My favourite TED talks (Part Thirteen)

I have been passionately promoting TED almost since it started. It is a fantastic initiation that completely re-shaped public speaking and informative presentations by creating a very entertaining and unique formula for sharing information. In today's accelerated world it offers us full engagement in any contemporary subject in maximum 20 minutes. Speakers are carefully selected and well-prepared to meet the high standards, therefore it is a real privilege to give a TED-talk. There are thousands of great speeches in basically any topic that you could imagine, so it is not easy to choose the best ones. Still, in this series I would like to share with you a few personal favourites.

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Today I have selected a funny talk again. Michael Shermer debunks myths, superstitions and urban legends — and explains why we believe them. The talk I am suggesting meant 13 minutes of laughter for me. He asks questions like why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich? or hear demonic lyrics in "Stairway to Heaven"? Using video and music, he shows how we convince ourselves to believe -- and overlook the facts. He speaks against fake news, paranormal, pseudo-science, pseudo-science, non-science, junk science, voodoo science, pathological science, bad science, and plain old non-sense. I hope you will enjoy it like I did. 😂😂😂

His other talk is about the pattern behind self.deception, it is also cool!

Do you have a favourite TED-talk? I would be interested to know. We can learn from each other... 😊 Stay tuned, soon I come back with another suggestion for you.

Previous parts of this series:

Simon Sinek on leadership
Ursus Wehrli on tidying up arts
Dan Ariely on the irrationality of our "rational" decisions
Julian Treasure on listening
Tim Urban on procrastination
Nicolas Christakis on social networks
Amy Cuddy on the power of body language
Dan Pink on motivation
Kelly McGonigal on stress management
Shawn Anchor on happiness at work
Ron Gutman on smiling
Celeste Headlee on good conversations