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company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife Pixar went on to create the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

is you but someday not too long from now you will gradually become the old and be cleared away sorry to be so dramatic but

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

already know what you truly want to become everything else is secondary when I was young there was an amazing

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and you don't react quickly, you might become the lion's lunch, and then none of those things matter. Unfortunately,

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

of speed together we can become better people leading Better Lives

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It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become. But what we hear less about is that there's such a thing

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And in those dark times and in now, some very good times, I really tried to become a student of what does it take to be successful and what makes great people great?

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

And then if you do it in bad times, you could become a great person. My personal motto of the last 15 years is:

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

convert itself, has to rewire itself to become the neural network of an adult. And that rewiring process, the neurons

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

might be holding you back needlessly. And then you develop habits that then become part of your character and part of who you are.

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

If you just embrace them, they might become your gifts as well. Thank you.

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

You know, we want to think about the ways that this could become part of that fabric because we think it's important

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

people who are in school to be mechanics, to actually become mechanics of autonomous vehicles, because we think that transition doesn't have to pass anyone by.

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

The more adenosine latching onto receptors in your brain, the more tired and inattentive you become. Time for a cup of coffee.

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

He knows how to perform -- they've become full-on productions, and it's a cool way to share what I do with him.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

But having all of that sleep data is causing some people to become obsessed with it, so much so that it’s leading to a condition some call orthosomnia:

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

that AI systems should have their own rights based mainly on the idea that they might be or become conscious. Now if real artificial consciousness is on the way,

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

against genocidal regimes, and make sure that we become the voice of that child who today is standing on the line, to survive,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

because they're not based on who people are, but on who we think they will become. When we predict someone's future as if it was the weather,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

Forbes believes that at that moment, Elon Musk will become the world's first trillionaire. That's a million million.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

People don't resent billionaires. People want to become billionaires. People resent billionaires

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

because unfortunately, for men, sleep deprivation has become a virility symbol. I was recently having dinner with a guy

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

taking over various parts of the business. We don't even have a name for what it might become, but we are about to find out.

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

this was the moment. I decided to become an activist. I gave interviews at protests,

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

And then John decided that to support his friend, he would also become sober. Joy took care of her friend Hannah

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

And what we expected to find is that the Black participants would become more synchronized, physiologically, to those whites.

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

Those people that go straight to "maybe they don't like me," they actually become cold, they actually become withdrawn and they reject people.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

they actually become cold, they actually become withdrawn and they reject people. And then they get rejected in return.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

He said that sensing this acceptance, the speaker will become less and less vulnerable and more and more likely to open up the inner recesses

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

to help us integrate that and to help us connect to all sides of ourselves so that we sort of begin to become who we fully are. WPR: It's just so interesting how much vulnerability and shame play into this.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

of our free choice, of our preferences, of our identity -- desire that has become a central concept as part of modern love and individualistic societies.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And I will learn to love in a certain way that will become burdened with extra worry and extra responsibility and extra protection,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

I believe that social health will become as ingrained in our collective consciousness as mental health is today.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

In this future, I hope that social health will become so deeply woven into the fabric of our culture

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

and we start to internalize social norms and become much more self-conscious. And as we grow up,

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

we start to act in ways that avoid that feeling. We become conditioned to look for who we are through the lens of those expected norms.

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

The other, risk of losing my identity. Who I am or who I want to become. Which one am I going to take?

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

I felt bad and thought it was my fault. "Well, shoot, I didn't become an Olympian. So that's why they don't want to share it with me"

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

And if you're really interested in sports medicine, why don't you become an orthopedic surgeon?" Usually sports is just run by orthopedic surgeons.

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

it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay. In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

checking in at every meeting, saying, "Where are you at?", asking people to become aware of and more clear in expressing how they feel

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

Some people have even suggested we should snort oxytocin... to become more compassionate and caring. But here's what most people don't understand about oxytocin.

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

to learn storytelling, to become certified as outdoor trip leaders and community advocates.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

we're going to keep doing Septima's work until her words become reality, until Black women are no longer dying,

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

and emotional reward. And these areas become much more engaged when we're interacting with a live partner.

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

But every once in a while, very rarely, something would happen, and one of these performers would actually become transcendent. And I know you know what I'm talking about,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

We've been whitewashing Black slang since the days of "cool" and "high five," which, at this point, have become so mainstream they're just seen as regular words.

