I am often asked,

Why don't I just write and publish my own books? Most of the people who follow the “workshop...” encourage and stimulate me to create my own production, as well as to publish more often. Thank you to all of them for the interest, compliments, trust and support! I don't know if you remember, but back in my pilot post I wrote the following:

“Readers already know me in absentia. In recent months, I have been smiling at them from the profile of “Angelismile”. This blog was a special space for me, in which I published materials “found” or “found” by me “by chance”, and sometimes I got inspiration to write them myself. This happened at precisely defined moments - carriers of my various emotional states and life situations. I believe that the most valuable thing we can give to those around us is access to our authentic experiences. Some of the blog posts were authorial, but most of the articles, thoughts, photos and excerpts from books “came” to me, resonating with my emotional states. It turned out that at the same time, many of the readers “vibrated” at similar frequencies. Through some of the publications they reached their personal messages, meanings and outputs.

What materials will they be able to find in your new section on Woman.bg?

In the new rubric, I will continue this trend, since “hot water” has long been discovered. I find it unnecessary to rephrase and invent some of your own teachings and theories, given that someone has already said it, written it, experienced it. The important thing is to have access to certain knowledge at the right moment and to refract it through your own prism — this is how I understand true authorship. Proverbs, thoughts, pictures, music, books can have magical properties — the miracle in a person's life has the chance to be triggered by a few skillfully presented sentences, notes or pictures that unlock a deep inner meaning. After all, everything that we humans create has a common author, no matter who calls it or formulates it by what name: God, God, Power, Nature, “There is something there”, etc.”

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I love to write, but only when it pushes me from the inside and I actually have something to say - not in principle about psychology or spirituality, but in a certain context, woven from everyday events and “coincidences” in my life. As for the deadlines, I can't say a word. The ticking clock is a potent insecticide for my already fragile flight of inspiration. This is the reason why I did not continue writing books, after the one published in co-authorship in 2006. The condition for Eddie how many pages thrown on the assembly line with a fixed deadline, breathing in the neck of quality, tolerating quantity, broke down the coauthorship hut. Now I write down completely amateurI and listlessly in terms of rules, deadlines and number of pages. I gasped, but everything you've read so far has something to do with what follows: part of an interview by an extraordinary person, the founder of TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design). TED conferences are one of the most meaningful sources of inspiration and knowledge in my opinion, and I often post videos and texts to you from this source of experience.

The creator Richard Warman gives in this interview for Economy.bg an answer to why I prefer to publish other people's thoughts, excerpts from books, interviews, fragments of films and in general everything that comes from great minds - their knowledge, experience, sense, that inspire me, learn and synchronize with my states at the right moments. Here's what Warman says:

“I learn so much from people who are smarter than me. I try to surround myself with more talented and smarter people than me. With people who have answers to the endless questions of my curiosity about the world. I talk and surround myself with people I can learn from. I am an ignorant person who tries to learn what he does not know. My task every day is to fill less that empty pocket that represents my ignorance. Most people act as if they understand something. Demonstrate how smart they are. Demonstrate their expertise. I am demonstrating my ignorance. I am a blank sheet. And I'm trying to find a way to find the answers to my questions. And when I get answers to a degree that satisfies me, I continue to be interested in another topic, whether it is medicine, dogs, some sport, travel or some theory. ”

I love this guy! Because of TED, for his thinking, for his modesty, for his courage to admit his ignorance and make it the most developing instrument of his mind and spirit, instead of pretending to be an intellectual. I constantly try to read or listen to the long and irrigating reflections on one issue or another of various samples of experts. I rarely succeed because of the spell that comes my way. I fall for brevity and punctuality. That's why I like Richard Warman even more:

“I removed the long introductions. I removed the long speeches. I removed the departments behind them. I removed the reserved seats for lecturers. I removed a lot of things. I'm always on stage, all the time in the lecture. And if someone says something I don't understand, I get up and interrupt. If they say something boring, I get them off the stage.”

And since my post has become too long in relation to my understanding, I stop and let you immerse yourself in the thoughts of this genius, in my opinion, man.

with abbreviations of: http://www.economy.bg/management/view/10577/Osnovatelyat-na-TED-Zaobikalyam-se-s-po-umni-hora-ot-koito-moga-da-ucha

Mr. Warman, what was your idea when you started TED?

