Red or Blue Pill?
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Tag: TED
Making a Judgment Call
When a person takes into account the particular circumstances of a situation and makes a decision accordingly, we say “she made a judgment call”. Why have we stopped trusting people to do that? This was one of my favorite talks in TED this year. Barry … Continue readingMaking a Judgment Call
Raise Your Hand if You’re a Hard-On-Yourself Perfectionist Overachiever…
For me, this was one of the most moving moments in TED2009. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the bestseller Eat Pray Love muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a … Continue readingRaise Your Hand if You’re a Hard-On-Yourself Perfectionist Overachiever…
Winning the Rat Race but Missing Life
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of … Continue readingWinning the Rat Race but Missing Life