Hugo Schotman

Benjamin Zander's TED Talk now online

Last month I wrote about Benjamin Zander and I mentioned his performance at TED 2008.

It is now available online from the TED website:

Inspiration for entrepreneurs

Gary Vay-ner-chuk ;) had an appearance on "The big idea" on CNBC together with two other entrepreneurs.
Inspiration & entertainment in one.

CNN special on innovation -> Benjamin Zander

It's great to see orchestra conductor Ben Zander show up in a special on CNN about collaboration and innovation. Nice and timely as I am going through some plans that involve those two ingredients.
(See the interview here: part 1, part 2.)

Ben was at TED this year as well. The talk will be made available at some point in the future, I'm sure but for now you can see a similar talk here:

I had trouble singing along because the lyrics of the German song were written down fonetically and since I can speak German it threw me off.

Tom does a great job of describing the TED experience:

Finding one's passion

Recently I got in touch with Onno Hamburger again by accident. Several years ago he was leading a communication and personal effectiveness training that I attended.
His blog has a post (Dutch) about what it is like to find your passion, illustrated with this great YouTube video (English).
Well worth watching!

Good overview of TED

This post showed up in my Google alert on the term 'tedglobal':
Inspired Talks By The World’s Greatest Thinkers And Doers


I thought I'd share it because it gives a good overview of TED and the TED prize.

Feeling tense?

If you have the feeling that your body is tense a likely cause is stress.
However some of that stress may be physical: an incorrect seating position or height settings for a chair cause your muscles to be under constant strain. They will never have the opportunity to truly relax when you're sitting at your desk.

Here's a guide to help determine the proper measurements:
Ergotron Workstation Installation tool (cm units)

Ergotron Workstation Installation tool (feet/ inches units)

I picked up this link from LifeHack.org.