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Editor's Pick

Once you’ve sent out your last personal and business messages and taken the umpteenth airplane selfie, it’s finally time for some serious YouTube surfing: here are three of our top picks for maximum entertainment It almost seems as though TED talks were made to be watched on flights. They’re usually no more than 20 minutes long and the speakers are invariably brilliant at capturing the audience’s attention as they discuss complex, often surprising issues in simple terms. Here are three particularly interesting ones:

Psychologist Kelly McGonigal How to make stress your friend Psychologist Kelly McGonigal gives a fun, witty exposé of the study she conducted on the consequences of stress on our lives, the surprising discoveries she made along the way, and her creative solutions for dealing with pressure – and gets the audience to participate while doing so. If you find even one single tip here to lessen the amount of stress in your life after watching this, I’d have done my bit!

Sir Ken Robinson Do schools kill creativity?

Caleb Meakins Facing the fear of failure

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson talks about how school and the education system can ruin creativity, using amusing examples. “If it weren’t so funny it’d be sad” is probably the first thought that comes to mind, as he explains how “schools shape our brains in ways that end up working against us”. According to him, “it’s time we rethought the foundations of our educational systems”.

Failure expert Caleb Meakins begins his talk by asking the audience what they would do if they were certain they wouldn’t fail. He then goes on to describe some of the numerous challenges he intentionally set for himself in his life, the paths he took to overcome them and the ways with which he fought against the fear of failing. For Meakins, the secret lies in killing the fear, as he ends his talk with another question to the audience: “what dreams have you given up on out of the fear of failing? Remember that without failure, there is no success”.

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Tell us about your favorite YouTube videos by sending us the link with a few words on why you love it so much and we'll publish your recommendation here in the next issue.

Wishing you a pleasant flight, Tal Kalderon Head Of Inflight Entertainment & Connectivity Customer & Service Division talkal@elal.co.il

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ATMOSPHERE DECEMBER 2022