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Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED 2019.
- I attended the TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, where attendees pay $10,000 to learn the next big ideas.
- The theme this year, "Bigger Than Us," encouraged speakers to present solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
- After watching more than 100 talks, I've landed on 13 key insights that we'll be mulling over for years to come.
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While attending the TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I resolved not to skip a single talk for fear that I'd miss out on a golden nugget of wisdom to share with our readers.
After totaling up all the speeches across the five-day conference, I realized I had attended 107 talks. That's about 30 hours of presentations, all of which I've distilled into a few key lessons.
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This year's theme, "Bigger Than Us," encouraged speakers to present solutions to the world's greatest challenges. A few missed the mark in terms of offering the kind of "tough truths" that participants were promised, but others posited ideas we'll be mulling over for years to come.
Here are the lessons that have stuck with me the most.