Ted Talks - Caroline Paul: To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure By Caroline Paul Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up — and grow up to be brave women. Learn how to spark a little productive...
A Life Lesson From a Volunteer Firefighter By Mark Bezos Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn’t go quite as expected — but that taught him a big lesson: Don’t wait to be a...
Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection Speaker Reshma Saujani We’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young...
TED Talks - The key to success? Grit Speaker Angela Lee Duckworth Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the...
Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World Courage. The following are the remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin on...
TED Talks - Movies and Manhood Messages Speaker Colin Stokes When Colin Stokes’ 3-year-old son caught a glimpse of “Star Wars,” he was instantly obsessed. But what messages did he absorb from the sci-fi classic? Stokes asks for more movies that send...