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Two years later, at 22 years old, I came up with a plan. The vision was to build an animal sanctuary that nobody visits --

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

designing the first Macintosh computer it all came back to me and we designed it all into the Mac it was the first

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

paperback form 35 years before Google came along it was idealistic overflowing with neat tools and great

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

They just switched. The three boys came in, four-year-olds with tea towels on their heads. They put these boxes down, and the first boy said, "I bring you gold."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

information from all the booksellers I knew, but the most valuable came from my friend Daniel Golden at Boswell Books in Milwaukee.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

It's a story about a woman named Emma. At 25, Emma came to my office because she was, in her words, having an identity crisis.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Yes, there is. When the Anxious Generation came out 2 years ago,

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

I remember I was working with an engaged couple for about a year, and when they first came to me, they said, "We're 95 percent good. We just want to address the five percent."

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

Let's talk about expectations while you guys are living separately. And by the time they came back to me, I'd never seen them communicate so well.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

Then fast-forward eight years. Bill Gates came to my hometown -- Beijing, China --

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

I searched, "How do I overcome the fear of rejection?" I came up with a bunch of psychology articles about where the fear and pain are coming from.

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

about where the fear and pain are coming from. Then I came up with a bunch of "rah-rah" inspirational articles about "Don't take it personally, just overcome it."

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

And I'll feel myself getting rejected 100 days." And I came up with my own rejection ideas, and I made a video blog out of it.

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

So this is where I went to where I was working. I came downstairs and I saw this big guy sitting behind a desk.

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

This little experiment was just the tip of a very large iceberg that came into view for us in many ensuing years. We've now seen this tendency to be overly pessimistic

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

And then 15 minutes later, she came out with a box that looked like Olympic rings. And I was so touched.

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

by asking. You know, I came from four generations of teachers, and my grandma has always told me,

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

He was like, "No one has done this before." And I came in prepared with powerpoints and my lesson. He said, "Wow, I can use this.

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

the walls of the two-liter bottle lost the game of molecular Red Rover, and all the gas came rushing out. But where could it go?

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

There's also a ton of super boring microcontroller tutorial videos online. So when someone came by and stole a package from my porch, I decided to dedicate a year of my life

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

next to his bed. She came out in the hall to chat with me for a few minutes. It turned out that what she had been reading

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

But what happened at this juncture absolutely fascinates me. My colleague came to me and said, "Kevin, would you mind looking after this patient for me?"

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

you probably know the numbers, it just immediately came to a stop, and it hit him at like, four miles an hour or something.

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

and qualified for Section 8 -- which is a subsidized housing program. I remember being told not to mention my father when the assessor came by, because it would reduce the support we needed.

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

people who never gave up on human values, even against all odds, whether it was political and military leaders who came to our rescue and did not turn a blind eye on our suffering

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

and did not turn a blind eye on our suffering and came to save our lives, democracies around the world

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

basically to get higher on the Forbes list. Every year before the Forbes issue came out, the billionaires issue,

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

he would buy up his own stock, pump up his own stock, and after it came out, he would sell it. Look, it’s like a 10-digit cardiogram there.

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

There's a book called "Get Married." And it came out, of course, on Valentine's Day. The “get married” advocates like to point to data

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

to take one step forward. Eventually, I came to believe that change was slow but steady,

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

Many also said meditation had made me more caring. But then came 26 pages of beatdown. (Laughter)

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

on preparing a talk like this. And then she went and gave it, and she came back and I said, "How did the talk go? Did it go well?"

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

was after a talk I gave and the person came up to me and she said, "Can I give you some feedback?"

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

He wanted to teach them how to speak on a specific subject without using notes. And he said this: “I came to realize...” (Laughter)

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

(Laughter) "I came to realize that conversational competence might be the single most overlooked skill we fail to teach.

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

and in my community, there were two groups: those who didn't die, and those who came back to life. And those who didn't die lived often very tethered to the ground,

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

and be playful and safe and imaginative. Those who came back to life were those who understood the erotic as an antidote to death.

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

Some of us will come back, came back a long time ago, and that little child who comes back

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

And this is where I really started to see the effect of connections and loneliness really came front and center. It was more than struggling to, you know,

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

So early in the COVID-19 pandemic last year, my mom came to stay with me, which led to a change in her usual dietary intake,

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

and then 2020 hit. And the world as we know it came to a screeching halt. We were taking care of our family, our friends, our patients.

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

or you could take care of obligations, and one always came at the cost of the other. So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

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

applied to the life of a school. That's how Brooklyn Steam came to be. It's also how Van Ness Elementary in Washington, DC

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

After months of piloting and iterating, these pieces came together into a coherent model where every student feels safe, connected

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

community leaders. And then they came back to us and said, "We'd like to address homelessness in Seattle."

