In this inspiring TED Talk, Mithila Palkar encourages us to learn to embrace the randomness of life and the many paths we can take. She highlights that it is okay to not have a plan. Charting her own journey to becoming an actress, Mithila shares how she had a passion, then things started to fall […]

With countless research studies to support the findings, Carol Dweck shares the power of believing you can improve in this great TED Talk. That children can be empowered with belief through some straight-forward changes makes this very exciting indeed. This is where Carol highlights the power of “yet”. Giving an example where instead of children […]

This TED Talk by Sheila Heen is an interesting insight on feedback. In it she talks about feedback being our relationship with the world, and the worlds relationship with us. The challenge with this is that feedback falls at the junction of 2 basic human needs. The first being the need to learn and grow […]

This TED Talk by Suzanne Eder sheds an interesting light on self-improvement. We generally think self-improvement is always good. That continually trying to improve ourselves is the way forward. But Suzanne shares that there is in fact a dark side to self-improvement. And that is when it comes from a place of feeling as though […]

In this TED Talk, Cortney Warren shares how understanding ‘self-deception’ is a key to achieving a fulfilling life. Opportunities for change don’t come about without self-awareness. There are so many ways in which we lie to ourselves. These are shared in an enlightening and light-hearted way throughout this talk. There’s: Cognitive distortions Emotional reasoning Over […]