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Ilja, Faisal, Kaj

Unexpected | Ray Lewis | TEDxYouth@VHS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX8ZeA7ahDg

Ray Lewis is talking about his experience during his NFL (American football) career. The things that he
went through physically. He is explaining that there was a play where he had to do something and he
felt a pop in his arm that he never heard and felt before.

His doctor went to him and said that he torn his tricep from the bone and the doctor was worried.
Ray Lewis was wondering why the doctor was worried because he said ‘’it’s just an arm’’. After the
game he went to his college doctor to confirm if it was torn off the bone. This doctor was also
worried that knowing Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis ended going to the Super Bowl (Championship Finals for
American football) with his team and a day before the game he re-tore his tricep again. He had to tie
his hand up at night for him to be able to sleep during the night because he said his arm was burning.

They ended up winning the Super Bowl that year. Ray Lewis explained that the motivation that he
got was from his childhood where he and his family lived in poverty. He also mentioned that his
mother was always beaten by his boyfriend at that time and he couldn’t do anything about it. He
started to have a deck of cards and do push-ups based on the number that appeared on the card. He
ended up having 3 decks of cards and finished them all every day. A deck of cards has 52 cards in it.
Coincidentally Ray Lewis his jersey number was also 52. Ray Lewis explains that that pain is all in your
head and it shouldn’t keep you from doing things or keep pushing to reach your goal.

How does this apply to what Carmine Gallo said?

Carmine Gallo explains that in order to gain people’s attention you should try to talk with stories that
have emotions attached to it, be persuasive. He explains that Bryan Stevenson got the longest
standing ovation in TED Talk history and got donations over $1,000,000. But why did he get that? It’s
because he touched people emotionally. According to Aristotle that is called Pathos. Stories made up
65% of his presentation. This applies to Ray Lewis as well. Researchers have discovered that if you tell
a story it stimulates the same areas in the brain, meaning that your minds are in sync. Ray Lewis
didn’t necessarily use pictures to gain people’s attention, rather he used his body language to grab
people’s attention. He moved a lot during the presentation out of emotion to explain his story and I
think that is the reason why he grabbed people’s attention during his presentation.

Ray Lewis has been an inspiration to me for years and that’s because the way he tries to motivate
people. You can also hear the emotion and passion in his voice, it isn’t monotone he uses waves of
sound to make his speech not sound boring or that people will lose attention.

The moral of Ray Lewis his story is: ‘’sometimes your greatest pain, it isn’t even about you. It is about
a greater purpose that if you can find a way to push through, that if you can find a way to not make it
about you. Learn to appreciate the occasional storms that come into your life, learn to appreciate
how small they are that comes daily and that is the ingredient how to deal with pain, figuring that
out.’’

Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now| Jessa Gamble | TEDGlobal 2010

https://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_our_natural_sleep_cycle_is_nothing_like_what_we_do_n
ow#t-117

Jessa begins her TED talk by explaining how life evolved under the conditions of light and darkness,
and the constant variation between the two. This led to plants and animals developing their own
internal clocks, to prepare accordingly to these changes. These internal clocks are based on
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chemistry, and found across all living beings on the planet with two or more cells, and sometimes
even one.

As an example, she tells about a horseshoe crab and how it would react when flown outside of its
own natural habitat at beach. When placed in a sloped cage, it will scramble up the cage when the
tide is rising on its home shore, and scitter down when it is receding. It will continue for weeks until
the crab gets familiarized with the new environment. This shows how closely tied the creature’s
internal clock is to the environment it has evolved in.

Humans possess a similar internal clock, as the horseshoe crab does. Bringing another example into
her presentation, she tells how this can be seen in humans if their ability to follow time is taken away
and they are locked somewhere where sun cannot be seen. Over the weeks when these people, as
volunteers are locked away in a bunker, they will wake up slightly later, about 15 minutes every day.

This internal clock according to Jessa, is also an important factor in human culture and behaviour. As
humans evolved close to the equator, being well accustomed to 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of
darkness, they behave in a specific way that is known to most humans today. This, however, does not
apply to all of us, as we have spread all over the world.

As a Canadian, she tells of aboriginal people living in arctic Canada, that experience perpetual
daylight during a certain period in summer, and perpetual darkness in winter, when the sun does not
rise even once above the horizon. The effects of these phenomena are highly pronounced in the
cultures of Canadian native inhabitants, which are highly seasonal. During winters they sleep mostly
and spend a lot of time with their families. On the opposite side, during summers these people spend
a tremendous amount of time hunting, working and being active in various ways.

She turns the page during her presentation and begins talking about a possible natural and ideal
habitat for humans to live in, and how their internal clock would be accustomed to it. According to a
study, in this environment without any artificial lights, people would be accustomed to sleep twice
every night. They would go to bed around 20.00, sleep until midnight, spend two hours in a peaceful
meditative silence of the night without noise pollution, fall asleep once again and sleep until the
sunrise. During the period of silence in the night, the human would experience a surge in prolactin
production, and as a consequence feel true wakefulness for the first time in their lives during the
day.

She concludes the presentation by describing the reality of modern living with constant travel, light
pollution never-ending business and shift work, which paints a clear picture how unnaturally we are
living when comparing our sleep patterns to ideal environments built for studies or people living in
more traditional fashion.

How do Chris Anderson’s ideas apply to Jessa Gamble’s presentation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FOCpMAww28

According to Chris Anderson, a successful TED talk should not follow a specific script, as it may come
across as manipulative or inauthentic. There is however a specific pre-condition that the presenter
should fulfil for his presentation to be considered successful, and that is the ability to transmit his
ideas to the audience in a clear an understandable manner.

During a presentation, millions of neurons get linked with synapses to each other, forming a specific
idea in the mind of the presenter during his speech. This same phenomenon repeats itself in the
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mind of listeners, as the same regions in their brains get activated, and the idea forms clearly in their
minds. This is transmitted through body language, voice and expressions.

Numerous ideas are in the mind of every person, forming patterns and ultimately a whole worldview.
Ideas also carry different associations for each person, thus they will react differently to every idea
presented to them. But if presented successfully, the speaker may even change these associations
about ideas forever, thus shaping the person itself and the worldview that makes him the way he his
currently.

These are the four guidelines to successfully building an idea in the mind of the listener:

1. Focus on one major idea, and do not deviate from it. Give examples and explain in detail.
Connect in some way to everything during your presentation.
2. Give the listeners a reason to care about your presentation, by making it relevant to them,
and by making them curious. Expose uneven lines in their worldview, and thus help them add
your idea there.
3. Build up the idea from concepts already familiar to the audience. Use language that is
familiar to the audience, including metaphors. Metaphors can give a vivid and detailed
picture in the mind of the listener about an idea.
4. Make your idea worth sharing. Who does it benefit? You, or a wider audience? How could
improve the lives of other people, and how could it inspire them?

For Jessa’s presentation, she succeeded on all four points. The major idea to which everything was
connected was human sleeping pattern, or the internal clock. The concept was explained concisely
and understandably, using simple language. Numerous examples were given, even scientific studies
on how it works and its effects. The benefits were clearly explained and how they would benefit
every single member of the audience, as the problems associated with an unnatural sleeping
patterns are true to most human beings.

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