TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

by Chris J. Anderson

Talks Referenced within the Book These are available on a single playlist at: www.ted.com/tedtalksbook/playlist PAGE(S) SPEAKER TED TALK TITLE 4 Monica Lewinsky The price of shame 6–8 Chris Anderson TED’s nonprofit transition 11 Sophie Scott Why we laugh 33 Robin Murphy These robots come to the rescue after a disaster 49, 203 Kelly McGonigal How to make stress your friend 50–51, 174 Brené Brown The power of vulnerability 51–52 Sherwin Nuland How electroshock therapy changed me 53, 203 Ken Robinson Do schools kill creativity? 57–58 Dan Pink The puzzle of motivation 59–60 Ernesto Sirolli Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! 68–69 Eleanor Longden The voices in my head 69 Ben Saunders To the South Pole and back—the hardest 105 days of my life 69, 140 Andrew Solomon How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are 72–77 Dan Gilbert The surprising science of happiness 81 Deborah Gordon The emergent genius of ant colonies 83 Sandra Aamodt Why dieting doesn’t usually work 83, 203 Hans Rosling Let my dataset change your mindset 83 David Deutsch A new way to explain explanation 83 Nancy Kanwisher A neural portrait of the human mind 83 Steven Johnson Where good ideas come from 83 David Christian The history of our world in 18 minutes 83–85 Bonnie Bassler How bacteria “talk” 86–87 Steven Pinker The surprising decline in violence 88–89 Elizabeth Gilbert Your elusive creative genius 89 Barry Schwartz The paradox of choice 91–92, 95 Dan Pallotta The way we think about charity...