Engineering
freshman
Paul
Lellouche told The Daily after the
event that TEdxUofM’s diversity of
ideas allowed him to gain a broader
worldview.
“It’s interesting to see what
different people dedicate their
lives to--which are not necessarily
domains I am exposed to in my
classes,” Lellouche said. “They
are incredibly interesting, and
they enrich my life by giving me
different perspectives, which I
appreciate a lot.”
David
Kobrosky
—
LSA
sophomore, Founder of Skatify
and Co-Founder of Michigan
Blockchain
Skateboarding onto the stage,
LSA sophomore David Kobrosky,
founder of Skatify, an organization
committed to building skate parks
for emerging skate communities,
discussed his love of skateboarding.
In particular, he expressed it helps
him see the world from a “ground
zero” perspective, teaching him
to
constantly
challenge
prior
assumptions.
“(Skateboarding) taught me to
see the world as a jungle gym,”
Kobrosky
said.
“Skateboarders
see stairs and don’t think about
what they are or why they exist.
They simply think about how
they want to interact with them…
Seeing these stairs from an angle
of curiosity and asking myself
‘What can I do with these cement
stairs?’ really taught me to see the
world without prior assumptions
or limitations.”
In his talk, Kobrosky discussed
how he had to come up with non-
traditional designs for his skate
parks in order to make them
affordable and accessible in areas
such as Ethiopia.
“This
action
of
breaking
assumptions is the only way
change is possible,” Kobrosky said.
“Seeing these other skaters around
me breaking them inspired me to
do the same… I’ve tried to look at
the world from a skater mindset,
a place where assumptions don’t
exist, but rationality does.”
Aaron Dworkin — School of
Music, Theatre & Dance Professor
of
Arts
Leadership,
Business
Professor of Entrepreneur Studies
Using stories from his life,
Prof. Aaron Dworkin reflected on
his multi-racial, multi-spiritual
background and the importance
of giving throughout his talk.
Dworkin is the founder of Sphinx
Organization, an organization
dedicated to building diversity
and entrepreneurship in the
arts, and was President Obama’s
first appointment to the National
Council on the Arts.
In his talk, he noted how the
generosity of others forged him
into the man he is today, both in
his personal and professional life.
He said the ethos of generosity
should be founded on the joy
giving brings.
“There is something unique
about
the
human
condition
when we give,” Dworkin said. “I
encourage you to give something
of yourself every single day,
beginning
today.
When
you
give, give an amount that gives
meaning to you. The greater the
value of what you give, the greater
the impact will be on you.”
Dworkin told the Daily after
the event how transformative
giving to others can be in in
the larger community.
“I wanted to be able to
connect my own background
and my life trajectory and
convey the types of things
we can do when we do it
collectively and bring about
change at a scale,” Dworkin
said. “And this idea that if
everyone in the audience can
think
about
intentionally
giving
something
every
single day – Will Ann Arbor
change for the better? Will
the University of Michigan
change?”
Natalie Tronson — Assistant
Professor of Psychology
Assistant
professor
of
psychology Natalie Tronson
discussed memory and its
role in changing behavior. In
particular, she highlighted
memory disorders such as
Alzheimer’s disease and post-
traumatic stress disorder.
Speaking to The Daily,
Tronson reflected on her
conception of “absolute zero”
as a loss of memory.
“When I was starting to think
about what I was going to talk
about, I kept coming coming
back to this idea of memory loss,”
Tronson said. “This idea of, it’s
not just absolute zero in terms
of what you know, it’s in terms
of function, in terms of how we
construct our internal worlds.”
However, most instances of
memory and memory loss serve
functional value, Tronson said in
her talk.
“Perhaps instead of thinking
about
memory
as
a
vault
where items get placed in and
removed as needed, a concept
that makes us all sound a little
like robots, maybe we should
think about memory as a flexible
and
functional
map
of
the
world,” Tronson said. “Perhaps
if we think of memory not as
information to be spat out, the
grocery list we need to remember
or information on the exam… but
instead as this map that allows us
to have conversations, find our
way around the world… What is
there to improve?”
Greg
Harden
—
Former
University Director of Athletic
Counseling, Life Coach
Known as the “secret weapon”
of
Michigan
Athletics,
Greg
Harden is a motivational speaker
and life coach, training athletes
from Tom Brady to Michael
Phelps. His talk focused on
the merits of optimism, and
how individuals must practice
maintaining positivity as they
would any other skill.
“Practice, train, and rehearse:
believe in yourself,” he said.
“Understand you are no different
from Desmond Howard, Tom
Brady, Michael Phelps — they
simply had a skill set. But they all
had to believe, without question
or pause, that they could have the
world.”
In an interview with The Daily,
Harden reflected further on a
15-year-old girl he cared for as
a clinical therapist, sharing the
possibility of either going up or
down when at an “absolute zero”
point in life.
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