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"Familiarity really is the gateway drug to empathy."

From iO Tillett Wright’s TEDxWomen talk, “Fifty shades of gay,” which you can watch now on TED.com.

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Sometimes, though — just the question “What do you do?” can feel like somebody’s opening a tiny little box and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it, because, the categories, I’ve found, are too limiting; the boxes are too narrow.

From photographer iO Tillett Wright’s TEDxWomen talk, “Fifty shades of gay,” which you can watch in full here.

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"You own your future. Taking the time to prepare for the life you want to live." As head of Personal Investing for Fidelity Investments, Kathleen Murphy oversees a business with more than $1 trillion in client assets under administration, more than 13.5 million customer accounts and over 10,000 employees. Her business is the nation's No.1 provider of individual retirement accounts (IRAs), the fastest growing major online brokerage company, the industry's No. 1 most trusted brand and a leading provider of managed account programs and college savings plans. Retirement/skydiving video shown during Kathleen's talk

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Sheryl Sandberg's TEDxWomen Talk has been viewed 3 million times by those who wonder why we have too few women in leadership positions. In this talk #LeadingWomen's Susan Colantuono complements advice to "lean in" as she unveils two new strategies for closing the leadership gender gap at the top of organizations. Discover the impact of The Missing 33%™, why 40 years of advice to women hasn't closed the gap, the actions women can take to create careers that soar, and steps companies must take to close the leadership gender gap

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Often we feel that we are "on the path" based on the structure provided by the educational system. This means it is expected that we should proceed from grade school to middle school to high school to college and beyond year after year. This talk from Dr.Erika Ebbel Angle will talk about what can happen when one "steps off the train" (the analogy to being "on the path") and opens himself/herself to other experiences that may be useful in overall life experience and development.

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By the time a startup is just four years old, a full 60% of founders are no longer the CEO. What gives? Gail Goodman, a first-time CEO who built Constant Contact to more than $250 million in revenue, holds a mirror up to this challenge.

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What is the most intelligent way to behave? Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross explains how the latest research findings in physics, computer science, and animal behavior suggest that the smartest actions – from the dawn of human tool use all the way up to modern business and financial strategy – are all driven by the single fundamental principle of keeping future options as open as possible.

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Our first TEDxBeaconStreet 2013 video, Colin Stokes, is posted on the TEDx YouTube page! 

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Watch the Bergmeyer Associates team create the 2013 TEDx Beacon Street stage, made from 10,000 of your recycled aluminum cans and plastic bottles, from start to finish!

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This year we kicked off a new tradition, the Ideas in Action award. The inaugural award goes to Lara Stein and the TEDx team and was created by '13 speaker, Ben Peters!  Lara is pictured here with the award in hand while at an Adventure at the MIT Media Lab, along with her son Blake Frank, who gave an incredible piano performance for TEDxYouth@BeaconStreet!

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@EmiFlutes has shown us that you can learn something new every day, such as Niccolo Paganini being a very early rock star!

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Kathleen Murphy

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Cerise Jacobs

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Karyn Knight Detering of Ideas Take Shape is the flap to our jack, the Wade to our Kim Possible, the bees to our knees and the vision to our words at this weekend's TEDxBeaconStreet! Once again for creating our world on paper for the 2nd year in a row, THANK YOU, KARYN!! http://www.ideastakeshape.com/ #IdeasTakeShape *pictures taken from albums by John Werner, Dave Rezendes, The Legendary Jeffrey Yale Brainson & Mike Ritter

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MIT professor, Jim Bales, at the MIT Media Lab

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Julia Glenn and Patrick McGuire