Embark on a journey of self-improvement with this selection of TED Talks on personal growth. From innovative parenting strategies and mental health support to fostering self-confidence and sustainable habits, these ideas offer practical advice and fresh perspectives for a transformative year ahead.
How To Be A Better Human isn’t your average self improvement podcast. Each week join Chris Duffy in conversation with guests and past speakers as they uncover sharp insights and give clear takeaways on how YOU can be a better human. From your work to your home and your head to your heart, How To Be a Better Human looks in unexpected places for n...
By Andy Robertson
New art forms are polarizing. We love or hate Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde animals or Tracey Emin’s unmade bed but roundly understand that avant garde art has value, the artist trying to challenge us and make us think something.
Video games draw similar fire. Detractors hem and haw that they’re all about shooting guns ...
About this event: In the finale of our TEDxPembrokePublicLibrary "Build a Better World" series, we will watch and discuss three TED Talk videos focusing on happiness, positive relationships, and other methods of self-improvement.
Event details: Pembroke, Massachusetts, United States · August 2, 2017
About this event: In the midst of a pandemic and social unrest, we will explore the importance and different ways to practice wellness during our event Wellness in the New Era. In these changing times, we encourage you reflect introspectively into the different facets that make us who we are. Wellness is not just being healthy from illness but also a journey of g...
Event details: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States · November 1, 2020
Paul Romer's research on catch-up growth in low- and middle-income countries has emphasized the importance of government policies that encourage orderly urban expansion.
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank
About this event: Embracing imperfection is the idea of accepting and even celebrating one's flaws, mistakes, and imperfections. It is about letting go of the need to be perfect and instead focusing on self-improvement and growth. This can involve practicing self-compassion, acknowledging and learning from mistakes, and recognizing that perfection is not achievab...
Event details: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · December 26, 2022
About this event: Back for the second time, TEDxGrantPark 2017 will shine a light back on the true, unique, and powerful potential hidden within all of us. More than just self-improvement, we're interested in the results of this thinking - the lessons it brings, questions it raises, and solutions it may lead us to.
This year's TEDxGrantPark will provide a chanc...
Event details: Chicago, Illinois, United States · September 23, 2017
About this event: “无限”是TEDxSEU本年度秋季分享大会的主题。八位出身东大,又来自各个领域的讲者将为我们分享他们各自领域内所见无限之事,不论是认识自我、发现城市、维护生态、还是突破偏见。
This event will focus on INFINITY, the word includes unlimited power and imagination. 8 performers based on Southeast University with unique experiences will present with new ideas from self-improvement to city ecosystem.
Event details: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China · December 2, 2021
About this event: TEDxUndip has already held on October 2019 and gather hundreds of Diponegoro Scholars from different disciplinary and perspective in hope that it can encourage them to innovate and contribute more for the society after being inspired by the chosen speakers, along with the objective that TEDxUndip will be held routinely in the future to carry the...
Event details: Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia · October 19, 2019
About this event: Use mindful self-compassion to reframe the way in which we talk to ourselves, see our shared humanity, and change the world.
Mindful Self-Compassion increases life satisfaction and decreases depression, anxiety and stress. With all that is going on, we can all use a satisfaction boost, right?
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We are apt not to give ourselves the same kind...
Event details: Atlanta, Georgia, United States · December 10, 2020
About this event: Happy New Year!
Traditionally this is the time of year when many of us make resolutions, i.e., when we resolve to change a bad behavior, to accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve our lives.
How’s that working out for you? …Me? Not so much… :-)
What if there’s a different approach that looks at the root of our being and examines how ...
Event details: Calgary, Alberta, Canada · January 30, 2020
About this event: This is fifth year of TEDxUAJ and the theme is The "You" factor. The "You" Factor means you are who you are. you have to see yourself as it is as a form of being grateful and acceptance, but also see your self as what you can be as a form of self improvement. you are the ultimate factor of whatever happen to your own life. No matter what they sa...
Event details: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · October 1, 2020
People often describe failure as a teachable moment— a necessary stumble on our way to improvement. But learning from our mistakes isn't always easy, especially when those failures are demoralizing, overwhelming, or just downright confusing. So what prevents us from turning our mistakes into mastery? Explore the biggest obstacles of learning fr...
What does it take to start something as big as a bank from scratch? Social entrepreneur Cristina Junqueira did just that when she cofounded Nubank in her native Brazil, identifying the challenges people faced at traditional banks (like long lines and wait times) as an opportunity to take a different approach. It's a lesson on how listening to "c...
TED.com volunteers translate talks into many languages, from commonly used (like Spanish and Mandarin Chinese) to a few less expected (like Klingon). And two new languages just joined our library: Latgalian and Tatar.
Latgalian is officially the 104th language on TED.com. It’s spoken in Latgale, a region in the eastern part of Latvia...
At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in daily life you can measure -- in gloriously geeky detail.
About this event: In a world where the pursuit of excellence is celebrated, TEDxYouth@AvenorCollege invites you to embark on a unique journey – one that delves into what happens after individuals, particularly achievers, have reached the pinnacle of their success. This event goes beyond the glamour of triumph to explore the transformative power of personal growth...
Event details: Bucharest, București, Romania · November 17, 2023
Many of us track our time or money, but here’s something else you may consider measuring: Your decisions. Bulletproof founder Dave Asprey explains why.
For more than five years, tech entrepreneur Dave Asprey has interviewed the world’s leading thinkers and influencers on his Bulletproof Radio podcast. Here is some advice that he’s gathered abou...
Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically "teenage" behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain.
About this event: The first ever TEDx event at RCHK seeks to cultivate a common interest for public speaking. The event strives to deliver an influential message in which the sharing of ideas through voice and visual communication is an engaging, prosperous and creative way to educate and inform each other. Knowledge is a vast ocean that exists to perpetually exp...
Event details: Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong · October 24, 2018
Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.
TED Radio Hour started in 2013, and while I’ve only been working on the show for about a year, it’s one of my favorite parts of my job. We work with an incredibly creative team over at NPR, and helping them weave different ideas into a narrative each week adds a whole new dimension to the talks.
On Friday, the podcast published its 100th...
When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development...
Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter ...
Kylie Dunn has come up with the perfect analogy for her Year of TED, a self-improvement project she dreamed up in 2011 to infuse ideas from TED Talks into her everyday life. She says that the experience was akin to the Wizard of Oz, with herself playing each of the main characters.
Dunn was recently invited to give a talk about her experience...
About this event: Central theme: Illumination
Illumination: lighting, light
粲:鲜亮发光的样子
“ 最黑暗的时刻也是最接近光明的时刻。
与其咒骂黑暗,不如燃起一支明烛。
人生应该如蜡烛一样,从顶燃到底,一直都是光明的。”
"The darkest hour is also the closest to the light.
Instead of cursing the darkness, it is better to light a bright candle.
Life should be like a candle, burning from top to bottom, always bright. "
我们以生活中遇到的困难阻碍和...
Event details: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · March 27, 2021
Fixable
How to self-promote without shame (w/ Chris Duffy)
September 25, 2023
[00:00:00] Anne Morriss:
So Frances, for the past three months, I have been watching you avoid part of your day job that you do not like.
[00:00:11] Frances Frei:
Yes.
[00:00:13] Anne Morriss:
Which is, I think, one of the themes of our conversation today. Um, ...