The Blind Project

A story about three roommates who left the comforts of their life back in the States in pursuit of discovering the truth behind the global sex trade. What did they uncover? What is their plan to be part of the solution? Watch, learn and discuss how you too can be part of the solution to end modern day slavery in the commercial sex trade.

Visit the theblindproject+  from more information.



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The Power Of One

The Tara Project is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through education. Learn more at The Tara Project.





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Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich - 11.Creative Vision

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For Neda

FOR NEDA reveals the true story of Neda Agha-Soltan, who became another tragic casualty of Iran's violent crackdown on post-election protests on June 20, 2009. Unlike many unknown victims, however, she instantly became an international symbol of the struggle: Within hours of Agha-Soltan's death, cell phone photographs of her blood-stained face were held aloft by crowds protesting in Tehran and across the world. With exclusive access to her family inside Iran, the documentary goes to the heart of who Neda was and what she stood for, illuminating the larger Iranian struggle for democratic freedoms through her powerful story.



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President Obama at Michigan Commencement

President Obama speaks at the 2010 University of Michigan commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor, MI.

President Obama gives us some great advices, I will mention only one.

Try to expand your horizons, get close to people different from you. Different ideas, different races, different social extracts, different cultures, and try to put yourself in their shoes. Try to understand their point of view and be tolerant. That is how we can grow as a person and forge a common future.

President Obama at Michigan Commencement from Online Motivator on Vimeo.

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Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speaker 2010, Columbia University

Meryl Streep speaks at Barnard College, Columbia University Commencement 2010.

An American actress who has worked in theater, television, and film, Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations and 15 Golden Globe nominations. She won two Oscars and seven Golden Globes. She made her first appearance in a play called The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and since then, she has been known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Mamma Mia (2007), Doubt (2008) and more recently Julie & Julia and Its Complicated in 2009.

Cristiano Ronaldo - The Story So Far

Here is a kid that will not settle for second place. For him winning is like breathing. What a tremendous lesson for all of us!

Diane von Furstenberg: The Story of Kakenya

Kakenya Ntaiya has been a member of the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network since 2007. She is an active participant in multiple programs run by the organization across Africa and around the world. Her story has inspired countless others with its messages of determination and hope.




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Challenges to Pursue

This was the first time I heard Jim Rohn. What a tremendous man he must have been . I was mesmerized by his fine humour!


In this short video he gives nothing but great advice, and I would like to highlight the following:

"Find your place and do your job well, and sure enough they will ask you to occupy a better place.

If you have a lousy job, to the best you can, that is your best way out.

With that philosophy your life can take great leaps forward."

What an amazing piece of advice!

Online Motivator: Jim Rohn - Challenges to Pursue from Online Motivator on Vimeo.

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Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

Denis Waitley Quotes on Winning and Greatness

Jack Canfield explains: Recommended Daily Actions

There are some great advice in this video, but I'd like to emphasize one in particular, visualise your goals, visualize your dreams. And if you are like me you will not want to have pictures of your dreams on the wall for everybody to see. So, if you allow me, I'll give you a peace of advice, use any object to represent your dream, and then give it significance. For instance, if you want a dream hose, you can get a monopoly hose and place it in your living room, and make the connection of that monopoly hose to your dream house, so whenever you see the monopoly house your will remember your dream. You can use this technique with anything, for instance, quit smoking, stop procrastination, etc.



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Secret To Success

Now, here is a guy that believes in what he says and knows how to say it with power!



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Brian Tracy - All skills are learnable

Yesterday I was watching a cartoon on cable about a football player. This character, at the end of the episode realised that if he wanted to get better he would have to change, if he was waiting for the other to change than nothing was going to change. How true this is, if you want to change something in your life you have to change yourself.

So decide what you want to achieve in your life, visualise it every day until you believe that you really can achieve it, make a plan, take massive action.
Don't give up! You can correct the path, but do not give up until you succeed!



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The Motorcycle Doctors

A truly inspirational story of Doctors in Africa that ride in their motorcycles to get to their patients.

Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

I love this guy, I just love him. I'm watching wine library tv for a couple of years now and I find Gary fascinating. His energy and irreverence are contagious.

Please leave a comment with your opinion on this one.



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The Rocky Story - What Really Happened

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Tony Robbins on The Hour

Tony Robbins, is on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.



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Jane Goodall helps humans and animals live together

About this talk

The legendary chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall talks about TACARE and her other community projects, which help people in booming African towns live side-by-side with threatened animals.

Why you should listen to Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall hasn't exactly found the missing link, but she's come closer than just about anyone else on Earth. Her extensive research into the behavior of chimpanzees, which started in Africa in the 1960s and continues today, fundamentally altered scientific thinking about the relationship between humans and other mammals.

Goodall, who founded a research institute in her name in 1977, is an internationally recognized authority on the primate world. She's written books for adults and children, contributed to documentaries, and serves as a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, a United Nations peace messenger, and the president of Advocates for Animals. For her efforts to observe and preserve all species, Goodall has received honors and accolades from governments, nonprofits, universities, and professional organizations, including a medal from UNESCO and the French Legion of Honor in 2006.

