Today I will leave you with some delicious food for thougth, and you also can get a free copy of the Audiobook version of Tribal Leadership for free, learn how watching Tony's presentation (after watching the presentation, if you can't find the link leave a comment and I will be glad to send it to you).
Zig Zigler's personal story of persistence to be a public speaker is something many of us have heard. It is really an inspiring story to read. It lets you see that he had persistence that never quit. He had a dream that he kept pursuing year after year. He knew deep down he was going to achieve what you want to do. He used pure persistence to achieve this goal, which was to become a public speaker.
He tells the story of when he first saw Bob Bale speak in South Carolina in 1952. When he saw Bob speak, he knew exactly what he wanted to do. It was not until 1968 that Zig was able to go into personal speaking full-time. It wasn't until four years later, in 1972, that his career as a personal speaker really took off. Now if you look at the time period from when he first envisioned himself speaking, it took 20 years to realize his dream. During that time he worked in sales selling cookware.
When he started speaking, he would speak anywhere that the people would allow him to share his personal stories with the crowd. He would then ask for feedback after he gave the speech in order to constantly improve the way he gave his speeches. He talks about having many discouraging times when he just wasn't reaching people like he wanted to. He too thought about giving up, but he could not do it. He had a dream. A dream that he was willing to do whatever it took to achieve.
Along his 20 year journey to becoming a public speaker, many people questioned whether he was on the right path or not during that time. There were only two main organizations that offered public speaking as mainstream venues back in those days. This was when only establish speakers were invited to speak to large groups of people. No matter what the setbacks may have been, Zig Zigler never gave up on his dream.
Ever since 1972, his career as a public speaker has become known all over the world. People from countries with far away from America have flown in to watch him speak. He is a very dynamic and passionate speaker. He speaks from the heart. How was Zig able to achieve this amount of success with his dream? Very simply put, he had pure persistence. Nothing was going to stop him from achieving his dream. I urge you to dig deep down define your own persistence to achieve your dream.
This short movie evokes a complicity between the spectator and the narrator. Something cheerful, something mysterious, something simple, something that hopefully maybe brightens your day.
Shot on location in Dowlaiswaram, India, this short film explores the life of Kengava Satish Kumar, a young orphan in India. Let's all hope he has a great life.
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.
About this talk
The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).
Why you should listen to him:
Even the most worldly and well-traveled among us will have their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, his current work focuses on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (he points out) is no longer worlds away from the West. In fact, most of the Third World is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did.
What sets Rosling apart isn't just his apt observations of broad social and economic trends, but the stunning way he presents them. Guaranteed: You've never seen data presented like this. By any logic, a presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be, in a word: boring. But in Rosling's hands, data sings. Trends come to life. And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus.
Rosling's presentations are grounded in solid statistics (often drawn from United Nations data), illustrated by the visualization software he developed. The animations transform development statistics into moving bubbles and flowing curves that make global trends clear, intuitive and even playful. During his legendary presentations, Rosling takes this one step farther, narrating the animations with a sportscaster's flair.
Rosling developed the breakthrough software behind his visualizations through his nonprofit Gapminder, founded with his son and daughter-in-law. The free software — which can be loaded with any data — was purchased by Google in March 2007. (Rosling met the Google founders at TED.)
Rosling began his wide-ranging career as a physician, spending many years in rural Africa tracking a rare paralytic disease (which he named konzo) and discovering its cause: hunger and badly processed cassava. He co-founded Médecins sans Frontièrs (Doctors without Borders) Sweden, wrote a textbook on global health, and as a professor at the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm initiated key international research collaborations. He's also personally argued with many heads of state, including Fidel Castro.
As if all this weren't enough, the irrepressible Rosling is also an accomplished sword-swallower — a skill he demonstrated at TED2007.
"Rosling believes that making information more accessible has the potential to change the quality of the information itself."
People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.
Why you should listen to him:
A dynamic writer and speaker, Johnson crafts captivating theories that draw on a dizzying array of disciplines, without ever leaving his audience behind. Author Kurt Anderson described Johnson's book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software as "thoughtful and lucid and charming and staggeringly smart." The same could be said for Johnson himself. His big-brained, multi-disciplinary theories make him one of his generation's more intriguing thinkers. His books take the reader on a journey -- following the twists and turns his own mind makes as he connects seemingly disparate ideas: ants and cities, interface design and Victorian novels.
