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Seven choices for a courageous life | Christopher O.H. Williams | TEDxBerlin
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-17 16:45
I would like to take you on a journey. In the region of Galysia in northwestern Spain sits the city of Santiago de Compastella. And in the center of the city stands a magnificent cathedral.Not only is the architecture of the cathedral stunning, it is also renowned for another reason. It is believed that the remains of St. James the Apostle are buried on its altar.And since the 9th century, millions of people have traveled a network of trails across Europe on a pilgrimage to the cathedral. And that pilgrimag ...
Why Failing is a Must | Dr. Shivani Mehta | TEDxThaltej Youth
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-16 16:31
Okay, good evening everyone. Today I'm going to take the opportunity to let you in to a small secret of my life. a collection of my most uninmable moments, my failure resume.As a school principal, I don't really get to often talk about how often I've also failed in life. But today, I want to share with you about the most difficult exam I ever had to give. Any guesses.My driving license exam. It took me about six, yes I said it right, six retakes before I actually got my first driving license. And guess what ...
Live Beyond Courage | Sandy Gledhill | TEDxHarmony Science Academy Dallas High
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-13 14:59
[Music] What do you think of. What images come to your mind when I say the word fearless. Now, this is an idea we're all familiar with, but fearlessness has been one of the most misunderstood, mischaracterized, and misdefined words in our language.And yet it is one of the most profoundly important concepts to understand because I believe all success springs from a platform of fearlessness. In the late 1980s, when I was just 19 years old, I climbed into the back of a fourseater Cessna airplane with three of ...
Are you a Maverick? Why the Future Belongs to the Bold! | Aravind Krishna | TEDxDSATM
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-12 15:45
It was 2009 and an engineer was pitching a car to a room full of senior automo executives. This car had no engine, no emissions and no dealerships. There was silence at first and then he was literally laughed out of the room.This technology is very new. There are no takers for such a car and you'll go bankrupt is all he heard. Ladies and gentlemen, that young engineer was Elon Musk.And barely 15 years later, this Tesla is rewriting the rules of the automobile industry. And it is worth more than the next 15 ...