Stephen Robinson | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Stephen Robinson has spent the past four years learning over a 130 new skills, and documenting the process of learning those skills on his Youtube channel 52skillz and TV show “How to Learn Anything”. He is most well known for learning how to solve a Rubik's cube while skydiving, but has pulled off dozens of other crazy stunts during this time.

Stephen has leveraged this collection of experiences into a fantastic and unique talk, which central themes touch on the value of failure, persistence and why you should always be bad at something. Each talk is the perfect combination of entertaining and inspiring, and will leave the audience fired up to fail forward.

Current position (1)

Founder

52skillz

Degrees (1)

Psychology

University of Alberta

2011 to 2016

Presentations

Presentations (2)

Master Class on Failure Persistence and Learning Anything

60 min - Keynote, Q+A
Can add a 30min skill learning workshop

This talk is designed to entertain the audience just as much as it inspires them. Throughout the presentation, Stephen extracts valuable lessons from when he learned to build a cake baking robot, survive in the wild for 5 days and solve a Rubik's cube while skydiving.

Using the Rubik’s cube skydive stunt as a framework, he will share with the audience the value of persistence, asking for help and most importantly, why failure is the number one ingredient to self improvement.

Key Takeaways

Frame the combination of failure and persistence as the key success
Outline the steps Stephen uses to make learning effective and enjoyable
Explain how to tackle boredom, and get out of your comfort zone
The audience leaves fired up, and ready to go out and learn something new

Master Class on the basics of Youtube

60 min - Keynote, Q+A
Can add a 30min workshop

Over 300 hours of content is uploaded to Youtube every minute, with most of it never reaching more than a few hundred people. How do you stand out against the infinite options people have when they are scrolling through the abyss? This talk will outline the tangible things you can do as a video producer, media company or Youtube creator to stand out, increase your chances of success and get VIEWS.

Key Takeaways

Basics of Youtube’s Algorithm
Importance of Thumbnails and Core Design Tips
Provide Tools for Targeted Keywords
Pre-Production Strategies for Getting Views
Leveraging Other Social Media Outlets
How to Use Google Adwords effectively

Past talks (7)

The Curious Person's Guide to Learning Anything

TEDx UAlberta

Edmonton, Alberta

March 15, 2017

How to Learn Anything

Young Leaders World

Edmonton, Alberta

April 24, 2019

How to Learn Anything

Carghill Sales Conference

Edmonton Alberta