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TED TALKS

1.Artist Raghava KK: Shake up your story

Topic: perspective & creativity


Raghava KK is a self-taught artist, born in Bangalore, India in 1980. His work has spanned genres as widely disparate as painting, sculpture, installation, film, performance, and even his own wedding.
He started his career in 1997, originally as a cartoonist with Indian national dailies, and over the next 10 years, would reinvent himself to use several different mediums. Raghava’s works have been auctioned by the Queens Museum and Christie’s NY (in an auction curated by the Indo American Arts Council). He has been extensively featured by the Indian and international media and supported and endorsed by numerous celebrities and significant figures in the international art scene.
He lives and works both in the US and India.

Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story -- and your perspective -- changes. In this charming short talk, he invites all of us to shake up our perspective a little bit.

-       Imagine history being taught differently

-       The only way to us to teach creativities is to teach perspectives is the best way to teach creativity.

-       Perspectives= empathy

What I excited about Artist Raghava KK’s talk was that he gave me different perspective that perspectives are very important. Because of perspective, people judge others. And because of perspectives, they block people’s thoughts.

All people have different perspectives and their own thought. It is hard to change people’s thought when they have their strong idea. Why can’t they change easily? It is because they had been taught like that since they were young. Artist Raghava KK explains why he thinks that perspective is really important and what affects people if they have different perspectives. I didn’t think about the perspectives and creativity is connected before I watch this. But after I watched tedtalk from Artist Raghava KK, my thinking got change. I thought that perspective and creativity is totally connected. If people have the limited perspective than, they will have limited ideas and creativities, because perspective blocks them. I realize how the perspective is important in order to get out of the box.

Perspective is creativity.

2.

Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
Name: Dan Ariely
Topic: Illusion and decision in our life.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.

Ariely was born in New York while his father was studying for an MBA degree at Columbia University, and he grew up in Ramat Gan and Ramat Hasharon, Israel. His mother was a parole officer. When in his senior year of high school he was active in the Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed youth movement, and while preparing "fire signs" (a common feature in ceremonies of youth movements in Israel) he suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body from an accidental magnesium flare explosion.

Ariely was a physics and mathematics major at Tel Aviv University, but transferred to philosophy when he found the writing too physically taxing. He also holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in business from Duke University.
After obtaining his PhD degrees he taught at MIT between 1998 and 2008, before returning to Duke University as James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Apart from his prolific academic writing, he published two popular books, one titled Predictably Irrational, and the other titled The Upside of Irrationality, both of which became New York Times best sellers.

Main point: There are lots of things that we have to decide in our lives. However, there are many situations in which we do not recognize deception from other people. Ariely explains this is because we are not as rational as we think.

Exciting part: I was excited when Ariely described experiences that I have had. We always make decisions in our lives. Even for small things, we take our time and decide what to do; for instance, what to buy or what to wear. When I buy foods or notebooks for school, I always compare which has the better price and which has the better quality. When I compare the objects, I sometimes don’t know which I should to choose, because they all look okay with similar prices. Even though I choose one that looks better than the others, I don’t know if it has better quality or not. This is what Dan Ariely is talking about. Sellers produce an illusion to make those products seem better than other ones. This is called marketing. I didn’t know that that marketing illusion affects us a lot. Because of that illusion, maybe we are buying more than we need. Also, this is the reason for advertising their products on television, in magazines or newspapers. This was the surprising part of this video.

View changed: After I watched this video, I realized how sellers are working and trying to trick us to buy their products because our brains are not as perfect as we think. I didn’t know that the marketing illusion affects a lot of people, including me. From now on, I have to look carefully before I buy. If we understand the way physical imitation happens, then we could design a better world.

One image, sentence, and sound you will take away with you?

 This is what Dan Ariely showed to the audience, and I thought this was very astonishing because these two tables look different but they are actually the same size. I think illusion is very powerful to trick a human’s brain. In one sentence, I would say, illusion is wonderful to enjoy but not to be tricked by.

3. 

Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

Topic: Keep your goals to yourself

Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998.
It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians.
In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education.
He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.
In 2011, he published a book which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.
Derek Sivers lives in Singapore, where he is creating his next company.

Main point: People have goal and they wanted to achieve them. We think that when we tell others then, this might help to achieve the goal. But it isn’t.

Exciting part: telling goal to other people is actually not helping to achieve goal.

In 1926 Kurt Lewin had wrote the book about this and other people did too. So it’s not one person’s opinion. This is proven fact.

View change: I will not tell my goal to others but try hard as I canJ

I think I need to set my goal and try my best.

4.

