TED: 'ideas worth spreading'

TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) is a global series of conferences initiated by a non-profit organization. Just like their motto 'ideas worth spreading', the conference's  main focus is on presenting speeches from inspirational people of various discipline. Past presenters include famous figures like Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Al Gore, and Gordon Brown; the six major disciplines are technology, entertainment, design, business, science, and global issues.

I've been recently spending much time on watching TED videos that are related to my interests; photography, urbanism, sustainability, social change, etc. The experience was truly inspirational and thought provoking. Not only it was a good opportunity of listening to the speakers who are so passionate and has great amount knowledge in their field, but it was a good experience because all of them have the ability to convince their vision and make the listener feel the same way as they do, even the listener had no previous knowledge in the field.

I hope many of you visit their website and start watching videos that are related to your interest. If you don't know where to start, simply click any video that looks interesting from unique categories like 'jaw dropping', 'persuasive', 'courageous', and 'ingenious'. They also provide subtitles for more than 20 languages, which eliminates the language barrier for those who doesn't understand English. Each video doesn't take more than 15 minutes, so I really want to recommend you to watch one video per day before going to sleep. Well at least that's what I've been doing in the past week and keep on doing.

On this post, I'm attaching a very short 5 minute clip that can inspire anyone; it's a short reflection from a guy who was on board of the Flight 1541 that landed on Hudson river in 2009. It's not an academic speech, and more of a storytelling and a self reflection.