TED Talk Tuesdays // The talk Beyonce wants you to watch
Last week, Beyonce gave us the (best) shock of 2013 when she dropped her self-titled new album completely unannounced. And as if she wasn’t already fierce enough, Beyonce’s new song “***Flawless” features Nigerian writer, feminist, and TED Talk star Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Not to brag or anything, but clearly Beyonce and I are on the same […]
TED Talk Wednesdays // The danger of a single story
We believe in the power of stories to change the world. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a writer from Nigeria, shows just how true that belief is in her TED talk, “The danger of a single story.” As a child reading Western literature, and later as an African adult living in America, Adichie has been both a […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // 100 TED Talk lessons in 5 minutes
In the 20+ years since TED was formed, the talks have given us hundreds of inspiring, life-changing videos on just about every important topic under the sun: identity, purpose, human connection, technology, and the world. TED presentations run anywhere between 5 to 25 minutes, and each one is brilliant. The problem? There’s simply too much […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // How to find and do work you love
Maybe it’s because I’m a recent college grad whose peer group seems to talk about nothing but the job hunt. Maybe it’s because I intern at an organization where everyone seems to miraculously love their job. Whatever the reason, this TED Talk about work life captured my attention and I thought it was worth sharing. […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // How great leaders inspire action
I love TED Talks of the self-help variety that force you to reexamine your life and then motivate you to be a better person. Simon Sinek‘s talk, “How great leaders inspire action,” falls under this category indirectly. Drawing on economical, biological, and sociological evidence, Sinek traces the simple yet profound strategies that famous leaders like MLK, […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // We need to talk about an injustice
I’ve given you a lot of TED Talks to watch over the past few months, but this one deserves a look. I mean it. Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the important and inextricable connection between our identity as a society, what we talk about, and what we care […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // 30 day challenge
A month ago, we launched our global #zeroLRA campaign. In the past 30 days, you set up your fundraising page, you organized fundraisers, you watched us give away our first of seven free trips to Uganda, and you helped us raise over $154,000 for the men, women, and children still held captive by Kony’s LRA. […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // The key to success?
Big-shot-consultant-turned-teacher Angela Lee Duckworth studied the elusive question of what makes people successful. Disclaimer: it wasn’t IQ, talent, or money. Her answer? Grit. As a teacher of seventh graders, Duckworth noticed that it was her hard-working, determined students that had the highest test scores, even if they had lower IQs compared to some of their […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // How to make stress your friend
Stress. We all have it, and we’re all trying to get rid of it. It gives us wrinkles, bad nail-biting habits, and premature death (or so the experts say). Well, psychologist Kelly McGonigal is here to give you a stress intervention (and no, she will not tell you to take deep breaths or do more […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // The surprising science of happiness
Ah, yes. We all love a good formula for happiness. This time, Harvard professor Dan Gilbert in his TED Talk “The surprising science of happiness” lays out an unusual roadmap to that ever-elusive pot-o’-gold at the end of the happiness rainbow: the prefrontal cortex. According to Gilbert’s extensive and compelling research, what we think will […]