Wade Davis on Ted.com

It’s a Ted.com day….yeah!! It is an amazing world we live in and Ted.com is one of those resources that allows us to take a moment to reflect on that fact. Ted Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual “The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of [...]

Inspiration Monday – Amy Tan on Creativity

Ted does it for me again…if you are not checking out Ted.com you should be. Truly amazing! Why you should listen to her: Born in the US to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan rejected her mother’s expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She chose to write fiction instead. Her much-loved, best-selling [...]

Chris Abani on Ted

What an amazing man!! Imprisoned three times by the Nigerian government, Chris Abani turned his experience into poems that Harold Pinter called “the most naked, harrowing expression of prison life and political torture… In this deeply personal talk, novelist and poet Chris Abani searches for the heart of Africa through poetry and narrative — including [...]

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