Some great TED talks - Inspiration station!

**Critical Thinking : https://www.ted.com/talks/samantha_agoos_5_tips_to_improve_your_critical_thinking#t-255112 5 steps in critical thinking - help with planning your inquiry. Back to basics on what it is and why it is important. Assumptions/loguc/exploring other points of view ________________________________________________________________- The idea of 'self' and what it is: Actress Thandie Newton: https://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself?language=en Quite a spiritual perception on the importanace of embracing your 'self' which links to ethical considerations of my practise as an acotor: your self worth and balancing it within the industry. Also the idea of how we percieve ourselves from a baby and form 'a self' given to us by parents/ society. **Success, failure and the drive to keep creating | Elizabeth Gilbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_waBFUg_oT8 Discussion on 'genius'and creativity. The discussion on creativity and suffering is interesting, and the fact that we GIVE all of us in a piece of work or a play/scene/book **Do schools kill creativity - Ken Robinson: https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity/transcript?language=en A discussio on the school system and its archaic views on what should be taught - (I have another blog about this earlier on in the course) **How to make work life balance work: Nigel Marsh https://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_work Looks at societys views on 'work' and what that means, how important it is to set boundries - which links to the idea of routine and seperation as part of my inquiry topic **The danger of a single story: Chimamanda Adichie https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?referrer=playlist-10_talks_from_authors This podcast talks of how predudice or pity can give you a perception of someone/ a society before you have met them, and what literature and social media portrays it as. You can hear different versions of the 'same story'which I think is quite interesting.