Laura Trice: suggests we all say thank you

Topic: say thank you’

Laura Trice, M.D. is dedicated to the well being of individuals in recovery and making a difference in the world. Her personal belief as that if each person is in touch with their divine purpose, they will be able to find fulfillment in their unique role the world. She developed the Writing in Recovery™ system that combines creative writing, increases personal expression and helps with finding passion and setting goals. Her sessions incorporate musical expression, public speaking and 12-step based therapeutic writing techniques as well as the teachings of well-known metaphysical and mind-body experts such as Louise Hay, Florence Scovel Schinn, Deepak Chopra and Stuart Wilde.

Exciting part: saying thank you make other people different

View Change: I didn’t know that just saying thank you make people different and also make myself positive. I will try to say thank you to others too. Thank you for teaching me Ms.knittle!

Just word saying thank you will make differences.


5. 

Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter

Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero.

Can’t find the biographic

Topic: Don’t lose the chance

Exciting part: He told people that become a hero is wonderful to do but scared to do. This was what I thought. I wanted to help homeless people but I can’t because I am very afraid of them are they okay? Are they good people? I need to be brave to help other people

View Change

I Know that change myself is very hard to do, even small thing. However, I will not drag to the last minute to change myself to be hero to other people. I will help people as much as I can.

I think they are brave people in the world. They are our heroes.

6.  Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge 

TED Fellow Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his family's escape from Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his mother's cunning and determination to save her children.

Topic: mother’s love

Main point: Thanks for mother’s braveness

Exciting part: Sophal Ear wasn’t there to talk to other people about his escaping story if his mother wasn’t brave enough to escape from the Cambodia. I think his mother was very brave. If I were her, I never even think about to escape. I want to fallow her attitude.

View change: I learned that brave change one person’s life.

All mothers in the world are wonderful and amazing; including my mom!

7.

Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days

Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
Matt Cutt joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. He is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team.
Before Google, he worked on my Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.
He wrote the first version of Safe Search, which is Google’s family filter, and he’ve worked on search quality and web spam at Google for the last several years.

-      Try the things that you always wanted to do in your life for 30days

30days challenge(Matt Cutts’)

Add	Subtract
Bike to work	No TV
10.000step/day	No sugar
Take picture a day	No Twitter
Write a Novel	No Caffeine

-      Harder challenge makes him more confident.

-      He never challenge him before the 20days challenge project.

What I excited about Matt Cutts was that he gave me a hope. He said “you can do anything in 30days.” He wrote novel and change his pattern. I thought I cannot change my life pattern. But I think I can try to change my pattern. Because he show people that he can. I think I can change and become a better person because I am same person; human like him.

I realized that people can change them in positive way if they try to do that. He said that small change is sustainable but it’s hard to continue because it’s a small thing. I also agree with him. Small thing is tiny but powerful in the future.

Small change is like a rolling the snow ball. It will be powerful in the future.


8.  Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

 In the corporate business world, he achieved success as a member of scientific staff at Nortel Networks R&D labs. For ten years, he was a researcher, marketing guru, and CEO speechwriter. He won design awards, did breakthrough consumer/user research, and masterminded creative production for many of Nortel’s largest product launches.

In the entrepreneurial business world, he achieved success after starting The St. John Group, an innovative marketing communications company that has been at the forefront of evolving technology for over three decades. He won top business marketing awards, including best corporate video and script in the world, and an IABC Gold Quill, the highest award in business communications. He did what he loved and became a millionaire.

On the personal side, he has a black belt in judo. He spent a year on a ten-speed bike cycling halfway around the world. He has run over 50 marathons (26 miles) on all seven continents (fastest time: 2 hours, 43 minutes). He and his wife Baiba have climbed two of the world’s seven summits, Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Aconcagua in South America. They have been together for over 35 years, a success in itself these days.

Main point: success

Exciting part: He explains how to success the life. Have passion, love your work (if you do it for love, money will follow), Nothing comes easy; it is all about practicing, push yourself.

View change: If I try what he said, then, my life will be change. I need to work hard with all my passion and push myself!

Do you want to live successful life?

Follow all this, you can do it!


9.

Steve Jobs: How to live before you die

At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs' family garage. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

He talked about three things that occurred in his life. First topic was connecting the dots. Second is about death and last is about love.

Exciting part: When Steve Jobs explains that he got fired by his company and didn’t graduate collage, I thought everything happens for reason. Everything really happens for reason. If he did graduate from his collage then, he won’t make various fonts in the Mac computer. If he didn’t get fired from his company, then the Pixar Company might not exist. I was very amazed by all this happening.

View Change: I always think negatively when something bad comes to me. But after I watch this, I realized that everything is just for reason. I was a figure skater for a many years, but not anymore. At first when I stop skating, it was like the end of the world. But now, I love my life. Because of stopping figure skate, I was able to have change to do art. I love doing art.

These two companies are made by Steve Jobs. They remind me Steve Jobs past years…

10.   

Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers

Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, proximity and route -- and drive independently.

