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when you find it and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on so keep

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on so keep looking don't settle

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Following off from Helen yesterday, this is probably why women are better at multitasking. Because you are, aren't you?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

to provide targeted information get better outcomes for everybody. That's one example.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

So flying cameras all over the place to get better information is super impactful. But the same kind of concept applies to drone delivery.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

of speed together we can become better people leading Better Lives

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"My 20s are almost over, and I have nothing to show for myself. I had a better résumé the day after I graduated from college." And then it starts to sound like this:

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

But what Emma needed wasn't some therapist who really, really cared. Emma needed a better life, and I knew this was her chance. I had learned too much since I first worked with Alex

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

I told Emma the time to start picking your family is now. Now you may be thinking that 30 is actually a better time to settle down than 20, or even 25,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

wildlife migration routes, land-based information, to better understand the problems in the context of the whole world. Now we know.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

You control you, it's just a much better, brighter way to live. And so I want to walk you through five different things

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

At first we thought this would be fine, maybe even better. But quantity pushes out quality, and

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

You make each one of those decisions. And every one either leads to happiness and feeling better about yourself, or sadness and feeling like crap.

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

It was studying other people who were smarter than me, who were better than me, more talented than me, better read than me,

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

who were better than me, more talented than me, better read than me, who just knew a lot more than me, who were healthier than me.

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

You can put healthy, edifying content into your mind, have a better reality that you then share with other people. Four, you control how you're seen.

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

My students at NYU say they learn a lot better when people aren't on devices, when they don't have

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

There's all this research on how print is better. For elementary school, let's just get

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

And this is where it clicked for me. OK, I can build a better company. I can build a better team or better product,

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

OK, I can build a better company. I can build a better team or better product, but one thing for sure:

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

but one thing for sure: I've got to be a better leader. I've got to be a better person.

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

I've got to be a better leader. I've got to be a better person. I cannot let that six-year-old keep dictating my life anymore.

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

the trouble I have is getting them to come back. These conversations go much better than people expect that they will. This is also true when we have people

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

even those political disagreements, go better than people expect them to. We find in our research that we have tremendous power

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

When we ask people to express their gratitude to someone they love, they leave their recipients feeling even better than the expressers predict they would.

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

even if just for a moment. My friendships are better. I think my marriage is stronger.

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

I think my marriage is stronger. I think I'm a better father. These changes didn't happen to me overnight.

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

there was this flower in Connie's backyard. I'm sure it looks better now. (Laughter)

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

empower us to reach out a little bit more often than we might otherwise, to make both our own lives and those we reach out to a little bit better. You want to change your life for the better?

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

to make both our own lives and those we reach out to a little bit better. You want to change your life for the better? I suggest keeping some data-driven courage in mind.

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

my friends in the front row, you should be warned, it will get worse before it gets better. (Laughter)

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

Or because, and I mean this with all sincerity, he had way better hair than whatever I was trying to figure out here. (Laughter)

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

in an experiment. And the outcome will be either a better or a worse result for you. As long as medicine works well,

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

particularly when combined with a pillow between the knees, to better align the spine. But as it turns out, which side you lie on may make a difference.

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

(Applause) I think it was a couple of months ago -- you would know it much better -- I saw a headline, it was a very clickbaity headline:

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

I think what you're saying is how comfortable are humans with this technology being better drivers than humans? You know, it goes back to the status quo.

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

and that job was really important to him. And for better or for worse, it was also a really hard job.

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

because I know that, like ripping off a Band-Aid, it's better to get it over with quickly. Sound brutal, but perhaps familiar?

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

You close your laptop and it's gone. But while your laptop is closed, the AI keeps getting better at your job. And if we stay separate, the AI is not your tool.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

and they're less likely to drop out. Not surprisingly, they do better academically. Standardized test scores in math and reading go up by 2 to 3 percentage points.

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

The tool was great at it, so you let the tool do it. And while something left your head, a better thing took its place. You stopped checking your spelling and you started writing.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

You don’t even let it restart for updates, so you never know just how much better it could be. That was me:

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

Or maybe you got a bit sleepy. So isn't it a no-brainer that cannabis can help us sleep better? Well, I've been researching this topic as a sleep physiologist,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

We found that when people took the cannabinoid medication, they actually didn't sleep much better when they were in the laboratory. This may be because it was just a single night,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

and they were awake for ten minutes less each night. They also reported that they felt they slept better, and they felt more rested on waking up each day.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

we really need to generate more evidence and to understand the science better. Our research here in Perth is leading the way

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

For those of you who were hoping to get the green light to use cannabis to get a better night's sleep, you'll just need to wait for the evidence to grow.

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

And they click through them all. And they want to know which lens helps you see better. “One or two?”

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

so that these decisions can be made in a way that can better the societies and better human values and protect human values.

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

They justify value-laden decisions under the pretense of facts. Better understanding prediction matters more than ever because we're relying on forecasting more than ever with AI.

