13. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight Jili Bolte is a brain researcher who get a unique chance to research a stroke of insight. At the beginning of the speach she showed to the audence a human brain and its hemispheres (she said it is a real brain, but I think it is just a model) There are left and right hemispheres of every brain she said. The right relays to the present moment. It embraces all current information with a whole way. It is similar to a parallel processor. The left one relays to the past and to the future. It is analytical and similar to a serial processor. Then she was talking about her morning of the stroke. It is quite interesting. She felt forked. One part was worried and said "We need help". It was a left hemisphere. On the contrary right hemisphere was very relaxed. It disconnects from all relations to the external world. She sensates this different emotions at the same time. She tried to call somebody to help but realized that she couldn't understand words. Then she came to the hospital somehow. She was in a hospital for 8 years and now she is healthy http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight

12. Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are Amy Cuddy is a researcher. She researches how bodies poses influence other and even our brain. It is very important how we dispose our bodies, what the gestures we do. It influences how others present us in theirs minds. It influences how we present ourself. It's not only about sensation, it's about how physiology works. When we feel powerful, tesoterone which is a dominance hormone is higher and cortisol which is a stress hormone is lower. And vice versa when we feel us small testosterone is lower and cortisol is higher. A pose affects on our feelings. Experiments show that making an open pose leads to increase testosterone and to dicrease cortisol. So there is a simple way to grow up confidence. Just put your arms upward as a letter "V" for 2 minutes. It works. She told about this ideas to different people, but they don't believe. It's difficult to believe that our poses can change our minds. But it's true. At the end of the talk she asked try to do different powerful poses in any situation we can. One or two minutes and it changes your life. She also asked to distribute this information. http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are

11. Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity Ken Robinson as an author, speaker and an educational expert. In this video he talked about educational methods and how we should change them. Creativity is as important as education he said. It is necessary to be wrong to improving creativity. But it is forbidden to be wrong in our culture. Sometimes mistakes even are stigmatized, Schools teach children math or physics. But schools don't teach dancing, painting and other creative subjects. Schools and universities focus on a head improving versus a body improving. Our best students become professors and there is something wrong in this. We should change our way of considering intelligence. New intelligence should be 3 "d": diverse, dynamic, distinct. 1. Diverse. There are different types of intelligence, it is not only the scientific intelligence, it is a creative and constructive one too. 2. Dynamic. The brain embraces information entirely and interaction is totally required for its working 3. Distinct. Every man or women have an unique brain and unique abilities. We must pay respect to distinctions of humans http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

10. Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood This talk is about movies and how movies influence us. Colin Stokes have 2 children and at first place he tries to describe educational aspects of movies. He was talking about a violence of women. Unfourtantely at least one of five women was assaulting during her life. It is a real problem and the movies should have deal with this problem . The main person in movie is a man more often. Only 11% of movies have heroine as main person. Speaker told about different movies. Wizard of Oz and Star Wars are two one. His daugher said that she likes Glinda and Obi-Wan Kenobi (He was showing a photo with the daugther dressed as Glinda). He found out that they are similar leaders. They are leaders that inspire people to lead with them. Movies give examples to follow for boys and for girls. http://www.ted.com/talks/colin_stokes_how_movies_teach_manhood My remarks. I don't like this video. I think the speaker shuffled different themes and didn't talk any useful info. Other videos was more interesting. Also I think the movies are good for fun, but aren't good for educational purposes. Read the books and adults listening is more reasonable.

