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Adam Grant shares why great innovators procrastinate, feel doubt and fear and have bad ideas.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2016/04/the-surprising-habits-of-original-thinkers.html

“So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas. and make sure that we own the...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2014/03/success-5.html

John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative l...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2012/10/how-art-technology-and-design-inform-creative-leaders.html

Scott Berkun’s article about Google’s 20% time mentions that the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page shared during their talk at TED that the Montessori school philosophy influenced th...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/03/on_googl.html

“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B … ” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the sto...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/03/sarah-kay-if-i-should-have-a-daughter.html

The below TED Talk is awe-inspiring: MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment (with ex...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/03/deb-roy-the-birth-of-a-word.html

Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and producti...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/02/how-to-make-work-life-balance-work.html

America was built by makers — curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re a...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2011/02/dale-dougherty-we-are-makers.html

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wrig...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/09/simon-sinek-how-great-leaders-inspire-action.html

“Goodbye Hyper-Consumption, hello ‘Collaborative Consumption’. In Rachel Botsman TEDxSydney talk, we learn how the internet is removing the middle man and making it possible to have a susta...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/08/the-rise-of-collaborative-consumption.html

David McCandless shows how design can make sense out of the overwhelming amount of information in today’s world. He turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebo...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/08/the-beauty-of-data-visualization.html

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/02/teach-every-child-about-food.html

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/10/tim-brown-urges-designers-to-think-big.html

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...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/05/seth-godin-on-the-tribes-we-lead.html

With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poe...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/04/john-wooden-redefining-success.html

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https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/04/i-share-therefore-i-am.html

This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our ...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/03/unveiling-the-sixth-sense-game-changing-wearable-tech.html

swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/03/barry-schwartz-the-real-crisis-we-stopped-being-wise.html

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https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/milton-glaser-on-ted.html

swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'.

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/02/elizabeth-gilbert-a-different-way-to-think-about-creative-genius.html

Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes ...

https://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/11/ted-carl-honore.html