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Worthwhile Talks and Reads

1. FREE BOOKS: 100 legal sites to download literature. URL

1. 50 Ways To Be More Humble. URL; Einstein on Kindness, Our Shared Existence, and Life's Highest Ideals. URL; Why Gratitude Is Good. URL; Words of Wisdom: Buddhist Inspiration for Daily Living by Daisaku Ikeda. URL
1. Viktor Frankl: Search for Meaning. URL; Viktor Frankl: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning. URL; Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning. URL; Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung on Human Personality in Rare BBC Interview by Maria Popova. URL
2. Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0. URL; Religion for Atheists: Alain de Botton on What Education and the Arts Can Learn from Faith. URL
3. Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee's Famous Metaphor for Resilience. URL
4. Richard Feynman on the Double Slit Paradox: Particle or Wave? URL; Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine. Using physics to explain how the world works (1983). URL; What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions. URL; Feynman on Scientific Method. URL
5. Michio Kaku: Why Physics Ends the Free Will Debate. URL; Michio Kaku: What If Einstein Is Wrong? URL; Michio Kaku: BigThink.com. URL; What is a Higgs Boson? - Physicist Michio Kaku responds. URL
6. Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses. URL; 51/2 Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success. URL; 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You. URL
7. Steve Jobs: How to live before you die. URL
8. How to find your purpose and do what you love? URL; How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love. URL
9. How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries. URL
10. 27 of History's Strangest Inventions. URL
11. David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes. URL; URL
12. Work Smart (11 Talks): TED Ideas worth spreading. URL
13. Carl Sagan’s Reading List. URL
14. Where do ideas come from? (5 Talks). URL; The Idea Factory: Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs and the Golden Age of Innovation. URL; The Sources of Innovation and Creativity by Karlyn Adams. URL; URL; Leadership: Creativity and Innovation by Dr William R. Klemm. URL; 29 Ways to stay creative. URL; Innovation Leadership: How to use innovation to lead effectively, work collaboratively and drive results. URL; The Most Practical Steps Towards Increasing Your Productivity. URL; Steps To Innovation And Creative Thinking With ThoughtOffice.com. URL; 9 Philosophical Thought Experiments That Will Keep You Up at Night. URL
15. Maria Konnikova: Unclutter Your Brain Attic Like Sherlock Holmes. URL; URL. Sherlock Holmes Could Have Invented Google. URL. The Scientific Method Of The Mind: What Sherlock Holmes can teach us about decision making. URL
16. How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective by Maria Popova. URL
17. John Hagelin at TEDxWomen 2012. URL
18. Rewiring Your Brain by Dr. Joe Dispenza. URL1; How The Brain Rewires Itself. URL1 Examining Our Thoughts (The Seven Practices of a Healthy Mind). URL1; URL2; For Mental Power. URL; How does my brain work? (8 talks). URL; Diane von Furstenberg's 5 favorite TED Talks (5 talks). URL
19. A Simple Guide to Better Focus and Concentration: Lessons From a Lion Tamer. URL
20. 7 Mantras To Help You Out Of Any Rut. URL
21. #SorryNotSorry: Why Apologies are all rage, and How to Deliver ‘Em Right. URL
22. The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life. URL
23. Sri Chanakya Niti-Sastra. URL; Complete Chanakya Neeti in Hindi. URL; Chanakya Neeti Quotes & Ideas For a Better and Happy Life. URL; Sri Chanakya Niti-Sastra: The Political Ethics of Chanakya Pandit. URL; Chanakya: The Guru who defeated The Alexander. URL
24. 9 Equations True Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know. URL
25. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. URL; Ryan Coogler: 6 talks that inspired me. URL
26. Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do. URL
27. Richard St. John'8 8 secrets of success. URL
28. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny. URL Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things (plus a new theory from Matthew Hurley on why jokes are funny).
29. Charlie Chaplin: Let Us Free the World. URL Some call it the greatest speech ever made. This remix puts Charlie Chaplin's climactic address from "The Great Dictator" (1940) into present-day context, showing how the spirit of liberty, brotherhood, and equality that defeated fascism seven decades ago must be urgently reclaimed.
30. Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself. URL After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.
31. How Music Works URL
32. 14 Lessons From Benjamin Franklin About Getting What You Want In Life. URL
33. 6 Tips for Tasting Wines: What I Learned from Traveling with a Group of Wine Writers. URL
34. The Number One Mistake People I Interview Are Making These Days. URL
35. Things I Learned from Cool Bosses. URL
36. The Trust Molecule. URL
37. We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion. URL
38. China Vs. USA - Graphic of the Day. URL
39. The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness). URL
40. The Art of Scientific Investigation (1957), Part I: The Role of Chance-Opportunism and Openness in Creativity and Discovery. URL
41. Nikola Tesla's Amazing Predictions For The 21st Century. URL
42. Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life. URL
43. 5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice. URL; 10 Psychology Tricks You Can Use To Influence People. URL
44. How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity: A 1957 Guide. URL
45. Things I Love Thursday: 5 Life Lessons. URL
46. 8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture. URL
47. How to Get Over the "I Suck" Barrier When Learning a New Skill. URL
48. 15 Beautiful Libraries Around the World. URL
49. Secrets of Body Language. URL
50. Becoming Well Spoken: How To Minimize Your Uh's and Um's. URL
51. Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking. URL
52. Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking. URL
53. The Top Communication Traits of Great Leaders. URL
54. 10 Communication Secrets of Great Leaders. URL
55. 3 Ways Successful People Prioritize Their To-Do Lists. URL
56. It's Instant Karma Time! URL; 12 Results of bad deeds. URL
57. 5 Things Every Student Can Learn From Sachin Tendulkar To Be Successful In Studies And Life. URL
58. Isaac Asimov on Science and Creativity in Education. URL
59. The Compassionate Mind: Science shows why it’s healthy and how it spreads. URL
60. 7 Essential Books on Optimism. URL; 7 Must-Read Books on the Art & Science of Happiness. URL; 17 Self-Help Books Everyone Should Read. URL
61. 30 Books You Should Read Before You're 30. URL
62. The Science Behind What Naps Do For Your Brain - And Why You Should Have One Today. URL
63. A Scientific Guide to Effectively Saying No. URL
64. Consciousness: The what, why and how? URL
65. 25 Habits Of People Who Are Happy, Healthy & Successful. URL; 21 Habits of Happy People. URL; BestEzines. URL
66. On "Geek" Versus "Nerd". URL
67. The Top 10 Things Successful People Do To Reach Their Dreams. URL; Stay Focused: 5 Ways To Increase Your Attention Span. URL; How Your Memory Works (and Three Ways to Improve It). URL
68. How to Turn Fear into a Superpower. ~ Courtney Prosser. URL

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