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Ian's top TED talk tips

Here are Ian's top TED talk tips that may help you see things from a different perspective.

Robert Wright on the evolution of compassion	A hard-edged take on the origins and purpose of compassion, and how an aspect of game theory might just save the world.
David Deutsch on explanation	A not-so-obvious explanation of what makes a good explanation - and why it is behind the explosion of science since the 17th century.
Lennart Green does some card tricks	Stunning performance using secret Russian satellite technology and devious cunning. Swedish genius.
Barry Schwarz on the paradox of choice	Choice is a good thing, isn't it? Well, not necessarily. Choice has all sorts of costs and they are bigger than you might think.
Dan Pink on motivation	Financial and other extrinsic incentives can actually reduce performance at work. The real incentives are intrinsic: mastery, autonomy, purpose.
Rebecca Saxe on reading other people's minds	The neuroscience of how we read other people's minds, including how putting a magnet on your head affects your moral judgement.
Steven Pinker on language and thought	How language offers a window into the workings of the mind - the curly-haired one plugs his majestic book 'The Stuff of Thought'.
Alain de Botton on a gentler kind of success	Career crises, envy, the limits of meritocracy, tragedy and vilification, who's in control, and why you should feel sympathy for Ferrari drivers.
Ken Robinson on schools and creativity	Schools are geared up to deliver the wrong outcomes in a world where creativity, not knowledge, is needed to generate wealth and wellbeing.
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