Thursday, May 9, 2013

TED talk Got a meeting? Take a walk


In the TED talk “Got a meeting? Take a walk” by Nilofer Merchant talks about how we area actually killing ourselves by sitting so much. She states that studies show that on average we sit 9.6 hours a day, that’s more than the 7.4 hours a day we sleep on average. During her talk she continually looked all around at her audience, instead of focusing on once area. She told a story of how the idea came to be.  Nilofer made me think about how much a day we sit and how our world is becoming larger by the day.  

TED talk Your body language shapes who you are

In the TED talk “Your body language shapes who you are” by Amy Cuddy talks about the power of being able to fake it till you become it.  During the speech she describes how you can motivate yourself by holding yourself in a powerful pose. Throughout the speech Cuddy moved around the stage while using hand gestures and standing very confidently.  The main idea of this study was that you can change your state of mind, by the way you think of yourself, and you can change the way you think of yourself by the way you hold yourself. She used many different speaking techniques of appealing to the emotion of people when she told the story of her personal past. But what the biggest thing in her speech was that the knowledge deserves to be shared.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

TED Talk Once Upon a School


In the ted talk “Once Upon a School” by Dave Eggers he exposes the problem that he notices in his society, children are unable to receive extra help because the ration of students to teacher was to high. To fix this problem he, being a writer, gets some of his colleges together to help children after school get help by professional writers. He explained how the business came to be, sharing the ups and downs. Dave also shared stories, some of them funny, about how the front of the business became a pirate shop. Through out the talk he said the word “um” so much that it caused the listener stop focusing on the topic but more on how many times he said um. He also continuously was fidgeting with his hands, distracting the audience. The thing that matters in his TED talk was that he made a difference in the world because he made a connection that could help better kids lives.