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So I urge you to shut your eyes and discover the great ideas that lie inside us

This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes

To be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it.

I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing

Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you've got to push, push, push. You've got to push through shyness and self-doubt.

Persistence is the number one reason for our success. You've got to persist through failure. You've got to persist through crap! Which of course means Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure

I've been blown away by the whole thing

So I want to talk about education and I want to talk about creativity

There was a very important study done a while ago at Princeton Theological Seminary that speaks to why

You know, I'm struck by how one of the implicit themes of TED is compassion

I'm a psychologist, but rest assured, I will not bring it to the scrotal.

The more interesting question is: Did it matter they were contemplating the parable of the Good Samaritan?

That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them

I was doing my taxes the other day, and I got to the point where I was listing all of the donations I gave, and I had an epiphany

I think it's quite apt

And I think that that is very troubling, and in a sense, I've been reflecting on turning that part of us off.

Right now, as Bill McDonough has pointed out, the objects that we buy and use have hidden consequences

Let's talk about film now. Film, it's an incredible medium, but essentially, it's the same now as it was then.

And that's where I think we just start to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality.

And I know there's some of you who say, "Well, wouldn't it be better, wouldn't the world be a better place if we all just spoke one language?

Startups and apps

This collection is aimed at helping you present your tech startups or apps in English. You can memorize useful phrases for presenting, pitching, being interviewed on your product or service. Use the same clever collocations as successful startups used and still use in their interviews clipped from tech blogs. Such as: "Ping was born from a personal frustration with having a...", "Our Aim is To Bridge The Gap Between...", "At the core of the app lies a clever algorithm that allows" etc.

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