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Own your face | Robert Hoge | TEDxSouthBank

Own your face | Robert Hoge | TEDxSouthBank

Father, author of the book ‘Ugly’ and political advisor Robert Hoge explores why we all need to own our own faces. Sharing his own personal story, Robert examines, life, love, beauty, imperfection and pain in this powerful TEDxTalk. Robert Hoge has worked as a journalist, a speechwriter, a science communicator for the CSIRO and a […]

The psychology of self-motivation | Scott Geller | TEDxVirginiaTech

The psychology of self-motivation | Scott Geller | TEDxVirginiaTech

Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Scott Geller is Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality. […]

Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek

Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek

What makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests, it’s someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety — especially in an uneven economy — means taking on big responsibility. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances […]

Go with your gut feeling | Magnus Walker | TEDxUCLA

Go with your gut feeling | Magnus Walker | TEDxUCLA

Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Magnus Walker talks about his life journey of following his passion and going with his gut feeling which eventually led him to turning his dreams into his reality. TEDxUCLA was organized by UCLA Extension Visual Arts http://visual.uclaextension.edu In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx […]

My escape from North Korea | Hyeonseo Lee

My escape from North Korea | Hyeonseo Lee

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn’t until the famine of the 90s that she began to wonder. She escaped the country at 14, […]

Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell

Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. | Cameron Russell

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she’s tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don’t judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking […]

Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived – Jessica Smith

Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived – Jessica Smith

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mansa-musa-one-of-the-wealthiest-people-who-ever-lived-jessica-smith Mansa Musa, the 14th century African king of the Mali Empire, is said to have amassed a fortune that possibly made him one of the wealthiest people who ever lived. Jessica Smith tells the story of how Mansa Musa literally put his empire – and […]

The Missing Century of Black History in the Americas: Jane Landers at TEDxNashville

The Missing Century of Black History in the Americas: Jane Landers at TEDxNashville

Jane Landers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She has written a number of works on Africans in the Atlantic World, including the award-winning monographs, Black Society in Spanish Florida and Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the […]

How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure

How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Have you ever felt like you’re talking, but nobody is listening? Here’s Julian Treasure to help you fix that. As the sound expert demonstrates some useful vocal exercises and shares tips on how to speak with empathy, he […]