{"id":7172,"date":"2018-04-23T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2018-05-02T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T10:09:58","slug":"travel-ted-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isango.com\/theguidebook\/travel-ted-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"5 TED Talks Every Traveller Should Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TED Talks have been making waves since the first series of video podcasts were released back in June 2006. Take Brene Brown\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/brene_brown_on_vulnerability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speech on vulnerability<\/a>, for example. The 20-minute clip raked in millions of views, and sparked a global discussion on how our sense of belonging, shame, courage, and empathy shapes the world we live in. Travel-related TED Talks are just as thought provoking and inspiring. Here I share my favourite TED talks in this genre, and which type of traveller they\u2019ll appeal to most\u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>For the expats:\u00a0Taiye Selasi, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/taiye_selasi_don_t_ask_where_i_m_from_ask_where_i_m_a_local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don&#8217;t ask me where I&#8217;m from, ask where I&#8217;m a local<\/a>&#8216;<\/b><\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-custom-video\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/taiye_selasi_don_t_ask_where_i_m_from_ask_where_i_m_a_local\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an expat with ties to Dublin, London, Birmingham and Sydney, I was drawn to Taiye Selasi\u2019s TED talk \u2018Don\u2019t ask me where I\u2019m from, ask where I\u2019m a local\u2019. The writer speaks on the subject of \u2018multi-local\u2019 and how, for long term travellers, the concept of nationhood more than a few holes. In challenging the merit of the very thing that most of us identify so strongly with, nationality, Selasi opens our eyes to a new way of seeing the world &#8211; and our place, places, in it. Expats, we\u2019ve found our messiah. Here are some of our favourite moments from the talk\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll experience is local, all identity is experience. I\u2019m not a national. I\u2019m a local. I\u2019m multi-local. Tai Selasi comes from the United States isn\u2019t the truth. I have no relationship with the United States, all 50 of them, not really. My relationship is with Brookline, the town where I grew up. With New York city where I started work, with Lawrenceville, where I spent Thanksgiving. What makes America home for me is not my passport or accent, but these very particular experiences and the places they occured.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>For the thrill seekers: Chris Burkard, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/chris_burkard_the_joy_of_surfing_in_ice_cold_water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The joy of surfing in ice cold water<\/a>&#8216;<\/b><\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-custom-video\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/chris_burkard_the_joy_of_surfing_in_ice_cold_water\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things worth having don\u2019t come easy. This idea is what surf photographer Chris Burkard swears by. \u201cIt was the coldest I\u2019ve ever been. But even with swollen lips, sunken eyes and cheeks flushed red, I have found that this place, right here, is somewhere I can find great joy.\u201d He\u2019s speaking of his trip to The Lofoten Islands just off Norway, where he photographed surfers in arctic conditions, and got caught up in an intense blizzard in the process. Chris\u2019s talk questions contemporary tourist travel and, by some miracle, makes surfing in freezing icy water sound appealing. Here\u2019s our favourite lines from his talk\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAmidst the harsh conditions (in Iceland) I felt like I stumbled onto one of the last quiet places, somewhere that I found a clarity and a connection to the world I knew I would never find on a crowded beach&#8230; In life there are no shortcuts to joy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>For the would-be explorers: Nathan Wolfe, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/nathan_wolfe_what_s_left_to_explore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What\u2019s left to explore<\/a>&#8216;<\/b><\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-custom-video\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/nathan_wolfe_what_s_left_to_explore\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Humans are natural-born explorers, but following the many, many great expeditions through the 15th century to now, is there anywhere left to still discover here on earth? The answer, according to Nathan Wolfe, is yes. He spoke about recent biological findings in his TED talk, \u2018What\u2019s left to explore\u2019. Here\u2019s our favourite lines from his speech\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s true, we may have chartered all the continents on the planet and we may have discovered all the mammals that are out there, but that doesn\u2019t mean that there\u2019s nothing left to explore on earth. Beijerinck and his kind provide an important lesson for the next generation of explorers\u2026 don\u2019t assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter in whatever field you choose to explore. There are unknowns all around us and they\u2019re just waiting to be discovered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>For the unmotivated: Ben Saunders, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ben_saunders_why_bother_leaving_the_house?referrer=playlist-talks_to_give_you_wanderlust#t-1450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why bother leaving the house<\/a>&#8216;<\/b><\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-custom-video\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/ben_saunders_why_bother_leaving_the_house\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve survived a UK winter, there\u2019s a good chance that this question has crossed your mind once or twice: why bother leaving the house? We suggest you go and listen to polar explorer Ben Saunders\u2019 TED talk &#8211; where he covers just that. Here\u2019s some of the best things we took away from his speech.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat is the finest argument for leaving the house. I can try to tell you what it [the experience] was like, but you\u2019ll never know\u2026 and the more I try to explain that I felt lonely (I was the only human being in 5.4 million square miles), it was cold (nearly minus 75 degrees with wind chill on a bad day) the more words fall short, and I\u2019m unable to do it justice. It seems to me therefore, that the doing: to try, to experience, to engage, to endeavour, rather than to watch and to wonder, that\u2019s where the real meat of life is to be found.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>For the curious: Rich Benjamin, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/rich_benjamin_my_road_trip_through_t...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My road trip through the whitest towns in America<\/a>&#8216;<\/b><\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-custom-video\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/rich_benjamin_my_road_trip_through_the_whitest_towns_in_america\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we\u2019ve read above, travel serves many purposes, and it isn\u2019t always fun. No one knows this quite like Rich Benjamin. Across two years, Rich travelled 27 000 miles to experience the three fastest growing and whitest counties in America. Experiencing \u2018whitopia\u2019 as a young black man had its challenges and its highlights (a love affair with golfing was born). In his TED talk, \u2018My road trip through the whitest towns in America\u2019 he advocates for exploring the places and meeting the people that, on first glance, aren\u2019t your cup of tea. According to Rich, it\u2019s the only way to challenge the status quo. Here are our favourite quotes from Rich\u2019s talk&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe more segregation we have, the less we can look at and confront conscious and unconscious bias. I ventured on my 2-year, 27 000 mile journey to learn why and how white people are fleeing. But I didn\u2019t expect to have so much fun on my journey, I didn\u2019t expect to learn so much about myself. I don\u2019t expect I\u2019ll be living in a whitopia or a blacktopia for that matter. I do expect I\u2019ll be golfing every chance I get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which TED Talks are your favourites? Share your thoughts with us below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas very much worth sharing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,12,60],"tags":[77,643,644,645,646,647,648,649],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Groundbreaking TED Talks Every Traveller Should Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever watched a TED Talks? Well, now maybe you should, as they also cover travel related subjects. 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