I have lately been obsessing over TED.com. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) was originally started as a conference that brought together people from those three fields, but now the scope is much wider. Every year they invite 50 people who have contributed to their field in some significant way to give the 18-minute speech of their lives at a 4-day conference. The purpose of TED is to encourage interdisciplinary work and they sponsor a huge monetary award for people who develop ideas based on conversations or work they did at the TED conference (such as the One Campaign). The cool thing about TED is not the speakers, but the audience. It's invitation only to the world's thinkers and doers and people who have also contributed something significant to their field. It's a highly concentrated experience of amazingness. [and they address the problem of elitism here http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/185 ]

They are now starting to stream all of the speeches online. Brilliant.

Anyway! Here is Tony Robbins motivating a room full of the world's most motivated people. And he knows what he's doing.

Tony Robbins - Why We Do What We Do
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do.html