TED talks

This afternoon we talked a bit about TED talks and watched 2 of them. I had never watched any of them completely before, but just some parts of some of them which weren’t that interesting! But the 2 we watched this afternoon were, I think, really cool (above all this one : http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days.html :) !! And I decided to take a photo every day, like the speaker said he had done, for a month!)

Tonight, I watched 4 other ones :

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/fr/candy_chang_before_i_die_i_want_to.html (Inspiring, it’s about a woman who decided to transform the wall of an unused place to a sort of huge black board on which passengers could write on with a chalk what they would like to do before they die. During the talk, she reads out some of the answers and there are some funny ones, as well as more “serious” ones that make you think a little bit... I found it quite interesting the idea of “preparing yourself for your death” as she explains at the end of the talk...)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/fr/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html (Inspiring. This one was quite long, but the subject was rather interesting so I watched it till the end. On the whole it’s about how your body postures can influence the way other people consider you but also (and this I had less thought about before) yourself : studies have shown that there are considerable impacts on your performance or on the amount of some hormones in your body, when you have or not some physical postures...)

http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_gutman_the_hidden_power_of_smiling.html (Inspiring as well (I like this category most actually ;) !) As the title says, it’s about why and how much smiling can help you improve your self-confidence, likeability, performance, social relations, and stuff like that. It’s not very long and the speaker smiles during the whole talk, which is in fact rather pleasant :) ..!)

http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emoticons.html (Funny, it’s vert short and consists mostly in presenting some emoticons, the well knowns such as :) and :( but also a whole lot others I personnally didn’t know at all and that I found funny (I’m fond of them actually ;) …) like Q<= for a girl (it’s in the same direction as the sad face and smiling faces...)

I actually liked the 4 of them! Though I’d say that the most interesting which sometimes do really influence you and make you reflect, are the “Inspiring”-tagged ones...

Valeh