I love listening to TED talks, and take notes on most of them. Every week, I share notes from some of my favorites! Here’s the complete list (pardon the load time, it’s just a continuous, single page).
Allan Pease, Body language: the power is in the palm of your hands
- in handshakes, whose hand is on top is usually dominating; to maximize appeal, go in at complete vertical and match pressure of other person
- in a study where a speaker gave the same instructions to 3 different audiences:
palms up — highest retention and cooperation - palms down — medium
- finger pointing — lowest
- forming a bridge (touch your fingertips together) gives you confidence and poise
Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?
- Tarahumara — famous running tribe
- unchanged for last 400 years
- when the Spanish came, they hid in canyons (instead of being decimated like Aztecs and Incans)
- they’re completely free of modern illness
- arguably humans are DESIGNED for long-distance running, evidence:
- women sprinters are much slower than male counterparts; gap MUCH smaller in long-distance, in ultra marathons top women are almost equal
- also rare in long-distance running: 60-yos as fast as, if not faster than, 18-yos
humans are “hunting pack animal” – need women, elders to run long-distances too (so they’re not left behind) - we sweat really well, can run far on a hot day
- our bodies are perfect for long distance running (long torso, short bipedal legs, head that can rotate side to side while running to watch for predators, obstacles)
Here’s the complete list of TED notes