Take a seat at the TED conference

Dear paid subscribers,

Your deal is that you get special extra goodies through the year and here is a diamond. It costs at least $12,000 to attend the amazing TED conference, which was held in April in Vancouver (for the last time - next year it moves to San Diego). But you can watch an entire session here as part of your subscription to my Substack.

I had the honour of guest-curating this 90-minute session, which meant I could invite some of my heroes to speak about various aspects of listening. Many of the TED attendees told me that this was their favourite session of this conference (and some of them said of all time!). All my wonderful speakers knocked it out of the park, and I think the lessons contained in this session are both globally relevant and vitally important in a world riven by polarisation and judgmentalism.

So put the kettle on (if you’re British!), clear your diary for an hour and 47 minutes in total, and enjoy this feast of rich thinking and brilliant speaking about reasons to listen.