"I started running to prove myself at first, but the more time passed, I realized that I made a lot of progress in the field of running. Therefore, I focused more and more, although concentration in one thing was a very hard for me in the past. various studies have shown that running increases concentration and attention" Negar Sammaknejad is the first Iranian woman to finish UTMB. The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) is a single-stage mountain ultra-marathon first held in 2003. It is a race of the Ultra-Trail World Tour. She graduated from UC, Irvine and went back to serve her motherland, Iran. Now she is also a faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University in the Research Institute of Cognitive Sciences in Tehran. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
21 мар 2021
