During my daily surf on the web I, from time to time, come across content that are worth being shared. Sometime it’s a stupid, but funny, video on Youtube, sometime it’s an amazing picture found on Flickr, some other time it will be a nice article…
But sometime it’s something truly captivating, something that have a real impact. It’s the kind of content that last more than the 30 seconds smile watching this funny advertisment.
So here is a list of 10+1 video recorded speeches that I believe make such difference.
Are featured in those videos the following persons:
- Severn Suzuki (Ecology)
- Guy Kawasaki (E-Business / Entrepreneurship)
- Markus Frind, James Hong, Marcus Kazmierczak, Dave Lu and Karen Northup (E-Business)
- Steve Jobs (Life)
- Stephen Colbert (Society)
- James Nachtwey (Journalism)
- Seth Godin (Marketing)
- Robert Byrd (Politic)
- Robert Bussard (Physic and Energy)
- Sir Ken Robinson (Education)
- Hans Rosling (Health)
I think there is one common point to all those great speeches. They are told by passionate people. No surprise here. Those guys love what they are doing. They are good at it and they have talent sharing it.
I hope you will enjoy those speeches as much as I did.
1. Ecology:
Probably my favorite speech. Severn Suzuki is an environmental activist. When she was 12 she received a standing ovation for a speech that she did in front of the UN Earth Summit delegates in Rio De Janeiro. Here is the speech.
Severn Suzuki: “Even when we have more than we need, we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go of some of our wealth“.
2. E-Business:
This speech features a bunch of successful entrepreneurs. They all have great stories to tell and they all share the passion of doing things instead of thinking of doing it and actually never do. A must see for everyone interested in starting an online business.
Marcus Kazmierczak: “No plan, No model, No problem“.
3. Society:
I could have classified this speech within “Politic” instead of “Society”. But I think “Society” suits it better, “American Society” would probably be even better. Isn’t Stephen Colbert’s speech a perfect illustration of modern media show? As a matter of fact, you can see in this video a talented speaker, Stephen Colbert, mocking his president, George W. Bush, pretty much in front of Mr Bush himself.
Stephen Colbert: “I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq“.
4. Journalism:
Documentary photographer, James Nachtwey, explains why he decided to become a photographer and he also talk on how important is the documentary photographer role in our society.
James Nachtwey: “Photographers go to the extreme edges of human experience to show people what’s going on. Sometimes they put their life on the line because they believe your opinions and your influence matter. They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable“.
5. Entrepreneurship
Guy Kawasaki is an Internet guru. He has a priceless experience on e-business and his passion equals probably his bad taste when it comes to choose a shirt 
Guy Kawasaki: “The essence of entrepreneurship is about making meaning“.
6. Marketing:
Seth Godin, another modern guru. Seth could be the “great cardinal of the marketing church”
Seth Godin: “All marketers are liars“.
7. Life:
First I was thinking of showing here one of Steve Jobs’ show/speech during his famous “keynotes”. He is actually great at that. He is a fantastic talker, jumping around with the last Apple product in front of a room full of groupies.
Instead I decided to show here a video of him doing an introduction speech for Stanford University. And here it’s not question of iPhone, but simply Life with a capital letter.
You could find it quite egocentric, but well, isn’t it what you are actually expecting? As Guy Kawasaki said “I consider the Macintosh Division the largest collection of egomaniacs in the history of Silicon Valley. And that says a lot in this Valley”.
Steve Jobs: “Stay hungry, Stay foolish“.
8. Politic:
You can like or dislike Senator Byrd for many reasons, but still he’s doing here an impressive speech in front of a nearly empty Senate. Interesting.
Robert Byrd: “Frankly many of the pronounces made by this administration [Bush’s] are outrageous; there is no other word. Yet this chamber [the Senate] is hauntingly silent, SILENT!“.
9. Health:
Health statistics presented as they were a horse race Interesting and entertaining.
Hans Rosling: “The improvement of the world must be highly contextualized and it’s not relevant to have it on regional level, we must be more detailed“.
10. Education:
This is fun, this is interesting. Sir Ken Robinson talking on Education matters. Don’t miss this one.
Sir Ken Robinson: “Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it as the same status“.
10+1. Physic and Energy:
Well I have to confess that I’m not too fond of this one. I guess you need a PhD of Physic to truly enjoy it. But if you do have a PhD of Physic I bet you will like it That’s why I kept it.
Robert Bussard: “Should Google go Nuclear?“.
What about you? Do you have any favorite speech? Which speech would you recommend the viewing of?
Post a Comment