We're trying to bring back into education what we ourselves missed. Now for the past three years, we've also organized the Dutch National Memory Championships for high schoolers. We do this to show that everybody is capable of amazing feats of memory, but also to show that memorization is...
but it gets communicated to us through the people around us, our education and so on. And ultimately, that script will determine how most people will live their entire life. It's always been that way, just nobody seems to talk about i...
I hope this talk is for you - a seed that gets you to question what you've previously accepted as true, that makes you more aware of your ropes, that helps you see they were always yours to break. No matter who you are or whe...
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problem, and now he teaches this method of getting rid of nerves and being confident to Middle and High Schoolers, as well as coaching the top executives of Japan’s largest conglomerates. His TEDx talk will explain how to use some of these methods, and show how we all can be limitless...
I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, and it's the school. And they say, "Is this Tim Urban?" And I say, "Yeah." And they say, "We need to talk about your thesis." And I say, "OK." And they say, "It's the best one we've ever...
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In a world in which nothing is holding us back from our full capacity. What the design class was for me, I hope this talk is for you - a seed that gets you to question what you've previously accepted as true, that makes you more aware of your ropes, that helps you see they were...
now, i mean, this sounds like a good theory, but i could talk for a long time and tell you lots of things, and they may be true, a portion of them, but i think it's better if i tried to show that to you here live. so if i come down, i'm going to do a little bit of...
So, in this talk, you're going to learn three new ways to be civil, I hope, and it will be according to the original definition of civility. My first problem is: civility is an obsolete word. My second problem is: civility has become a dirty word in this country. And that is whet...