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.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
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.
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