1. Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/yang_lan.html
This video is about Chinese young generation. Interesting and thought-provoking.
2. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
The central concepts is that more rewards could not lead to better performance but three elements: autonomy, mastery and purpose could.
Autonomy（自主性）: the urge to direct our own lives.
Mastery（精通某事）: the desire to get better and better at something that matters.
Purpose（崇高的意义）: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.
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** Two videos about Twitter **
3. Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users
In early 2006 Twitter was launched as a side project at Odeo.Twitter is based around a very
simple concept. The fundamental idea is that Twitter lets people share moments of their lives
whenever they want.
It seems like when you give people easier ways to share information, more good things happen.
Evan Williams've learned to follow the hunch, but never assume where it will go.
4. Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.htmlcruel
First Change: The Internet is the first medium in history that has native support for gruops and
conversatioin at the same time. Whereas the phone gave us the one-to-one pattern, and television,
radio, magazines, books, gave us the one-to-many pattern, the Internet gives us the many-to-many pattern.
Second big chage: all media gets digitized, the Internet also becomes the mode of carriage for all other
media.
Third chage: customers can be content produers as well as consumers
Then Clay Shirky told a story about China's big earthquake in 2008. He classified that China is
probably the most successful manager of internet censorship in the world, using something that is
widely described as the Great Firewall of China, but Great Firewall was facing in the wrong
direction for this challenge.
At the end, Clay proposed interesting questions: " how can we make best use of this media?
Even though it means changing the way we've always done it."
5. Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men
Alberto Cairo have been in Afghanistan for 21 years. He is an Italian, work for the Red Cross as a physical therapist. In his speech, he told a story on his experience in Afghanistan. At first, he just helped people make arms and legs. But a accident happened before he decided to leave there made Alberto reopen their orthopedic center, and what matter next also made him moved. He began to do more than a physical therapist. He trained people and helped them get jobs,and more important, regain dignity. There are some impressive sentences in this speech as below.
"yeah they were the legs, thank you very much -- but as a first step, it was the dignity."
" I have a wish, a big wish, that this way of working, this way of thinking, is going to be implemented in other countries."
"He has regained his full dignity thanks to that job."
"When you have 20 people in front of you, looking at you and you are the one who has to decide ..."
6. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...
Simon said that we do business to make people believe what we believe. That's great points, especially for high-tech products, we don't just make people what they need, we also make people what they want and what they believe.
The inspire from this speech is that the business, science, technology and so on which are foundation stones of modern society, are not cold to us, they must be connected to the humanity that Simon mentioned as "why".
Anyway, this is a very impressive speech. Thanks Simon Sinek!
7. Michael Anti(赵静): Behind the Great Firewall of China
Update 8/11/2012
Update 8/11/2012
Last year, Yang Lan have ever spoken in TED conference as a Chinese, especially a famous
moderator. Last week, excitedly, I found another Chinese face in the big stadium. This speech is from Michael Anti, 赵静，a key figure in China's new journalism. Unlike Yang Lan, Mike seems to represent a view from grass roots. Thus it appears to be more real, and more close to the voice of ordinary citizens, even including his typically Chinese accent.
In the speech, Mike says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country's history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways. But at the end, I think he should be a little negative to the impact of new media tool "microblog", "So this kind of freedom is a targeted and precise window. So Chinese in China, censorship is normal", he said in the end part of the speech.
All in all, we can see more Chinese speaks in the world stadium with active face and sincere heart. That's a nice thing for us to gain respect and affection fromthe world.
8.
Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind
http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_bu_how_books_can_open_your_mind.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-06-01&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button
http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_bu_how_books_can_open_your_mind.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-06-01&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button
Update 6/2/2013
Thanks for the sharing from Lisa Bu and I'm really proud of another Chinese speaks and it even comes to the email as the headline!
This point of this talk is to inspire and encourage people to read which is not really new.
The beginning of the talk about the dreams not come true, Maybe it is not really relate to the key point, more or less.
The beginning of the talk about the dreams not come true, Maybe it is not really relate to the key point, more or less.
Excerpt two sayings from this session, which enlighten me.
Compare and contrast gives scholars a more complete understanding of a topic.
If comparative reading works for research, why not do it in daily life too?
9. William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes"
Recommended by TP Tang who is my teacher in the training of "Principled Negotiation".
10.
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
Maybe it's the most controversial speech on TED.com
Criticism
To be continued
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