
WISDOM-RELATED VIDEOS
Insightful messages delivered by streaming video
WISDOM
and THE WISDOM PAGE is a 9-minute video that introduces
the three big questions concerning wisdom: What is wisdom? Why is
wisdom important? and How can we develop wisdom? It touches on answers
to all three, and invites the viewer to visit The Wisdom Page website
and explore the matter more deeply. (Also available on YouTube.)
Bill
Moyers Interviews Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot See what this
Harvard-based adult educator has to say about living the 50-to-75
year period of life to the fullest. Check also this stages-of-life
book review.
 Copthorne
Macdonald Talks and Videos. Streaming video, audio, and
audio-with-slides presentations.
Barry
Schwartz Video on Practical Wisdom This inspiring 20-minute
MP4 talk by Barry
Schwartz was presented at the 2009 TED (Technology, Entertainment,
Design) conference in Long Beach, California.
The
Wisdom Speakers project headed by videographer Gilles
Gagnon "captures messages from extraordinary 'ordinary'
people and spreads their wealth of knowledge in the form of short
videos." Worth viewing!
An
Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell
Professor Maxwell talks about the need for a wisdom focus in academia,
and about a new book he is writing. This video is available in two
formats:
An
Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell in
FLV (Flash video) format.
Duration:
7 minutes
An
Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell in WMV (Windows Media Player)
format.
Duration:
7 minutes
Jill
Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist at Harvard who had a massive
left-hemisphere stroke. In the two videos below she explains how
the stroke left her in a state of right-brain facilitated bliss,
and how she struggled for 8 years to regain the use of her left
brain hemisphere. She
discusses her experience in the videos below:
Stroke
of Insight Streaming video feed from the Canadian
Broadcasting Company.
(Also
available for viewing in Flash
[FLV] or Windows
Media Player [WMV])
Jill
Bolte Taylor's 2008 TED Talk Streaming video
feed from the TED
website.
(Also
available for viewing in Flash
[FLV] or Windows
Media Player [WMV])
Center
for Spirituality and Health at the University of Florida makes
available on their web site (in WMV streaming video) talks by highly respected
speakers.
Free
Audio and Video Lectures and Other Learning Resources are
now available from an increasing number of prestigious universities
and other organizations.
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