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

like losing a spouse or being fired sometimes become catalysts for reinvention disruptors are simply deviations from

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losing her father was so great she quit her job in journalism to become a mortician there are three car pileups a man I

Lifequakes

I too will have to die Franco went on to become a pioneering psychologist who changed all of our Lives his core idea

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it took him nine days Man's Search for meaning would become one of the defining books of the century as Frankel wrote

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but if you don't learn from suffering then your life will become truly meaningless the essential thing to understand about

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and it is immediately transformed into a professional influencer clip. So all of this may become a reality, but I think it's still not realizing the full potential of these models.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

instead look at enough of these times and certain patterns become clear for starters vangana was right

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Under the technological gaze, I worry that our bodies become projects to be worked on ... forever. And if we don’t slow down this body augmentation arms race

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

Sadly, our reef, my reef has become the poster child for climate change. And here's why.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

to a higher purpose from that moment Augustine would become one of the most influential thinkers in

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revisit and rewrite the story of who we are and who we want to become next we're going to discuss steps you

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but very few essential community organizations have the know-how to become a permanent part of the city's public safety workforce.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

or the things that have been done to us. Those things are only informing who we become, they don't define who we are.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

want to devote more time to giving back maybe we become run down from raising children or caring for aging relatives

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and want to do something for ourselves maybe we become burned out from serving others and want to focus on our own

Meaning

it's a way to course correct when we've become too weighted in one area but shape-shifting is also a reminder

Meaning

unexpected directions we've become accustomed in recent years to the language of resilience

Meaning

we bounce back return to our former lives become ourselves again all these Expressions imply that after a

Meaning

s they volunteer at a museum March in a rally become a mentor just as important as starting these

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The EU has set a very ambitious goal to become climate neutral by 2050, and this is part of the European Green Deal.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

committing to serious methane action. Of course, all of this commitment and pledges need to become real. And Europe is just the beginning.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

some even found a new happiness and decided that slower living might become a choice

Slow

life these days about how fast and busy it has become why has family life sped up so much

Family

start their relationships with sex and if that goes well they might become friends with benefits

Romance

sometime after that they may go on a first date become a couple and make their relationship public

Romance

Training on copyrighted work without a license has rapidly become standard across much of the generative AI industry. But this training,

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

but slowly die inside? What if we do become super productive with AI, but at the same time, we get these perfect companions

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

I decided to take my very expensive MBA and use it to become a journalist. That decision did not have what we MBAs like to call

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

and wondering if I agree with it. I've become a professional validator of a robot's opinions. (Laughter)

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

Where the knowledge worker no longer engages with the materials of their craft. We've become intellectual tourists. In our own work, we visit ideas.

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

of working directly with the material, and which become problematic when that material engagement becomes intermediated.

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

when that material engagement becomes intermediated. Basically, we've become middle managers for our own thoughts. So what's the score?

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

So I left the classroom, and I went to graduate school to become a psychologist. I started studying kids and adults

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

(Laughter) become wiser so that you are more motivated and hence better able to achieve your goals,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

And what I found was that if you act as if you're grateful, you eventually become grateful for real. The power of our actions to change our mind is astounding.

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

What if I wake up in 50 years and I discover I have not become the man I wanted to be. I'm guessing some of you have similar thoughts,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

until I made it big on Broadway in what has become the iconic musical of the '80s, because I say so,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

and tell them that my vision for my career was to become the CEO of Procter and Gamble. (Laughter)

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

Creativity is our power to enact change. It is how we become powerful. And so many people are leaving our creativity on the sideline,

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

That's his legacy. I'm not asking you to become a world-famous artist, though, I will absolutely back you if that's what you choose to do.

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

So my first impulse in the face of all of this attention was to become very protective of my own relationship. I said no to every request for the two of us

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and I said no to every request for photos of the two us. I think I was afraid that we would become inadvertent icons for the process of falling in love,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

"I think she just wants to be friends." "But did you become better friends?" I asked. "Did you feel like you got to really know each other after doing the study?"

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and it'll get to know you and it'll become this extension of yourself, this companion, this thing that just tries to, like, help you be the best,

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

get richer, is can they handle it, or does it become irresistible? Does the power and the wealth make it impossible

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

it would feel very disorienting. But anything does become sort of the new normal, so it doesn't feel any different.

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

an unprecedented way um since the United States has become uh the world's superpower that that's what we mean when

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

now that last bet didn't work the Chinese got rich but they didn't become responsible Stak holders they didn't

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

responsible Stak holders they didn't become Democratic they didn't become free market they didn't support rule of

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

be watching for in terms of risks uh I think Iran this year has become the most important Middle East risk as opposed to

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

It's just going to become more expensive. For 1° of

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

in which they might have to seek health care access, that that could become evidence which could be used against them. This is really personal information.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED