Thank You For Being Late : Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman is an author of “Thank you for being late” , three times Pulitzer winner and award winning NYT columnist. He talks about the topic on which he wrote the book was an optimistic guide into the thriving age of acceleration. The title of the book was actually an incident happened with him when he went on a breakfast and the person came late due to traffic issue. It gave time to Thomas to pause and reflect the surrounding world and how fast it evolve. This event provoke him to write a book on the topic because the author believes that when people get free time, they pause their busy life and think, self-reflect, imagine and relax. Author said the book have two halves and its about today’s world that how it works with people and culture. According to Thomas Friedman the world is reshaping it can be good or bad, you need to understand the three largest forces and these are Moore’s law, Globalisation and Mother nature which are bio-diversity and climate change. These accelerations are transforming the workplace, politics, geo-politics, ethics and community. Author emphasizes on Moore’s law and said that it was predicted that the number of transistors will double in about two year according to Moore’s law. The author then explained the exponential increase in computing powers and 2007 was a major changing point. The facebook and Twitter started and went global , Steve Jobs introduced iPhone, the advancement in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors , networking and the creation of new technology platform. According to Thomas this platform is reshaping everything, he called it “supernova”. He showed us that how can we anchor ourselves as an individual in this century to save the world or to destroy it.

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Summary Of 110 Techniques Of Communication And Public Speaking

Summary Of 110 Techniques Of Communication And Public Speaking : In the talk presented to us , the speaker David JP Philips has comprehend his study on the techniques of communication and public speaking . His study , on over five thousand individual speakers, belonging to various phases of their profession, has helped him gain insight on to ways, how one can excel at public speaking and communication. In this talk David JP Philips displays a chart on various traits that a public speakers should adopt. The chart has been divided in five major categories namely voice, body language, facial expressions, language and Ultimate level. These presentation skills, as discussed in the talk are necessary to attract the audience and hook them up to what is being said . Furthermore David JP Philips talks about his five most favourite skills that according to him every person should excel in order to make an impactful presence , he begins with emphasizing on the importance of an open body l

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals : Tim Ferris

In the Ted talk presented to us by Tim Ferris who is an author , entrepreneur and podcaster, showed us his picture which was taken after the dance practice. He said he was happy but after a week and half later he planned to commit suicide. Ferris inherited bi-polar depression and seen a lot at his age. His life was saved by some lucky coincidence and that was the turning point. He then decided to experiment some methods to control his mood swings, self-paralysis and self-destruction which led him to stoicism. The word “Stoicism” means to endure the pain or hardship without expressing the feelings. Stoicism helped many to attain success in life and the founding fathers namely George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the students of stoic. To avoid self- paralysis and emotional free-fall, he created an exercise which he called “fear-setting” which led him to his biggest success and decisions of life. The exercise was of three pages, on first page you have to write “what if

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