{"id":43589,"date":"2021-01-18T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=43589"},"modified":"2021-01-19T06:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T11:25:43","slug":"whats-tedxuoft-and-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2021\/01\/18\/whats-tedxuoft-and-whats-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s TEDxUofT and what’s going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Credit title image: Jenna Liao<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the very many student groups at U of T, I'm going to talk about the TEDxUofT student group today. For me, TED was an organisation that I already knew but didn't feel personally connected to it. It was out there as a place for a bunch of lectures about sciency things and they were long lectures. It took me a long time to undo that way of thinking about it because it is not like that, not really at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere along the way, I had a course on public speaking. And one of the parts of the process was to watch a lot of TED Talks and analyse and learn from them. This is where I found out they were 15 minutes or less and a lot of topics were not about sciences. So, I began to accidentally seek it out more and watch talks on topics that I wanted to improve in like public speaking and random conversations that I didn't even know really existed. And they felt more like stories than lectures, so to me, that seems less taxing and more enticing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n