How native speakers pronounce “attention”

She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And they add up more often than any. I always pay attention when a small joy grabs me. Some say easily pleased, I say frequently happy.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

000 other works of art in the Louvre calling for your attention all of a sudden

Running

Roadrunner living takes away from us time and attention which points up a final deeper reason behind all this rushing

Running

doing is juggling back and forth between activities for 20 seconds your attention is on this then 10 seconds on that

Slow Thinking

damage is the diminishment of the human capacity to pay sustained attention. One-third of all American teens say that

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

For many kids, it's a curse because it messes with a kid's attention systems and their motivational systems.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

Flourishing, and 2 years ago we were talking about attention fragmentation, and one of my students who's a very

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

but this morning I decided to put myself in an experiment and pay close attention to what happened. Instead of keeping to myself

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

This led us to learn something new. We began to pay more attention to the bird and the bird's wings, and just think of all the discoveries

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

what I've learned is I can't teach you if I don't have your attention. But if I can get your attention with something remarkable,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

if I don't have your attention. But if I can get your attention with something remarkable, well, now I suddenly have something to attach the learning to.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

Like a tree standing outside a forest, the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

between trunk and roots and branches, it nonetheless draws our attention and allows us to make observations

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

The exception, the outlier drew our attention and led us to something that taught us very important things about the rest of biology.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

not a single one of you was looking down or was on your phones. I had your undivided attention. And that makes for the most fertile brain soil,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

The very fact that these are rare draws our attention and leads us to new kinds of thinking.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

But when we got to surface streets, you needed to pay attention. And we told employees this is early days:

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

this was just for employees -- "we need you to pay attention." And people immediately unplugged from the driving task,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

They can't concentrate. Their attention plummets, and many will even show behavioral signs that mimic ADHD.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Huh, that map kind of looks like a face. Uh-oh, your attention has started to drift. Throughout the day, your brain has been releasing a waste product

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

(Laughter) And there’s something about that moment of personal attention and that soft voice that just deeply relaxes me.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

had a simple theme to it. It was always when they were receiving positive personal attention from a kind and caring individual.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

are the same brain regions that are activated when people are receiving positive personal attention from a kind and caring person in the real world.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

that your oxytocin levels in your brain increase when anyone gives you positive personal attention in a kind and caring way.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

Like, think about going for a walk in the woods. You could just pay attention to the birds and the trees and the flowers and that would be fine,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Sleep occupies nearly a third of our lives, but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it. This neglect is often the result of a major misunderstanding.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

I was sure that our leaders could solve all of these problems if only I could get their attention. At age 11,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

no control of my future. If I was ever going to get people's attention, this was the moment.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

I was finally in the rooms where decisions were made, and I could bring attention to girls like me who did not have the opportunity to be in school.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

think of interesting topics to discuss in advance, look, nod and smile to show that you're paying attention, repeat back what you just heard or summarize it.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

(Laughter) There is no reason to learn how to show you're paying attention if you are in fact paying attention.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

There is no reason to learn how to show you're paying attention if you are in fact paying attention. (Laughter)

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

I don't have to hear anything I'm not interested in. I'm the center of attention. I can bolster my own identity.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

And look, I know, it takes effort and energy to actually pay attention to someone, but if you can't do that, you're not in a conversation.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

well, then we kind of get a little weird about it. And what we really need to do is pay attention to those differences, because there's magic in those differences,

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

when we're different from one another. We don't actually pay attention to it. And here’s the thing: differences are inevitable.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

It's a part of who we are. We don't even think about it. But if we take a moment and we actually pay attention, what being aware of our privilege does for us

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

The opposite action, lovingly bringing your full attention to the task that matters most, again and again.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

between interacting in person and taking in static content. In orange, you see the brain areas that are associated with attention, social intelligence --

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

time to maybe start paying attention to muscles and to even dip my toe into getting stronger.

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

And hopefully, by the end of the talk, you will also recognize that we should all pay more attention to our daily light diet.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

when they predicted these exact consequences should cause us to pay a little more attention to what they're predicting is in store for us

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

And the fossil fuel industry has used a lot of bright, shiny objects to divert the public's attention and deceive them into thinking there are solutions

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

precise measurements of peaking. And a lot of these sectors are ones that need even more attention: agriculture, steel, etc.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

some of those businesses we start ourselves. We've drawn the attention of folks like the National Science Foundation, who have chosen us as one of 10 innovation communities across the country,

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

that could lead us to a horrific global outcome. That's why we have to be paying attention. BS: I want to talk about one of the recurring tensions here,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

It is a place that Silicon Valley created to steal your time, your attention, by delivering you the equivalent of junk food.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

When we do have these powerful AIs that want the most of our time and attention, we won't have any more time left to connect with each other,

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

others are now slowing down to give food the time and attention it deserves that might mean buying fresh local

Leisure

to generate a paragraph. But what I want to draw your attention to here is that while this text is AI-generated,

