Reunited: A Short Film about Music and the Human Spirit

From the Noisey YouTube channel: In this uplifting short film, directed by Max Thurlow and Nick Trumble, Noisey meets 93 year old jazz pianist Edward Hardy. Ed was given a new lease of life and relief from dementia and depression, when his care home discovered he was a talented pianist in his younger days. They reunited him with his ex-band members for a special performance, which proved the power of music for people suffering cognitive disorders.
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How to lead in a crisis

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Humility, transparency and urgency are the keys to successfully steering an organization — big or small — through the challenges that come your way. Leadership expert Amy C. Edmondson provides clear advice and examples to help any leader rise to the occasion.

Share this Christmas video and help a child this Christmas! (inspirational video)

You might be aware that 10 Million Clicks For Peace co-founder, Rick Beneteau, founded the Internet Toy Drive back in 2001 as a corporate sponsor of the U.S. Marine’s Toys for Tots charity which raised a lot of money for toys for families in need for a decade (NFL quarterback Drew Bledsoe was his sponsor for all 10 years). This year, he wants to loan Toys for Tots a brand new video (Rick co-wrote and produced the song, Children Are the Very Heart of Christmas, in 1988) for their campaign which is now in full swing. You’ll see at the end that it asks viewers to donate to Toys for Tots. Please SHARE this Christmas video with everybody you know and let’s help a lot of children in need!

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Peace Pilgrim Biography (inspirational video)

This post first appeared in the Modern Day Mastery blog here.

This is the perfect inspirational movie to watch with your loved ones. It is the powerful documentary of the famous woman of peace, Mildred Norman, better known as Peace Pilgrim. Narrated by Reverend Michael Beckwith with interviews with such notaries as the Dalai Lama, Maya Angelou, John Robbins, Dan Millman and Elizabeth Kubler Ross as well as many of Peace Pilgrim’s friends, admirers, and relatives. You’ll see newsreel footage from the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s, when Peace was on her 25,000 mile walk for peace. Scripted and edited by Sharon Janis (Kumuda) of Night Lotus Productions, using materials that had been filmed and gathered over two decades.

How to disagree productively and find common ground

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can’t agree — on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground — over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations.
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Secrets of the mind and free will — revealed by magic tricks

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Are you in control of your choices? Magic tricks might reveal otherwise, says scientist and illusionist Alice Pailhès. Watch closely as she performs magic tricks that unveil how your brain works, how you can be subtly influenced and what that means for free will and your day-to-day life. Did she guess your card right?

Gratitude, everyday (inspirational video)

From the TedxTalks YouTube channel: Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.

What it takes to make change

From the TED.com YouTube channel: What can you do to build a better world? Sharing stories from her pioneering career dedicated to tackling poverty, Jacqueline Novogratz offers three principles to spark and sustain a moral revolution. Learn how you can commit (or recommit) to creating big, positive change in your lifetime — and give back more to the world than you take from it. “It is in the darkest times that we have the chance to find our deepest beauty,” Novogratz says.
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What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

From the TED.com YouTube channel: What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.

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The riddle of experience vs. memory

From the TED.com YouTube channel:  Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.

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