Another fantastic TED presentation from Julian Treasure on the power of sound (you can see his first one here). He makes some great points here but I particularly warmed to his statement that "Musician's have bigger brains!" - who knew?
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It’s just over 20 minutes but if you’re looking for a heartwarming, fill you up, get inspired and motivated to make change – then watch Jamie Oliver talk about Food at TED
There’s no denying the urgency of his message and the validity of his cause – but what strikes me about Jamie Oliver is how real and human he comes across. Here’s a guy who worked hard to develop his talent and as a result was able to leverage his success into making a positive change in the world. How many people actually make the choice to do that?
There’s a rant in me that wants to throw a light on the salaries and bonuses being generated by financial centers across the globe – but it’s not about the money – it’s about the people. What the fuck are these human beings doing with all the cash? Wouldn’t it be great if some 27 year old trader made 14 million in bonuses last year and gave half of that to a program like Jamie’s?
When I look at the end of the video and I see him pause as he catches the enormity of the gift he’s been given – I feel absolutely great to be human – just like him. I want to stand up with everybody else in the audience and applaud.
I want to send this video to everybody who made a 5 figure financial bonus last year and ask them “What are you doing to be part of the human race?” “What are you doing to make things better for your children?”
Jamie’s website is doing a good job of pulling information together – you can sign Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Petition – hell you can even donate. I don’t do many of these types of posts but this one absolutely hooked me – please pass it around – just click on the red share button on the video player and spread the word!
Have you ever had that experience where you decide you’re going to do something and then you suddenly start seeing this thing everywhere in your life? I had decided to increase the number of posts on the blog about how music can affect you and I have a load of studies lined up to talk about – but before we get into any of them – check out this video from TED:
The speaker, Julian Treasure has a blog based around his book: The Sound Business – and I just subscribed to his RSS feed – I’m looking forward to hearing what he has to say.
I’ve been meaning to share how I developed the concept of music2work2 (the final year dissertation for my psychology degree looked at how people reacted to sound, more on that in another post) but I’ve always known that sound had a huge role to play in how effective we are as human beings. This is a topic that I am going to continue to explore and incorporate into the music that is developed for music2work2.
Finally – a hat tip to Jason Kadlec – another musician masquerading as a University Professor, who referred me to this video just as I was sitting down to write about something else. Jason’s music makes for pretty good music2work2 and you can hear it over at Dreamtempo