TED-Style Talks (28 Jan) — stoicism, Latin America, and following your gut

Happy new year to all curious souls ✨ Let's kick off 2025 with another round of interesting and inspiring talks 🤩

Tentative Speakers

1. Maria Alcantara: What the Stoics taught me about Life, Adversity and Growth
2. Nedra Fu: What I learned from sabbatical year in Latin America
3. Saulmaz Nourani K.: How far can you follow your gut?

Each talk will be 10 mins, followed by 10 mins of questions. It's usually beneficial to bring a pen/notepad to take notes 📝🤓

Plan

• 5:15pm - Doors open
• 5:20pm - Registration and mingle
• 5:40pm - Intro and welcome
• 5:45pm - Talks begin
• 7:10pm - Conclusion
• 7:20pm - Optional bring-a-plate/snacks for sharing

Tea will be available at the venue. Drinks can also be purchased from the cash bar. Also feel free to bring snacks to share over some post-talk chats! 😋

How to find us: Take the "high rise lifts" in Majestic Centre to level 28. We'll also put up signs at the lift. Building entrance is from Willis Street (till 6pm) and from Boulcott Street (till 7pm).

We take pictures to document the events. If you don't want to be photographed, simply let us know on arrival. 

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See you on the 28th!

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About the group

We are a group of curious people from all walks of life who want to learn and get inspired from each other. Everyone is welcome to join, as long as you are curious and willing to share and learn.

Want to be a speaker?

You can talk about anything you are passionate about. You don’t need to be an expert public speaker. On the contrary, you are encouraged to use this group to better your public speaking. If you're interested in speaking, just message the organisers with a proposed title. All topics (even controversial ones) are encouraged, but sales pitches, preaching, anything discriminatory or defamatory is not welcome. If in doubt, just ask.

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