Tag: TED

Or rather, don’t judge people at all. But how often does it happen that you form opinions about people based on their skin color, their nationality, their jobs, their marital status, their educational background, etc.? Watch this TED talk for a serious life lesson. In this video Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about the inaccuracy of judging whole groups by one single story. The foundation is of course her own life story, being the daughter of middle-class Nigerian university professors, which in itself contradicts stereotypes about people in Africa. I think the main message is an important lesson for any occasion…

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects by the University of California, San Diego on Coursera Continuing my MOOC series, I am taking the lazy approach and reblog from myself, since I have already written about this course last year. Actually, I would only do that, if Tumblr let me. I keep forgetting that you are not allowed to reblog from yourself… Anyway, I copy myself instead. This post is actually very current, since the next session is starting this week, so you are well in time to join! I sincerely recommend you do…

I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a long time and now I am happy to introduce the first in what I plan to be a series. Sunday Smacks are weekly round-ups of my favorite reads, most noteworthy happenings and everything I find worhty to mention here week by week. I haven’t used rss feeders before. I just decided recently to start using Google Reader to be able to catch up with all the blogs I was reading I was struggling to find the time to follow. But that was only days before Google Reader’s termination was announced (as timing…

http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf I just found this on a blog and it is really worth watching! On a TED event, Pamela Meyer talks about how to spot lying in everyday life, as it is written in her book “Liespotting”. (Source: http://video.ted.com/)