In a world that currently requires an inspiring show of unity and self-reflection, we believe that this theme ...

Your email inbox almost always looks the same. The content may change, but it’s still a chronological list -- a narrow, time-based organization of correspondence, deeply set in the present. But a team from the MIT Media lab has created a new way for you to see your email, as an intimate and elegant visualization of your life organized around p...

About this event: This year, TEDxPetalingStreet’s bring you ‘The Path’. The Path explores the food prints of Life. Re-look into the imprints of those who have traversed ahead. The road less travelled by many, only to those who dared to believe, with their hearts, and made their dreams come true. ‘The Path’ is a journey. It’s a journey of self reflection, of disc...

About this event: This year has forced many to spend more time in their homes and with their close family and friends. This time has created a lot of alone time and internal investigation in many of us. On the heels of this, the theme for our 2020 TedX event is Introspection. Introspection is the examination of one's own thoughts and feelings. This theme is inten...

About this event: True change comes from idea and ideas are to inspire, it is a seed which grows within you; all it takes is faith in yourself. This Event is about self-reflection and believing that your identity is unique and is a highway to your destination. Inspiration is all around us. It's in the people we see, the things that gives us joy and obstacles tha...

For many of us, our parents were our first template for love. And for Cynthia Ong—a first generation child of Vietnamese immigrants—love meant sacrifice. Through self-exploration and therapy as an adult, she came to understand love as a myriad of languages defined by her own values—like empathy, gratitude, and self-preservation—not by what she g...

About this event: Over the years, we have been wired a certain way to accept the simultaneous pollution of our minds through several external as well as internal agents that have begun influencing us on a daily basis. The theme 'Conscious Detoxification' aims at encouraging active rejection of negativity, limitations, and restrictions we constantly impose on ours...

About this event: 2016年，是臺灣民間教育界百家齊放的一年，也是新媒體崛起的時機。這一年，封閉的社會結構和教育體制受到撞擊，12年的填鴨式教育受到挑戰。「TEDxNTUST 破牆年會」，將有五位講者，和三位表演者。他們的年齡都與我們相近，但特別的是這些人勇敢的對於他們不滿足、希望能夠改變的事情做出行動。這些突破格局的人，達到社會「限制下的無所限制」，我們稱他們為:「破牆者」。 2016 TEDxNTUST年會使命，是透過一系列的優質TEDx活動，將這個世代所需要的「破牆精神」植入青年心中，並邀請每一位夥伴共同成為突破自己格局和視野的「破牆者」。 The idea of this topic was inspired by things which a famous Taiwanese mounta...

About this event: TEDxIIFTDelhi is a flagship event of IIFT Delhi, one of India's oldest and most prestigious business schools, and is headed by the Media Committee of IIFT Delhi. The theme for the VII edition of TEDxIIFTDelhi was "The Inflection Point". In mathematics, an inflection point is a point on a curve at which a change in the direction of curvature o...

About this event: TEDxHDNB Youth is the first and only official TEDx event in Ningbo in 2023, and the theme of our talk is “The magic of not caring”. This TEDx session will invite different speakers to share their difficulties, anxieties or doubts; how “the magic of not caring” has helped them focus on themselves and not be influenced by external factors. The...

About this event: More often than not, we fail to dedicate our time and attention for ourselves. Everything around us moves with such ferocity and speed that we get distracted fairly easily it hard for us to catch up with the ever-growing news that we sometimes fail to see the truth standing right in front of us. Ask yourself when was the last time you really loo...

About this event: Sometimes the most unplanned steps lead us to exactly where we were supposed to be, demonstrating that what we thought was wrong can guide us to the right destination. It is okay to make mistakes, as some perceived “wrongs” lead to a journey of profound growth, connections, and accomplishments. This year’s conference will take place on February...