In this TEDTalk author Elizabeth Gilbert takes a new look at genius and creativity. As you watch this video think about the following question:
This TedTalk – by Sherwin Nuland – is a meditation on hope.
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own.” – Percy Shelley
This is just amazing – check out www.sciencecommons.org this site is serving as an open source repository for the world’s science information. This type of project just boggles my mind especially since this was no already happening. The possibilities for something like this are endless: giving individual scientists the knowledge to build upon the research of others and innovate in new ways!!! My mind almost hurts from excitement!
Here is a brief video that describes Science Commons.
Watch this video about the Charter for Compassion and read the description below. You can help write the charter for compassion by going to the link provided above or in the description below.
By recognizing that the Golden Rule is fundamental to all world religions, the Charter for Compassion can inspire people to think differently about religion. This Charter is being created in a collaborative project by people from all over the world. It will be completed in 2009. Use this site to offer language you’d like to see included. Or inspire others by sharing your own story of compassion.
This TedTalk features Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Presidential historian, who talks to us about how we can look into the stories of the past as a way to see into the future. Listen to her stories and think about the lessons that apply to everyday life and to the elections of 2008.
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.” – Rumi
How are the Rumi quote and this video related?
In this TED Talk by Andrew Mwenda gives us a new way of looking at delivering foreign aid to impoverished nations. The crux of his argument is that we must take an entrepeneureal perspective in delivering aid. He is arguing that what we must do for Africa is give them the tools and infrastructure to help themselves.
In his talk he asks the question, “how many people do you know who became successful by taking handouts from others?” It’s a great question. Do you know anyone who has become successful by being treated as a charity case?
Leadership – In order to create leaders we must empower people. People must have a vision and then act in fulfillment of that vision. This gives the leader the ability to create rather than innovate. Outcomes and deliverables give you innovation. Vision and commitments give you creation. We need leaders who have the ability to create.
This TED Talk is by a man named Patrick Awuah who started a school to train leaders in Africa.
Educating Leaders in Africa
For the next few posts I will be focusing on the headline Rethinking Poverty. My commitment to this world is to do everything within my power to end poverty on the planet. These may be high hopes but it’s what I feel I’ve been put here to do. If we are to really tackle poverty in an effective way we must first change the conversation and begin looking at it in different ways. It will not be one giant solution that eliminates poverty it will take all of the world’s creativity and innovation to really make the changes that are necessary. You may agree or disagree with the approaches of the folks in the next few posts, but one thing that is apparent with these individuals is that they are willing to be creative and innovative. These individuals are truly forwarding the collective conversation.
LISTENING!!! Listening is about asking questions! As our trainer always told us in Coro “questions are an invitation to possibility.”
This TED Talk is about capitalism and making it work for those who have nothing in the poorest regions of the world. This talk is about giving people the tools and “bootstraps” that will allow them to pull themselves up. This talk is by an incredible woman named Jacqueline Novogratz.
Here’s a question for all watching and reading. How are these ideas forwarding our collective conversation? What place does this conversation have in our local, national, and international dialogue?
In order for us to tackle the toughest problems in the world we need to start by making sure that there are open lines of communication. Communication and listening are two significant factor that will allow those in the United States (and around the world) to work with others nations to finally begin tackling issues like poverty in a wholistic way that creates local solutions. This TED Talk by Hector Ruiz opens up the discussion of connecting the entire world through the internet.
Hector Ruiz on the power to connect the world
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