Shallow Hal

Tony Robbins, the Life Coach of `Shallow Hal' fame breaks the TED rules by going overtime (they are only given 18 minutes, he talks for 22. Partly because of his own fault, and partly because the way he ended and said... I can't tell you more because I am out of time, would have lead to riots if he hadn't been given more.

You have to watch it to see what I mean.

Other than that bit, it was the first time I saw him speak. He is a whirlwind. A bundle of energy. Sometimes I actually lost focus on what he was saying though because I was just captivated by watching. That isn't a good thing. Very different from Ken Robinson who is both captivating and easy to follow.

I think it is a lesson in trying to get too many points across. I think that is the beauty of the TED talks. You only have 18 minutes. You can get a lot into 18 minutes, but if you want it to be powerful, you need to focus.

The saying goes something like... `it would have been shorter if I had had more time'

A very amusing part was when Tony asks what it is that people didn't have that caused the people in the audience to have their biggest failure... people were shouting out things like time, energy, motivation, money, resources... when Al Gore shouted out...

`A supreme court'

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