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So, I'm going to show you a demo of a virtual reality film: a full-screen version of all the information that we capture when we shoot virtual reality

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

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

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

I think it's quite apt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've been blown away by the whole thing

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

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

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

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

if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

I'm driven by my passion.

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

Emails and other online communication

Learn from real emails how to arrange a meeting, naturally asking for help or advice, requesting information, follow up communications like a human. How to open and close emails formally and informally. Imagine starting an email with “Sorry to be a pain, but can you…, ”Sorry for delay in getting back to you" or "Let me know if it works for you but no hurry"

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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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