Yoko Ishikura : Fly away with me

Fly away with me: Yoko Ishikura at TEDxTokyo 2014
Summsry

Today, I found a great talk held in 2014. 

Finally, all people thought that it's too late though, the Japanese government decided to establish a NEW department that was dealing with digital matters on September 1,  2021: Digital Agency, and the speaker was elected its Chief Digital Officer. Japan is told that for women it's difficult to be in a managerial position but she is a woman who is now 72 years old!!!  

In the talk, she was telling about her story like predicting that event. She told that her life was as a kite that can fly freely. I think that it's really her. When a string of the kite was cut, the tough situation came to her, though, by changing the kite, she has continued to fly. Now, she must use the kite with the motor because she is the first Chief Digital Officer. 

Ayame Mochizuki : English and Intercultural Communication

English and Intercultural Communication | Ayame Mochizuki | TEDxGKA

Intercultural Communication is to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds or social groups as ours.

The speaker tells us the keys that we have to keep in mind when we think about English and  Intercultural Communication. 

Japan's English level is low and mainly due to our cultural backgrounds lack of opportunities. This situation can be proved by emerging ourselves in English. 1)

English is important for various reasons such as commonness and advancement in globalization and its importance will keep increasing as globalization advances. 2)

Intercultural communication is a crucial skill because it allows us to reach out across different cultures and acknowledge their value. 3)

The speaker summarized her speech. Having a second language has helped me greatly not as Japanese, not as an English speaker but as a person. Some people may be unwilling towards this change. Undoubtedly, having a second language should not change us it's a completely different person, however, that doesn't mean it won't make a difference in us. Having a second language should improve us and by preparing us for a globalizing world widening our view of the world along with deepening our understanding of the unique and different identities of others and ourselves by interacting with many different people from the various cultural background.  We can combine all the good aspects of these cultures and build up our own one-of-a-kind unique identity that will make us a person free from the narrow views of a single nationality and make us global individuals.

Adam Grant·TEDMonterey How to stop languishing and start finding flow

Adam Grant·TEDMonterey
How to stop languishing and start finding flow
Summary 

Languishing means to deteriorate, waste away, and suffer. It’s a sense of emptiness, stagnation, and ennui. 

Still, a lot of limitations continue in the world because of COVID. We want to return to normal lives, and do something more productively. It must lead to forgiving our grief. 

However, the speaker realized that the antidote to languishing does not have to be something productive, it can be something joyful. 

Playing games with not only children but also adults, sleeping until the afternoon, and not being able to do your lists will be better now. Having fun must bring flow soon! Flow means to result, proceed, and arise. 

When you’re ready, you can start finding the flow that lights a path out of the void.

Terri Trespicio : Stop searching for your passion

Stop searching for your passion | Terri Trespicio | TEDxKC

Summary 

The title must have surprised many people. Somehow, l understood what the speaker wanted to us, l knew that passion was not a job, l was often asked why l’ve worked passionately always, and it's  because when I work hard, when I do what l have to do hard, my passion follows me. 

Just start doing because to live a life full of meaning and value.  You don’t follow your passion.

Wael Ghonim : Let's design social media that drives real change

Let's design social media that drives real change
Wael Ghonim • TEDGlobal>Geneva • December 2015
Summary 

The story was told about six years ago. The speaker has already said that the Arab Spring revealed social media’s greatest potential, but it also exposed its greatest shortcomings. 

A polarization is primarily driven by our human behavior, however, social media shapes this behavior and magnifies its impact. 

Rumor is spreading among more people quickly, people can easily stop to mute and block a lot, they must forget that people behind the screen. 

It becomes really hard to change our opinions even if new evidence arises. In our social media, could people truly discuss and talk with each other? Does it lead to solving something? 

The speaker, in fact, stood on the TED stage in 2011, and said, “if you want to liberate society, all you need is the Internet.”

In 2016, the speaker in this TED told us if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the Internet. 

In 2021, we now must use the Internet liberally too much without having civility and believe that the polarization in the world must be solved by using the Internet. 

The speaker's TED stage in 2011

Stefan Al : Could we build a wooden skyscraper?

Could we build a wooden skyscraper?
Stefan Al • TED-Ed • July 2021
Summary

Mjøstårnet is the world's tallest wooden building made almost entirely from the trees of neighboring forests in the Norwegian countryside. It　was built in 2019, it started with the invention of glue-laminated timber called glulam, and engineers developed cross-laminated timber called  CLT to battle powerful winds.

In fact, the timber can be shaped quickly using computer directed cutting machines, 

engineered wood can be prefabricated in a factory, and

it’s biodegradable materials thus less waste.

By earthquake and fire, cracked wood panels can be easily replaced, and the CLT gives enough time to evacuate from fires. 

The timber is a renewable resource, and 

it is easier to heat and cool buildings with less energy waste.

It couldn’t be told that CLT is not strong enough to support a 40-story building and requires vastly more lumber than traditional wooden construction, though, even if only buildings under 30 stories were built from wood, it would reduce the carbon footprint of those structures by more than 25%.

We have to know about technological advancement to protect our earth. 

Amanda Crowell : 3 reasons you aren’t doing what you say you will do

 

3 reasons you aren’t doing what you say you will do | Amanda Crowell | TEDxHarrisburg (transcripts)
Summary 

We always say that this week, we are going to go to the gym or have English classes three times, though, it’s difficult for us to start doing it. 

The speaker discovered the reason that there are three powerful mindset blocks that are keeping you locked in a cycle of defensive failure. 

YOU think that somewhere in your heart, you can’t do it. 

You think that Your IDENTITY must not do it. 

SECRETLY, you don’t want to do it. 

Ironically, those defensive failures have protected you from real failure, thus you can't start doing what you want to do, so you have to change your mind to productive failure from defensive failure.

The speaker, it’s a funny and great story, just wanted to be a mother who can chase a child. She did a triathlon. She only got her head clear, and she began to take steps. If you will do the same, you’re doing those two things, nothing can stop you.