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is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family it means to say your goodbyes

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I had my contractor install a combination lock next to the door, with a key to the front door in it, an easy to remember combination. And I have to admit,

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

With the funny stories that Alex would bring to session, it was easy for me just to nod my head while we kicked the can down the road.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

don't seem big enough." Now Emma's story made that sound easy, but that's what I love about working with twentysomethings.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

but that's what I love about working with twentysomethings. They are so easy to help. Twentysomethings are like airplanes just leaving LAX,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

It's hard to do all the things right. It's pretty easy to do the next right thing. And if you do that,

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

The first is that these technologies are extremely easy to use. Your kid doesn't need a 10-year head

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

and unknowns and exceptions and outliers that surround us in sarcoma is easy access to what I think are those two most important values for any science:

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

But you know, remembering that song you sang as a teenager that made you feel all those feels, that’s easy -- and you remember every single lyric, you know, 30 years later.

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

It's got ready-to-teach classroom slide decks that are super clean and easy to use. And then it’s got these really thought-out

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

So wouldn't it be great if we had an alternative treatment for insomnia that was safe, easy to access and gave us quick results? Well, we know that cannabis has been used to help sleep

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

he needed a lot of pee from older women. And that is not an easy thing to find. So he and his colleagues got special permission from the Pope

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and protect human values. It’s not easy, and we don’t always win. We don't always win.

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

but we're going to have lies that can prevail. And that is very easy in the digital age, unless we invest in systems that can educate people

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

and I'm going to share two with you right now that I think would be very easy to integrate into your life. The first is to boot up a practice of loving-kindness meditation.

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

Assume a comfortable position, close your eyes and begin by envisioning a really easy person. Maybe a good friend, maybe a pet.

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

Now one final word of warning. Changing direction isn't easy. It takes deliberate practice.

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

I hear it right now. It's easy to peter out when your mindset muscles start saying "This is hard."

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

how to make the connections necessary for that to work. Now support sounds easy. Like we think we can just do that, because we do it all the time.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

is what will happen in society tomorrow. But realizing this vision has never been easy. For decades, we've been trapped between two extremes:

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

sleep to occur? And I have to admit, this is not so easy to answer. But I think what we have to keep in keep in mind

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

that if we only look at the input and output of AI, it's very easy to be fooled. We need to get inside of the metaphorical room of AI

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

And going beyond that. Now, this won't be easy. Initial attempts may fail.

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

Indeed, scientists have estimated that we tell around two lies per day, although, of course, it's not that easy to establish those numbers with certainty. And, well, I introduce myself.

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

convictions routines dreams the process isn't always easy one reason we're so reluctant is that

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is to find someone that you know or don’t know, sometimes it’s easy to talk to people that you don’t know. And expose the deep secrets in your personal life,

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

over and over again. The choice between the hard right and the easy wrong. It seems hard to choose correctly,

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

It seems hard to choose correctly, but it would turn out to be even harder to take what looks like the easy wrong. Is it realistic to ignore the fact that right now,

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

So the technique hasn't advanced that much since then. Mercury is used because it's an easy way to extract the gold. So what the miners do is, the gold is like, in the sandy form,

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

some of the mercury goes into the river. It's easy to evaporate, you don't have to heat it, it goes to the air,

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

I am very, very committed to individual freedom. It's very easy for a well-intentioned engineer to build a system which is optimized and restricts your freedom.

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

The conundrum that you're describing is because it's now so easy to operate based on misinformation, everyone knows what I'm talking about,

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

The most important thing I want you to take away from this is that while it may not be easy, it is possible to distinguish what is real from what is fake.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

These models, however imperfect, are so quick and easy to use that this competition is inevitable. And this isn't just theoretical.

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

"Generative AI competes with the work it's trained on." It's so quick and easy to use, it's inevitable, and it competes with the people behind that work.

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

Now, actually, it's worse than that, because it's often quite easy to picture the near-term downsides. I mean, just read any article about AI.

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

What is the connection between happiness and gratefulness? Many people would say, well, that's very easy. When you are happy, you are grateful.

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

It’s that fun, fill-in-the-blank word game. So with a little bit of Mad Libs style, we get this easy-to-use Gracenotes road map.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

and we use the information in that box. It's quick, it's easy and it's a road to bias.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

It has no consequences. It's easy to be honest with someone you're never going to see again, right? That makes sense.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

but the capabilities will increase so dramatically that I think it will be easy to rise to that occasion. CA: So this impressed me too.

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

But falling in love is not the same thing as staying in love. Falling in love is the easy part. So at the end of my article, I wrote, "Love didn't happen to us.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

So, changing our eating habits isn't easy, but it is doable. But what about

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

and to develop, Google's AI products on fair principles. It’s not to say it’s an easy thing to do. But I also think even if you like,

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

And the reason they get confused, the reason it's easy to confuse them is because personal achievement is easy to quantify.

