What makes a great TED talk? To answer this question, I watched the most popular TED talk of all time, "Do Schools Kill Creativity" with speaker Ken Robinson.
This TED talk is the most popular TED talk of all time because it uses comedy to draw and interact with the audience and speaks about a subject that almost all people will relate to: education. Robinson is obviously greatly engaged with his audience, passionate about the topic of education and creativity. He proposes that a way to a better future is by changing our education system so that it reflects creativity and not being correct all the time. He uses anecdotes and jokes to keep his audience engaged and then uses those to transition into what he is there to talk about.
At the beginning, he just starts out with jokes and a hypothetical scenario. He uses jokes that people, especially ones in education, would relate to. Then he moves on by addressing his main points, balancing each with an anecdote that relates to it. He ends by stressing his message, comparing the problems of global climate change to the ever growing problems of our faulty education system.
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