Showing posts with label TEDucation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TEDucation. Show all posts
TEDucation: if I should have a daughter...
I have stumbled upon the spoken word section of TED. These next few weeks - honestly - just tell me what you think about them. All the ones I've seen so far gave me goosebumps. Do you have any other artists for me to watch obsessively?
Have you ever tried spoken word before? I want to - after watching this. I just might.
TEDucation: How to get your ideas to spread
One of my goals this year was to start each week off with a TED
talk. I'm hoping this will allow me to watch some of the less-known
talks, and really stretch my mind and fill it with positive energy that
listening to brilliant minds can bring. At the end of each video, I'll
post a couple of questions I found intriguing. Feel free to discuss them
in the comments, or just carry them in your mind after watching the
video.
So question time!
I want to know your 'purple cows'. What kinds of things do you do, create, own, etc, that are 100% unique? What makes you stand out? I really want to know!
When you hit me on the head, my eyes twitch without fail (clearly I deserve a circus act for this brilliant physical feat). My multitude of creative avenues influence each other in ways that normal artists don't seem to look at. My ability to make creative solutions are almost always purple cows.
What about you? Tell me in the comments!
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Oh Seth Godin. Humour and insight go great together - and this talk does it perfectly. If you're going to take one idea away from this talk, I think it's this: Ideas that spread win. Hopefully your ideas - whatever they are, can stand out and spread!
So question time!
I want to know your 'purple cows'. What kinds of things do you do, create, own, etc, that are 100% unique? What makes you stand out? I really want to know!
When you hit me on the head, my eyes twitch without fail (clearly I deserve a circus act for this brilliant physical feat). My multitude of creative avenues influence each other in ways that normal artists don't seem to look at. My ability to make creative solutions are almost always purple cows.
What about you? Tell me in the comments!
TEDucation: The Art of Asking
One of my goals this year was to start each week off with a TED
talk. I'm hoping this will allow me to watch some of the less-known
talks, and really stretch my mind and fill it with positive energy that
listening to brilliant minds can bring. At the end of each video, I'll
post a couple of questions I found intriguing. Feel free to discuss them
in the comments, or just carry them in your mind after watching the
video.
How great was that?
This talk really spoke to me, Amanda Palmer's experience as a street performer reflect a lot of the feelings I experience as an artist. It can really hurt when someone reacts in a hostile way to your creative work, but it can also really mean the world to make a genuine connection with someone through your work. And I totally agree - we need more connections.
So my questions for you this week are these:
1. How do you react when you recieve soul-crushingly negative criticism?
2. What's one thing you do to ease the pain of it?
3. Have you ever made a genuine connection with someone through art (or whatever else you do) in the same way Amanda puts it in her talk? I want to hear about it!
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1+2. The most common way I react to harsh, unfounded criticism are either to mope about it, or to laugh it off - let it out, regardless of how you feel. This gets more and more important the worse the criticism stings. I've been known to draw the occasional charicature, or mocking impersonation. Don't deny yourself the feelings of sadness - but do NOT allow yourself to feel inadequate or like a failure. Criticism can either break you down, or build you up higher than you've been before. Use it to grow - at worst, you can look down at the haters from the beautiful things you've created.
3. I'm planning a whole post about this question - but yes, I have. A few times. And it's one of the most magical things in the world.
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How great was that?
This talk really spoke to me, Amanda Palmer's experience as a street performer reflect a lot of the feelings I experience as an artist. It can really hurt when someone reacts in a hostile way to your creative work, but it can also really mean the world to make a genuine connection with someone through your work. And I totally agree - we need more connections.
So my questions for you this week are these:
1. How do you react when you recieve soul-crushingly negative criticism?
2. What's one thing you do to ease the pain of it?
3. Have you ever made a genuine connection with someone through art (or whatever else you do) in the same way Amanda puts it in her talk? I want to hear about it!
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1+2. The most common way I react to harsh, unfounded criticism are either to mope about it, or to laugh it off - let it out, regardless of how you feel. This gets more and more important the worse the criticism stings. I've been known to draw the occasional charicature, or mocking impersonation. Don't deny yourself the feelings of sadness - but do NOT allow yourself to feel inadequate or like a failure. Criticism can either break you down, or build you up higher than you've been before. Use it to grow - at worst, you can look down at the haters from the beautiful things you've created.
3. I'm planning a whole post about this question - but yes, I have. A few times. And it's one of the most magical things in the world.
TEDucation: What Fear Can Teach Us
One of my goals this year was to start each week off with a TED talk. I'm hoping this will allow me to watch some of the less-known talks, and really stretch my mind and fill it with positive energy that listening to brilliant minds can bring. At the end of each video, I'll post a couple of questions I found intriguing. Feel free to discuss them in the comments, or just carry them in your mind after watching the video.
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Wasn't that one great? All I want to know from all
of you is a) what did you think of this talk, and b) Give me your
most vivid, terifying or funniest childhood fear.
As someone who suffers from anxiety on
a regular basis, Karen's words really, really ring true to me. She
talks about fear in a really interesting way – as beautiful stories
we tell ourselves, and I've never thought of fear in that way before.
I wonder what the world would be like if we all looked at fear in
that way, and we all shifted our focus from the big, blatant fears to
the subtler ones...
And as for the silliest, most vivid
fear – when I was young, I had an awful recurring night terror of
being kidnapped in a red truck. So every time a red truck would pass
me by in real life, I would freeze completely, believing that they'd
think I was a statue and not kidnap me.
TEDucation: Ice-bound Wonderlands
One of my goals this year was to start each week off with a TED talk. I'm hoping this will allow me to watch some of the less-known talks, and really stretch my mind and fill it with positive energy that listening to brilliant minds can bring. At the end of each video, I'll post a couple of questions I found intriguing. Feel free to discuss them in the comments, or just carry them in your mind after watching the video.
1. Simply because I want to know - would you ever consider going to Antarctica? I most certainly would, in the blink of an eye. I mean - just look at how gorgeous it is!!
2. The Lion Seal has been, in Paul's eyes, given a bad reputation by today's society. Do you think it deserves the reputation it's been given? Consider what other animals you know of who also have this 'stigma' against them - do you think it's just?
3. Paul captures very intimate portraits of animals where you can almost feel the spirits of the animals themselves. Do you think that, as Paul states in the talk, animals are capable of feeling empathy? How about other 'human' emotions?
4. Look up one animal that is teetering on the brink of extinction. Learn as much as you can about it, the efforts (or lack of effort) being made to protect it. See if there is one small action you could take to help the cause (donate to a charity, turn out lights in empty rooms, send a letter to a government official, the list goes on).
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1. Simply because I want to know - would you ever consider going to Antarctica? I most certainly would, in the blink of an eye. I mean - just look at how gorgeous it is!!
2. The Lion Seal has been, in Paul's eyes, given a bad reputation by today's society. Do you think it deserves the reputation it's been given? Consider what other animals you know of who also have this 'stigma' against them - do you think it's just?
3. Paul captures very intimate portraits of animals where you can almost feel the spirits of the animals themselves. Do you think that, as Paul states in the talk, animals are capable of feeling empathy? How about other 'human' emotions?
4. Look up one animal that is teetering on the brink of extinction. Learn as much as you can about it, the efforts (or lack of effort) being made to protect it. See if there is one small action you could take to help the cause (donate to a charity, turn out lights in empty rooms, send a letter to a government official, the list goes on).
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