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We don't all wander our way through life continuously looking to impress everyone we meet. It is possible to sit back, take the world in, and just sort of marvel at it with no other intention but to be amazed. If you you look hard enough at anything its not hard for you to find something negative (or just dream up something negative) about everything.
Meh. I try to spend more than 18 minutes soaking the world in. I think some of them are pretty interesting, but they do seem to appeal to the Wikipedia-level experts in every field.
The Ted talks are very helpful in leading one to more detailed research on a given subject. If someone likes Sebastian Thrun's 19-minute talk on driverless cars, he's more likely to search for more news articles about the concept.
That weed one is so true. I've been doing some research into growing and people are just insanely methodical with this from the lighting, fertilizer, soil, testing php etc.
As I said above, I agree that many of them are interesting. And I've worn New Balance shoes and a performance fleece top while training for a half marathon and topped it off with a nice microbrew. I've just never marveled at or been amazed by an executive summary of a very deep subject.
Awesome.
Watched this one from your link. Interesting stuff. I've bookmarked her site. I find some of her stats a little bit surprising. One in two males gets cancer? I have never heard that before.
This is fantastic. So much wisdom.
I am curious how do find new subjects to become deeply engrossed in? I presume you don't have complete a priori knowledge requiring no further research on all subjects, so when you find a new subject where/how do you start researching it?
I watched three last night;1) Why work doesn't get done at work2) 3 things I learned as my plane crashed3) 10 things you didn't know about orgasms4) Jamie Oliver- Teach kids about foodI think #1 was my favorite. When people are asked where they go to get stuff done, they typically say "home office", "in the car" or "early in the morning", but they hardly say "the office". And it all boils down to uninterrupted personal time. The speaker explained that most creative work takes time; a person needs to be alone with his thoughts for a significant amount of time in order to complete a difficult task. And at the office, you rarely have as much as a single hour uninterrupted. He had some interesting solutions: have an afternoon every week during which no one talks to another, and get rid of meetings.
That's interesting. He says he no longer wants to postpone anything in life because of his plane experience. But the truth is, the overwhelming majority of people make the mistake of not having much patience. They constantly need stimulus, or they get bored or frustrated and move on to the next thing. Most people can't sit still and watch a TV show or read a book in one sitting (or read a book at all) The fact that he took that lesson from it speaks more of him as a person. It says that he is different from most people. He is more laid-back and has more patience, and the plane experience jolted that world view. I also doubt he changed. People don't change. His body language and speech patterns suggest he is still very laid-back. So he's saying these things but doesn't believe it. He also shakes his head no when he says he eliminated negative energy from his life. He just lied right there. Shook his head no when he says he's not had a fight with his life in two years. Another lie. Shook his head no when he said above all, the only goal in life he had was to be a great dad, so that's another lie.
A lot of them probably aren't for you, that's for sure. Many of the speakers have interesting new perspectives that don't fit your world view.
Well I see several of the speakers are liberals. You got Clinton, Gore, former Labour PM Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins. I shudder to think what "interesting new perspective" Clinton has for us. From under the White House desk?
Usually when I think of Ted Talks, I think of science and technology. Many of the speakers introduce us to some new advancement in those areas. You're the first person who's mentioned political leanings.
I don't think you've spent much time on this site. It's a science web site - not a Liberal stomping ground.
He also picked the Giants yesterday.
Piqued'Fensalk said:
Take a look at this (12 second video):The Head Shake
what's that?
For the third or fourth time, I never said I didn't find them interesting. Just that I didn't find them something that I would "marvel at it with no other intention but to be amazed" and that some people substitute watching a TED talk for actual knowledge.The only real negative I can see is that I've watched 2-3 recently where it seemed like someone was just setting the viewer up to buy their book.
Thanks but that really wasn't my question. Just curious where you find things that are worth researching. The FFA, the news, life in general. That kind of stuff.I don't listen to a lot of TED, NPR is probably my primary source for exposure to new ideas, but I have appreciated most of the ones I have heard.
Love this kind of stuff. Dr. Dean Edell debunks this kind of quackery on his radio show all the time.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to be teaching an AP Statistics class next year and this talk will fit in perfectly for use in the class.
wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.
I don't want to intentionally encourage Fensalk but quite a few TEDTalkers have books, stores or products that they are inadvertently plugging. But of course they do, they're 'experts' on these subjects. Being knowledgeable enough to give lectures on a topic kind of goes arm-in-arm with somehow trying to make money off your knowledge. I have seen a couple that do it shamelessly but otherwise it's really not a big deal.'Mr. Pickles said:
BTW, Sebastian Thrun is my new hero.
