<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">We've focused on political polarization the last two TED Talks. This month we branch out into new areas. I've listed three great TED Talks from the TED most popular lists. Feel free to bring a suggestion of your own. As usual we will select one to watch and will follow with a discussion. We will use the modified discussion format where we hold back interactive discussion until each person has had a chance to express their initial thoughts. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><h4 class="gmail-h12 gmail-talk-link__speaker" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;margin:0px 0px 2px;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:italic;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-weight:400;line-height:1.2">Robert Waldinger</h4><h4 class="gmail-h9 gmail-m5" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:0.9375rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.2;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Custom","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a class="gmail-ga-link" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-line:none;outline:rgb(115,175,236) solid 2px">What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness</a></h4></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue Custom","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i>What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.</i></span><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><h4 class="gmail-h12 gmail-talk-link__speaker" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;margin:0px 0px 2px;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:italic;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-weight:400;line-height:1.2"><br></h4><h4 class="gmail-h12 gmail-talk-link__speaker" style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2px;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:italic;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-weight:400;line-height:1.2">Anil Seth</h4><h4 class="gmail-h9 gmail-m5" style="font-size:0.9375rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.2;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Custom","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a class="gmail-ga-link" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration-line:none">Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality</a></h4><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue Custom","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.</span><br></i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><h4 class="gmail-h12 gmail-talk-link__speaker" style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2px;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-style:italic;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-weight:400;line-height:1.2">Bryan Stevenson</h4><h4 class="gmail-h9 gmail-m5" style="font-size:0.9375rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.2;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Custom","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a class="gmail-ga-link" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-line:none;outline:rgb(115,175,236) solid 2px">We need to talk about an injustice</a></h4></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue Custom","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i>In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.</i></span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4">See you at the Milwaukee Street Traders at 6:30 pm on Friday. Spread the word!</font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="4">Phil</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Phil Smith<div>W318 S4121 Highview Rd</div><div>Waukesha, Wi. 53189</div><div>262/ 719-1542</div></div></div>
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