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Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

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Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success. Richard St. John: 8 secrets o…

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

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Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as m…

Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

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Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt's democratic revolution ... with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime's violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months, when …

Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now

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Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. B…

Charles Limb: Your brain on improv

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fMRIの機材付けながら楽器演奏している様はかなりシュール。はてなダイアリーにはTEDの動画埋め込んだりできないのかな? Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and…