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born my biological mother was a young unwed graduate student and she decided to put me up for

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wife except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a

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had saved their entire life so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay it was

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didn't have to take the normal classes I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this I learned about

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but I was still in love and so I decided to start over I didn't see it then but it turned

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But I lacked the courage to bolt. I decided that given the circumstances, the only thing I could do

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after waiting around for someone else to open a bookstore, I decided to do it myself. This was not the fulfillment of a

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

She said she thought she might like to work in art or entertainment, but she hadn't decided yet, so she'd spent the last few years waiting tables instead.

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We took a few weeks to explore that question, and they decided to test it out. They got a short-term lease on an apartment nearby

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

I put other people in experiments for a living, but this morning I decided to put myself in an experiment and pay close attention to what happened.

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

and you’ve got nothing to even start with, smarty pants.” Nevertheless, I decided the experiment must continue, so I ignored that part of my brain.

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So when someone came by and stole a package from my porch, I decided to dedicate a year of my life to making the world's least boring microcontroller tutorial video.

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and they were like, picking up things from the backseat and plugging things in. And so that's when we decided, you know, cars have gotten safer over the years, right?

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But what hasn't gotten safer is the human. And so we decided we're patching around the problem. Actually, the way to make sure that this multi-ton vehicle

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When did you stop remembering phone numbers? There was no moment you decided to forget them. They just moved from your head to your pocket.

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Three weeks before that argument, one of my own teammates decided to try and take me down so that he could argue the case.

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

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I actually finished my summer project in under a month, and I decided that my best bet would be to negotiate to be placed on another team halfway through the summer,

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

John got him into recovery. And then John decided that to support his friend, he would also become sober.

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

turned me into a quasi self-help guru. And a few years into this trip, I decided that I wanted to get a sense of whether my inner work was having outer results, you know?

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

At times, it can really feel like our social fabric is unraveling. So after my 360, I decided to do some work on myself and to see if I could also learn some things

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

So when I headed back to med school, I decided to contact the US Olympic Committee, what's now known as the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

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So then I did the other thing that women often do. I decided to put my head down and just get overeducated and overcompensate.

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or typical middle school behavior, I decided to investigate. I became a mentor for an afterschool program called My Brother's Keeper.

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

My curiosity was piqued. I decided to research the science and the habits of the place, and I started with the genetic profile.

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and make more upstreamists. So we decided to start an organization called Health Begins,

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Maybe I'm not capable of being a good mom to two kids." I decided to post a joke video on TikTok one day about my house-turned-disaster.

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

The entire reason these aesthetics exist is because the TikTok algorithm has decided that words like cottagecore qualify as trending metadata,

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

Earlier this year, I was in Taipei, Taiwan, where I decided I wanted to make a TikTok about Cup Noodle. Only this brilliant TikTok never happened

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

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

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is that this is a marathon, not a sprint. One year I decided to do a 100-mile bike race, which was a mistake.

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Tech companies that once partnered with the military had decided that national security was someone else's problem. The result?

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And with so few willing to solve that problem, I decided that I would try my best. So I founded a company called Anduril.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

and many of my colleagues moved from university to industry. I decided to stay in academia. I wanted AI to be developed for good.

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

I saw first hand how an AI can help someone, and I decided to build an AI that would help other people feel better. This is how Replika,

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

Twenty years ago, I decided to take my very expensive MBA and use it to become a journalist.

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like, spinning jennies that could spin thread at record speeds. So they decided to destroy the machines. Honestly, I have some sympathy.

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

because I gave him that note before he died. So Sandy decided to write her mom a note, and she included an honoring set of memories

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Go on quests. So I decided I'm going to take my son up on his challenge. It seemed simple enough.

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And to make it even simpler, I decided to focus on just one item. An item I can't live without:

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you name it. I decided to call my project "Thanks a Thousand."

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

(Laughter) But inspired by Ed, I decided to really let the coffee sit on my tongue for five seconds --

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really he found out this was going to kill him and quickly. And that's when he decided that he was going to teach my brother and I

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the AI basically announces that she's read all of his emails and decided he's a great writer and you know, persuades a publisher to publish him.

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in what our hundreds of millions of users want as a whole. I think a lot of the room has historically been decided in small elite summits.

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was all for it. So they decided to try the dreams within conflict conversation. So when Alison asked Jenny,

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And I really appreciate, Chris, it was so punchy of you to -- And we should talk about why you decided to put me first as the opening talk of the conference.

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

a police investigation into the Brexit donor was voided. And at that point the Court of Appeal decided that the defense fell away. So it was the continued publication by TED,

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

what might have gone differently? Well, it's possible that Lisa would have decided that she would take loans or work a part-time job

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so that Andy wouldn't have had to bear the entire burden for that. And Andy might have decided to take that job in that other city and maybe the two of them would have commuted for a couple of years

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So if they had thought about their split, maybe they would have decided differently, maybe Lisa would have thought,

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and whether we should sort of give this last Hail Mary effort. And the doctor decided to try the medicines. And amazingly, Joseph responded incredibly well.

