Goal Met 50 Ted Talks
I’ve always liked TED Talks – present the key points of your information in 20 minutes or less. If I want to follow up and do a deep dive of the subject well that’s on me. I feel strongly about this – too many times I’ve slogged through a book where I felt at the end it could have been a 20 page pamphlet – there was an app that did just that for a while but now I use Claude AI tools to summarize books for me if I start to feel they are full of padding (it really does a great job – I highly recommend this usage of AI)
This was a relatively easy goal to finish due to the 20 minute nature of TED Talks – anytime I had some downtime I’d fire up the app and pick a talk I found interesting. I rarely ran into an issue finding a talk to listen to there’s such a variety and a few of the TED talks resonated with me so much I change the way I approached certain things
The subjects I chose are varied and I tried to be as diverse as possible but if you look at the data you can see patterns – I watched a lot of videos about introspection (changing yourself), AI, and children. All things I feel strongly about so I can see where this bias crept in but overall I felt it was a good variety.
So here’s the first 50 TED talks I watched this year – if any of the titles seem interesting please check them out – it’s only 20 minutes and it might change your life.
| What’s your leadership language? | Rosita Najmi |
| The power of introverts | Susan Caine |
| You aren’t at the mercy of your emotions — your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett |
| How to stop screwing yourself over | Mel Robbbins |
| It’s time for infectious generosity. Here’s how | Chris Anderson |
| The power of time off | Stefan Sagmeister |
| How “digital twins” could help us predict the future | Karen Wilcox |
| The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds |
| To raise brave girls, encourage adventure | Caroline Paul |
| Let curiosity lead | Yara Shahidi |
| Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique | Cynthia Thurlow |
| Fasting: A Path To Mental And Physical Transcendence | Phil Sanderson |
| asting: Awakening the Rejuvenation from Within | Valter Longo |
| Starving cancer away | Sophia Lunt |
| How to 3D print human tissue | Taneka Jones |
| The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home | Daniel Kraft |
| How to make learning as addictive as social media | Luis von Ahn |
| Why your life needs novelty, no matter your age | Kenneth Chabert |
| Why AI will spark exponential economic growth | Cathie Wood |
| How AI can save our Humanity | Kai-Fu Lee |
| From Perception to Pleasure: How Music Changes the Brain | | Dr. Robert Zatorre |
| Why fasting bolsters brain power | Dr. Mark Mattson |
| Great leadership is a network, not a hierarchy | Gitte Frederiksen |
| Why the secret to success is setting the right goals | John Doerr |
| Does AI actually understand us? | Alona Fyshe |
| The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink |
| A comedian’s take on how to save democracy | Jordan Klepper |
| 5 lessons on happiness — from pop fame to poisonous snakes | Mike Posner |
| My philosophy for a happy life | Sam Berns |
| What it takes to be a great leader | Rosilinde Torres |
| What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman |
| How AI will step off the screen and into the real world | Daniela Rus |
| How fantasy worlds can spark real change | Annalee Newitz |
| Is your partner “the one?” Wrong question | George Blair-West |
| My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | AJ Jacobs |
| Where joy hides and how to find it | Ingrid Fetell Lee |
| All it takes is 10 mindful minutes | Andy Puddicombe |
| How to let go of being a “good” person — and become a better person | Dolly Chugh |
| How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims |
| For parents, happiness is a very high bar | Jennifer Senior |
| The Problem of being too nice at work | Tessa West |
| Can you be yourself at work? | Linden Vazey |
| The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant |
| Smash fear, learn anything | Tim Ferris |
| Why we do what we do | Tony Robbins |
| The benefits of not being a jerk to yourself | Dan Harris |
| A journey through the mind of an artist | Dustin Yellin |
| You are fluent in this language (and don’t even know it) | Christoph Niemann |
| The intersection of storytelling, cinema and AI | Stacy Spikes |
| How to get better at the things you care about | Eduardo Briceno |