Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat, Pray, Love and she is well acquainted with success as a result of creativity. In 2009, Elizabeth spoke to audiences about the pressure on creative minds (either self-imposed or by the expectations of others) and the notion that not one person is a genius, but that all of us ‘have’ a genius within them.

Rives: The Museum of Four in the Morning
Coincidence is a bizarre, unexplainable thing. Sometimes it is a vehicle of convenience, other times a frustrating and mind boggling occurrence. Rives found himself obsessed with 4:00 am in the morning, a time he noticed often described as a time of ‘mishaps and yearnings’ in various facets of popular culture. In 2007 he expressed his fixation on 4:00 am in popular culture at a TED Talk, and seven years later he returned with a second exploration of what happens to be the most interesting time of day.

Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
Body language is obviously a crucial aspect of human interaction. It is easy to see when someone is angry, happy or down in the dumps, but your own body language can also alter how you see yourself. In 2012 social psychologist Amy Cuddy told audiences about ‘power posing’, and how giving off a posture of confidence and self-assuredness (even when not feeling so) can affect the chemicals in the brain and improve our interactions with other people.

Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
As a neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor had a unique experience when it came to having a stroke. While suffering a massive stroke, Jill experienced first hand her brain functions failing one by one, making a concerted effort to study and remember as much as she could. In 2008, Jill spoke to a TED conference about what she remembered from her experience and her subsequent studies on how the brains are divided and how they connect to the world around us.

Bunker Roy: Learning from a Barefoot Movement
In 2011, educator Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy spoke to an assembled audience about founding Barefoot College, a truly inspirational institution that teaches rural women and men to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors. Based in Rajasthan, India, Barefoot College creates pathways that aim to let nature and people prosper. Bunker Roy explains the work that the college does and the effect it has on the local population.