16
2011
TED Talk Takeaway: Louie Schwartzberg on Nature, Beauty, Gratitude
This has to be one of the most beautiful videos that I’ve ever watched… Put together very nicely, and I’d never have been able to express it better than this. Also, read from ThoughtCatalog an article “Don’t Take This for Granted“. Two beautiful pieces. Enjoy. Do you know that 80% of information that we receive comes through our eyes? Aren’t we grateful for our brains, that can take these electrical impulse that come through light [...]
14
2011
TED Talk Takeaways: Teresa Hsu – Wisdom for all ages
“We were very poor and took food from the earth like sweet potatoes and bamboo shoots. One day we were sitting down to a meal, one woman came with a child and said “We haven’t eaten for two days, please help us”. My mother took things from the table things that we were going to eat, gave it all to them and said to me, “We ate yesterday. They haven’t eaten for two days, they have more right to the food.”
13
2011
TED Talk Takeaway: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
What enhances brain health? Positive social interactions, new learning, great diet, sleep, exercise, physical healthy, healthy anxiety, gratitude, meditating, ANT killing.
11
2011
TED Talk Takeaways: Living Beyond Limits
Amy Purdy – Living Beyond Limits If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? As Amy Purdy traumatically lost both her legs, she asked herself the questions of how she was going to do those things she had wanted to do, like travel the world like how she wanted and snowboard again? She escaped reality for months, but she knew she had to move [...]
15
2011
TED Talk Takeaway: Taylor Conroy – How to Build a School in 3 Hours
Taylor was so amazed by the beautiful sight in Uganda when he first reached the place, and said “This is so cool, we’re so bad-ass. There’s stuff going I don’t know what it is, I’ve heard bad things about it. It’s so beautiful, and there are so many kids!” “Taylor, 50% of this village has AIDS. Their parents are dead.” “At that moment, that trip turned from being an adventure into a transformational experience of [...]


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