50 TED Talks a Year: Seth Godin on the Tribes We Lead

[sabrinamari]

#3 - "...Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves," referred by vgnwtch. (17:36)

Tremendously sweet and kind; a reminder of the core of teaching.

#4 - ""Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its surprising effect on our bodies," referred by vgnwtch. (22:18)

Interesting---an overview on the basics of happiness

#5 - "Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so." Referred by vgnwtch (17:23)

My comments: Seth Godin explains what I've felt for a long time: we transform our world through the connections we forge with our tribes. Yes, yes and yes! Each of the groups I am working with right now is in the process of doing exactly this.

Godhooks collaborators: watch this video!

Comments

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

You are taunting me into unproductivity! If I start digging into Ted talks, I may never get anything accomplished except for my admiration for the ideas people who give Ted talks have! :-)

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Nah...you are probly almost as compulsive as I am. I don't think you could sit still for over a day, and maybe not even half a day.

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

*busted*

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

I feel like I should apologize for handing you a new toy I knew would become an instant addiction... but secretly, part of the reason I did it was that I can totally imagine you up on that stage someday, but that couldn't happen if you didn't know it existed. :-)

[siobhra.livejournal.com]

You should apologize to all of us. It has moved me to make a TED speech or writing. The first one I heard was from the creator of Secondlife.com. Which is a game I play a lot on-line. In a sense it is a tribe. But I have noticed how with the internet we have new worlds. This speech tells me that my "new worlds" idea is really just "finding a tribe" or two.
Soon I plan to post what I have so far, for comments.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

No love---this is a good thing! Nothing can stop me from being productive except my own tendency to take on too many projects at once.

I would LOVE to give a TED talk someday. In fact, I adopt it as a goal.

I am not afraid of unproductivity. TED talks are short and fill small spaces of time, but they are inspirational. I see a TED talk and then I immediately think about how I can apply it. Inevitably, I go create something or add a new dimension or twist to a manuscript or project I already have.

Reading is far more dangerous for me. I get sucked into a book for two and three hours at a time, and those are big chunks to give away when one's plate. I still read, but I handle books with care, as though they were opium or heroin. I know I lose my ability to mix inspiration with production when I open a good book, especially if it's science fiction.

TED talks are something I can do instead of watching three cute cat videos.

[catpaw67.livejournal.com]

Great talk! And thank the Gods we don't have to reach more than, say, a thousand people! I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed.

So is one of our ways of being a heretic suggesting that pagans don't have to be poor? I like this stance. Let's make it work!

And let's get these people talking to each other about money and no longer feeling a stigma against that. What's so wrong with sharing investing advice? With charging people for spiritual training (so long as you didn't take a vow that you wouldn't)? Wow, I'm fired up. I feel like he was talking directly to me.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

OK, this is the deal: we speak from our truths and we tell anyone who will listen. The people who need to hear us will find us.

About charging for teaching:

I won't charge to teach Blue Star. Ever.

But all of my coaching and facilitation work is infused with spirituality: Craft, Buddhism and the threads of other wise traditions, including Christianity. That's what makes it so worthwhile.

In exchange for structured coaching, guidance and support, I will ask for the money I need to pay my bills, save for my retirement, tithe to the world (through KIVA) and make sure that my family can afford health insurance. I will give the best of myself in return, and love doing it.

Anyone who asks for the structured support I offer will also have to assist me to eat, get good health care and pay for myself and in old age. If they don't want to do that, it's OK, but I won't work with them.

I am a midwife and a coach, not a doormat.

[shades-of-nyx.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!