If you haven't watched a TED Talk yet, I highly recommend you do!  TED is a non-profit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading" and stands for Technology, Entertainment & Design, an annual conference that started in 1984.  Since then, they've created a great video library of short (20 minutes or less) lectures on lots of interesting topics. 

The video embedded in this post is a great example of a shorter TED Talk.  If you like it, don't stop there!  Many of the speakers are also authors and you can follow up a TED Talk with the book!  For example, Sir Kenneth Robinson's TED Talk is one of the most-watched videos online.  And SJPL carries his book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative. 

Watch, then read!