Selected to further our health and wellness work, the following TED talks are offered to help us reflect on and engage in conversation about how we understand ourselves and others.
- The videos will play from this page.
- Use the associated hyperlinked text to read the corresponding transcripts.
- Access to a transcript may help you select your sentence, phrase, and word for our discussion in the fall.
You are invited (and encouraged!) to add your sentence, phrase, and word in the comment section below as you watch and reflect. (Please be sure to include the title of the talk in your comment.) We will be excited to continue the conversation together in the fall using the Connect-Extend-Challenge protocol.
How to get better at the things you care about | Eduardo Briceño
The brain-changing benefits of exercise |Wendy Suzuki
Why it’s so hard to make healthy decisions | David Asch
A simple way to break a bad habit | Judson Brewer
How to tame your wandering mind | Amishi Jha
The brain benefits of deep sleep — and how to get more of it | Dan Gartenberg
Thomas Benefield
Paul Pileggi
-Amishi Jha and her statements about attention and how to train my wandering mind to stay focused and to improve my attention bring me hope. This is something that I work on every day, but I have not mastered yet. Knowing that there are tools that can actually make a difference and that I can use them on my own is very promising.
Eduardo Briceño’s talk is a motivation for educators to facilitate more activities that promote the learning zone. It is important to leverage mistakes as an opportunity than as a number or a letter for a progress report.