Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough

At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, comedian Joshua Walters, who's bipolar, walks the line between mental illness and mental "skillness." In this funny, thought-provoking talk, he asks: What's the right balance between medicating craziness away and riding the manic edge of creativity and drive?

Words of Wisdom

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,

but by the seeds you plant."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

An Excerpt From Motivated By Pain

Be the Man

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

When I worked as a District Manager, my Vice President of Fitness would say, “If you want to be the man, then you have to beat the man.” I saw it a little differently: “To be the man, you need to be a man.”  That’s it. To be the man, just be a man! Men, let’s get ourselves into shape mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. . .

Denis Waitley - Programming Your Own Mind & Media Influence

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Denis Waitley expalains the importance of programming your own mind, and not allowing the media or anybody else do it for you. This is similar to subjects on self-talk, auto suggestion, self hypnosis, and affirmations

Words of Wisdom

"There are two primary choices in life:

to accept conditions as they exist,

or accept the responsibility for changing them."

-- Denis Waitley

TEDxSF - Roz Picard - Emotion Technology

Very interesting!

Professor Rosalind W. Picard, ScD is founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think consortium, and leader of the new and growing Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. In April 2009 she co-founded Affectiva, Inc., where she serves as chairman and chief scientist.

Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctoral degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. Prior to completing her doctorate at MIT, she was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 she joined the MIT Media Lab faculty, where she became internationally known for content-based retrieval research, for creating new tools such as the Photobook system, and for pioneering methods of automated search and annotation in digital video.

She is the author of the award-winning book Affective Computing, which was instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She has authored 200 scientific articles and chapters and also holds multiple patents. In 2005, she was honored as a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Brian Tracy: If You Could Achieve One Goal in 24 Hours

Self-made millionaires have been studied extensively throughout the years. The good news is that success is not an accident. Success can be learned and it leaves tracks. The great news is that you can follow the tracks of successful people to arrive at your ultimate destination. In this upbeat presentation, Brian shows you: Ways to get off Someday Isle and move your life in the right direction; How to develop a sense of control and sense of coherence in life; 16 qualities or learnable skills that will virtually guarantee your success; The 20-idea "mindstorming" method to find your self-purpose

Words of Wisdom

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space.

In that space lies our freedom

 and power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and freedom."

-- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning

Stephen Covey: Five Emotional Cancers

Dr. Covey talks about the 5 emotional cancers that he says are, Criticizing, Complaining, Comparing, Competing, and Contending.

Dr. Stephen Covey: The 8th Habit. Stephen Covey defined the 7 habits of effective leaders more than a decade ago. Now ... The 8th Habit is revealed! In this compelling presentation, Dr. Covey pushes leaders to be not only effective but truly great. Learn from the most respected source on leadership how to: Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs; Contribute and succeed in the Knowledge Economy; Make leadership a choice versus a position; Turn an organization's top goals into action.

Words of Wisdom

"Damaged people are dangerous.

They know they can survive."

-- Josephine Hart

Interview with Dr Viktor Frankl - Part III

Finding meaning in dispair

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Interview with Dr Viktor Frankl - Part II

Speaks about situations that awake the meaning in tragedy

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Interview with Dr. Viktor Frankl - Part I

Interview with Dr Viktor Frankl about logotherapy and existencialism

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TEDx Traverse City- Jerry Linenger-Changing Your Perspective

Captain Jerry Linenger is a retired United States Navy flight surgeon and NASA astronaut. A naval academy graduate, he holds doctorates in both medicine and research methodology, as well as dual masters degrees in policy and systems management. He has also been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees in science.

During what has been reported to be one of the most dangerous and dramatic missions in space history, Linenger spent nearly five months aboard the Russian space station Mir. He faced numerous life-threatening events, including repeated failure of critical life-support systems, a near-collision between the space station and an incoming re-supply spacecraft and computer failures that sent the space station tumbling uncontrollably through space. As if these problems were not enough, he narrowly survived a raging out-of-control fire that was later described as the most severe fire ever aboard an orbiting spacecraft.

In spite of these challenges, Linenger and his two Russian crewmates accomplished all mission goals: shuttle docking, space walking, a Soyuz flyaround and all 120 of the science experiments. In completing the mission, he logged 50 million miles, the equivalent distance of over 110 roundtrips to the moon, traveling at a speed of nearly 18,000 miles per hour. He was the first American ever to undock from a space station in a Russian Soyuz capsule and the first American to do a space walk in a Russian spacesuit. At mission completion, Linenger held the endurance record for the longest time in space for an American man. In 1998, NASA awarded Linenger the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award conferred by NASA, citing his courage and outstanding service to our country.

Linenger is author of the books Off the Planet, which chronicles his time in space; and Letters from Mir: An Astronauts Letters to His Son. He is a founding board member of the global freshwater think tank Circle of Blue. He has appeared in numerous documentaries seen on Discovery, Nova, History Channel, PBS and National Geographic Television. As a space analyst, Linenger is seen frequently on NBC's Today, Nightly News, MSNBC; as well as on various CBS, CNN, PBS and Fox news shows. He has also worked behind the scenes as scientific advisor to various futuristic voyage to Mars films.

In his free time, Linenger enjoys bicycle touring, playing hockey, swimming, hiking and kayaking. He now lives back on the planet in northern Michigan with his wife, Kathryn, and their four children