Top 5 Great TED Talks

Recently I wrote an article entitled 6 Ways to Grow Daily, and the subsequent follow up, how to create a reading plan and where I shared my Top 10 Book Choices.  Today’s article follows in that series by providing another way for your professional development – TED!

Are you familiar with TED?  TED is an annual conference held for top leaders in the fields of Technology, Education, and Design.  The conference is very exclusive, with a detailed application process, and an expectation that you will only be accepted if you are top leader in your particular field.  At the conference this exclusive group of people is exposed to 50 top notch lectures from other leaders, authors, and educators.  There are no breakout sessions, instead everyone gets every lecture all together. The goal is to literally change the world with this group of leaders as a starting point.

Naturally, because the event is so exclusive, the likelihood of any one person being able to attend the event for personal development reasons is slim-to-none.  Fortunately, TED talks are also made available online. The videos have become a top source of online personal growth and learning about a wide variety of subjects.  With numerous videos from several years of recent TED conferences means that you have hours and hours of videos right at your disposal.

So how do you narrow them down?  Obviously you will need to search their database for areas of personal interest, but to help you out here is my top 5 TED talks list:

1. Malcom Gladwell – author of The Tipping Point & Blink

Talk: What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce

2. Tony Robbins – author of Unlimited Power & Awaken The Giant Within

Talk: Why We Do What We Do

3. Seth Godin – author of Purple Cow & The Dip

Talk: Sliced Bread

4. Billy Graham – evangelist (See: Autobiography: Just As I am)

Talk: Technology, Faith, and Suffering

5. Richard St. John – author of 8 to be Great

Talk: Secrets of Success in 8 Words & 3 Minutes

This list will give you a great start.  Do you have a favorite TED talk?  Which is your favorite out of these five?  What other talks would you recommend?  Share the details below and we continue to help others grow.

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The Success Professor – Danny Gamache
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10 Responses to “Top 5 Great TED Talks”

  1. Steve says on October 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 am :

    Do you know if transcriptions of TED videos are available? I couldn’t find them on the site. I haven’t created an account on there so possibly there are available once I’ve logged in.

  2. The Success Professor says on October 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 am :

    Hello Steve,

    I do not know of any transcriptions of TED talks. I did some browsing online and I also could not find any. I would suggest you contact TED help and request it. Obviously it’s something they should be doing.

  3. Mike Sporer says on October 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm :

    I love the TED talks! Actually, I communicate with Richard St. John frequently. Richard is a great guy, and he very kindly has mentioned me in his newest book, 8 to be Great. I’m working on getting him into my area to do some talks and to stump for his book.

    2 other talks blew me away; Sir Ken Robinson and Jill Bolte Taylor, who’s talk abut her life experience is absolutely riveting.

  4. Mary@GoodlifeZen says on October 24th, 2008 at 4:16 am :

    Thanks for this great selection! I’ve already seen Anthony Robbins’ excellent TED presentation, but not the others.

    I would add this one to your “Best TED talks” collection: Neurologist Jill Bolte talking about her stroke and subsequent recovery:
    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

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  7. Eight Women Dream says on January 25th, 2009 at 4:17 am :

    How funny. We have two of these “TED SAID” as Inspiration on our site. Tony Robbins does get a bit off his own topic and doesn’t close well at the end of his speech, but is still good. You left off two other greats: Sir Ted Robinson on how schools kill creativity and Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight.

  8. The Success Professor says on January 25th, 2009 at 7:39 am :

    @ Eight Women Dream

    Thanks for the recommendations!

  9. russds says on June 29th, 2009 at 11:44 am :

    Wow, cool list. Now i need to carve out some time to watch them. Thanks for summarizing the best though.

  10. piskodrocho says on July 9th, 2009 at 9:22 am :

    I want to listen good music!

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