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

the zigzagging line on the screen next to his bed flattened out, and two men in black came to carry my father away. And I suddenly realized, as my parents’ only child,

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

and who were quite frankly very suspicious of me and my daughter who came along with me on this research trip, because the flip side of social cohesion

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

and beside him his great-niece Sara, who came when I was there to bring fresh fruits and vegetables. And I quickly discovered by being there

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

involved having a barber on the premises to reward the men who came for needed healthcare with a free haircut,

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

at that clinic in South Central Los Angeles. She came into our clinic with a chronic headache. This headache had been going on

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

was very, very troubling. In fact, three weeks before she came to visit us for the first time, she went to an emergency room in Los Angeles.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

trying to seek relief but still coming up short. Veronica came to our clinic, and despite all these encounters with healthcare professionals,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Veronica was still sick. When she came to our clinic, though, we tried a different approach. Our approach started with our medical assistant,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

isn't making the fixes he's required to make." Veronica came back in a few months later. She agreed to all of those treatment plans.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

for a really long time. And then the Renaissance came and everything changed, and we had this big idea, and the big idea was,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual. And for the first time in history,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Let's say there was a company, a tech startup that came to you and said, "We have a great product. It's going to lower your risk of death from heart disease."

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

was released when he took the genie, the genius out of him where it was causing nothing but trouble, and released it back where it came from, and realized that this didn't have to be this internalized, tormented thing.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

In the comment sections of my videos, hundreds of stories came rolling in. Stories like Amanda,

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

she gained the confidence to speak to her dental hygienist, and together they came up with solutions that work around her barriers. She now relies on pre-pasted disposable toothbrushes

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

And fair enough, you probably didn't know where the word "deceased" came from, unless you're some kind of etymology nerd.

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

It's innocent. Many people don't even know where it came from. But for the few people

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

so I had to write back and forth with the receptionist at the front desk. To make matters worse, when the doctor came into the room, he said, "Oh, it's alright.

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

and I was dying for the first time. My doctors came in the room and told me, "David, we've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

But I was so sick, I didn't really know what my doctors meant, until my family came in the room and started hugging me goodbye, and a priest read me my last rites.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

For example, one day, I was reviewing through the results of our platform, and I came across leucovorin, this cheap vitamin derivative,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

and thousands, maybe even millions more, with their disease? And what if we all came together to find these solutions? Because we can't do it alone.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

and the reason why I became a lifelong advocate for peace. He came home from winter break. He went to a party with some of his friends

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

And we are seeing that 60 percent, during his first four years, of new energy came from renewable energy, and coal investments went down almost 20 percent.

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

On Juneteenth in 2020, a Gen Z-er came up to me, that I had grown up with, and said, "Hey, what are you doing for Juneteenth?"

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

And I just said, "I'm going to feed 100 families." I didn't think about it, I don't know where it came from. And from there it was two GoFundMe campaigns later

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

depending on the time of year timekeeping came of age with the invention of mechanical clocks

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measure hours minutes and seconds and then came the Industrial Revolution moderate capitalism is built on

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between my speed and his slowness my wake-up call came when I caught myself ogling a collection of one minute

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When my son Patrick was around three or four years old, I came regularly into his playroom, and he was playing with these blocks with letters.

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

with sampling and hip hop music, even with the phonograph, when it first came out in the 1800s, people back then debated

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

And we have to build stop signs into our lives. When I was in Africa some years ago and then came back, I noticed water.

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

I gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculated grades. What struck me was that IQ was not the only difference

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

After several more years of teaching, I came to the conclusion that what we need in education is a much better understanding of students and learning

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

that is mid 2020, I came up with a surprising way to fill my life with bliss and grace. A magical mantra was nurturing in the garden of my mind.

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

and I had to do something different. The first thought came to my mind, first thing in the morning as I woke up, was, "Thank you."

A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life | JayaShri Maathaa

And then I would thank the people who made the asphalt for the pavement. And I came to realize that my coffee, like so much else in the world,

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

(Laughter) My friend came to me not only because I am a motivation scientist, but also because I'm her friend,

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

And then when I was 11, the cancer came back and stayed for good. We lived between scans, like, that's how our time was meted out.

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

but he was about to take his medication. And I think when it came down to it, saying goodbye to me was just too impossible.

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

(Laughter) And mine came back with a jolt. On the outside, I was successful and thriving,

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

Followed by ten years of “no” after “no” after “no.” Before the next film role came about. But I filled in that time with TV

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

the simple act of thinking was until I came back to Hollywood from my triumphant run on Broadway, and I had this meeting with a big studio Hollywood casting director.

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

I sat down at a restaurant with my parents, Sri Lankan immigrants who came to the country poor, nothing in their pockets,

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

they could be thrown off the ship. Jaylen told us about how she came back home that night crying profusely. Feeling traumatized.

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

but it needed quite a bit of work. So my friends came out on evenings and weekends and painted and cleaned and assembled furniture.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

and painted and cleaned and assembled furniture. When the big day came, we filled their fridge with milk and fresh fruit

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

saying things you might not say to someone you just met. So when I first came across this study a few years earlier, one detail really stuck out to me,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

(Laughter) So the week before the article came out, I was very nervous.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

I asked it to imagine Charlie Brown as thinking of himself as an AI. It came up with this. I thought this was actually rather profound.

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