New season coming March 21: Infectious Generosity
The TED Interview
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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The TED Interview is back for a special season. Chris Anderson, Head of TED, returns as host to investigate the ultimate idea worth spreading: Infectious Generosity. Inspired by Chris’s book of the same name, this season will explore how even small acts of kindness have the potential to spread and impact millions – and ultimately build a more hopeful future for all. Listen in as amazing people and great thinkers share how they aim to change lives at a scale never experienced before.
And in the spirit of infectious generosity, listeners can receive a free copy of Chris’s book in e-book or audio format. Just visit ted.com/generosity and fill out the short form to receive yours.
Tune in next week for the first episode of this new season.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello there everyone it's Chris Anderson here. I'm the guy lucky enough to |
| 0:16.4 | oversee Ted and I'm back with another series of the Ted interview. I've spent the last three years digging into an idea, one big idea. |
| 0:29.7 | And I think it connects the dots between pretty much all of the things that I care about, |
| 0:35.8 | human beings. |
| 0:38.0 | Technology, the internet, the search for meaning and happiness, the discovery of creativity and courage, not to mention |
| 0:47.6 | our actual future prospects on this fragile planet. So this is an idea that I've come to call infectious |
| 0:55.6 | generosity and I'm going to devote this entire series to it. Before we get going |
| 1:01.9 | however I want to share with you something pretty exciting |
| 1:05.0 | that just might make this podcast series |
| 1:08.0 | different to any that you've listened to. |
| 1:10.0 | My obsession with this idea led to me taking time away from Ted to write a book about it. |
| 1:16.0 | The book is called, no surprise, infectious generosity, the ultimate idea worth spreading. |
| 1:22.0 | If you want to, you can buy it wherever you get your books, but |
| 1:26.7 | I have a better option for you. You see, there's this person in the tech community who read the book and loved it, and he made an amazing |
| 1:36.2 | suggestion to me. This is a book about generosity, Chris. Why not give it away? |
| 1:50.0 | Well, to cut a long story short, he would like to gift this book to everyone listening to this podcast. Literally everyone, including you. |
| 1:53.0 | The book is populated by a remarkable cast of characters, |
| 1:56.0 | from scientists and psychologists, |
| 1:59.0 | to heroic individuals who have done amazing things, |
| 2:02.0 | often under the radar, things that have spread |
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