I will document here some extra ordinary TED sessions that I ran into. Surprisingly number of views on google for these sessions is not yet a predictor of how good and rewarding these sessions are.
Should you stumble on to this page I hope to have saved you hours of viewing and tell you what I wish no one would miss!
satya - 7/24/2013 8:51:54 AM
These sessions are in the order that I have seen them
These sessions are all quite extraordinary. I have listed them here as i watched them and find time to put these up here.
satya - 7/24/2013 8:58:23 AM
Shabnam Virmani: The Kabir Project
satya - 7/24/2013 9:05:11 AM
You don't see a nation from its streets or the multitude of people...
In my opinion you don't see a nation from its streets or the multitude of its people, especially when there are a billion of them.
Neither can you get a feel of a nation by looking at its joyful or raucous festivals.
If you really want to get an innermost sense of what India is, or if you want me to tell you how I have felt what India is growing up, how I have felt the "Indian Canopy" that I thought that I was growing under I could not tell you in a million years what this 15 minute presentation by Shabnam Virmani.
She invokes Kabir as a teacher, as a philosopher, as a superb linguistic practitioner and what best is humanity!
satya - 7/24/2013 9:06:55 AM
Here is an excerpt from the parable
A fire lit the forest, a bird came to sit. The? wingless trees cry: We?re ablaze, we have to burn. But you, winged one, should fly! I ate your fruit, soiled your leaves, played from branch to branch. Leave you to burn and fly away? We live and love but once! The fire went out, the clouds rained milk
satya - 7/24/2013 9:09:10 AM
She also talks about an extraordinary way to treat Ego and Identity
She also talks about an extraordinary way to treat Ego and Identity
satya - 7/24/2013 9:09:43 AM
Here are some thoughts on Identify that wrote down for myself sometime ago
Here are some thoughts on Identify that wrote down for myself sometime ago
satya - 7/24/2013 9:10:31 AM
And there is so much more the beauty and joy of Kabir
Do yourself a favor and watch!
satya - 7/24/2013 9:12:14 AM
Let me move on to Dhanashree Pandit Rai now
Let me move on to Dhanashree Pandit Rai now
satya - 7/24/2013 9:12:34 AM
Dhanashree Pandit Rai TedxMumbai
Dhanashree Pandit Rai TedxMumbai
satya - 7/24/2013 9:16:06 AM
Dhanashree Pandit Rai on Music, Joy, and Knowledge
satya - 7/24/2013 9:21:25 AM
This is superb treat or a homage to Indian music
what a lovely lovely joyful speak of music in general and especially of the India classical type. You will familiar themes. You will hear familiar voices. You will hear familiar songs all tapestried around an intricate beautiful talk. Never heard of her before. What a treasure!
Should give desire for one to excel and exceed.
satya - 7/24/2013 9:24:58 AM
Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
satya - 7/24/2013 9:26:05 AM
After seeing this, your affinity to Math is lukewarm, then Math is not your thing!!
After seeing this, your affinity to Math is lukewarm, then Math is not your thing!!
satya - 8/7/2013 7:57:47 PM
Why you will fail to have a great career
satya - 8/7/2013 7:59:01 PM
Some times we all need to look in the mirror albeit a very polished one!
Some times we all need to look in the mirror albeit a very polished one!
satya - 8/7/2013 8:00:36 PM
It is here where he said: Marry me! You are interesting!
It is here where he said: Marry me! You are interesting!
satya - 8/7/2013 8:02:04 PM
Maz Jobrani at Doha Ted
satya - 8/7/2013 8:03:03 PM
Fun Guaranteed. Comedy is a finest form of intelligence!!!
Fun Guaranteed. Comedy is a finest form of intelligence!!!
satya - 8/7/2013 8:15:55 PM
Why we do what we do - Tony Robins
satya - 8/7/2013 8:16:27 PM
I dont do motivation, I am your why guy.
I dont do motivation, I am your why guy.
satya - 9/22/2013 8:38:02 PM
I am not sure how you can bring up kids like this: Yes, indeed Extra Ordinary
Understanding, Curiosity, Empathy, Feeling, tenacity, and just extra ordinary wisdom, talent and execution on top of that.
