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Life gets bigger when we get over ourselves | Alison Jones | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:48
I'm in Africa and I find myself standing in the middle of a bushfire. I'm volunteering at an elephant and rhino consery in Zimbabwe. I'm totally here for the elephants.The rhinos are just part of the deal. Now, a few months earlier, when I was researching options for this special birthday trip, I was this close to booking a Mediterranean cruise. But this pesky little voice kept whispering, "Africa, Africa, Africa." So, I traded five-star luxury and spa days for wall spiders and a bat that circled around my ...
How to stay cool when everything changes | Neil Beller | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:47
You ever notice in the modern horror movie, there's always somebody in full panic mode. They're very easy to spot because usually they're screaming at the top of their lungs. They're running into things and they're constantly looking over their shoulders.They are so out of control, they don't even realize that they've run into a wooded area and tripped over a hidden tree route. Now, right behind them is somebody who's not panicked, and they're walking at the same unfettered pace like they have a care in the ...
How antifragility turns chaos into clarity | Brittni Barcase | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:47
Did you know that humans have about 6,000 thoughts every single day? That's about walking three miles in our mind just over and over every single day. Rinse and repeat. And most of us are walking that same mental route because why? Our fuel our thoughts are fueled by habits. And our thoughts being habitual um or the a habitual thought loop goes something like this. A thought, an emotion, and then a behavior. In other words, our thoughts trigger an emotion and an emotion unleashes a behavior. So most of the ...
You’re Not Too Intense, It’s Unguided Tenacity | Mike Little | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:47
I'd like everybody to take a moment and think back to a time when you were committed. No, no, no. I'm not talking about like, oh, I'm motivated or I'm interested. I mean actually committed. the type of commitment where you're willing to lose sleep, money, relationships, maybe you're even willing to sacrifice and negatively impact your own health just to get to the end goal. Take a moment, think back, and find that moment when you were committed. Now, as you think of that time, I want you to think about the ...
The Connection Code: Understanding Why People Say YES | Brian Harris | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:47
sitting on an early Friday morning in a small waiting room as I waited to get my oil change. And I was mentally preparing myself for this conversation that I that I knew was about to happen in a few minutes. And anybody who's had an oil change before, you know exactly this conversation I'm talking about because any minute, someone was going to come walking through that door with a dirty air filter in hand.And I I know nothing about cars. And so I'm forced with this decision of do I believe them and do I jus ...
Fear More, Not Less | Jill Schulman | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:47
I was standing on a platform 40 ft in the air. In front of me there was a steel cable that extended more than a 100 feet in front of me. It looked like a zipline, but there was no harness, no equipment.It was just me with my body and my hands. and it was my turn to go next. My heart was beating.My knees were shaking and my hands were trembling. In that moment, I didn't realize that the thing that I feared most was the thing that I most needed to do. I'm 19 years old and I'm standing on an obstacle on the Na ...
How to stop failing at forming new habits | Rob Stein | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:47
About 20 years ago, I completed grad school in Philadelphia with a masters in education. And even then, I knew I had the entrepreneurial spirit. And I couldn't really see myself teaching forever.But right away, I was offered a great position earning $52,000 a year, which at 23 years old seemed like a million dollars. So, I took the job and began my teaching career. But I have a confession to make.Teaching was not my passion. What I lived for was the most incredible highintensity sport in the world. Marching ...
Don’t Let Failure Be an Option | Drishti Chawla | TEDxGEMS New Millennium School
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:44
90% of startups fail and I started my tech startup at the brave age of 21 while I was still in university. So statistically speaking this was a terrible idea. The odds were stacked against me.While all my friends were working on starting their stable corporate jobs, I was working on building something that no one around me had any experience with. I wasn't built for entrepreneurship by any means. I didn't have any experience building companies.I'd only done few short corporate stints. Building a company was ...
Contro Mundum: Who Decides You? | Sumeeth Ramesh | TEDxGEMS New Millennium School
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:44
All right. So, like any other teenager at this point, I'm in this group chat, right. And we're all discussing a new song that had just dropped from one of my favorite artists, Harry Styles.Everyone was excited. you know, messages were flying in. What were your favorite parts.What do you think about the lyrics. Where would you rank it. Now, I typed out what I actually thought that the song was one of my favorites and probably one of the best Harry Styles has ever made.But then I read the message. I read out ...
The Unconquerable Whys | Samantha Santosh | TEDxGEMS New Millennium School
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:43
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