TED: Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place

How to think outside of the box? Can condom bring better future in a country? Again, this is another fascinating and inspiring talk in TED about How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place by  Mechai Viravaidya. From this talk, we are going to discover the power of condom to save the lives of people, the power of commitment from the people to change their future, and the power of education to made Thailand a better place in a short period of time.





Indeed, a combination of right approach, commitment and education, everything is possible. However, the question is, how many of us have this kind of commitment, how many of us are willing to accept this kind of education, and how many of us are putting our afford to search right approach in our life.

In the stock market investment, for example, how many of us are willing to learn the right approaches, how many of us are looking for the right education, and how many of us have commitment to do them?

Commitment is different from desire.

Of course, all "investors" are desired to earn money from stock market. But, having commitment is another story. Commitment is applying right approach in a long period of time without affected by other people point of view. This is very hard and required lots of self-discipline. Desire, on the other hand, is just sort of temporary feeling. Therefore, it is a good idea to ask yourself whether I am desired or committed to have a relationship first before searching your soul-mate, for instance.

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Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves

"Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications." TED.com

Indeed, this amazing new human-machine interface technology is going to change our life style in future. I hope this technology can help those needy people to improve their life in the world.





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Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

It sounds familiar that human being always repeat their mistakes. But is it true?

In this talk, Laurie Santos has presented that the mistakes which human being made are predictable via a clever experiments in "monkeynomics". Through the decision-making of our primate relatives, this experiment reveal the roots of human irrationality.

Let's do the two experiments first,
Experiment 1. Choose a better investment return if you have $1000.
(a) The return is either $1000 or $0 when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.
(b) The return is guarantee $500 when when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.



Experiment 2. Choose a better way when you are facing lost in your investment.
(a) The lost is either $0 or $1000 when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.
(b) The lost  is guarantee $500 when when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.


Want to know the answer? Please enjoy the talk from Laurie Santos in TED.


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