Johnson's breakout 2005 title, Everything Bad Is Good for You , took the provocative stance that our fear and loathing of popular culture is misplaced; video games and TV shows, he argues, are actually making us smarter. His appearances on The Daily Show and Charlie Rose cemented his reputation as a cogent thinker who could also pull more than his share of laughs. His most recent work, The Ghost Map, goes in another direction entirely: It tells the story of a cholera outbreak in 1854 London, from the perspective of the city residents, the doctors chasing the disease, and the pathogen itself. The book shows how the epidemic brought about profound changes in science, cities and modern society. His upcoming work, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, tells the fascinating stories of great ideas and great thinkers across disciplines.
No mere chronicler of technology, Johnson is himself a longtime innovator in the web world: He was founder and Editor in Chief of FEED, one of the earliest and most interesting online magazines. He cofounded outside.in, an intriguing website that maps online conversations to real-world neighborhoods.
"Johnson is a clear, lively writer with an aversion to jargon and a knack for crafting offbeat analogies."
Ben Brophy compiled Tony Robbins Code Of Truth in this wonderful and insightful video. Take the time to watch it and leave a comment with your thoughts.
For many years Psychology was concerned with healing pathologies, it was all about making the lives of miserable people less miserable, and as it was a good thing, in fact a great thing, Dr. Martin Seligman believes that Psychology should be:
as concerned with strength as with weakness;
as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst;
as concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfilling and with nurturing high talent as with healing pathology.
So about 10 years ago Dr. Martin Seligman founded the field of Positive Psychology.
Watch his talk at TED and leave a comment with your opinion.
I always heard that you should make your goals public because by doing so you make a commitment not only with yourself but also to others, and hopefully that attaches you more to your goals.
Derek Silver says otherwise. Please listen to his talk and leave a comment with your opinion.
Why do we so often sabotage our work? We have an idea, we put it into practice, and when we are about to ship we sabotage it. Why do we so often do it?
It's because of our lizard brain, this is the name that Seth Godin gives to the amygdala, the part of our brain responsible for survival and fear. The problem is that our lizard brain does not like exposure or change, he is afraid of criticism, of losing it all, and so he does everything he can to keep us quiet, doing what we usually do without standing out, because standing out is scary, standing out threats our survival. And so, when we are about to ship we tend to panic and find a way to sabotage our work so we don't have to ship, and thus we don't have to expose ourselves.
Whatch the video and learn how you can quiet your lizard brain and leave a comment with your opinion.
Once we take our basic needs out of the way, like survival, security and food, what really motivates us is having a propose, a passion in which we believe and embrace with all our hearts, a passion that is bigger that us. Once we have that passion, that dream, wonderful things happen because nothing can stop us.
So be passionate about everything you do, don't work just because you are paid for, give your self, be innovative, be critical, challenge the status quo, and make beautiful things happen. Don't ask for permission, just do it, if you think you can't, remember, it your lizard brain talking you out of it, and you should never, ever listen to your lizard brain.
Dan Pink's shows this clearly in is talk at the RSA. Watch the video and leave a comment.
In today's world you can no longer afford to be average, you have to be remarkable to strive. In today's world we don't care about the average because we have to much information and to little time to process it, so we only choose what is remarkable.
Seth Godin explains this very well at his talk on TED. Watch it now, and leave a comment with your opinion.
Taylor Mali has a quest to inspire 1,000 people through poetry to choose teaching as a career. Until now he has inspired 499 people to became teachers.
See how a motivated, focused person can make a difference in the world.
for free, learn how watching Tony's presentation (after watching the presentation, if you can't find the link leave a comment and I will be glad to send it to you).
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as "thoughtful and lucid and charming and staggeringly smart." The same could be said for Johnson himself. His big-brained, multi-disciplinary theories make him one of his generation's more intriguing thinkers. His books take the reader on a journey -- following the twists and turns his own mind makes as he connects seemingly disparate ideas: ants and cities, interface design and Victorian novels.
