How native speakers pronounce “bad”

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I pick up my pen and use my voice. Whenever I have a truly bad day, frustrating as it may be, it's a matter of time until my next smile.

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

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I pick up my pen and use my voice. Whenever I have a truly bad day, frustrating as it may be, it's a matter of time until my next smile.

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

systems that I can put into place, that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

that will prevent bad things from happening? Or at least if bad things happen, will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

to put systems in place that will help minimize the damage, or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place. Getting back to that snowy night in Montreal,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

suddenly, you're a pretty good person. And then if you do it in bad times, you could become a great person.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

When shit happens, shine. Meaning, in the worst of times, when really bad things happen, that's when I really want to do the next right thing.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

my brain started screaming at me all the reasons why this was a really, really bad idea. "Clearly, she doesn't want to talk to you,

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

(Laughter) This is also bad handwriting, but I did highlight some key words. You get the idea.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

And that rejection hurt me. It hurt me so bad that I wanted to quit right there. But then I thought,

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

The results here were crystal clear: people thought talking to a stranger was a really bad idea. They thought they would have a more pleasant experience

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

Well, I'm not sure that's a good thing, actually -- Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing. And he was like, "Oh" --

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

And two months later I was teaching a class. This is me -- you probably can't see, this is a bad picture. You know, sometimes you get rejected by lighting, you know?

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

They're fraught with horrible phrases like "I have bad news" or "There's nothing more we can do." Sometimes these conversations turn on a single word:

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

But fortunately, unless you have a specific concern, sleep movement isn't always a bad thing. It's how your body naturally relieves pressure, responds to discomfort,

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

and that anything less than seven hours a night means that we’re doomed to bad health, everything from high blood pressure to Alzheimer’s disease.

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

and we don't want to make the same mistake again. This is one reason why even trying to build conscious AI is a very bad idea. But if conscious AI is just an illusion created by design,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

that it really understands us, even if what it's telling us to do is very bad for us. And finally, the very idea of conscious AI undermines our human nature.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

We think, "Oh my God, maybe I'm gross. And maybe that means that there's something bad or wrong about me." The thing is, that if you de facto associate gross stuff with immorality,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

but they're taking all these great efforts to ensure safety and make sure nothing bad could happen. You take glee in seeing what might happen if you just put it out there.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

You. So let's ditch the bad advice and instead use this formula to ask for what you want in your life.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

Some people even questioned my motives for promoting meditation. It got so bad that at one point my wife, who was reading it with me, got up and went to the bathroom and cried.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

and I am not alone in this. All kinds of bad behavior have been on the rise. Reckless driving,

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

no good. They're all bad. Didn't like any of them."

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

within work, life and your relationships. Now boundaries kind of have a bad reputation, right? Some people think of them as an excuse to work less.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

Or the worst. You receive bad news that rocks you. You're now sitting there

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

when someone else approves. An approval mindset isn't all bad. In fact, we've picked up some pretty useful skills in an approval mindset.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

Now there are some benefits to an approval mindset, remember, and it's not all bad, it will get you somewhere in your life, in your career and in your business.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

"Because we don't want to know. It'll look bad for women. And what are we going to do about it?"

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

So I did what most women do. I felt bad and thought it was my fault. "Well, shoot, I didn't become an Olympian.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

You've got to work all the way through it. Not that the stress is bad for you, it's getting stuck in the middle that is bad for you,

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

Not that the stress is bad for you, it's getting stuck in the middle that is bad for you, never having an opportunity to take your body through the cycle.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

Okay. Some bad news first. People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for you. (Laughter)

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Now, if that estimate is correct, that would make believing stress is bad for you the 15th largest cause of death in the United States last year,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

Here I've been spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your health. So this study got me wondering:

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

to find out who died. Okay, so the bad news first: For every major stressful life experience,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

into a place where no words are required. Nothing bad can come of it, and something good, possibly very helpful, may likely emerge.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

and you start to think this is going to be a disaster, the worst book ever written. Not just bad, but the worst book ever written. And I started to think I should just dump this project.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that it's Tuesday at 11 a.m., and he's no longer a glimpse of God. He's just an aging mortal with really bad knees, and maybe he's never going to ascend to that height again.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

it doesn't make you a good person. Or a bad person. Listen to me.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

and it was a little bit easier to get up off the floor. When we liberate ourselves from the idea that we are a good person or a bad person with care tasks,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

careers changed religions got sober got out of bad marriages in total 1500 hours of interviews ten thousand pages of

Linear

which ended up giving me more urban-design incel-themed meme videos, like one about being fossil fuel-pilled and bad to the bone, and another about being a walk-pilled cardiomaxxer.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

there must be a better way. We developed a theory that explains why these scaling laws are so bad. The basic idea is that large random datasets are incredibly redundant.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

We theoretically predicted and experimentally verified that we could bend these bad power laws down to much better exponentials, where adding a few more data points could reduce your error,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

Our decoded images are lower-resolution than the actual images, but not because our decoders are bad. It's because mouse visual resolution is bad.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

but not because our decoders are bad. It's because mouse visual resolution is bad. So actually, the decoded images

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

However, I have to have to say that we as humans are very bad at detecting lies. In fact, many studies have already confirmed

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

each person is especially good at one of the three phases and especially bad at another I call them our transition superpower

Superpower

and our transition Kryptonite four in ten people say they're bad at the long goodbye

Superpower

and coal investments went down almost 20 percent. So there's good news and there's bad news. A lot’s happened in the last 10 years.

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

as compared to a dollar spent on fossil fuels. Why do they also ignore the fact that methane is as bad as coal when the leaks are factored in, and the leaks are ubiquitous?

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

Now my team is trying to cover 146 solar markets, and some of the data is really bad. Even Germany and Spain are installing more solar than is in their official data.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

is you can't really hide solar modules. The bad thing is that they are distributed, they're quite small installations,

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

There was a boom in solar installations in South Africa because it was a really bad blackout season, and people literally built solar, so they had power.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

we're just not going to know what you're up to. And you might actually be doing something really bad or really amazing. We want to be able to watch.

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

and you don't know what it's learning. That can obviously lead to bad outcomes. Another one would be direct access to weapons.

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

It's easier if I explain. You’re the good guy, and I’m the bad guy, OK? You're six months ahead of me,

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

(Applause) And like any bad habit, you should quit. (Laughter)

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

faster now I'm not here to tell you that fast sex is always bad I like a quickie as much as the next person sometimes a

Romance

What are AIs going to do with that planning ability in the future? Well, bad news. Recent studies in the last few months

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

Well, here's the good news. The Scientist AI could be used as a guardrail against the bad actions of an untrusted AI agent.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

The web is being gradually closed due to unlicensed training. Now this is bad for new AI models, for new entrants to the market, but also for everyone --

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and respond to the opportunity that is given to us. It isn't as bad as it might seem. Actually, when you look at it and experience it,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

and that I had never even considered. He says a bad lid can ruin your coffee. That it can block the aroma,

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

that the more grateful you are, the more likely you are to help others. When you're in a bad state, you're often more focused on your own needs.

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

and all of the shiny things that come along with it, as a way of anesthetizing my own bad feelings of shame, regret and fear.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

across dimensions of life. So yeah, public speaker obviously bad, but what about at work? Husband? Not good enough.