El poder de cometer errores | Irene Esser | TEDxCaracas
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:48
Era hace una vez una niña salvaje que le preguntaron algo en un escenario bastante importante. Venezuela. Venezuela, tarjeta, por favor.Gracias. numberas promulgar una nueva ley cuál sería y explícame por qué sería esa. I think that any are in constitution or in life are already made. I think that we should have a straight way to go in our similar or in in our lives as it is. For example, I am a surfer and I think that the best way that I can take is the wave that I wait for it.Vegas. Eso pudo haber sido el ...
Turning setbacks into strength | DaVida Anderson | TEDxWestminister
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:48
What happens when life takes your breath away. Not just figuratively, literally. It happened for me while I was pursuing my dream at a Big 10 university as a division one track and field athlete.After a week of breathless workouts, my coach looked at me and said, "This is not anything that looked like before. You are struggling. You are pushing, but you are not recovering. Go see a doc." Now, it was a hard thing to do, I have to admit, because as a athlete, we are trained to power through. But something was ...
The catastrophe that wasn’t | Adrian Brown | TEDxAmericanSchoolOfGuatemala
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-19 16:48
Say the word nuclear and you can almost hear it. The silence, the disaster. Nuclear.The word embodies the idea of a danger so great, so unstoppable, yet completely invisible. When you hear about the word the disaster Chernobyl, you probably imagine, you envision a complete disaster, a meltdown, an explosion followed by a mushroom cloud of radioactive material and ash that spreads, kills, and mutates everything in its path. And with Fukushima, headlines screaming, alarms blaring of radioactive water spilling ...
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 ...