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Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run — competing at the national and international level as a champion sprinter, and setting world records at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta. She never gave up, she got stronger and now she can motivate other people!

Find out more about this amazing person in her three moving talks (at TED) on: running (0:20:47), her 12 pairs of legs (0:10:02) and the recent one on the opportunity of adversity (0:21:58), where she redefines disability. Read more…

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Lewis Pugh is a British environmental campaigner and swimmer. He gives motivational speeches and performs extreme actions to draw attention to environmental problems. At TED he talks about symbolic swims across the North Pole (0:18:51) and a glacial lake under the summit of Mt Everest (0:09:45). Read more…

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Very interesting lecture of late Randy Pausch he gave at the Carnegie Mellon university on 18^th September 2007. In the last lecture he tells how celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities.

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