ted fellows friday - meet Anab Jain
Fellows Friday is a weekly series on the TED Blog that profiles one TED Fellow each week. We have asked the Fellows to answer our question below to share their knowledge and advice with other social entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers who are coming up with big ideas that can change the world. Read past Fellows' answers here.
Anab Jain's design studio Superflux envisions a future where the blind are given ultraviolet vision and invasive species are engineered to combat the effects of climate change. Read on to learn more about her perspective on our not-too-distant future.
Question: There are many aspiring social entrepreneurs out there who are trying to take their passion and ideas to the next level. What is one piece of advice you would give to them based on your own experiences and successes?
Answer: You don’t have to be this fresh-faced 21-year-old to be an entrepreneur. If you have an idea, you can go with it at any time. Also, talk to everybody. You don’t know who might be interested in your idea, and you need to be looking for resources in places that you might not otherwise have considered.
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ted fellows friday - meet Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz
Fellows Friday is a weekly series on the TED Blog that profiles one TED Fellow each week. We have asked the Fellows to answer our question below to share their knowledge and advice with other social entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers who are coming up with big ideas that can change the world. Read past Fellows' answers here.
Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz’s eye-popping magazines and celebrated festivals are creating “pathways to coexistence and tolerance.”
Question: There are many aspiring social entrepreneurs out there who are trying to take their passion and ideas to the next level. What is one piece of advice you would give to them based on your own experiences and successes?
Answer: Be honest, listen to, and support others. When you’re part of a community, it is as important to support others, as it is to support yourself and your projects. As a community grows, there are more opportunities for everybody, so you and your projects will benefit by extension.
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My friend Steve
It’s hard to go anywhere today without hearing news about or seeing expressions of mourning for Steve Jobs, the late co-founder and CEO of Apple. For me, my message of remembrance is one of thanks—thanks to Jobs for playing a pivotal part in shaping my generation and paving the way for greater innovation.
Jobs’ influence reached many and crossed countless different boundaries. However, there was one group that was distinctly impacted by Jobs, and that was the Millennial generation. I would also add that over the last decade in particular, Millennials have also played a key role for Apple and Jobs’ vision of the future. As early adopters of new technology and loyal Apple consumers, Millennials walked hand in hand with Jobs’ – and we loved every step of the journey.
Like many, I never met Jobs, but our relationship was nevertheless a very personal one that began when I first touched the Apple Classic computer.
Like many, Jobs and I never talked with one another, but from the very first song I ever purchased on iTunes his words have impacted me in a way that few others could.
Like many, he did not know of me personally, yet from the first day he created the computer mouse it was as if he knew what I wanted before I even was aware of any desire.
Perhaps it is because Jobs embodied so many of the traits that are also hallmarks of the Millennial generation that his products and messages resonated with us in a way few others could. Confident, upbeat, technologically savvy and open to new ways of living (Pew), Jobs was an innovator at heart who often chose the unbeaten path. For example, rather than complete his college education, Jobs took a pilgrimage to India only to return to the states flat broke… soon thereafter he started Apple at the age of 21 and the rest as they say is history. His life path was one that was as intriguing as the products that he ultimately helped to create.
How will you remember Steve Jobs? What impact do you feel he has made on you and your generation?
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ted fellows friday - meet daniel zoughbie
Fellows Friday is a weekly series on the TED Blog that profiles one TED Fellow each week. We have asked the Fellows to answer our question below to share their knowledge and advice with other social entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers who are coming up with big ideas that can change the world. Read past Fellows' answers here.
With Microclinics International, Daniel Zoughbie is making health contagious, and believes that it’s critical to peace and stability in the Middle East.
Question: There are many aspiring social entrepreneurs out there who are trying to take their passion and ideas to the next level. What is one piece of advice you would give to them based on your own experiences and successes?
Answer: Be very, very cautious with your ideas, because ideas can be very good things, but they can also be very bad things. A German poet once warned that ideas were so dangerous that they could in fact bring down entire nations. At the same time I urge courage: take an idea that is sound and think about its implications. Think about how to test it on a smaller scale, where the damage can be limited if there are mistakes. If it’s successful, one can observe its success very clearly, and demonstrate that success before taking it to the next level.
That’s why we, as an organization, are doing what’s necessary to very rigorously test our ideas using the best scientific resources that we have available, to make sure that not only aren’t we doing any harm to the local communities, but that we are doing good.
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