When we look at history, we find that in history, some who topped the classroom never topped the world and some who stumbled in the classroom went on to redefine the world. Ladies and gentlemen, today I'll be speaking about something fundamental to all of us. Education.Specifically, academic education, or as I like to call it, the overhyped checklist of grades, degrees, and diplomas. Don't get me wrong, academic education gives us knowledge, but let's be honest. Does memorizing the periodic table prepare yo ...

[Music] Now as the last child with five sisters, four sisters and two brothers and um you know someone who was serially molested and abused from the age of 8 to about 12 years old. I struggled with a low self-esteem. fueled mainly by the fact that I was the tallest girl in my whole school.Daniel humorous can bear witness to that. We went to secondary school together for a bit. Tallest girl in the school, skinniest girl in the school as well.I deal I dealt with, you know, low self-esteem, mood swings and all ...

Picture this. You're holding a treasure map. Its edges worn, promising you gold.You follow it eagerly, but the paths are all gone. The landmarks have shifted and you're lost in the unfamiliar terrain. Do you cling to that map, hoping it'll magically show you the way.Or do you set it aside, embark on a new course, and chart your own journey. That questioning of what you think you know is at the heart of the unlearning curve. The unlearning curve is the transformative journey between a rigid thought and a gol ...

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[Music] [Music] About a year ago, I sat across the table from one of the biggest business leaders in St. Louis, the head of a powerhouse nonprofit organization. His name carries serious weight in the startup community.Now, I was the new founding director of the regional tech council, sitting in the big fancy offices of an organization that could eat me for breakfast. Now, just the week prior, we had hosted the very first year of our regional startup pitch competition, where we had taken a hundred local foun ...

Thank you so much for this uh lovely introduction. I love the energy and it's my absolute honor to be standing in front of you today. My name is Mariva Kulamra.I am the founder of a pure and marketing agency based here in the beautiful UAE. We help our clients with their strategic approach to communication, finding and elevating their voices. Today, I'm going to walk you through what I like to call the power of in between, finding home across culture.Have you ever been asked and struggled to answer the ques ...

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TEDex Cabarete Dominican Republic. [Applause] I'm 4 years old and I'm sat on the edge of the wet grass and the rose hedge border of my mom and dad's garden making a delicious mud pie. It's cold, wet, and messy.And I love how it squatchches in between my hands. I feel joyful, peaceful, and curious in this playful present moment. Suddenly, I'm drawn to this log in the corner.So, I crawl over and back further. I turn the log over and I find these strange white hairike threads covering the entire surface. I beg ...

[Music] It was 3 years ago on a Thursday afternoon where my life changed in an instant. I was sitting in the car looking out the window watching the raindrops race each other down the glass when all of a sudden out of nowhere my ear popped and then silence. Not a muffled sound, no faint echo, just silence except for a long sharp ring sound that filled my head.Panic surged and I did what any 13-year-old with an iPhone would do. I Googled it. WebMD had a blunt response.Hearing loss, and for once, WebMD wasn't ...