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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!
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

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

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


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?

It’s hard. And just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.
There’ll be times when it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Meanwhile, everyone else around you is getting better and happier and richer. You’ll feel like the only one who hasn’t figured it out yet. You’re sinking, your life sucks, and your business isn’t going anywhere.

Oh yeah, and you’re not getting any younger, either. And just when you think about finally throwing in the towel, and saying “f* all this!” that right there is the test that all founders are eventually faced with: when things get too hard, you decide to stay, or you decide to quit.

My advice is this: Before you decide, look at all those great, successful businesses that inspired you to start your own. They stayed.

http://doeswhat.com/2012/09/26/interview-with-ben-chestnut-mailchimp/
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
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

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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