Longevity

9 behaviours to a longer, healthier life:
1. Move ( find ways to move mindlessly, make moving unavoidable )
2. Plan de Vida ( know your purpose in life )
3. Down Shift ( work less, slow down, rest, take vacation )
4. 80% Rule ( stop eating when you're 80% full )
5. Plant-Power ( more veggies, less protein and processed foods )
6. Red Wine ( consistency and moderation )
7. Belong ( create a healthy social network )
8. Beliefs ( spiritual or religious participation )
9. Your Tribe ( make family a priority )

Source:
Power9
Dan Buettner

TED is spreading...

While I was reading the top 7 places to watch great minds in action blog post, I discovered a pattern. The idea of TED conference is spreading...

The host location has spread across America and the World.

From Long Beach, California, US to Camden, Maine, US to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TED to PopTech to ideaCity.

TED was originally hosted at Monterey, California, US.

The presentation subject matters have spread beyond technology, entertainment and design to innovation to experience design.

TED to Business Innovation Factory to GEL.

TED has spread into many subject matters.

There seems to be a growing guild of conference organizers who bring together interesting speakers, curious listeners and knowledge sharing infrastructure. May we have more TED like conferences to watch.

This lead me to asking are there any other TED like conferences? I found 4.

DLD, Munich, Germany

Le Web, Paris, France

Lift, Geneva, Switzerland

Picnic, Amsterdam, Netherlands

TEDx Singapore

TEDx is a TED style event hosting support initiative by TED. Many groups and people have started their own TEDx group. Currently, there are 4 Singapore TEDx groups. They are

1. TEDx Asean
2. TEDx Green
3. TEDx MIT Club Singapore
4. TEDx Singapore

TEDx MIT Club Singapore hosted Singapore's first TEDx event on 12 Sep 2009. The event sounds interesting from Mahesh Kumar's blog post.

How to TED

Richard Wurman's ( founder of TED Conference ) advice to Saul Kaplan ( founder of BIF Innovation Collaborative Summits ) on how to create great events: 

Bring interesting people that you want to have at your dinner table that you are interested in their story and you can learn from and then invite other people to listen.

Source:

Saul Kaplan at BIF-4

Message taken from 10:47 to 11:58 mins of the talk

Schools kill creativity

Education systems are educating children out of their creative capacities. Sir Ken Robinson urges us to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children.

Ethnosphere

National Geographic explorer Wade Davis argues passionately that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere but also the ethnosphere - the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination. It is humanity's great legacy. It's a symbol of all that we are and all that we can be as an astounding and inquisitive species.

Chris Anderson's views on innovation

What are Chris Anderson's views on innovation?

1. Do not hire for fit. Hire misfit. Look for connections between fit and misfit.
2. Do not hire for deep knowledge, hire for broad knowledge.
3. Innovation and value are going to be found in the synthesizers - the people who draw together stuff from multiple fields and use that to create an understanding of what the company should do.
4. Businesses that don't offer meaning to their employees will not succeed in the long term.

Sense from:
Finding Ideas
Harvard Business Review 2002 Nov
Chris Anderson, Bronwyn Fryer
Page 18-19
ISSN: 00178012