Best TED Talks

Self development expert Anthony Robbins speaks at the TED Conference on what motivates people. Robbins insists that he isn't a motivator, but instead he is out to find what motivates people and what it is that makes the difference in the quality of people's lives.

Techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci encourages us to think about the consequences of highly personalized artificial intelligence in disseminating information on the Internet from popular sites like Google, YouTube, Facebook, and others.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil takes a look the exponential growth of many forms of technology and where these technologies will take us in the not to distant future.

Adam Grant is an author in the area of organizational psychology with bestsellers like Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know and Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things.

In this talk delivered at the TED conference a few years ago, Wooden talks about true success being the satisfaction of knowing you that put forth your utmost effort in the game despite whether you win or lose. He readily quotes poetry and other sources of his inspiration throughout his life.

In this interesting talk delivered by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, he explores how the food industry went from looking for the perfect single spaghetti sauce recipe to a more diverse approach of creating a variety of spaghetti sauces to suit the desires of shoppers.

Mythologist Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik compares the roots of Eastern and Western mythologies and shows how understanding these myths can explain a lot about every aspect of these cultures and help us overcome our misunderstandings and conflicts between these world views.

Each year, TED hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses.

Getting Things Done author David Allen talks about how to better engage with your life in this streaming lecture provided by TEDx.

Pastor Rick Warren authored the mega-bestselling book The Purpose Driven Life. In this TED Talk he talks about how the popularity of the book altered his life's purpose.