Favorite Talks

  1. Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address by Steve Jobs
  2. Dr. Michael J. Burry at UCLA Economics Commencement 2012 by Michael Burry
  3. The Revolutionary Power Of Diverse Thought by Elif Shafak
  4. Where Is Home? by Pico Iyer
  5. The Art Of Stillness by Pico Iyer
  6. How To Find Work You Love by Scott Dinsmore
  7. The Power Of Vulnerability by Brené Brown
  8. Nationalism Vs. Globalism: The New Political Divide by Yuval Noah Harari
  9. The Wonderful And Terrifying Implications Of Computers That Can Learn by Jeremy Howard
  10. A Letter To All Who Have Lost In This Era by Anand Giridharadas 
  11. Why Some Of Us Don’t Have One True Calling by Emilie Wapnick
  12. Less Stuff, More Happiness by Graham Hill
  13. How To See Past Your Own Perspective And Find Truth by Michael Patrick Lynch
  14. The Surprising Thing I Learned Sailing Solo Around The World by Dame Ellen MacArthur
  15. 10 Ways The World Could End by Stephen Petranek [Skip #10 & #9 and climate change hello?]
  16. How Technology Evolves by Kevin Kelly
  17. The Secret To Living Longer May Be Your Social Life by Susan Pinker
  18. Why You Will Fail To Have A Great Career by Larry Smith
  19. Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Ken Robinson
  20. Epigenetics And The Influence Of Our Genes by Courtney Griffins
  21. How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek
  22. Where’s Google Going Next? by Larry Page
  23. 10 Ways To Have A Better Conversation by Celeste Headlee
  24. How To Get Better At The Things You Care About by Eduardo Briceño
  25. Are You A Giver Or A Taker? by Adam Grant
  26. Why You Should Define Your Fears Instead Of Your Goals by Tim Ferriss
  27. The Way We Think About Work Is Broken by Barry Schwartz
  28. Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid by Guy Winch
  29. Where Are All The Aliens? by Stephen Webb
  30. Design At The Intersection Of Technology And Biology by Neri Oxman
  31. Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are by Amy Cuddy
  32. All It Takes Is 10 Mindful Minutes by Andy Puddicombe
  33. Sleep Is Your Superpower by Matt Walker
  34. What Makes A Good Life? Lessons From The Longest Study On Happiness by Robert Waldinger
  35. The Paradox Of Choice by Barry Schwarz
  36. The Happy Secret To Better Work by Shawn Achor
  37. To The South Pole And Back — The Hardest 105 Days Of My Life by Ben Saunders
  38. Bring On The Learning Revolution! by Ken Robinson
  39. The Global Learning Crisis — And What To Do About It by Amel Karboul
  40. Beyond Carnism And Toward Rational, Authentic Food Choices by Melanie Joy
  41. Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work by Jason Fried
  42. Teaching Kids Real Math With Computers by Conrad Wolfram
  43. A Vision Of Crimes In The Future by Marc Goodman
  44. No Roads? There’s A Drone For That by Andreas Raptopoulos
  45. In Praise Of Slowness by Carl Honoré
  46. The Puzzle Of Motivation by Dan Pink
  47. The Joy Of Surfing In Ice-cold Water by Chris Burkard
  48. The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn’t True by Mia Birdsong
  49. Why We Need To Rethink Capitalism by Paul Tudor Jones II

The above list contains my all-time favorite talks that I have collected over the years, some of which I rewatch on a regular basis.

Being a big Tim Ferriss fan, here are my favorite episodes of his podcast:

  1. Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE) on the Magic of Thinking BIG
  2. How to Think Like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
  3. Brené Brown on Vulnerability and Home Run TED Talks
  4. Tony Robbins – On Achievement Versus Fulfillment
  5. Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life
  6. Lessons from Geniuses, Billionaires, and Tinkerers
  7. Kevin Kelly – AI, Virtual Reality, and The Inevitable
  8. Lessons from Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Ben Franklin
  9. Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions
  10. How to ‘Waste Money’ To Improve the Quality of Your Life
  11. Peter Diamandis on Disrupting the Education System, The Evolution of Healthcare, and Building a Billion-Dollar Business
  12. Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur
  13. Chase Jarvis, Master Photographer
  14. James Altucher on How to Say “No”, Fail Better, and Build Businesses
  15. Kevin Kelly on Artificial Intelligence and Designer Babies
  16. Interview with Peter Thiel, Billionaire Investor and Company Creator
  17. Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?
  18. Filmmaker Jason Silva
  19. Managing Procrastination, Predicting the Future, and Finding Happiness – Tim Urban

(By now, all podcasts have also been transcribed.)

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Last updated: August 8th 2020.
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