Everyone asks me about TED, and that seems so long ago. For me, the next projects I work on are more interesting, not the past ones. If you know how to do something, you shouldn't bother doing it. If you already know how to do something, do something else. In your life, you always have to put yourself at risk of not knowing what you are doing. You always have to start without knowing, and the journey is to understand the answers. Moving from ignorance to understanding.
TED's big discovery, and there were many small novelties, was just an observation. The sighting took place in 1983. The first TED event took place in February 1984. So next year in February TED will celebrate its 30th anniversary. So the observation I made in 1983 was that the technology business, the entertainment industry, and the design profession (Technology, Entertainment and Design - TED) are increasingly coming together in one discipline. This now seems to be something of a given. But at the time, no one understood what I was talking about. I had a hard time convincing people to come. I lost money. The idea seemed absurd to people. But right after the first conference, they realized that it was an extraordinary experience. Such that I dealt with it for 18 years, it sold out a year in advance, without advertising, without press, without publicity, without announcing who would come, viral, before the internet, it sold out because people told other people and so thousands came. And it was a very interesting stage in my life. There were many other novelties. I removed the panels. I removed that rich white men in suits from talking to each other. I removed the long introductions. I removed the long speeches. I removed the departments behind them. I eliminated golf courses as the reason people went to conferences. I removed the reserved seats for lecturers. I removed a lot of things. I'm always on stage, all the time in the lecture. And if someone says something I don't understand, I get up and interrupt. If they say something boring, I get them off the stage.

Is it because of these innovations that the success of TED is due?

I was trying to do the best conferences in the world, and TED is trying to change the world right now. I don't mind, but it's a different mission. These are two different missions. I'm not trying to change the world.

Why is there such a thirst for these conferences with all this social media we have?

The more social media we have, the more we shouldn't go to conferences. But it doesn't work that way, because we know it's not enough. We know we need to go and meet different people. Let's talk to them. There is nothing better than a conversation between two people.

Why do people today feel such a hunger for new ideas?

People have always been hungry for new ideas. I guarantee you that if I take you back to 1910, you will feel exactly the same way. We are arrogant, considering that we live in times of great change. That we live in times of great fear, of economic wars. We are arrogant, considering that the times we live in are so important. All times have been important. Our time is not special. This is nonsense. We see it that way because we live today. But our lives are only a small part of history. And such a small part of history 100 years ago was just as special.

With your new WWW and 555 concepts, you experiment with new conference models. Why?

A year ago I did a conference without presentations (editor: WWW conference). It's just that the whole conversation was an improvisation, without a program. The lecturers did not know each other. They couldn't take notes. There was no screen behind them. They were facing each other, not the audience. Everything was different. I held the conference in a place no one wanted to go to. I did everything that wasn't supposed to be a successful conference, and it was the best conference of my life. The best discussion I've ever attended. It was intellectual jazz. It was an impromptu conference featuring the best experts I've ever assembled. It was also the conference with the least audience.
For the next 555 conference, the concept is “finding the future first”. Five of the greatest people on the planet will be predicting in five different cities the next five years based on their experiences.

Isn't the TED format working?

Why should we only have one car model? Or just one type of house? One type of dress? Shoes?

You've done numerous conferences in your life, meeting some of the greatest people on the planet. How does it feel to have the greatest minds on Earth around you?

I learn so much from people who are smarter than me. I try to surround myself with more talented and smarter people than me. With people who have answers to the endless questions of my curiosity about the world. I talk and surround myself with people I can learn from. I am an ignorant person who tries to learn what he does not know. My task every day is to fill less that empty pocket that represents my ignorance.

Are you still curious?

I have written 83 books. I've done 40 conferences. I'm planning three more conferences. I'm working on two books. I started painting again after 50 years. And next year I turn 79 years old.

You say that your books are a journey from ignorance to knowledge.

That's right. I always write books on topics I don't understand.

Is this the way to learn new things?

At least that's the case with me. I'm not trying to tell you how to do something. This is the difference between me and many others. Not all, but many others. Most people act as if they understand something. Demonstrate how smart they are. Demonstrate their expertise. I am demonstrating my ignorance. I am a blank sheet. And I'm trying to find a way to find the answers to my questions. And when I get answers to a degree that satisfies me, I continue to be interested in another topic, whether it is medicine, dogs, some sport, travel or some theory.

What have you learned from all these smart people around you?

I want to have an interesting day tomorrow. And that's what I do. May my day be interesting. But my definition of interesting is different. Interesting does not mean that the day is successful. The day is interesting is when there is something that moves the arrow close to understanding life. And sometimes you understand life when you fail. So it's not happiness that makes the day interesting.

If you were a news producer, what would be the important news today?

I would try to catch a question and make it understandable. I would replace political headlines by trying to make the topics understandable. Instead of having a government with a minister of education, a minister of war or something like that, every country should have a minister responsible for understanding life (Minister of Understanding). Not a person in charge of propaganda or who is in charge of the media, but a minister who really makes a question understandable so that every person in society can explain it even to a small child. It really needs to make public information public, understandable and freely available. None of this exists in the world. So that would be the thing I would do if I ran a news company. That would be my credo. And I'd be in jail for that because it's illegal.
Another destructive statement that is true, but would change the entire educational system, is that learning is remembering what is interesting to you. This is a revolutionary statement because no curriculum in the world is built in a way that takes this into account. I don't believe in education, I believe in learning. There is a fundamental difference between the two. Education happens from the top down, while learning happens from the bottom up, it arises from the curiosity of people.

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