This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. From primes to proper pop-up purple paper people, Harry Baker performs his a pun-tastic and poignant poetry. Harry Baker has always loved words. He’s been blessed enough to travel round the world with them, winning the Poetry Slam World Cup in 2012 and currently using a maths degree as an excuse to live in Germany and find heaps more new words to play with. After two 5-star Edinburgh Fringe festival shows and almost growing a beard once, the next adventure is having his first book [More]
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen Narrated by Earl Nightingale “As A Man Thinketh” is a literary essay by James Allen, published in 1902. “Through most of time man’s control on the environment has been limited, but today this is no longer true. If a man thinks he might like to unmake the atom, he does. If he thinks of living in the depths of the oceans, going to the moon or voyaging in outer space, he does. The problem is no longer than what man can do, it becomes what man can think.” – Earl Nightingale The outer world [More]
The Prophet Audiobook – Chapter 2; Love by Kahlil Gibran   Then said Almitra, “Speak to us of Love.”   And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the [More]