Oh, if only you can distill, humanity will make huge strides...
This session talks about how this young man distilled and discovered a way to detect pancreatic and possibly lung cancer by looking at one of the 400 possible proteins that are early signs. He goes into high school labs, nano tubes, proteins, Johns Hopkins, Professors, and PHDs
satya - 9/22/2013 8:43:52 PM
Bio fabrication: Andras Forgacs: Leather and meat without killing animals
Extraordinary again! This young man brings "technology that is here (an astonishing fact)" that uses biofabrication to grow leather from cells of animals.
in the midst of what is widely celebrated as web 2.0 and 10.0, the technology like this should shock us programmers, to do more, to impact more...
satya - 9/22/2013 8:51:01 PM
Rahul Ram on Music and Society
What a fresh and joyful outlook despite the subject. Art is art, and when it come from the heart it is true and powerful and just lifts the hearts...
This session clearly makes more sense if you are from India ...
I just loved it for Rahul's Charisma, Originality, and a sense of what is good...
satya - 9/22/2013 8:57:31 PM
Igniting greatness - the Nurtured Heart Approach: Sarah How at TEDxFargo
It is fairly known that we should encourage the positiveness in children to appeal to the aspirations and not to their weaknesses. Sarah seem to be very precise about this, and I am thinking may have come from being in schools advising and seeing children...
Watching my multi-talented kids I can easily see how I or anyone can ruin their hope when they already decide what they should and should not do...
I wish Sarah works to take this message broader and gets accepted as a common curriculam in schools...
It is with love and empathy you change minds, not through punishment!! especially in education!!
satya - 9/22/2013 9:17:40 PM
Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy
A magnetic personality! Any topic he would choose it would be equally interesting! Just a joyful TED!
This session covers a poetic passage through clouds yet you come out thinking you have learned or seen something profound (which probably is right!!)
satya - 9/22/2013 9:24:53 PM
Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom
He chides on our pointless rules, especially when they are pointless, and ask us to identify reality that is grounded in empathy and character! This is how extraordinary human beings are made.
This is the wisdom that great leaders, perhaps, yet to be born will practice on!
satya - 11/4/2013 9:25:05 AM
Dr Edward Moses - Energy Based on Fusion (The fuel of the stars)
Don't we all need bigger challenges, to be above ourselves...
satya - 11/9/2013 8:19:08 AM
Karma Yogi: David Blain: Anything he sees is probably extraordinary
In this particular he goes into the efforts of holding breath for 17 minutes and some odd seconds. His approaches to exploring solutions to an unreachable goal is quite humbling...
satya - 11/9/2013 8:21:29 AM
Tony Robbins: He is good, on principles of emotion and fulfillment to drive work
satya - 11/9/2013 8:25:54 AM
Dr Ivan Joseph: Self confidence is a skill
An impressive personality. Primary assertion that self confidence can be trained and learned.
satya - 1/31/2014 10:42:04 AM
Magic Seth: Think of the Impossible on a daily basis #HowToWork
Two key observations: One of my interpretations or takeaways is: we are given education so that we can think of the impossible! Aeroplanes that are routine and massive. Integrated circuits that have billions of transistors. Stem cells. List just goes on. I also must quote John Delaney, one of the Mayors of jacksonville, that stated that his mode of working is to imagine a state or future that have no money or resource or time constraints. Then work on getting to that state by removing the constraints. Although I say I am a dreamer I always dream on a bed of constraints! I must learn and habitualize to think of the impossible and think of solutions without constraints.
satya - 4/23/2014 4:05:42 PM
Return to rivers: Vikas Khanna
satya - 3/16/2015, 1:57:02 PM
Book in the Big City - A short film directed by Sayalee Karkare
It has been a while I have seen something joyful, or made with love. It is a film about how folks in Bombay fell in love with books.
Directed by Sayalee Karkare,
Assistant Director Aakash Karkare
Camera Matthew Sharp