Thinking Outside the Box

The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds

Joshua Prince-Ramus about the design of the Seattle Central Library and showing the librarians that only a third of the library’s function is media/books, two thirds is used socially:

Steven Strogatz on TED.com about the synchronisation of swarms:

Benjamin Zander on living a life of possibilities and treating everyone as an ‘A’ student:

Dan Gilbert from TED.com – makes me realise just how much the media distorts our world view:

Malcolm Gladwell on genius, much more than about 10,000 hours – but interesting that it takes this long to become good at something.  For modern problems, “we’re better off with a large number of smart guys than a small number of geniuses,” and ”modern problems require persistence rather than genius.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2007/gladwell

(Genius, 2012).