9. Josh Kaufman: The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything It's a very inspiring video! Josh Kaufman talked about learning new things. Also he is an author of the book with the same subject. There is one phrase about learning: you must spend 10000 hours for learning something. However this is true only for being a top, for an expert level perfomance. It is enough 20 hours for being resonabily good in the skill he said. You just need to spend 50 minutes within a month. There are 4 steps. 1. Deconstruct the skill. You must learn most important things at the beginning 2. You must learn enough for self-correct. But you must not learn just for learning. Your main goal is practicing. It isn't learning. Procrastination with reading 20 "important and usefull" books is not a good idea (ahhh, it's really what I was doing) 3. You must remove all practicing barriers. TV, an internet, a phone will disturb you and it is necessary to put aside such kind of stuff. 4. You have to learn the new skill at least 20 hours. If you find that you are stupid and incapable to do what you want, it's no matter, you should continue. It's normal when you try to learn new things and all be good He finished his talk with playing an ukulele. He learned playing in all 20 hours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY

8. Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do Joshua Foer is the scientific journalist. In his talk he described how he won the memory contest. At the beginning he suggested try to imagine your house with some ridiculous things such as the nudists on the bicycles or Britney Spears dancing on the table. He showed us that visual and spatial memories work fine for everybody. He said that one time he went to the memory contest in US and suprisingly find the many people who can incredibly fast memorize hundreds of numbers, faces, pictures. He wondered and decided to know more about this ability. All the people he asked said him that theirs memory is ordinal. Thay just find right way to use brains abilities. This technique was used by speakers many thousands ago in Greece to memorize theirs speaches. The main point is to encode the necessary information to the visual or sensitive representation. Our brain incredible easy memorize spartial and visual information unlike the digital and unsorted information. He started use such techniques and 1 year later went to the contenst again and unexpectedly won it. http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do

7. Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer This talk is a little bit smaller then another ones. Thomas Suares is a kid, who developed serveral apps for iPad. It's suprisingly that 12 year old boy can develop apps. He told us that he developed two app. Its names are "Earth Fortune" and "Bustin Jieber". Second one is his favorite and most popular app. This app is like a game about Justin Bieber. Many kids in his school dislike Justin Bieber, therefore he decided to create an app for the Biebers haters. He likes to program and know basics of programming languages such as Java, C, Python. And when Apple released iPhone and iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) he realized that he can develop an app. At first he tried to develop test apps. After he makes the real app. Then he persuades his parents to pay $99 fee to be able to put the app in Apple Store. They agreed. Also he organized the app club in the school to help other students who want to learn programming. And he finished by saying what he would like to do in future. He'd like to learn Android programming. Also he wants evolve the app club and find new other ways to study students. http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_suarez_a_12_year_old_app_developer

6. Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career Larry Smith is professor of economics and he coaches his students in carrier. This talk was constructed quite interesting. Professor told about carrier and the reasons why you fail to have a great carrier. He suggests that you have a talk with him and say something and then he says why you are going to fail First of all, he said, you have to pursue the passion. It means that you must know, what is your passion. Passion is not just interest. You may have 20 interests, but passion is beyond interests. You fail your carrier, because you don't have passion Then he assume, that you find your passion, but you are going to fail, he said. There are many excuses for it. And one of them, that people find that there are more important thing then carrier. It's human relationsheep. All of us want to be great friend, spouse and parent. And you select relationship he said. But then he ask, what do you say to your kid when he or she grow. And he explain, that we must be example for our kids. Then. There are many other excuses. You are afraid to be ridiculous, afraid to fail and so on. He concludes that you are going to fail. Unless. There is a hope in this las unless word. http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career

5. Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. Louie is famous cinematographer. He works in time-lapse cinematography. His talk contains of his very beautiful time-lapses. He started as how he live in nature for a long time. He don't have much money but he see what nature it is. And all his talk is one message - open your eyes. He show time-lapses with growing up flowers and strawberry. It is very beauitiful! He said that 80% of information received from our eyes and we must appreciate this gift, and be grateful for our brain and eyes. Than he stopped his talk and just give to say for people from his movies. He show for us one little girl and elder man. Little girl say a little, but elder man say more. Message is same: open your eyes. See what happened in nature, see on faces around you, be gratitude to nature, to people, to sky, to flowers. At this time we look at very beautiful time-lapses and videos, for example clouds, or even big city with buildings. Elder said, that given day is not just another day, it's a gift and we must open our eyes and hearts to feel gratefullness. Then he said that we sometimes talk about weather and said it's good weather or bad weather. But weather is not good or bad, it's unique! The clouds are never repeated and we need to gratitude and respect this. http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude