5 reasons to watch TED every day

Do you know what is the most profitable thing to change? Ideas. From this there are more of them, which cannot be said about material things. The brightest ideas are spread through TED. In the video from this conference, you can hear about the benefits of daily meditation, and how a gecko runs on the ceiling. I would like to tell you why you should watch these videos every day.

Become part of the TED community or create your own

You can watch TED not only on tape, but also live. The TED conference is for the dissemination of ideas. She does it just fine. Therefore, it is not surprising that not only the ideas themselves are becoming popular, but also the format of their dissemination. So, in Moscow, July 2 passed. Every major city has people willing to do their own TEDx.

For example, I've been to several TEDxDonetsk. One of them was a full-fledged conference, and the other two were meetings for two or three speakers. At any of these meetings, it was interesting not only to listen, but also to meet people charged with the TED thinking style. Who knows, maybe at one of the TEDx you will meet your future business partner or significant other?

TED can be watched anywhere

I, like all of us, are annoyed by waiting. For example, today I had to wait a total of 40 minutes. And the day is not over yet. Wasting time and nerves on this is an impermissible luxury. There are some lucky ones who manage to concentrate on reading for five minutes and then switch to other things. Unfortunately, I am not one of those. So my choice is a TED video. Once a week, by saving a dozen new videos to your smartphone, you can not waste time in queues or other similar situations. Each platform has its own applications.

The only thing I'm missing from the iOS app I use is the play speed slider.

TED lets you practice English

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I prefer to watch TED in the original with subtitles. This is how I like to practice my English. This is not always easy: sometimes there are difficulties with specialized vocabulary.

If your level of English does not yet allow you to enjoy the jokes of the speakers, then try LinguaLeo. They just got a TED video section. Currently there are 128 of them, but additions occur every day.

TED improves your speaking skills

There is such a thing as unconscious competence. We may be able to or know something without knowing it ourselves. For example, you've never stopped a heavy bleeding in your life - thank goodness! Even without going to first aid courses, I imagine how to apply a tourniquet. Thanks to the militants: they showed the scene of the application of a tourniquet so many times that the subconscious mind will tell you how to do it.

Let's get back to the TED speakers. They are all different. Each of them is an expert in their field and speaks very passionately. Whether you like it or not, your brain will remember their demeanor on stage, intonation, gestures and thousands of other little things that make up the skill of a successful speaker. Whether or not you practice so that this developing unconscious competence becomes a confident skill is entirely up to you. And TED will give you an example of not only how to talk, but what to talk about.

Picking up pictures for this article, I found a book "" by Jeremy Donovan. If you read it, share your impressions.

TED expands your horizons

TED's mission is to spread unique and important ideas. The life hacker is close to many of them. Therefore, every evening Irina Baranskaya selects one of the most interesting and topical videos. Of the latter, I liked the most. It has a lot to think about. There will be a new video coming soon on both Lifehacker and TED. The main thing is, after watching it, to think about the idea that the speaker wanted to convey to us.

What ideas and TED videos have been your favorite for you?