Top 5 Motivational Ted Talks
If you’re looking for some motivation this week to help you seize the day, Ted Talks are a quick, impactful way to focus your mind on the tasks at hand. Whether you’re looking for personal or professional success, meeting a tight deadline, or overcoming a major hurdle; Joel Chery knows that these motivational Ted Talks will help get you started towards reaching your goals.
1. The Lies our Culture Tells us about What Matters: David Brooks is an author and successful journalist. This fascinating podcast tracks his travels across the US meeting exception people and what he learned about breaking out of isolation to lead a life of greater meaning, purpose, and joy. He notes, “35 percent of Americans over 45 are chronically lonely.” Brooks discusses our collective need for longing and love for one another and how that impacts mental health and joyfulness, with tips on getting started today.
2. Where Joy Hides and How to Find It: Ingrid Fetell Lee studies joy and how people find it. From cherry blossoms and rainbows to bubbles; she asks, “why do some things create universal joy?” She shares meaningful ways to find and create more joy from the world around us and correlates this with real world impacts, for example, “This aligns with research conducted in four countries, which shows that people working in more colorful offices are actually more alert, more confident and friendlier than those working in drab spaces…. Each moment of joy is small, but over time, they add up to more than the sum of their parts.” Joel Chery believes that this Ted Talk is important because it can often be easy to overlook the importance of finding joy but the difference between having it and not is massive. Joel considers Worcester to be his home and knows that it is where he finds joy.
3. All it Takes is 10 Minutes of Mindfulness: Andy Puddicombe is an expert in mindfulness who strives to make meditation accessible to all and improve our collective happiness and health. This podcast challenges us to “do absolutely nothing” for 10 minutes daily by putting away the phones and taking a break from our colorful, complex, and distractive lives. He shares how transformative and powerful meditation can be. Joel says that the most important point that he took away was that by refreshing your mind for just 10 minutes a day and being “present” in the moment, you can make a huge positive impact on your mental and physical health and reenergize yourself towards meeting personal and professional goals.
4. How to Find Work You Love: Scott Dinsmore is the founder of Live Your Legend, which inspires people to live their dreams. In this motivating podcast he shares his story of quitting a job that made him miserable and spending the next four years trying to find work that fulfilled him. Joel believes that the tips on finding what matters to you and then figuring out how to do it are powerful. To make an impact on the world Scott Dinsmore decided to create a community where people could work together to find their own joy, without fear of rejection.
5. The Habits of Happiness: In this podcast, a biochemist turned Buddhist monk shares the secrets of how we can train our minds towards the habits of well-being to create a sense of serenity and fulfillment. He says, “If you look in the literature, East and West, you can find incredible diversity of definition of happiness… Although we seek happiness, it seems we turn our back to it. Although we want to avoid suffering, it seems we are running somewhat towards it.” Joel Chery states that the meaningful discussion on ways to find happiness is enlightening, to say the least.
