TED Talk/This American Life Reviews

TED Talks/This American Life: While listening to a few of these, I found 3 particularly that I'd like to tell you about.

1. How Schools Kill Creativity: 
• Creativity is as important as literacy.
• We're too frightened of being "wrong"
• Mistakes are the worst thing you can make in education
• All children are born artists. The problem is to remain artists growing up.
• We grow out of creativity, not into it.
• We are limiting human capacity!
• We need to acknowledge multiple kinds of intelligence.
2. Extrasensory: The spotlighted man cannot see color. But he hears it! Each color has a corresponding note, with red as the lowest and violet as highest. He shared a lot of life experiences, but one thing that interested me was when he went to art school. There he noticed that he didn't see the world the same as everyone else. This got me thinking: while I may be able to see color, I have a different paradigm of the world than anyone else. I can do my part to make the world better in only ways I can make the world better. 
• Extending your senses extends your knowledge. 
• Technology can help to stretch human senses. 
• We only retain about 25% of what we hear. 
• Conscious listening creates understanding. 
• 3 minutes a day of silence to reset your ears.
• Listening is the most generous gift you can give to another human being.
3. How Great Leaders Inspire Action
1. Those who lead inspire us.
2. We want to follow who we actually follow; we follow for ourselves.
3. We don't work with people who can just do the job, we work for those who believe what we believe.