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charlieflowers on Oct 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: TED talks are lying

TL,DR -- TED talks are just one part of a wider field called "creativity literature", and creativity literature is not really about teaching you to be creative. It is about blowing smoke up your ass about people who lived happily ever after, and thus triggering the same kind of response in you that insight porn does.

pelario on Oct 13, 2013 [–]

What really bother me is that is only a subset of TED talks.

What about science and art divulgation? At least two great talks come inmediately to my mind: Those by Benjamin Zander and by Richard Dawkins

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