Frank Warren's TED Talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/frank_warren_half_a_million_secrets.html
Frank Warren's TED Talk was different from the other talks that I have watched. It was less of a call to action and more him showing the world something that is important to him. While I think that having a purpose, a way to connect to the listeners is very important, I really liked his TED talk, mostly because of the topic. It intrigued me, the idea of all those secrets. I liked how he included a lot of different ones, different types. There were the funny ones, the cute ones, the serious ones. Every one made me feel something, and I connected with it.

However, his TED talk didn't really have a point to argue. I can't sit here and think about whether I agree with him or not, because he wasn't telling people to share their secrets (at least not as far as I could tell...) and he wasn't really saying anything against it either. He was just saying that people have many kinds of secrets and then giving examples. The examples were great and everything, but if they hadn't been there, well.... This wouldn't be a happy blog post. So now, instead of me saying whether he is right or wrong, I can only say that I think the idea of collecting secrets is cute.

1. The thing that I took away from this video is mainly that everybody has secrets. No matter how big they are, or how small, or how many people they affect, everyone has them. You may have them without even knowing it. And having secrets is okay. Other than that, I don't feel like I took much from this video in way of, say, what we are supposed to DO with those secrets. I guess his entire message was that everyone has them?

2. I loved the way Frank Warren used so many examples. Some were really profound, like the one about 9/11, and some were really funny like the one by the Starbucks employee. I also really liked how he used the audio, of the girl's grandmother's last message to her. Although using audio would not really be practical in a TED talk like ours, only five minutes long, I think it helped me connect more with the story he was trying to tell, and the point he was trying to get across. Although, now that I think about it, I'm not really sure what that point was.... (I wish he had included a call to action, or something....)

3. Frank Warren's style of speech is that he tells a lot of stories. He told the story about the man who proposed to his wife with the post card, and then about the granddaughter who saved her grandmother's last phone message to her. It helped me connect everything. It also kept me from losing interest. In a way, each post card that he showed had a story behind it.

4. I think the thing that is important from this video, for me and the world, is that everyone has secrets, and that it's okay to have them. Sometimes it helps to share them, even if you are only sharing them anonymously. This matters to education because teachers and students should remember that they never know everything about one another, and to never take anybody absolutely for granted.