There have been many times I think in everyone's lives here where we've thought too much taken too much time uh to make decisions and it leads to a lot of lack of clarity. It leads to a lot of clarity, lack of clarity in terms of how we're going to show up, how we're going to be the best version of ourselves, the decisions that we're going to make. Um, and a lot of the time this leads to a common paradox. And the paradox um essentially is the more you wait for making decisions or really just thinking throug ...

"The Next Door Cinderella" reimagines neuroplasticity through Cinderella's journey—roots of experience rewiring the brain to unlock transformative potential. Ms. Banerjee honors the teachers and mentors who, like fairy godparents, guided her growth from classrooms to stages and beyond. This talk fuses neuroscience, narrative, and gratitude for lasting impact. Rooted in Calcutta Girls’ High School, Suvasree’s journey began amid classrooms, music, and drama that taught her the power of stories. Mentors who be ...

You are actively rewiring your brain for the worst by engaging with social media, high volume, quick videos. >> And the social media executives don't let their kids use this stuff because they designed it to be addictive and they know that millions and millions of kids have been cyberbullied, sexed. Many have committed suicide. So, I'm getting angry. >> And then from the medical perspective, it's rewiring your body, increasing your risk of heart disease and PTSD. >> We've moved too far into the virtual worl ...

What can a rat teach us about being human? Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert shares her research on joy and anticipation through the lens of small but remarkably intelligent mammals: rats. From teaching them to drive tiny cars—yes, drive—to studying their joy when anticipating positive experiences, she invites us to explore how happiness can be sparked through what she calls “behaviourceuticals.” Through her research, we find that enjoying the journey rather than only the destination may just be built into our D ...

music. It's a gift of therapy to the body and beauty to the soul. That was a short segment of a lovely piece by Johan Sebastian Bach.Here's another song you're probably familiar with. That was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. These two pieces I just played have very different formats.One is woven into a beautiful harmonic tapestry and the other is a simple melodic line. But when learning either of these pieces, it all starts with figuring out how to play just one note at a time. I became fascinated with music ...

[music] [applause] Your thoughts shape your leadership. Leadership shapes communities and communities shape the future. Your mindset is your greatest leadership asset and it needs to be recognized as such.Recent brain imaging from Queens University found that we have over 6,000 distinct thoughts a day. And that's just during our waking hours. They tracked changes in brain activity to measure when our minds shift from one thought to the next.That's hundreds of mental shifts every hour, whether we notice them ...

Just by the show of hands, do you believe that no one is really disadvantaged. No one is disadvantaged. Some people are disadvantaged.H interesting. But you see, if no one is truly disadvantaged like the topic says, how do we explain poverty. And what about people that were born with impaired hearing.And this is speaking to those that said that no one is really disadvantaged. People with impaired sight, malformed limbs. How can someone thrive when life actually seems unfair.Is that not a disadvantage and in ...

At different times in our lives, we're all bound to reach a stage that feels like the edge of our given capacity. When everything we once knew stops working the way it used to, and we're forced to confront who we've become at that limit. And we do have an instinct to adapt.It's not just part of what makes us human. It's also how we survive change in our environment. It's how we evolve through it and most importantly despite it.But what happens when the environment itself changes. And what does adaptation lo ...

What if healing emotion control is not about finding the right words but rather about finding the right reason. Imagine waking up every day feeling like you are drowning in emotions that you cannot escape from. Well, for me, this was my reality for many years until I was able to discover a way to take struggle and pain and turn it into something beautiful.Now, being a performing artist, drama teacher, creative, I've often been wondering and exploring ways to understand how creativity impacts our minds. So t ...

[music] Good morning everyone. When I first heard I had to speak on the theme beneath the silicon, I was utterly stumped. I had literally no idea what the theme meant.And so I decided to turn to Google. I searched up periodic table of elements. And it turns out that three rows beneath silicon in the periodic table is lead. So I concluded that I needed to talk about the lead that is beneath the silicon.The next step in my quest was to brush up on the history of lead. It turns out that during medieval times, ...