If you haven’t had a chance to watch any TED talks in the last few years, I would highly recommend that you put it on your New Year’s Resolution list. The growth in the TED brand via their TEDx conferences as well as the annual TED conference has just been incredible. A few month’s back, one of my favorite author’s Anya Kamenetz wrote this great article about it in Fast Company (strongly recommend her book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education). I will be attending my 4th TED conference this year and it always a stimulating experience to say the least. Don’t worry if you can’t attend the conference as TED’s commitment to transparency and sharing always results in publishing the talks from the conference!
This week they released a great talk by Neil Pasricha who authors a blog entitled 1000 Awesome Things as well as an international best seller called The Book of Awesome. He provides the history and impetus behind this movement in this talk.
How about we do something similar? The first effort would be to document 1,000 Awesome Things about Physical Therapy (perhaps followed by 1,000 Awesome Things about Physical Therapists). Just submit in comments or in email and we will make an attempt to put them on this blog. The beauty of this assignment though is that instead of using our “PT bias” why don’t we ask our own patients? Could be fun and interesting.
Who wants to go first?
Larry@physicaltherapist.com