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

Rebel against tyrannical predictions. Let's be brave enough to imagine and fight for a better world. Perhaps then all of us can make the future bright after all.

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

but believe it or not, you might be better off closing the books, putting away the music, and going to sleep.

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

or even stress, will be better recorded due to the hippocampus' link with emotion. But one of the major factors contributing to memory consolidation is,

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

Because what we need in the future is more people spending more time with AI to better understand how powerful and transformative this technology really is.

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

Not less than, not better, just a different path

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

Faith that people would do the right thing. Trust that when leaders said they cared about making our lives better, they meant it.

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

And lastly, let's elevate single living to be on par with married living. Not better, not worse, just a different path

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

What if I told you there's another way, a better way, a more authentic way, designed especially for women,

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

come in with an offer for a negotiation, tell them what they could have done better next time. And I think we all kind of know what it feels like

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

to the person who just lost. What are some things that they could do better next time? What are some potential missteps?

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

is not selfish. It makes you better at loving other people. And the flip side of this was on full display in my 360.

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

it can make it very difficult for you to climb up, difficult to kind of know where you stand, what you should do better, what you should stop doing,

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

let me put it to you another way. The view is so much better when you pull your head out of your ass. (Laughter)

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

So, I'm going to teach you how to interview people, and that's actually going to help you learn how to be better conversationalists. Learn to have a conversation

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

but honestly, if you just choose one of them and master it, you'll already enjoy better conversations. Number one: Don't multitask.

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

at how we've traditionally experienced friendship, and then you look forward at how we could build better relationships, better platonic relationships.

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

and then you look forward at how we could build better relationships, better platonic relationships. And so if we could just talk a little bit about sort of that first section,

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

everyone has some hidden, amazing thing about them. And honestly, I think it's what makes me a better host. I keep my mouth shut as often as I possibly can.

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

But if we understand more broadly the importance of friendship and how it makes every other relationship in our life better, we will see that there's actually synergy between these relationships.

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

That my spouse having friends outside of this relationship is what makes them a better spouse for me. WPR: So, so much of it has to do with the way we just think

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

told me that people who have gone through more setbacks are better at problem-solving, reasoning, logic. They're able to recognize the signs more quickly,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

we're not necessarily considering how we might improve, how we could do things better. But the aftermath of a setback is when we come up with our best ideas.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

I sometimes would hear people say, "I want more sex," but generally, people want better sex, and better is to reconnect with that quality of aliveness,

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

but generally, people want better sex, and better is to reconnect with that quality of aliveness, of vibrancy, of renewal, of vitality,

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

to start contributing to my family's expenses once again. Better yet, I was starting to reframe the narrative

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

My boss sent me down and told me that I needed to work on connecting better with my clients and building relationships with them.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

or boring thing about your day," you're more likely to get a better answer. So in a similar way,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

or lunches where they happen to chit chat with people. Leaders need to have a better pulse on their team and be more intentional

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

their preferences, is a great way to use the tools that you have to connect better. And if possible,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

work is a prolonged source of stress and strain. We can do better. Let's do our part to connect a little more,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

But boundaries are actually what empower you to do more and do it better. Boundaries give your ambition a sense of rhythm

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

An approval mindset tap dances on our caveman brain and reminds us that belonging feels better than almost anything else. It explains why many of us,

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

that connections provided through social networks and communities are associated with better health and quality of life. So until we fix the systems that are harming our health,

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

or at least those with strong social connections, have better health outcomes than those who are more socially isolated.

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

leads to greater persistence, higher learning, better employee engagement, better performance and better retention.

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

better employee engagement, better performance and better retention. It's the alignment that makes the achievement possible.

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

I had improved fitness, overall better health, more confidence. We know that studies show that sports participation in girls in high school

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

and women in college correlates with better GPAs and higher graduation rates. I lived that statistic.

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

so that we could talk about what we need to know about female athletes. If people knew better, they could do better. So we wanted to educate people.

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

six percent of the articles, focused solely on women. We've got to do better. We can't just apply studies and data from male rats

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

This is excellent news, because it means that you don't have to wait for your stressor to be gone before you can begin to feel better, because you can deal with the stress while the stressor still exists.

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

Just that can give you enough of a release to feel a little bit better to take one more step. The cure for burnout is not self-care.

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

I no longer want to get rid of your stress. I want to make you better at stress. And we just did a little intervention.

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

And when you choose to view stress in this way, you're not just getting better at stress, you're actually making a pretty profound statement.

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

KM: Yeah, and one thing we know for certain is that chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

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

You might be wondering: Can you even feel better if your challenges aren’t disappearing? Absolutely.

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

And I know that this is lifelong work and there's no quick fix, but they show me that a better future is possible. What if masculinity meant having a healthy and balanced confidence,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

When our emotional mind is on fire, it's so hard to think clearly. But we're so good at getting better with the right tools, and STOP is like a quick one.

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