TED is an organization that started out in 1984 (what a great year) as a conference to bring together people from the technology, entertainment, and design arenas to share ideas with one another. These ideas have now evolved to include ways to change our global society. The premise is that each year, 50 speakers give an 18 minute speech on their ideas to change the world. On their website, they list the mission of the organization as “Spreading Ideas”, the website goes on to say:
“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.”
I highly encourage you to visit the site and watch some of the videos, they will help to inspire you to change things in your everyday life and hopefully to positively effect the lives of others in your community and beyond. I will periodically post videos from the site and I hope that they will inspire you as much as they have inspired me.
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