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Title: The TED Formula
Post by: TomFoolery on June 11, 2016, 06:37:04 PM
http://digg.com/video/ted-talk-parody?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=facebook

Just learn these easy tricks, and you too can give a TED Talk.
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: gentle_dissident on June 11, 2016, 06:44:30 PM
Outstanding.

Distraction and deception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlj_08htIRI
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: Hydra009 on June 11, 2016, 07:31:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tom6_ceTu9s
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: Baruch on June 11, 2016, 08:42:01 PM
We have fallen a long way, from having Socrates as our public intellectual.  Nobody would execute a TED talker ... for blasphemy or corrupting the young.
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: Shiranu on June 11, 2016, 11:12:57 PM
Interesting... how much could doing a Ted talk increase my marketability? Can I make money off it....
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: Hydra009 on June 12, 2016, 12:54:12 AM
Quote from: Shiranu on June 11, 2016, 11:12:57 PM
Interesting... how much could doing a Ted talk increase my marketability? Can I make money off it....
Yes and no.  TED doesn't actually pay its speakers anything, though they do pay for travel costs and accommodation.  Every year, they also award one speaker with $1,000,000.  But the chances of winning that are roughly akin to making a field goal on an aircraft carrier during a hurricane while blindfolded.

But there's basically no chance of doing a TED talk unless you've already been on the cover of Time, have your own wiki page, have a million dollars, etc.  We're talking former presidents, famous inventors, Four Horseman tier atheists, etc.  So, you'd have to do TEDx.  They have lower standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc

Much lower standards.

You can find a local TEDx  (http://www.ted.com/tedx/events?when=upcoming&filter=texas&autocomplete_filter=texas) and apply there.

Remember:
1) Have absolute confidence
2) Be vague
3) Be uplifting

The audience should feel enthralled, hopeful for the future but in a very vague way, and feel like they learned something without actually learning anything.
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: PickelledEggs on June 12, 2016, 01:03:23 AM


Quote from: Hydra009 on June 12, 2016, 12:54:12 AMThey have lower standers.

I see what you did there.

Sent from your mom.

Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: Hydra009 on June 12, 2016, 01:07:36 AM
And I proofread that like 3 times. ><

Edited.  :P 
Title: Re: The TED Formula
Post by: Baruch on June 12, 2016, 07:48:26 AM
Quote from: Hydra009 on June 12, 2016, 01:07:36 AM
And I proofread that like 3 times. ><

Edited.  :P

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