It’s not often that we get to spend an entire day immersed in intelligence, inspiration and insights, but that pretty much sums up the comments I heard during Saturday’s 2011 TEDx San Diego. Billed as The World In Our Grasp, 26 esteemed speakers took the audience down a winding path of discovery, from Self, to Community, then Global viewpoints before wrapping up with Seeds of Change – how we can all get involved.
No Shortage of Incredible Ideas
- There’s no can’t, just will or won’t
- The magic of music as medicine
- The world’s coral reefs in jeopardy
- Understanding our lucid dreaming
- Apply horse whispering to your life
- The value of personal storytelling
- How engineering empowers youth
- Curing early stage breast cancer
- Dive into 3D chalk art surrealism
- Creative climate change solutions
- Visualizing the entire solar system
- Advances in synthetic genomics
- Real-world biomimicry applications
- Current need for civics education
- Feed a growing world population
- Prevent the use of child soldiers
- Employ veterans in disaster relief
- Nature inspired technology ideas
Words to Remember
While a blog post could be written on each of the presentations, I was captivated by Martha Beck’s insights on ancient wisdom while she confronted an African rhinoceros, and offered up the notion that what we often think of as magic, is simply a matter of tuning into nature, and in that way, described the Technology of Magic in 4 words:
- Wordlessness (silence allows for perception and focus of attention)
- Oneness (recognition that everything on the planet is connected)
- Imagination (we need to envision that which has never occurred)
- Forming (the process in which we finally manifest magic in life)
(yes, you had to be there to fully appreciate the totality of this life-changing story)
So much more to share, and I promise to post some of the videos when they’re available, but for now, I’ll leave you with a few quotes that resonated with me.
Notable Quotes (From the Self Session)
“When ready meets able, our will be done.” – Sekou Andrews
“Ready is the intersection of Passion, Priority, Preparation.” – Sekou Andrews
“Jump off cliffs all the time, develop wings on the way down.” – Sekou Andrews
“Play until we need rest, then rest until we need play.” – Martha Beck
“Dissolve fear and listen to your instincts.” – Koelle Simpson
“We make the world we experience.” – Kurt Gray
“Everyone is a media empire.” – Suneel Gupta
Haven’t been to a TEDx event, go, it will change your life!
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