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The 22 Best TED Talks for Fitness, Health, and Happiness Inspiration. If you have access to the Internet, you’ve likely seen one: We’re talking about TED Talks.

These live-recorded videos are inspirational life lessons from experts in fields from architecture to cardiology and everywhere in between brought (for free) to Internet audiences by TED, a non-profit dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” There are now thousands of “Talks” on the site — mid-sized videos each with its own “ah-ha!” Message or insight. But with so much inspiring to be had, where do you even start looking for innovative talks on fitness, health, and happiness? To help curate this free, digital resource, Greatist selected 22 Ted Talks that offer something simple and motivating to apply to everyday life. Fitness 1. Using his knowledge of evolution, anthropologist and author Christopher McDougall explains the surprising ways that running helped early humans run their world. 2. 3. 4. Why Aren’t More Intellectuals Believers? “God’s alright when he isn’t making bears eat children, you know?”

I didn’t. But this was just one of the arguments that would be lobbed at me by my new atheist friend, Tyler. Tyler used to believe in God. Though I didn’t know him at the time, his theology degree and sleeve of artfully ambiguous Christian tattoos suggest he took the whole thing pretty seriously, so when we began discussing his recent de-conversion, I paid attention. We considered the aforementioned story from 2 Kings. Is this intellectual approach to Christianity a faith killer? We talked about how a loving God could allow the immense suffering in the world, discussed Balaam and his talking donkey, and crunched some numbers on the six-day creation.

As Christians, it’s easy to view this approach of picking apart Scripture and doctrine as cynical and unhelpful. But is this intellectual approach to Christianity a faith killer? Post Cynical Christianity. Occupy Wall Street.

Facebook rants. Moving back in with our parents. All telltale signs of our generation, motivated by one overriding attitude: cynicism. Our generation isn’t quick to trust, especially those in power. We love sarcasm. It’s hard not to feel sour and disillusioned when our sports heroes are caught taking performance-enhancing drugs, when our political leaders have proven themselves more interested in re-election than keeping promises, when Wall Street bankers can avoid prosecution for stealing billions of dollars and when pastors who preach family values are exposed for having sex with everyone except their wives. Cynicism has permeated our worldviews and even crept into our churches—the places where hope should be most present. What’s particularly interesting is how cynical we’ve become about the Church itself.

20 Christianese Phrases We Really Need to Stop Saying. Matthew 6:34 NIV - Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, 11 Pieces of Advice Every Millennial Should Hear. Millennials are in a challenging phase of life: navigating professional challenges, long-term relationship choices and spiritual questions, all while trying to live up to the social expectations of what an adult should be.

Yes, God Will Give You More Than You Can Handle. Recently, I was going back through my journals and I read words I had written years before: “God, I can’t handle this anymore.

I don’t know what to do, but I can’t do this.” The circumstances in my life had become overwhelming, everything was crumbling, and my world was falling apart. To be honest, if someone had come alongside me at that point and tried to reassure me by saying, “God won’t give you more than you can handle,” I may have punched them square in the face. Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy. Say hi to Lucy.

Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group -- I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story. [EDGY] You Don't Have To Love What You Do To Be Awesome. (Learn how to make Q4 as productive as you need it to be.

Erika Napoletano, TEDx speaker, best-selling author, and popular business "unsticker", joins us to talk about some big ideas for business transformation. Join us here: Sometimes you just have to gut it out. Stick it out. 23 Things Every Woman Should Stop Doing. It is conventional wisdom that we’re our own worst enemies and despite the cliche, the idea rings true.

We often drive ourselves insane striving for perfection in our experiences, relationships and selves, and honestly it just becomes exhausting. So here at HuffPost Women we’re issuing a challenge to ourselves -- and other women -- to stop doing these 23 things. Benefits Of Hard Work - Good Career Stress. It's so easy to rant and rave about work, and complain about the endless stress it causes us.

Almost too easy. The annoying co-workers! The never-ending exhaustion! The crazy boss!