Diane Benscoter (TED Talk 5)

As with previous talks, I did feel that her use of humor did keep me interested. I must say, however, that she was not the best speaker by any means. This did take away from her point because as the beginning especially, I had to concentrate really hard to try and understand what she was trying to say. She did not have her thoughts very clearly organized and thought out in her head, which was shown with her stuttering continuously and saying the word "um". That is something that is likely to happen to me so I have to make sure I am well rehearsed and that I don't get nervous. She did, however, do a decent job of incorporating the slideshow with pictures and phrases into her presentation. That is one thing that I can learn from her and strive to simulate. As I understand, she wants us to take away from her talk that the human brain is much more powerful that we give it credit form being. If we truly believe in something, our brain can make our body believe it and do/become it as well. Based on my takeaway from her talk, the place where I can see this effecting education is on classes like psychology. It shows us, rather than telling us, that the brain has capabilities that most of us do not even know exist. It can teach students to strongly believe in what they want because their brain will help make it true. In summary, I think that she needed to work on talking clearly and not stuttering, and that she had some insightful things to say, but she needs to figure out how to convey her point better.