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

and the external condition under observation. It helps you to bring your attention inwards. It may be initially just a word running in your head

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

the process behind it is largely invisible. But paying attention to it can tap into that sense of wonder and enrich our lives.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

fighting bullying and hunger, and drawing attention to mental health among young people and the importance of community.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

But they're there. And if we pay attention, then they remind us that ordinary acts of giving

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

which has been robbed of us. And that's our attention. In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

In a society that profits from you being stuck on your phone, giving your attention to art is a rebellious act. That means when you write that little piece of poetry,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

I'm going to say, a fair amount of us are using those numbers. I want you to reclaim the attention that has been robbed of you, and I want you to use it to make something.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

We need less consumption, more creation. Bring back your attention. Reclaim it.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

would probably get a few thousand views. And that felt like a lot of attention on a relatively new relationship.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and I was, to say the least, underprepared for this sort of attention. It's one thing to work up the confidence to write honestly

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

with varying degrees of success. So my first impulse in the face of all of this attention was to become very protective of my own relationship.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

when you've seen something internally and thought, "Uh oh, we need to pay attention to this?" SA: There have been like moments of awe.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And Yoshua Bengio, when he spoke here, said that agentic AI is the thing to pay attention to. This is when everything could go wrong as we give power to AI

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

and then they prioritize their resources of time, energy, attention and money, and they commit to them.

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

about what we should be watching what we should be really paying attention to from Vladimir Putin and from Russia yeah

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

wanted to make sure that everyone was paying attention to the UK they just rebranded it this year's is going to be

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

How do you explain to people that they should pay more attention? Well, I think

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that divorce causes a couple, but it's the impact on the next generation that has my attention. The study of 1,400 people looked at the long-term impact

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

the children they could be raising and the jobs they could be going to, the other family members to pay attention to, the other friends they might want to hang out with.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

It's important in the early days of a new relationship to pay attention to how you're feeling. Are you comfortable with the pace of intimacy?

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

I mean, it feels good, OK? Feels like attention whenever I need it. It's predictable,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

their truth is ingrained, their integrity insustained. Let me call your attention to those who serve as examples. Those who daily give their all,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

and it was clear that, while a lot of attention was being placed on the technical integration, that the culture needed real work.

A Fresh Approach to Resolving Conflicts | Darya Shaikh | TED · TED

in terms of success and happiness. And there's a punchline coming, so pay attention. I sent him a text a few weeks ago,

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

Two weeks is a great barometer for things that you should actually pay attention to. The third thing you have to get good at in order to get good at jumping off cliffs

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

I'm invisible. I want to be the center of attention. I hate to be invisible.

Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age | TED · TED

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a preacher paying attention to the works of Gandhi across the ocean while reading Tolstoy. But I also think of my own papa, who used his position within education

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

Chasing curiosity means that my purpose is constantly unfolding in front of me. All I have to do is pay attention. And similarly, each and every one of us have a special set of interests

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

designed to democratize exploration, and that democratization drew the attention of the show's producers. You can watch the show to see what we discovered,

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

over the next 10 years. So I think if you pay attention to a few specific capabilities, take for example, autonomy.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

which consists of only 19 neurons rather than tens of thousands. And look at its attention map. It's so clean and focused on the road horizon

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

The traditional AI solution gets confused by the background. Look at the attention map, cannot do the task. Liquid networks do not get confused by the background

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

Now, this has consequences. So, people who speak different languages will pay attention to different things, depending on what their language usually requires them to do.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

We're not here today to convince each other. We're here to bring attention to the necessity of preserving this language. Now I will tell you a secret.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

that even good relationships need tending to, they need attention. They need returning to them over and over again.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

I mean, it sounds like understanding what these voices are saying, but are there other things we should pay attention to, to know if it's valuable, if this is a warm connection?

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

RW: For parents, it’s really helping your children to pay attention to how they feel

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

that will make you healthier and happier, it is to pay attention to improving your connections with other people. That that is such a good investment, and it will pay off for years to come.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

"Ladies and gentlemen! May I have your attention, please?" And everyone turned around, startled.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

leaning in and listening to their answer. It looks like paying attention to the stories that they share and noticing that the waiter forgot their lemon wedge.

How to Unlock Your Flirting Superpowers | Francesca Hogi | TED · TED

from indigenous communities to modern life, I turned my attention back to Oaxaca’s rich history of chocolate. And also, I wanted to try to support economically in my region,

Germán Santillán: A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition | TED · TED

but causing these incident commanders to focus their attention on evaluating all of this data and overlooking more important aspects.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED

what could be threatened in the area, and only after that is complete do we turn our attention to strategies and tactics.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED

Or it might be just noise. But turning our attention to it at this point can make it more difficult to see the best solution.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED

why were the leaders of the Nazi party dedicating their attention to destroying art? If art really has no power,

R. Alan Brooks: When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | TED · TED