I stumbled across these two interesting TED video’s from Twitter. I really want to watch them but haven’t had time yet so am posting them here so I have to watch them. In case someone makes a comment. Right.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations.

From the TED site – “Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us have the wrong map. In the same way that optical illusions fool our eyes — and fool everyone’s eyes in the same way — Gilbert argues that our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy. And these quirks in our cognition make humans very poor predictors of our own bliss.”

Hmm… hope there’s a happy ending.

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I haven’t read “The Four Hour Work Week” and this is the first time I’ve seen him speak but from his bio I can see that I’m digging his ideas.

Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything

From the TED site – “Tim Ferriss is author of bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek, a self-improvement program of four steps: defining aspirations, managing time, creating automatic income and escaping the trappings of the 9-to-5 life.”

I think I’ll like them. If you’ve watched the vids – what do you think?

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1. J.K Rowling talks about the benefits of failure

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