The TED curators offer valuable tips for landing a spot on the TED stage—or really any other top-tier speaking event. Every few days, TED releases new videos featuring impressive speakers—from Pope Francis to Elon Musk to Jane Goodall to Temple Grandin—sharing world-changing ideas. For those of us sitting at home scanning through this data bank of more than 3,000 videos, these talks can prompt us to rethink some aspect of our life.