Turn Your Struggles Into Strengths (inspirational video)

From the TEDx YouTube Channel: Find out how to use your struggles, obstacles and resistance as your personal growth plan to create your strengths. Learn how building a strong body through working out shares the same principles as building internal strength to reach your ideal mindset and goals. This personal development Tedx Talk shares Lori Harder’s journey from failure to success.
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Jokes are my superpower (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: As comedy writer Danny Zuker entertains and inspires, he shares the poignant moment of internal glee when we make someone laugh.  Danny believes humor resides inside each one of us and he portrays humor as an important superpower that we can and should tap into.

On laughter (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: Born in New Zealand, London-living Anthony McCarten is an award winning film-maker, novelist and playwright. As a film maker he has written five feature films and has directed two himself. All were screened internationally. Theory of Everything, his latest screenplay, had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and concerns the lives of Jane and Stephen Hawking. His novels have been translated into 14 languages. He won the 2008 Austrian Youth Literature Prize and was a finalist for the 2008 German Youth Literature Prize. Anthony received early international success with his play Ladies Night. Translated into twelve languages, it remains New Zealand’s most commercially successful play of all time. In 2001, it won France’s premiere theatre award for comedy, the Molière Prize.
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The human skills we need in an unpredictable world (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: The more we rely on technology to make us efficient, the fewer skills we have to confront the unexpected, says writer and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan. She shares why we need less tech and more messy human skills — imagination, humility, bravery — to solve problems in business, government and life in an unpredictable age. “We are brave enough to invent things we’ve never seen before,” she says. “We can make any future we choose.”
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How to Humor Your Stress (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: Loretta Laroche: Don’t believe everything you think! Many of our thoughts can be the source of amusement if we learn how to discover our inner sitcom. Life does not have to be a stress rehearsal. When we explore how to “lighten up”, we also help to “lighten up” the world.

Why you feel what you feel (inspirational video)

From the TEDx.com YouTube channel: Dr. Alan Watkins, founder of Complete Coherence, introduces the key phases of human development and explains why poor emotional control is holding back progress. He asks us to imagine a world where we never have to feel anything we don’t want to feel; where we have complete control of what we feel and when we feel it.

How education helped me rewrite my life (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: There’s no greater freedom than finding your purpose, says education advocate Ashweetha Shetty. Born to a poor family in rural India, Shetty didn’t let the social norms of her community stifle her dreams and silence her voice. In this personal talk, she shares how she found self-worth through education — and how she’s working to empower other rural youth to explore their potential. “All of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept — until something awakens us and a new world opens up,” Shetty says.
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Validation (inspirational video)

If you’ve ever forgotten what the magic of life is all about, this short, masterfully produced, award-winning film should serve to make you smile and perhaps even shed a tear of joy. We certainly hope this is the case.

Happiness: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You (inspirational video)

From the World Minds YouTube channel: Our cultures give us a lot of advice about how to find happiness. Science, however, suggests that much of that advice just isn‘t right. Presented by Don Gilbert at the WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland.

The surprising habits of original thinkers (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
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