Stretch
by Roger Frampton
parents come to me and ask: ‘What can I do to make sure my kid moves the best?’, I say, ‘lead by example’. In fact, my TED talk ended with this statement: ‘We should lead by example and move like them’. And where should we start with that? Right where we began. By
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not only special and life-changing for me personally, but that literally millions of people around the world would eventually hear me speak about in my TED talk. I was a fit but very stiff guy (who aspired to be like Arnold Schwarzenegger) who realized in a gym class that he’d unwittingly
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the outset but, as soon as you get into that flow, it will become a habit. IS SITTING DOWN DESTROYING ME? Guilty! I did name my TED talk ‘Why sitting down destroys you’, but I have a very valid point. The idea that repetitive sitting is severely damaging to our long-term health
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can of course use a book instead of a block, a couple of towels instead of a mat and a belt instead of a strap. MY TED TALK ‘WHY SITTING DOWN DESTROYS YOU’: https://bit.ly/3jYvFAB Perhaps you just grabbed this book from the shelf at your local bookstore or came across
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it online and don’t really know much about my backstory or why I’m all about stretching. My TED talk, aptly named ‘Why Sitting Down Destroys You’, has been viewed, at the time of writing, by over 3 million people. If you’d like to
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
by Bill Gates · 2 May 2022 · 406pp · 88,977 words
steps to close the gaps, but nobody acted on these assessments and plans. Improvements were called for but never made. Six years after I gave my TED talk and published that NEJM paper, as COVID-19 was spreading around the world, reporters and friends would ask me if I wished I had done
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Study was an ambitious and unique idea, and it had a chance to make progress on some of the problems I had called out in my TED talk years before. I agreed to fund it through the Brotman Baty Institute, a research partnership between Fred Hutch, the University of Washington, and Seattle Children
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by Daniel Susskind · 14 Jan 2020 · 419pp · 109,241 words
“we can know more than we can tell.” Economists called this constraint on automation “Polanyi’s Paradox.” 24. This is the language I used in my TED talk entitled “Three Myths About the Future of Work (and Why They Are Wrong),” March 2018. See David Autor, Frank Levy, and Richard Murnane, “The Skill
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
by Sam Harris · 5 Oct 2010 · 412pp · 115,266 words
speaks at a conference the resulting feedback amounts to a few conversations in the lobby during a coffee break. As luck would have it, however, my TED talk was broadcast on the internet as I was in the final stages of writing this book, and this produced a blizzard of useful commentary. Many
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about some other basis for these facts (souls, disembodied consciousness, ectoplasm, etc.). 24. On a related point, the philosopher Russell Blackford wrote in response to my TED talk, “I’ve never yet seen an argument that shows that psychopaths are necessarily mistaken about some fact about the world. Moreover, I don’t see
The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last
by Jimmy Wales · 28 Oct 2025 · 216pp · 60,419 words
to share a common notion or mental model of what an encyclopedia is. Now, remember how I declared that Wikipedia “is an online encyclopedia” in my TED Talk? More often, I just said “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.” In fact, on Wikipedia itself, we constantly declared “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.” Why was that so
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain
by James Fallon · 30 Oct 2013
of the episode, basically at high risk to become a psychopathic murderer even as a young child, with the scientific hypothesis I had discussed in my TED talk. He had managed to understand my concept of how the decades and centuries of violence in the Balkans and high-risk genetics would give rise
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the insula would be a bit out of whack, too. This wackiness was evident in my PET scans—as Amy Arnsten had suggested after seeing my TED talk. My psychological world was starting to make sense. After Oslo I continued to think about other ways my funky monoamine system explained my experiences. In
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss · 14 Jun 2017 · 579pp · 183,063 words
you’re working in that time you suddenly become that friend who’s never available, which is horribly shortsighted and unwise. As I detailed in my TED Talk, I think we all have two main characters in our heads: a rational decision-maker (the adult in your head) and an instant gratification monkey
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do. That perception of potential failure is a kind of fuel. I’ve learned to be grateful for it. I wrote The Rise and gave my TED Talk about it because I believe so strongly in the power of so-called failure, or being assumed as a failure, for pathbreaking innovative achievements. Martin
Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
by Alexis Ohanian · 30 Sep 2013 · 216pp · 61,061 words
use it, which sets the bar for PowerPoint presentations really low. Here’s my philosophy: lots of big pictures, text, and tons of slides. For my TED talk, I had room for no more than a few words on each slide—and they had to be in 86-point type, minimum. Forty-two
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. Even a few “Woo!”s from the crowd. Nailed it. I’d given a few non-CompUSA talks before then, but once the video of my TED talk hit a million views and was front-paged on reddit,4 I became a known “public speaker.” I have a lecture agent now and get
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream
by Alissa Quart · 14 Mar 2023 · 304pp · 86,028 words
Jedediah Britton-Purdy: “‘Hello, there is literally nothing we can do to change the course of this global death cult, thank you for coming to my TED talk.’”) In that talk, Sandberg recounted her experience “pitching a deal” in a private equity office where she realized that she may have been “the only
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig · 12 Aug 2020 · 291pp · 72,937 words
the newsagent’s, sulking about not being able to afford a magazine and blaming her for it. ‘You see, I know that you were expecting my TED talk on the path to success. But the truth is that success is a delusion. It’s all a delusion. I mean, yes, there are things
SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully
by Jane McGonigal · 14 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 147,008 words
The New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
by Paige McClanahan · 17 Jun 2024 · 206pp · 78,882 words
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
by Phoebe Robinson · 14 Oct 2021 · 265pp · 93,354 words