I share Warren Buffett’s philosophy that we should learn something new every day. To help you accomplish this in your own life, I thought a short list of video resources for learning would be useful to you. Note that, while this list is short, the number of actual videos available through these links is huge.
Google Resources
Google provides at least two video learning resources that you will probably find of interest:
There is an enormous amount of material at both of these locations. You can find anything from talks on mindfulness and GTD to talks on stem cells to talks by authors of controversial books (and noncontroversial ones, too). A typical video is about an hour in length.
Stanford University on iTunes
I’ve mentioned before that Standford University makes a lot of coursework (and other material) available via iTunes. Some of the material is in video format and some is just audio, but it is all high quality.
The length of the material varies with the subject. Much of the coursework is split into several one or two-hour segments. For example, famed physicist Leonard Susskind gives a series of about 9 lectures on quantum entanglment which run about 2 hours each (all are in video format). I plan on watching this series in the near future.
TED Talks
One of my favorite video “channels” is the TED Talks series. You will find fascinating talks here by thought leaders in a variety of subject areas. The length of the videos varies. The ones I’ve watched have typically been 15 to 20-minutes each.
As an example of these talks, I recently found the following one on Positive Psychology, by Professor Martin Seligman:
Seligman Talk (23 minutes)
This is a fascinating video in which Prof Seligman discusses how we are starting to learn more about what makes people happy, and that the results are a bit surprising (for example, living for meaning yields longer-lasting happiness than seeking pleasure). Prof Seligman also mentions that he runs a website that has resources that will help you figure out where you are on the happiness scale.