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The 22 Best TED Talks for Fitness, Health, and Happiness Inspiration

The 22 Best TED Talks for Fitness, Health, and Happiness Inspiration
If you have access to the Internet, you’ve likely seen one: We’re talking about TED Talks. These live-recorded videos are inspirational life lessons from experts in fields from architecture to cardiology and everywhere in between brought (for free) to Internet audiences by TED, a non-profit dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” There are now thousands of “Talks” on the site — mid-sized videos each with its own “ah-ha!” message or insight. But with so much inspiring to be had, where do you even start looking for innovative talks on fitness, health, and happiness? To help curate this free, digital resource, Greatist selected 22 Ted Talks that offer something simple and motivating to apply to everyday life. Fitness 1. Using his knowledge of evolution, anthropologist and author Christopher McDougall explains the surprising ways that running helped early humans run their world. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. John Wooden knows what it means to win. 7. Health 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Happiness 15. 16. 17. 18.

Beginner DJ Tutorials - Beatmatching Tutorials & Other Tips If you are a beginner DJ you are probably looking for DJ tutorials to learn how to DJ and beatmatch. In addition to writing DJ tutorials I also want to provide you with other good sources for DJ tips and information. In this post I will share with you some good resources for a beginner DJ. In Depth Beatmatching Tutorial – An excellent and very detailed tutorial on how to beatmatch from Funk Fader at DJforums.com. How to Scratch – This video is basically a beginner’s guide to learning how to scratch records. DJ Tutor – This website has a variety of information about learning how to DJ for beginners and moderately experienced DJs. How to DJ: A Mixing Tutorial – This description is taken directly from the site: “A basic tutorial for the beginner DJ which covers the fundamental concepts behind mixing two records on a pair of turntables.” Learn to DJ with Final Scratch – A detailed guide about how to DJ with Final Scratch. There you have it, a few tutorials from other websites.

Top 10 Philosophical One Liners Miscellaneous Philosophy is no more or less than the search for wisdom. It deals with all manner of problems which everyone faces in their lives, and by thought and logic attempts to solve them. You cannot step in the same river twice. Heraclitus of Ephesus, also known as the Weeping Philosopher and Heraclitus the Obscure, has left us only a few philosophical sentences. Death need not concern us because when we exist death does not, and when death exists we do not. Epicurus and Epicureanism, has suffered for many years from a misapprehension about what his philosophy teaches. God is dead. Poor Friedrich Nietzsche has suffered from misconceptions quite as much as Epicurus. Man is the measure of all things. This is the most famous saying of Protagoras, though it is in fact, only the first portion of his statement. A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. The unexamined life is not worth living.

SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer)

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