As director of a groundbreaking robotics lab, Dennis Hong guides his team of students through projects on robot locomotion and mechanism design, creating award-winning humanoid robots like DARwIn (Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence). His team is known as RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) and operates at Virginia Tech.

"I still cannot forget the mind-blowing sensation when I first watched the movie Star Wars. I was fascinated by R2D2 and C-3PO. Since then, I decided to become a robot scientist and never changed my mind."

-Dennis Hong-

Dr. Hong is also very passionate about advising student design competition and robot competition teams. TEAM DARwIn for RoboCup 2007 (an international autonomous robot soccer competition) where he served as the advisor, was the first and only team from the United States ever to qualify for the RoboCup humanoid division, and TEAM Victor Tango for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge (an autonomous vehicle race in the urban environment) where he served as the co-team leader, won third place with a cash award of $500,000. In 2008, TEAM CIRCA won first place in the CAGI Innovation Awards design competition with a cash prize of $10,500, and his senior design teams have been winning top prizes year after year at various design competitions.

Dr. Hong received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994), his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (1999, 2002). Dr. Hong also has a number of patents for novel robot locomotion mechanisms and devices for medical applications.

MY thoughts

His talk was very interesting to me. I was surprise by the title and I click the video. It was a topic that everyone thinks that is impossible. The topic was “making a car for blind drivers”. Before I watch this, how can they drive when they can’t see anything…  It was just impossible idea to my head. If they do they might have big percentage of get accident.

I hope someday, blind people can drive safely.

<Part 2>

While I am now recognized as a great artist, there was a time when I hated art and I couldn’t imagine being in this position. This is why I want to talk about “risk taking.” When I was young, I wanted to be a figure skater. I never thought of any other future career because I knew figure skating was my destiny. I spent a minimum of six hours a day on the ice. After that, I trained for strength. I skated on holidays, and even emigrated from Korea to Canada to learn figure skating from the best coaches. However, that dream failed when I broke my ankle and missed too much practice. I felt completely disheartened. There seemed to be no choice left for me at all. However, despite my fears, I took a risk: I jumped into the arts. This is what I can tell you about taking risks. First, don’t expect it to be easy. It’s not. However, you shouldn’t feel ashamed if you fail at first. Secondly, positive results don’t happen immediately, so you must be patient and determined. Lastly, there will be times when you feel small, but, remember, every individual is amazing. I am not better than any of you; my success in life has come because I take risks.

Thank you!

1. Journal

Write the journal (approximately once a week) 


1. What was confirmed for you today; what did you already know?
2. What is the word of the day? Why did you choose this word?
3. What surprised you in your learning today?
4. What changes are you going to make as a result of what you have learned?
5. What connections have you made to your own life?
6. What questions are you left with?(minimum 2)


Journal 1
busy day... busy head...

I used to write journal everyday when I was in elementary school. I drew pictures and put pictures too. Writing journal everyday is like reminding that day before I go to sleep. I love to write journal. But I forget to write it. So I just wrote rarely. Today I just stayed home. It was a second weekends of this year’s school day. I wanted to do something special but I couldn’t do anything but lots of homework. At first I don’t wanted to do all those homeworks. But I change my mind into positive way because nothing is change even though I hated it and I have to finish them anyways… These days what I learned was important between people’s relationship. I realized and learned that how that is difficult and important in my life. In my age, I think everything is meant to be learned. (Cliche) Every event had a lesson and message into it. I didn’t realize it when I was young. When something bad happen to me then I just hated it and try to escape from that situation. But these days I accept them as lesson. Lesson that I needed before.

Two question

1. Who am I? (So obvious question but hard to answer)

2. Is everyone happy with their own life?

Sept/11/2011

To be a grade 11

2. Journal : responsible


  When I was in Korea, I never get pressure to have responsible on my attitude. I thought I was having a tough life. Now I realize, I wasn't. I just studied after studied. I think my life in Korea was like a heaven compare to live life in Canada. I thought, I could enjoy the freedom. I thought I was escape from my boring busy life. When I reflect last past years from Korea, that had a really comfortable life. If there is no Langley Fine Arts School in Canada, I am pretty sure I will go back to Korea because I already feel lonely and tired. Life in Canada is very different from Korea. I have to control everything and have responsible for what I did and what I will do. All these experience in here will help a lot in my future but I wish my family was here to help me and support me. I wish I could be with my mom and dad. I trying to make myself comfortable that here is also my second home and I love what I am doing. Cheer for next  one and a half year!

Question 1) What do I want to be in the future?
               2) Is it really a good choice to stay and study in Canada?



  Relationships

   These days, I realized that relationship is very important in my life but also it is very hard to have good relationship. I am active when I know the person well, but I am shy I hit people that I don't like especially elaine. Elaine always mean to me so I do same to her.