Must see videos
Highly recommend spend time watching and reviewing these videos from national and international speakers who all have much to teach us. Enjoy!
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Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
In this funny and blunt talk, Larry Smith pulls no punches when he calls out the absurd excuses people invent when they fail to pursue their passions. http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html |
Simon Griffiths - Changing the world with beer and toilet paper
Social entrepreneur, Simon Griffiths, talks about sparking a revolution in philanthropy through not-for-profit ventures: 'Shebeen' - a bar set to launch in Melbourne, that will fund aid organisations in developing countries with profits and 'Who Gives A Crap' - a toilet paper initiative that uses 50% of its profits to build toilets in the developing world. TED 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfR5xW4w-ww Creative Mornings 2013 https://vimeo.com/cmmelbourne |
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Steve Jobs' Standford Address
Viewed over 17 million times on Youtube, this is a motivational speech to beat all. I wonder if the Stanford graduates knew how lucky they were to hear Mr Jobs assess his life and draw the dots of the most pivotal points of his life. A must see 15 mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc |
Career Coaching advice from UK expert
Jessica McGregor Johnson Jessica outlines 10 common mistakes that women make when they realised that they have got the wrong T-shirt. In this interview she outlines the mistakes and how you can avoid them. http://www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com/products/the-right-t-shirt/10-mistakes-to-avoid.html |
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Navigating Midlife with Robyn Vickers Willis
A 2012 interview on a popular morning show on midlife challenges. http://navigatingmidlife.com/robyn-on-the-circle-channel-10/ |
Tim Ferriss - 4-Hour Workweek Video Summary + Highlights
This is a short introduction to Tim's now famous approach to eliminating waste from our working lives and focusing on patterns that make us more efficient. He is a great example of the bespoke career. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpRja0-vrU |
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Ben Chestnut- Do what you love
Ben is the co founder of Mailchimp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwR36YJ3S68 What one piece of advice would you give to startup founders? |
Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
Ok - so you've worked out what you want to do and need to stay in your current role for a while longer...but you hate it. So how do you survive? Shawn Achor is the author of The Happiness Advantage. He works at the intersection of human potential, success and happiness. This describes how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html |
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Alain de Botton: A Kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Even Alan de Botton has career questions bought to a head on Sunday night with Monday morning looming. This 2009 TED talk examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MtSE4rglxbY#t=41 |
Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off
This talk is more than talking 12 months off to bum out. It's a well thought through process to reinvent and reinvigorate yourself and your work. How did he do it? He put it in his planner (scheduled) , he told people (so he couldn't chicken out) and he planned what he wanted to achieve (so not to waste time). Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali. http://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time_off.html |
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Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability
These TED talks are very powerful as they deal with what's behind broken behaviour. But after reading Brene's excellent book 'Daring Greatly' Im convinced that the fear that can hold us back in career transition is at the heart of what she is saying. So in understanding vulnerability we are able to understand further what is worth doing even if we fail. http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html The Good Life Project
This is low key site, full of great one on one videos with people that I've mostly not heard of, but they have great stories. The creator and interviewer, Jonathon Fields, draws out these quite inspiring stories that relate work to all other aspects of our lives, especially our values. http://www.goodlifeproject.com/ I also like his 10 Commandments of an Epic Business http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/10-commandments-of-epic-business/ |
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
"One of our greatest social scientists discusses his biggest idea: Flow, that delicious moment when the challenges we face are so exquisitely matched to our abilities that we lose a sense of time, place, and self." http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html Fail Safe: Debbie Millman’s Advice on Courage and the Creative Life Debbie Millman reflects on her career decisions and her realisation about her choices, dreaming and when we'll have the courage to do what we really want to do. (podcast) http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/ |
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