It turns out you don’t have to kill anybody to attend TED Comments Off

You just have to be smart! Which leaves me with little alternatives…

But if you’re wondering what I’m talking about than I owe you an explanation. In a post from a couple of days ago (see here) I said that I would kill for the chance to attend TED, which is a conference with which I am incredibly impressed. If you don’t know what TED is than read this, but the short story is like this: It’s the most incredible conference in the world were the smartest and brightest and most hardworking people on this planet go to tell everybody else how they changed the world.

If you ever dreamed about attending TED you probably wondered how you can do it. After some research I found 2 possibilities:

• become a TED fellow. To do so I give you an e-mail received from Natasha Dantzig (see the end of this post) or check here. Hurry up! The 2010 registration will end on september the 25th.
• or attend your local TEDx conference (hopefully you are lucky enough to have one) by submitting your world and life changing idea. If you are in Romania you must check this out or go here, for more details.

I personally don’t find myself worthy of such an honor YET. And that’s because even if I had an idea that has the potential to make this round dirt ball we call home a nicer place, I haven’t been too profoundly empowered by it to do something TED worthy. But mark my words – I will do anything in my power to be worthy of attending TED one day!

And so should you! If I’d have to guess what is the meaning of life than I think that doing your best and being extraordinary is a very plausible possibility for being it!

To paraphrase Hugh Macleod: Microsoft You Must Change the World or Go Home!

Some TED resources:

Thed TEDx Bucharest Twitter account is @tedxbucharest
The TEDx Bucharest website is here
The TEDx Bucharest LinkedIN group is here
The TEDx Bucharest Facebook group is here
TEDx Bucharest promo clip is here
Here are the top 10 TED videos

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TEDx is coming! 3 comments

Have you heard about TED? No? You should! TED is an incredible conference that brings the smartest and the brightest people from all around the world in one place. In their own words:

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

And I tell you, it’s AMAZING! Go watch the presentations on their website, here are the top 10 TED videos.

And gues what? TED is coming to Bucharest on the 16th of October in the form of TEDx! I would kill to attend TED but I still have to earn my right to be there. So on the 16th I know what I’ll do, I’ll be watching the TEDx Bucharest brodacast.

Found out about it from @tedxbucharest
The TEDx Bucharest website is here
The TEDx Bucharest LinkedIN group is here
The TEDx Bucharest Facebook group is here
TEDx Bucharest promo clip is here