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

the reason it's easy to confuse them is because personal achievement is easy to quantify. You know if you got that job, if you bought that home,

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

you know what your salary is. It's easy to see and it feels comfortable to chase things you understand and you can achieve.

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

and every single problem that you're trying to solve. Because if it was easy to solve, then someone else would have done it and we wouldn't be working so hard.

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

shrinking and freerange kids is trying to make it easy, normal, and legal uh to to widen that again to trust kids with

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

>> well I love the idea of the cards that it feels like it's such a smart easy way to to help uh this process for everyone

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

that I'm about to teach you. I promise you, it's very easy. So there are two things that I'm going to ask of you today,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

Audience: Sakubona. KD: Thank you, that was very easy, right? Very easy.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

KD: Thank you, that was very easy, right? Very easy. So in my culture,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

to spend time together, it's easy to miss when something shifts. Isolation creeps in when your new boyfriend or girlfriend

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

and there's never a chance of misunderstanding. And so it's pretty easy. But what I realized was,

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

There's no workout. It's all easy, right? It's easy to meet an AI.

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

It's all easy, right? It's easy to meet an AI. It's easy to talk to an AI.

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

It's easy to meet an AI. It's easy to talk to an AI. It's easy to leave an AI.

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

It's easy to talk to an AI. It's easy to leave an AI. And when intimacy is that easy, I believe we lose something vital.

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

It's easy to leave an AI. And when intimacy is that easy, I believe we lose something vital. And I'm not just talking about our tolerance for humans.

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

When we asked people about the risks of AI they were most concerned about, they didn't reach for easy answers. Out of more than 100 risks put forward,

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

instead of to my UPS address. Easy-peasy. Then we go to "Repair."

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

without first putting them under a microscope. And it doesn't make all the hard times, the hard choices, easy, but it can make a lot of them easier.

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

and you can apply to everything: "Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life."

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

"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." The hard choices --

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

Success is not the same for everyone. I know that what I'm talking about isn't easy. It takes bravery to trade the known for the unknown.

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

(Laughter) Easy peasy, right? Nope.

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

And typically that has meant retiring to the easy chair, or going down to Arizona to play golf.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

remember this. Resilience doesn't require an easy beginning or a perfect ending.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

(Applause and cheers) Now coming to this realization wasn’t easy. At the age of 38, I was a very successful fashion advertising executive,

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

“Take a note, give a note.” It’s easy. When you see someone having something that you believe you deserve,

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

walking to work, to pick up groceries, or to meet with friends. And living where shops and amenities are easy to get to on foot comes with its own set of perks.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

Curiosity has been a lifeline for me. It's really easy to be 23 and a pessimist. It doesn't take many observational skills

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

and my community every day. It's also easy to be 23 and struggle to find your place. I remember so vividly being 16

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

and learn to see and do better. This is not easy. It took nature millions of years to evolve spatial intelligence,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

and also create many more new worlds that we can all explore. To realize this future won't be easy. It requires all of us to take thoughtful steps

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

that we call Moravec's paradox. And that is, what's easy for robots, like being able to pick up a large object,

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

is hard for humans. But what's easy for humans, like being able to pick up some blocks and stack them,

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

You go to a corner store, and you have to put something in a bag. Now it's easy, again, for humans, but it's actually very, very tricky for robots

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

So I want to come back to Moravec's paradox. What's easy for robots is hard for humans. And what's easy for us is still hard for robots.

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

What's easy for robots is hard for humans. And what's easy for us is still hard for robots. We have incredible capabilities.

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

has hit the spot. Something very easy, yet creative and persuasive. After that, we launched another campaign

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

You'd be entering a virtual world with a virtual language. It's not easy to come back from such a place and rise. That's the first thing we can do.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

And so this is something we can do here together. They're pretty easy to take apart. See, there's a magnet inside, and I can just cut this open.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

or calling out disrespect -- they’re not always easy but often critical to the performance of both individuals and a team.

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

(Laughter) You might think it's easy to spot an obviously AI-generated image, and you're probably aware that algorithms are biased in some way.

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

I didn't think I'd make it." Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers.

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Richard St. John

(Crackling sound) You know, take some white noise, chop it up, very easy sound to make. I remember thinking, "I have made this sound 25 times."

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

when she tries to leave. Now it would be really easy to see Porter Wagoner as, like, a type: classic, patriarchal jackass,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

There weren't many of them available, and they weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books. But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

more walkable. Doing so isn't easy, but it can be done, it has been done,

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

The city had many firecracker factories when I was young, so it was easy to get gunpowder. When I first began using gunpowder to create art,

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

It’s not easy to explain why airplanes stay in the sky. A common explanation is that the curved shape of the wing

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

As unfair as it may seem, the future is up to us. These times will not be easy or pain-free. But unless we get realistic about the path that we are on,

How to Be an “Apocalyptic Optimist” | Dana R. Fisher | TED · TED