TED 2

INTROVERTS

are best at creativity and leadership

intro vs extro is a matter of how you respond to social stimulation

find stimulation that is right for you

education system now is catered for the extroverts

it always favors ACTION over CONTEMPLATION

culture of personality due to a world led by big businesses

Stop this group work madness

Go to the wilderness and have your own revelations, stay in touch with your mind

How your suitcase is packed says a lot about you

CLASSICAL MUSIC

playing accents got lesser as child gets older

one buttock playing would release emotions in the song better

nobody is tone deaf

whom am i being that others eyes are not shining? awaken the possibilities in others

everybody loves classical music, is just that they haven't found out yet!

make a mistake, celebrating "how fascinating!"

stop the downward spiral speaking, move to the world of possibilities

8 WORDS FOR SUCCESS

Passion - gives you drive, do it for love and not money, do it and the money comes anyway, pay to do it, and not by it

Work - endure the hard work that comes along, but it's fun coz it is your passion

Good - practice heavily and get damn good at it

Focus - on one thing at a time

Push - physical limits, mental limits, away self doubt, away shyness

Serve - privilege to serve others, and give something of value

Ideas - listen, observe, curiosity, ask questions, problem solve, make connections

Persist - through failure and CRAP (criticism, rejection, assholes, pressure)

LISTENING

listening constitutes 60% of communication, retain only 50%

it is the making of meaning from sound, through pattern recognition, with sieving factors

sonority = time + meaning

we are losing our listening skills, due to selectivity, and desensitivity

conscious listening creates understanding

Silence to recalibrate ears

Mixer type: how many sounds can i identify?

Savouring: enjoying sounds

Listening positions: active passive reductive expansive critical empathetic

RASA: receive appreciate summary ask

WORK LIFE BALANCE

some jobs cannot give that to young family

ppl work long and heard to buy things the need to impress people they dont like

dont put your quality of life in commercial corporation hands

because companies try to get as much as they can from you

look at work with balanced view - physical mental and spiritual satisfactions?

the small things matter... small investments in right places transform quality of life

change the notion of success to: what a life lived well looks like

is an idea worth spreading

DRUGS DOCTORS PRESCRIBE

publication bias

negative results not published due to commercial reasons

systematic flaw in core of medicine

+ve results twice as likely to be published

half of all trials MIA

need to tell people that this has not been fixed! worse, with fake fixes...

need to force people to publish all trials

research misconduct and fraud

CANCER

angiogenesis is a hallmark of cancer

no angio, no cancer. cancer without disease

with angio, exponential growth

anti angio therapy, selective to cancer angio

poorly constructed vessels susceptible to treatment

Diet - what can we eat to starve cancer

Dr. William Li

HAPPINESS

managed by prefrontal cortex - an experience simulator

tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events

happiness can be synthesized! How?

Get rich, lose it

Spend time in prison

Help others get rich...

Synthetic happiness vs Natural happiness

we like better what we own than what we don't

Accept what you cant change

Psychological immune system works best when totally stuck, irreversible situation

Reversible situations not good for synthesis of happiness

GETTING IDEAS TO SPREAD

people now have lots of choices and little time, so many ideas have tendency to get ignored, like advertisements

to spread ideas, your idea must be remarkable

Remarkable - catches attention, and worth making a remark about (50ft lava lamp!)

market to innovators and early adapters (the otakus)

sell the idea to people who are listening

give people what they want

Design is free with scale. Get design to work for you

Safe is risky

Very good is bad, be remarkable

FOOD (JAMIE OLIVER)

Home - little monitoring of what the household eats, and no passing down of food culture

School - run by non food people so no food expert to make decisions over what the canteen provides

Main St. - poor labeling, plus all the processing and additives

Teach kids about food, identification, know what it is good for etc.

Big brands need to put food education at the heart of the business

All kids should learn 10 recipes as life skills

and finally we need to pass on the skill on food

GOOD IDEAS

are a network of neurons formed by liquid network

we need to create the environment for it to happen

ideas have incubation, like a slow hunch

share ideas to hunch meet hunch

chances favors connective minds

Liquid networks are a chaos, mess, ideas from different backgrounds

Environments for such includes: Cafes, meetings, conferences, updates etc

today, we always protect ideas, rather, we need to Connect vs. Protect

STRING THEORY

little strings that dane around to create subatomic particles

the medium that gravity travels in is time and space, it warps and curves

there are big and small dimensions, those that can see and those that cannot be seen

Super string theory to connect all 20 numbers

10 dimensions space, 1 dimension time

20 numbers?

theory of relativity?

photons, gravitons?

SCIENCE AND VALUES

values are a certain kind of fact

values are written with human well-being at heart

Culture conforms Brain, which affects Personality and Choice

is this the perfect/ best expression of psychological balance?

when talking about facts, certain opinions must be excluded

how have we come to a point that we are taking in all opinions?

There are rights and wrongs to human flourishing

yet, who should police such? there are no moral experts!

we have to admit that at times, cultures care to the wrong things, this have to change

Because ultimately, we are having human well-being at heart

Funny thing is, we cannot converge on differences on human well being

Rather, we can converge on facts/ science of how diseases spread and so forth

we also have to admit that these questions have answers

we need to consider well being in a larger context inclusive of positive emotions and all its factors

INNOVATING TO ZERO INCREASE IN CO2

we need energy miracles!

need many companies to work on this

CO2 = People X Services X Energy X CO2 produced

P and S v hard to go down, but E has many ways to do so

need:

Research funding

Incentives to decrease CO2

Entrepreneurial opportunities for innovative business for the environment

Rational regulatory framework

Promising alternatives to energy:

Terrapower

burn spent uranium, burns for 50 years with no waste produced

filtering seawater?