"Thinking rationally? Think again" – Eddie Obeng's Presentation from TEDGlobal 2012

Chris Anderson, Bruno Guissani and the team at TED.com have allowed an enormously diverse group of people to share ideas packaged into short, bite-size chunks – using the Pentacle new world Rule “Chunk it or Junk it!”. Over the years, speakers from Bill Clinton to Ken Robinson and Richard Dawkins have participated in TED conferences. TEDGlobal 2012 was no exception and included Pentacle’s Eddie Obeng sandwiched between Ruby Wax and Macy Gray at one end and Don Tapscott and Antony Gormley at the other.

There was obviously a good reason for Eddie to give his talk, although the title, Thinking Rationally? Think Again makes his motivation for participating intriguing. Insisting that “The real 21^st century is not so obvious to us, so instead we spend our time responding and reacting to a world we know and understand but which no longer exists”, he guides us through a 12-minute whirlwind of turning well-regarded beliefs, orthodoxy and ideas upside down.

The video, out in October, can be watched at TED.com, or if you prefer reading blogs the TED Blog summarises it beautifully.