More Reading: Kelly Corrigan at TEDxSonomaCounty
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2013
- In 2004, accomplished newspaper columnist Kelly Corrigan was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer. While in chemotherapy, she learned that her father, who had already survived prostate cancer, had late-stage bladder cancer. In her bestselling memoir, The Middle Place, Ms. Corrigan alternates chapters between that difficult year and flashbacks to her childhood, partially for much-needed comic relief and partially to make the point that "you don't really grow up until you learn to live in the world without the people who made it a safe place for you." Her second memoir, LIFT, tells three stories of risk and parenthood, including her daughter's bout of meningitis. She has become an expert in crisis and caretaking. Ms. Corrigan's writing is lauded by the Today Show, Good Housekeeping magazine and millions of readers.
The Huffington Post calls Corrigan the "Poet Laureate of the Ordinary" while O Magazine says Corrigan is "the voice of a generation." Her books The Middle Place and LIFT, reached #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and Corrigan's reading of her essay on the value of friendship was viewed over 5 million times on RUclips. Ms. Corrigan co-founded the Notes and Words benefit for Childrens' Hospital and Research Center Oakland. Her new book, a memoir about her mother called Glitter and Glue, will be published in February, 2014.
In her TEDxTalk, Kelly explores the value of reading, and why we should do more of it. In her down-to-earth, humorous style, she shows us how reading is the foundation upon which we build our vocabulary, which is surprisingly core to who we are, both professionally and personally. Kelly argues that expanding our working vocabulary through reading leads to occupational success, intellectual development and personal connection. Her hope is that individuals, couples, families, workforces, electorates and communities will read at least 30 minutes a day, exposing us to two million words used in context per year, words that will exponentially impact how we think and connect.
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thanks alot.l had to listen again. l appreciate your presentation and strong reasons on why we should read.
Truly a good presentation to reading. Thanks Kelly Corrigan for inspiring us to take more value in reading.
instablaster...
That was a fantastic presentation! I absolutely agree 100%. I have also taken courses with Michael Krasny, and he is, hands down, my favorite English professor.
Thank you , brilliantly explained and all so true .
This presentation was so good! So small but yet she said absolutely everything!
Now I know where Jim Kwik got his slogan of “reading is to the brain what exercise is to the body"... 2:18
this woman is very educated.
thanks for ur help
Thank You for being there and here...
How truly lovely! Kelly - you rock!
Thank you! Awesome as a reading specialist from Northern, VA
The bridge between the prose in us and the passion. without it we are fragments of meaningless fragments half monks half beasts I liked the qoute.
In fact English is not my mother tongue but I intend to focus more on vocabularies. I mean I feel that I lack some vocabularies in my Arabic language because it has been a while since I read an arabic book so I have to focus on reading on both languages.
Amazing talk.
I'm fortunate to be bilingual with Welsh being my first language. We have some beautiful words which due to their particular meaning cannot be easily or accurately translated into English. I've enjoyed this video. I remember once someone being asked to define erudite. Their reply was " I'm adequately erudite to know what it means".
amazing presentation 100%👏
worth to watch. nice Ted
sure language is everything. Most of the time I passed social sciences because of being able to express the small idea you have even if you had read very little
Can TED also post their guest's references/data sources?
I love to read books but I feel frustrated because it’s hard for me to read English books!
Tony17Q It’ll get easier. Just stick to it. I’m currently struggling with reading in Russian. But I learn new things every day and I’m surprised how much I understand and how fast I can read right now. Don’t give up.
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Reading for sheer pleasure didn't register.
Show 1st few minutes around IR time
Imagine if she ended the Ted talk at 1:33 lol
Do pupils in school learn to read their mother tongue effectively? Yes and no. Up to the fifth or sixth grade, reading, on the whole, is effectively taught and well learned. To that level we find a steady and general improvement, but beyond it the curves flatten out to a dead level. This is not because a person arrives at his natural limit of efficiency in reading when he reaches the sixth grade, for it has been shown again and again that with special tuition much older children, and also adults, can make enormous improvement. Nor does it mean that most sixth-graders read well enough for all practical purposes. A great many pupils do poorly in high school because of sheer ineptitude in getting meaning from the printed page. They can improve; they need to improve; but they don't
The average high-school graduate has done a good deal of reading, and if he goes on to college he will do a good deal more; but he is likely to be a poor and incompetent reader. (Note that this holds true of the average student, not the person who is a subject for special remedial treatment.) He can follow a simple piece of fiction and enjoy it. But put him up against a closely written exposition, a carefully organized and economically stated argument, or a passage requiring critical consideration, and he is at a loss. It has been shown, for instance, that the average high school student is amazingly inept at indicating the central thought of a passage, or the levels of emphasis and subordination in an argument or exposition. To all intents and purposes he remains a sixth-grade reader till well along in college.
I’ve disablity.
I can pay attention.
Understand well.
But when i read more.
It affect bad on my health.
I feel my heart beat fast.
I am hearing impaired.
And after doing some reading i feel more deafness.
Can you help me ?
Sorry, maybe you need to see a doctor to help
Is to much reading might be danger as we having to much exercise ?
I spend at least 6 hours a day reading emails at work. So does reading emails have the same affect on the brain?
All that vocabulary are Kelly is still a statist.Keep reading indeed.
Does reading the dictionary help build your vocabulary?
In a way, yes. But in reading books you'd get more context and you'll learn how to use certain words appropriately 😄
When you’re reading a dictionary, you’re learning new words in alphabetical order as opposed to by how important and commonly utilized they are. That doesn’t sound like a very organic (or engaging) way to learn anything.
This was great, however it misses the entire purpose of reading - enhanced knowledge. To read merely to better your vocabulary is no different than to exercise merely for a good physique.