My personally selected top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 4.30.2011 through 5.6.2011. In no particular order: 1 TEDucation: 5 TED Talks Librarians Should Watch (and Why) Andy has put together a list of 5 must see TED talks. Ken Robinson – Schools Kill Creativity William Kamkwamba: How I Harnessed the Wind Malcolm Gladwell – What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce Mark Bezos – A Life Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter JR – Use Art To Turn the World Inside Out 2. It’s not the mistake. It’s how you deal with it by @dontgetcaught I’ve written before about mistakes and learning from failure. This post from Denise talks about how making a mistake while speaking and how to recover from it. In music or dance, when one performer lets a mistake stop her, it throws the rest of the people off who are performing with her–and that can throw the performance. And even if you’re the only one speaking, a mistake that stops you stops the audience and becomes the focal point. But the speaker who can figure out, fast, how to keep going will have the audience on her side–either because they don’t know what happened (often) or because
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