Have you ever experienced a sense of peace, a sense of love, or perhaps a sense of inner joy, or maybe just for a moment, everything felt fine, everything felt all right. If you've experienced any of this, then chances are you experienced connection. Some call it God, some call it the universe, and some call it inner peace.Today, I want to share with you how discovering this connection changed my parenting and helped me realize I was never alone. This is my personal experience and not a prescription. Just h ...

[music] [music] [applause] I have nine siblings, most of which are criminals. Six of their kids are dead. And now I'm dying, too.My father was abused by his father and left for Vietnam at 17. He came home broken. My earliest memory is of him kicking me in the stomach with his cowboy boots.My mom left him and her new boyfriend tried to touch me, but I fought back. I fought back so hard that he beat me back. When I was seven years old, some neighborhood boys took me into an orchard and sexually abused me.I cr ...

[applause] I remember as a child my mother would ask me a question whenever I'm sitting idle. What are you doing provin. And if I say nothing, she used to shout on me.What do you mean by nothing. Have you seen your math school. Open your math notebook and if you have nothing to do, come and help me.But do something. Sounds familiar. I always wonder why humans want to stay so busy in their life.Fast forward 40 years, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, sirs and mans. I completed the checklist given by life ...

Try to imagine a world without containers. Surprisingly, they are only about 70 years old. In 1950, Malcolm Mlean watched workers loading cargo piece by piece.His idea was almost absurdly simple. Put track trailers directly onto ships. That single shift cut cost by 97% and reshaped the global economy.Today, 90% of the world's goods travel by containers, powering 14 trillion global trade network that makes modern life possible. Mlean laid the economic foundation for globalization itself. The today is expandi ...

I was 15 when I was told I was dirty. Let me explain. When I was 15, I worked at a fruit stall in Germany in my hometown.And a lady came to the stall and asked for a box of strawberries. I handed it to her. with a smile.Her response, "I can't have these. They're dirty." So, I looked at the strawberries and I saw a few dirt spots. So, I thought, "Fair enough. Pick out a nicer one. Here you go. I can't have these. They're dirty." And this went on until the stall owner pushed me aside and stern face served the ...

Recently I attended the estate sale of Porgi and Bess's Edimot Barnett. She had the famous contraal voice and her husband Claude Barnett pan-Africanist who had was founder of the associated negro press. I looked to my side and I saw something I should not have seen there.There were family photographs and letters and scrapbooks. As the estate seller yelled out, cash and carry, I told her, "You can't do that. Not with this." I bought the little I could. But that priceless, intact, oneofakind collection from t ...

In my freshman year of college, I was gearing up for my first big unruly college birthday party. I was excited to turn 19 with my new friends. That was until the pandemic hit.And then we all got locked in quarantine. So what was supposed to be my big 19th birthday bash became my COVID 19th Zoom party. And yes, as you can imagine, it felt more like an all staff meeting than a celebration of adolescence.But looking back, I I appreciated how technology helped me celebrate such an important day in my life with ...

Okay. Very good afternoon. First of all, thank you Ted for giving us the opportunity, especially me, the opportunity to come here and share my life experiences.Well, I come from a real estate background. I've spent close to two decades working in the real estate industry. Now, real estate happened in my life with loads and loads of interest.I remember my days when I was growing up. I used to see the buildings, the land, the spaces and I always used to feel very excited when I used to see some great building ...

Când spunem metamorfoză, ne gândim la fluture, la zbor, la culoare, la libertate. Însă pe parcursul vieților fiecăruia dintre noi, simt eu că ne ne metamorfozăm măcar o singură dată, iar metamorfoza nu este neapărat un proces lin, lipsit de dureri. Și asta deoarece nu prea poți să devii cine ești menit să fii, fără a renunța la cine ai fost. sau la cine credeai că ești la un moment dat. Bună ziua, Iași. Bună ziua, Copou! Astăzi sunt aici cu mari emoții, zboară în fluturi pentru a vă încuraja să vă îmbrățișa ...

So, it was the first day of sophomore year of college, the year everyone said was the most difficult for engineering students. I had that nervous energy that many kids who like school get on the first day of school. fresh notebooks, new pencils, and I'm sitting there in the large computer science lecture with my light pink sorority shirt, white letters across the front, cappa cappa gamma, when the guy sitting next to me leans over and says, "Excuse me, this is CS 205. Do you need help finding your right cla ...