I like to learn. Always have. I was the geek who got excited when the school shopping list came. I lost it over new textbooks. I got excited when they assigned huge projects.
As an adult, I miss college (and not for the same reasons that most people miss college!). I still shop Amazon.com for textbooks on topics I want to learn. I simply adore this site. And, for the most part, I’ve always thought I was the lone dork in all this.
Until TED.
I forget who it was that first introduced me to TED.com, but whoever it was, thank you. TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design) is a website that contains hundreds (or thousands?) of 15 to 20 minute lectures on all different kinds of things. Random things. Things that you could never learn about in school, or from a single textbook. Things that make you think and see things just a little differently.
My favorites? Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) talking about the dodo and creative obsession.
Jennifer 8. Lee and the Search for General Tso.
Jane Chen, discussing the newest design for incubators for third world countries.
I am NOT alone.
So imagine how excited I was when I heard about TEDx coming to Greenville. It was new notebook paper and textbooks all over again.
Cool people are on the slate for March 5. People like Ted from Inner Cirkus, and Ellen from Fast Company. People who have stuff in their heads that never would make their way to mine, were it not for events like this.
Tickets are only (only!) $25.
So go to the TEDx Greenville site, and register. Fast. There’s limited seating and limitless ideas.
*Full disclosure: Business Black Box is a sponsor of TEDx. (Heck yeah, we are!)
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