From TED.com We celebrate birthdays, where all you have to do is not die for 365 days — and yet we let people who have made our lives better walk around without knowing it. We have all changed someone’s life — usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of […]
The Creative Habit
– Twyla Tharp
August 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird. [From: Amazon.com] Many people in the information economy are creative workers. Writers. Programmers. Photoshop wizards. Bloggers. […]
Working for Good
– Jeff Klein
August 2, 2014 By
“Working for Good,” subtitled Making a Difference While Making a Living, would seem indispensable for energetic, ambitious entrepreneurs and visionaries who have a strong social conscience as well as a robust business ethos. Jeff Klein, an ambitious and energetic guy, has written a book with the same attributes and confesses that he “loves to work.” Klein’s […]
On the Map
– Simon Garfield
July 31, 2014 By
Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps. Imagine a world […]
The Brain That Changes Itself
– Norman Doidge
July 29, 2014 By
“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.” What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain? Norman […]
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
– Alexandra Horowitz
July 28, 2014 By
“The result of these walks on my head is tangible: they refined what I can see.” From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see […]
How schools kill creativity
– Ken Robinson
July 26, 2014 By
From TED.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Why you should […]
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
– Alain de Botton
July 23, 2014 By
From TED.com Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. Through his witty and literate books — and his new School of Life […]
Your elusive creative genius
– Elizabeth Gilbert
July 22, 2014 By
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. The author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and […]
The best gift I ever survived
– Stacey Kramer
July 21, 2014 By
From TED.com Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience — frightening, traumatic, costly — can turn out to be a priceless gift. Stacey Kramer has traveled the United States and the world helping to create names and brands for growing companies. Why you should listen Co-founder of Brandplay, a […]