"Goodall's detailed, engaging descriptions of chimpanzee society transformed our notions of what it means to be a primate -- and what it means to be human."

Sierra Magazine



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E.O. Wilson on saving life on Earth

About this talk

As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life.

Why you should listen to E.O. Wilson

One of the world's most distinguished scientists, E.O. Wilson is a professor and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard. In 1975, he published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, a work that described social behavior, from ants to humans.

Drawing from his deep knowledge of the Earth's "little creatures" and his sense that their contribution to the planet's ecology is underappreciated, he produced what may be his most important book,The Diversity of Life In it he describes how an intricately interconnected natural system is threatened by man's encroachment, in a crisis he calls the "sixth extinction" (the fifth one wiped out the dinosaurs).

With his most recent book, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth he wants to put the differences of science- and faith-based explanations aside "to protect Earth's vanishing natural habitats and species ...; in other words, the Creation, however we believe it came into existence."

"He more than anyone understands the relationship between genes and culture -- and it started with his ants."

The Guardian

Karen Armstrong makes her TED Prize wish: the Charter for Compassion

About this talk

People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

Why you should listen to Karen Armstrong

Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events.

A former nun, Armstrong has written two books about this experience: Through the Narrow Gate, about her seven years in the convent, and The Spiral Staircase, about her subsequent spiritual awakening, when she developed her iconoclastic take on the major monotheistic religions -- and on the strains of fundamentalism common to all. She is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding.

Armstrong's 2008 TED Prize wish asks us to help her assemble the Charter for Compassion, a document around which religious leaders can work together for peace. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter will be launched in November 2009. 

"I say that religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness."

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Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas

About this talk

In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature.

Why you should listen to Robert Thurman

Tenzin Robert Thurman became a Tibetan monk at age 24. He's a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, and co-founder of Tibet House US, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.

Thurman's focus is on the balance between inner insight and cultural harmony. In interpreting the teachings of Buddha, he argues that happiness can be reliable and satisfying in an enduring way without depriving others.

He has translated many Buddhist Sutras, or teachings, and written many books, recently taking on the topic of Anger for the recent Oxford series on the seven deadly sins. He maintains a podcast on Buddhist topics. And yes, he is Uma's dad.

"Thurman considers Buddhism to be primarily a system of education, a science that guides individuals to live life to its fullest."

Kansas City Star

Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness

About this talk

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.

Why you should listen to Matthieu Ricard

After training in biochemistry at the Institute Pasteur, Matthieu Ricard left science behind to move to the Himalayas and become a Buddhist monk -- and to pursue happiness, both at a basic human level and as a subject of inquiry. Achieving happiness, he has come to believe, requires the same kind of effort and mind training that any other serious pursuit involves.

His deep and scientifically tinged reflections on happiness and Buddhism have turned into several books, including The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet. At the same time, he also makes sensitive and jaw-droppingly gorgeous photographs of his beloved Tibet and the spiritual hermitage where he lives and works on humanitarian projects.

His latest book on happiness is Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill; his latest book of photographs is Tibet: An Inner Journey.

"Matthieu Ricard, French translator and right-hand man for the Dalai Lama, has been the subject of intensive clinical tests at the University of Wisconsin, as a result of which he is frequently described as the happiest man in the world."

Robert Chalmers, The Independent





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Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

About this talk

Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.

Why you should listen to Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us have the wrong map. In the same way that optical illusions fool our eyes -- and fool everyone's eyes in the same way -- Gilbert argues that our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy. And these quirks in our cognition make humans very poor predictors of our own bliss.

The premise of his current research -- that our assumptions about what will make us happy are often wrong -- is supported with clinical research drawn from psychology and neuroscience. But his delivery is what sets him apart. His engaging -- and often hilarious -- style pokes fun at typical human behavior and invokes pop-culture references everyone can relate to. This winning style translates also to Gilbert's writing, which is lucid, approachable and laugh-out-loud funny. The immensely readable Stumbling on Happiness published in 2006, became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 20 languages.

In fact, the title of his book could be drawn from his own life. At 19, he was a high school dropout with dreams of writing science fiction. When a creative writing class at his community college was full, he enrolled in the only available course: psychology. He found his passion there, earned a doctorate in social psychology in 1985 at Princeton, and has since won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize for his work at Harvard. He has written essays and articles for The New York Times, Time and even Starbucks, while continuing his research into happiness at his Hedonic Psychology Laboratory.

"Gilbert's elbow-in-the-ribs social-science humor is actually funny. ... But underneath the goofball brilliance, [he] has a serious argument to make about why human beings are forever wrongly predicting what will make them happy."

New York Times Book Review

I Am

I Am is not only a film but a social experiment that took strangers in Philadelphia and asked them to finish this sentence. "I am ___." Through these responses, the film-maker was able to create a montage of answers and then delve deeper into a select few and allow them to explore their answers even further, creating not only written poems but a visual metaphor of these responses. (Premiered at iLLReality's STEW event on March 21, 2010). Be sure to check out illreality.com

I Am from Steven Nicholas Smith on Vimeo.