by Amelia Zheng at Downtown TO Learning Day
Life is a long journey, just run it
Past Talks
How to give presentations
Carlton shows how to structure your presentation and make it seem effortless, so you can make your own Learning Night presentation!
Non-violent Communication
People are an unavoidable part of life. Humans have a natural tendency to want to be with other people and we often need help to pursue the things we value. So you’d think we would have developed a better way of working together that didn’t usually end up with people getting angry and hurt, or worse never being able to feel connected to anyone you’re around at all.
Marshall Rosenberg tried to fix our ability to understand each other. He developed this system called Non-Violent Communication (NVC), which he used in a ton of different conflict situations, ranging from couples therapy to negotiating peace between warring states. There are a bunch of ways to approach and describe NVC, but today I’m going to talk about it like a system or a strategy that you can use and adapt as part of your “emotional toolbox”. So the next time you’re in a situation where there’s a lot of strong emotions, like “anger” or “sadness”, you can think about NVC and maybe it will help you.
Getting Started with Stand-up Comedy
What makes for good stand-up material? How do you present what you’ve come up with to get laughs? And other questions you may have about giving stand-up a try!
Life Hacking: Diet, Mind and Motivation
Gary has learned to harness the power of routine / habits to achieve and maintain a highly effective state of physical and mental health throughout the past couple years. He’s found his techniques to be effective, and hope to inspire others in their journey for self improvements.
Swing Dancing
Alice discovered swing dance about 3 years ago and since then have travelled and danced in 8 different countries. She’ll be talking about benefits of learning this dance, along with a sweet demo at the end. 😉
Art of Photo Shooting
Andy believes photography is one of the most powerful ways to share how one sees the world. He’ll be sharing behind the scenes of how to shoot better photos in hopes of inspiring friends to become better photographers.
Currency Trading
Currency trading is the largest money market in the world. The market opens 24/5 and accommodates trillions of dollars of decentralized transactions per day. The speaker presents the basic framework and nomenclature in foreign exchange: bid, ask, spread, leverage. The types of orders that can be placed in a forex market includes: market order, exit order (take profit, stop loss, trailing stop), and entry order. Due to the relatively low fluctuations in currency, most forex traders hold a specific currency for a long time before trading.
Adverse Selection
A talk that dissects adverse selection: situations where buyers have information that sellers do not have, or vice versa. With interactive activities and analysis, the speaker examines how information asymmetry affect car buying and health insurance. When insurance buyers have more information than insurance sellers: assume most life-insurance buyers have a high risk of death, the insurance company that charges an average price for life insurance will lose money.
How to Get Started with DJing
An overview of the user interface of a DJ software that integrates with Spotify. The talk also demo-ed a real DJ mixer and how the buttons correspond to the different functions on the DJ software. DJs use the software and the mixer to edit tracks such that two overlapping tracks can sync to the same key and tempo. The software and mixer also allow for seamless transition from one song to the next.
