How native speakers pronounce “decisions”

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pretty scary at the time but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made the minute I dropped out I could

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

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pretty scary at the time but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made the minute I dropped out I could

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

They know where things are. They know what they are, and they can use all of that information to make intelligent decisions. So you might have noticed that I left a drone flying in Japan.

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

That means that eight out of 10 of the decisions and experiences and "Aha!" moments that make your life what it is

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

From the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed, you have scores of decisions to make that only you make. Do you doomscroll, or do you meditate?

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

At night, do you get hammered, or do you get some sleep? You make each one of those decisions. And every one either leads to happiness and feeling better about yourself,

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

becoming dependent on ChatGPT to make their personal decisions and to draft their texts and their emails.

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

Instead, 50 questions thrown at you in 30 minutes. I'm making hundreds of decisions in real time. Every argument I choose to make

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

it secured visa-free travel to Europe and applied for EU membership. So you've been in the rooms where those big decisions get made. You have an insider’s perspective that none of us know

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

when I sit around those rooms and join world leaders where these decisions are made, We try to make an impact by sharing our story

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

but also to be heard and to have an impact on how these decisions are made today that may not impact necessarily my country very much,

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

but they do impact humanity at the much larger level. And we need to make sure that we are part of those decisions. AH: OK, I want to pick up on something you said there,

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

that that is also strategically in their interest, so that these decisions can be made in a way that can better the societies and better human values

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

And you know how many people around the world have their hopes on those decisions that are made in those rooms. And you know, when I would visit the United Nations

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

Predictions are often power plays in disguise. They justify value-laden decisions under the pretense of facts. Better understanding prediction matters more than ever

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

Algorithmic predictions are building this Kafkaesque world in which we can no longer contest decisions because they're not based on clearly defined criteria.

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

And we're currently not having it. Meanwhile, dozens of algorithms are making decisions about your life right now.

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

have had brilliant leaders in business, in finance, in politics, making terrible decisions. So a high IQ does not mean that you're a good leader,

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

Presidents and prime ministers all over the world wanted to meet me. I was finally in the rooms where decisions were made, and I could bring attention to girls like me

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

(Laughter) Did you know that we make 35,000 decisions every day? As women, so many of those decisions are made to optimize for other people.

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

Did you know that we make 35,000 decisions every day? As women, so many of those decisions are made to optimize for other people. What does my boss need?

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

which means we're not listening to each other. And we make decisions about where to live, who to marry and even who our friends are going to be,

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

If you have any possible means of reducing the everyday stressors by getting involved in administrative decisions, that's great, but that's almost never the case.

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

than trying to avoid discomfort. And so I would say that's really the best way to make decisions, is go after what it is that creates meaning in your life

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

but also provides clear and understandable explanations behind its decisions. And I envision a future

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

I want to see brands think very carefully on how to avoid nudging consumers towards behaviors or decisions they wouldn't make if fully informed.

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

And also we work with politicians so they can base their decisions on science. Fish is the main source of protein for Indigenous people in the Amazon.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

But you can see a pattern where they might get there. So a lot will now depend upon the key decisions made in the US and China and in the companies in both places.

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

A lot of these are not technical issues. They're really business decisions. It's certainly possible to build a surveillance state,

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

I think that the ethics of warfare are so fraught, and the decisions so difficult, that to artificially box yourself in and refuse to use sets of technology

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

I think we should be willing to bear those costs and let the future unfold, because we're all the beneficiaries of previous decisions to prioritize future growth over protecting the present.

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

but interactionaly effortless thought process. It reflects Clara’s decisions, Clara’s judgments, Clara’s unique personal, professional expertise.

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

She read the relevant portions of the document herself. She constructed her decisions on her argument herself. And ultimately it can be said she has written this document herself.

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

Our lives are made up of small moments and small decisions. Left or right,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

a colleague, a stranger. Some of these decisions are not like the others. And with the world in this much pain,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

And with the world in this much pain, it might seem futile to be focusing on those kinds of micro decisions. But the truth is

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

And so we imagine a world where generosity is simply at the root of our decisions and our behaviors,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

rather than have a bunch of people who are, like, blessed by society to sit in a room and make these decisions, I think that's very cool.

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

that is totally accurate and totally right -- I am hopeful that AI can help us be wiser, make better decisions, can talk to us, and if we say, hey, I want thing X,

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

I think AI can help us be wiser and make better collective governance decisions than we could before. CA: We're out of time.

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

some of the biggest opportunities, the biggest moral challenges, the biggest decisions to make of perhaps any human in history, pretty much.

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

to climate change. Every day we make hundreds of decisions about food.

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

at such a speed that it, you know, it will be more important than the political decisions are made. So for me, my focus is,

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

"Till death do us part." Because spouses are bound together by their decisions, in marriage and in divorce.

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

But there is wisdom in looking at the price tags attached to our marital decisions in just the way that divorce law teaches us to do.

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

because one of the unique things about AI is that the benefit is it can think for itself and make autonomous decisions. That's one of the things that makes it so powerful.

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

a way to put together decentralized input from diverse sources and produce decisions that are better than the sum of their parts. That’s why, when my fantastic cofounder Saffron Huang and I

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

is actually the same tool that has helped me to make my best business decisions. But that is secondary.

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

as an operating system for thriving in high-stress environments, for making better decisions. And it all started here,

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

if I avoid this action or decision and actions and decisions like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years?

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

And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points,

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

(Laughter) After many years of coaching people through career decisions, I know that sometimes it is just not the right time to take a risk,

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

They allow us to flirt with what's possible before having to make any decisions. And they're also innately pleasurable,

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

Because I don’t settle. What that means is that I also don’t second-guess my decisions, and I’m also not worried about my future

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

Because these models are so much smaller, we actually understand how they make decisions. So how did we get this performance?

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

what we saw in the case of color. These are really simple, basic, perceptual decisions. We make thousands of them all the time,

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

and yet, language is getting in there and fussing even with these tiny little perceptual decisions that we make. Language can have really broad effects.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

is more than a self-esteem boost. It helps us figure out when we can forge ahead on our own decisions and instincts and when we need, instead, to seek out advice.

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

suffer a double curse. First, they make mistakes and reach poor decisions. But second, those same knowledge gaps also prevent them from catching their errors.

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

invisibly just by sitting still, and certainly coming to my most critical decisions the way I never could when I was racing

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

in America is Portland, Oregon. Portland made a bunch of decisions in the 1970s that began to distinguish it

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of colonial powers and corrupt governments

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

like self-driving cars, is we don't really understand why they make the decisions they do. There will be some situations where we can get an idea

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

And would it matter whether the people are old or young? These kinds of decisions can sometimes crop up in real life with human drivers.

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

and I’m deeply curious about this question: How can we make big decisions well? Decisions that are high-impact, that are complex,