You can find all kinds of interesting, informative, and inspiring TED Talks to watch online. This week on the Canyon Park Apartments Blog we want to highlight some funny talks to get you laughing. Settle into your apartment and enjoy one or two of these great TED Talks here in Puyallup, WA. We hope you enjoy!
The happy secret to better work by Shawn Achor
“We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.”
I got 99 problems … palsy is just one by Maysoon Zayid
“‘I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time,’ Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it's hilarious.) ‘I’m like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali.’ With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her adventures as an actress, stand-up comic, philanthropist and advocate for the disabled.”
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator by Tim Urban
“Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window -- and encourages us to think harder about what we’re really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.”
This is what happens when you reply to spam email by James Veitch
“Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.”
A highly scientific taxonomy of haters by Negin Farsad
“TED Fellow Negin Farsad weaves comedy and social commentary to cleverly undercut stereotypes of her culture. In this uproarious talk/stand-up hybrid, Farsad speaks on her documentary, The Muslims Are Coming!, narrates her fight with the MTA in New York and offers a detailed breakdown of the different types of haters she’s encountered in her work. ‘Comedy is one of our best weapons,’ she says. ‘We’ve tried a lot of approaches to social justice, like war and competitive ice dancing -- but a lot of things are still kind of awful. I think it’s time we try and tell a really good poop joke.’”
What’s your favorite TED Talk? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading. Have a great month!