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that weren't made for their disease. But about three years ago, we decided to really scale things. And that was with the creation of this nonprofit Every Cure.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

>> So when we think about this then now everyone has decided keep them close, don't let them roam as you know as you

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I had introduced into our home. And we decided it was worth it. We decided -- we chose -- to do what it took to find our way,

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And we decided it was worth it. We decided -- we chose -- to do what it took to find our way, turning towards each of those sleepy hedgehogs,

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And so I want to tell a very personal story now. And I decided this as I was walking here, that I should share this particular story.

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and with my brother is that I decided to write a book. But it felt like I was exploiting them,

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Evo generated DNA that not only looked realistic, but that actually functioned. And so next, we decided to go for that moonshot, to try and generate a whole genome from scratch.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

Or maybe it's with friendships. You've decided, AI is great for processing, but what I'm not going to do is use it as a substitute

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

And that doesn't mean that you're rigid. All that means is that you've decided, we're going to do the hard work of being together and showing up for each other by ourselves.

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

a baby I needed to get to know. So I decided to give it a try. My first spoken-word poem,

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as a way to encourage my friends to do spoken word with me. But Phil and I decided to reinvent Project V.O.I.C.E., this time changing the mission

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

teach us that our future with AI and robotics won't only be decided by these large, sweeping philosophical discussions,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

and they say no pets are allowed in the icon in the window, and be decided upon like a policy, each building or business. Or this could look like government-issued ID cards for robots,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

and started to research their lives, and then decided to write a book about it. And the burning question about Alma-Tadema

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AI was asked to produce and maximize the paper clips. And that AI decided to kill humans to utilize them as additional resources, to turn you into paper clips.

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in a campus parking lot, when I decided I was going to commit suicide.

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

which creates stories, audio stories, designed to turn women on. I decided to focus on audio because it's so immersive and so evocative and so personal.

The Relationship Between Sex and Imagination | Gina Gutierrez | TED · TED

I felt completely broken in mind, body and spirit. So I decided to set off on a healing journey. I packed a surfboard and a suitcase,

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

When I was 12 years old, I came home from school one day and I decided to read my history book on the front lawn.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

When my father came home and saw this, he flew into a rage. He decided homework shouldn't be done on a lawn, it should be done at a desk.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

I had to assess a few things about myself, and I decided to do a little self-help ritual called ... “Take a note, give a note.”

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

and I didn’t want to live that life anymore. And so I decided to change my life. And I left all of that alone.

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

When I was a student studying robotics, a group of us decided to make a present for our professor's birthday. We wanted to program our robot to cut a slice of cake for him.

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

(Laughter) So we decided to to revisit this problem and try to have a robot work very fast.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

and we would like to catch up with the civilized world. Countries that were once like us, but decided to strive for development, do research,

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

For this project, “Glacier Dreams,” we decided not to use existing models. Instead, we decided to collect our own image,

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED

we decided not to use existing models. Instead, we decided to collect our own image, sound, scent and climate data.

How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED · TED

Given the tone of the coverage, you'd think that we had decided to shut down the LHC and go home. (Laughter)

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

This question comes up so often with any innovation in science, we decided to actually identify just how often, when humans intervene, did they cause the disasters that people fear so much.

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Sharon left him. She had decided to move to the West Coast to be closer to her children, and she didn't want a long-distance relationship.

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

When I first discovered documentaries, I decided the world was run by people who were selfish and greedy, that the rest of society didn't care.

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They weren't born leaders. They simply decided to make themselves personally responsible. Now, solving climate change is not your responsibility

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

In 2007, six years after we met, my partner and I decided to get married. Meeting John had been the discovery of great happiness

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No one had ever taught me how to date, so I decided to teach myself. I went on Match.com,

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

No longer looking for the "right" answers to my question, I decided to find out who they were, what excited them in life, what they cared about.

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

and half the price of the one cloverleaf that they decided to rebuild in that city. These changes and others like them changed

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

Ten years ago, I was invited to create an artwork in Paris. I decided to invite 50 couples from around the world to a sightseeing boat on the Seine,

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

who was a gardener in the United States and has decided to come back to his community to be part of this taste movement.

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It disturbed me so much that I decided that I was going to give up riding and driving in motorized vehicles. That’s a big thing in California.

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Mothers are like that. And so, on my 27th birthday I decided, because I argued so much and I talk so much, that I was going to stop speaking

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

I didn’t. And so I decided I’d better do this for another day, and another day, and another day until finally,

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

I tried to study the environment by reading books. And I decided that I was going to go to school. So I did. I walked up to Ashland, Oregon,

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

But that changed when I was 18. I decided that I needed Hebrew to get a job, and going to study Hebrew in that classroom

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of hatred and of ignorance that separates us. I decided that it doesn't matter what happens to me. What really matters is how I deal with it.

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What really matters is how I deal with it. And therefore, I decided to dedicate my life to bringing down the walls that separate people.

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His father took notice of this and he sat us down in the living room. He loved us both, and he decided it was time to set us straight. He said, "It's great that you two love these comic books,

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So after a few years and against all the wise advice I heard in my life, I decided to close my insurance agency and try my hand at writing graphic novels. I wanted to address the social issues that I was passionate about.

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