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8 ENTRIESMihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow, the Secret to Happiness explores experiences in which a person becomes deeply absorbed in a meaningful activity. The talk invites a different view of wellbeing from the pursuit of comfort or.
In this audio conversation, TED’s Chris Anderson returns to Sir Ken Robinson’s influential critique of schooling more than a decade after the original 2006 address. The episode asks what has changed and why creativity and per
Robinson’s 2013 address focuses on the conditions needed for learners to thrive. He uses the image of an apparently barren landscape to question educational cultures that confuse compliance with development.
In this follow-up to his famous 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson turns from criticism to a more ambitious question: what would education look like if institutions were organized around the ways people actually develop talents? He
Grant studies people who generate unconventional ideas and act on them. His talk resists a familiar stereotype: originality does not necessarily come from a fearless genius who has an immediate perfect vision. It can involve
Gilbert examines the pressure placed on artists to produce extraordinary work and the mythology that creativity must be the defining measure of a person’s worth. She offers a playful alternative way of speaking about inspirat
Palmer reflects on the relationship between performers and audiences, drawing on her experiences as a street artist and musician. Her talk asks whether creative support can be built through trust and direct relationships rath
At TED2006, educator Sir Ken Robinson challenged a familiar assumption: that an education system is doing its job whenever it measures the subjects that are easiest to test. His talk asks what happens when a child is inventive, physical, musical
