Recently the list of most watched TED talks appeared in TED blog. Very helpful to make sure you didn’t miss anything:
- Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (2006): 8,660,010 views
- Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight (2008): 8,087,935 views
- Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense (2009): 6,747,410 views
- Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (2009): 6,731,153 views
- David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments (2007): 6,411,705 views
- Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do (2006): 4,909,505 views
- Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006): 3,954,776 views
- Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic (2005): 3,664,705 views
- Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen (2006): 3,592,795 views
- Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators (2008): 3,225,864 views
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas runs through the Photosynth demo (2007): 3,007,440 views
- Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius (2009): 2,978,288 views
- Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy? (2004): 2,903,993 views
- Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe (2008): 2,629,230 views
- Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009): 2,616,363 views
- Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice (2005): 2,263,065 views
- Richard St. John shares 8 secrets of success (2005): 2,252,911 views
- Mary Roach on the 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm (2009): 2,223,822 views
- Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action (2010): 2,187,868 views
- Chimamanda Adichie shares the danger of a single story (2009): 2,143,763 views
But I decided to take it one step further and create a list of the most highly-rated TED talks.
Which is not hard to do using their Youtube channel statistics. So, here it is. The list of most highly-rated TED talks:
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Well, that’s just funny. A guy called Baba Brinkman recorded a hip-hop album that is devoted to… Hmm, rather unconventional subjects for this kind of music: evolutionary biology, neuroscience & psychology. All spiced with humor of course.
Rap guide to human nature.
Imagine. You’re standing in front of a squat rack and looking at a barbell trying to figure out what the hell you’re doing here and thinking that moving heavy weights is one of the absolutely pointless, stupid, boring and tiresome activity one can engage in.
We all know the situation. You’ve spent quite a stressful day at the office, then got home, prepared all the stuff you need for workout, then got to gym, changed your clothes, but actually found yourself quite tired, lazy and not so enthusiastic at all. Quite the opposite, you’d rather surf the Internet, read a book or simply go to sleep. No need to say that you won’t get either any results or any pleasure from working out with such attitude and in such state.
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So, what is one of the most effective ways to change your state, improve your mood and therefore your performance in just few seconds?
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