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my life and no idea how College was going to help me figure it out and here I was spending all the money my parents

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Whenever there's a disaster, a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong, right? Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained,

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

Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do

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

you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage.

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

we gathered together about 100 big thinkers to figure out what can we do to change this trajectory of decline.

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

For this particular couple, they had to figure out a way to separate their romantic relationship from what really boiled down to roommate issues.

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

We have the hallways of Congress, and the boardrooms of insurance companies that try to figure out how to pay for it. The ethicists and epidemiologists

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

The ethicists and epidemiologists try to figure out how best to distribute medicine, and the hospitals and physicians are absolutely obsessed

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

with their protocols and checklists, trying to figure out how best to safely apply medicine. These are all good things.

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

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

If this technology can perform at this level, then we have a responsibility to figure out how to do it. Doesn't mean, though, that we're not being met with opposition.

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

rub up against a strategic geopolitical decision that you need to make? How do you figure out which way to go? VOS: You fight, that's what you do.

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

and really control what it can do. There are still some issues that we need to figure out, but the fact that so many people want this now

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

but the fact that so many people want this now will help to figure this out much faster. CA: So I'm glad you mentioned the security layers.

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

They're like, "These are my needs. What are your needs? Let's figure out a way to collaborate and figure out something that will work for both of us.

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

Let's figure out a way to collaborate and figure out something that will work for both of us. So they tend to be quite healing friends.

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

You're now sitting there in this predicament of trying to figure out: How am I going to do it all?

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

We've been at work and we're like, "Ah, I just don't feel like I fit here." And so I help organizations kind of start to figure out how to make the connections necessary for that to work.

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

There were no cuts, and I was not good. But I loved it and I was determined to figure it out. And that's where my journey began as a female athlete,

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

So you may be wondering: how do I figure out my privileges if they're regular? They're everywhere.

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

But I really needed to shift my focus. I still loved sports, and I had to figure out how I was going to combine my medical career with women's sports.

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

It wasn't just for work. This is one of the things I had to figure out how to do to survive. It's innate. It's in my body. Think about if we considered it that way.

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

I was a 22-year-old poetry student trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. It was around this time that I had the opportunity

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

only to get the run-around and to be evaluated by a stoic figure in a white coat who only has 10 minutes to give you

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

has something written in Chinese on it. The person uses their instructions to figure out how to respond. They write the response down on a piece of paper

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

But when our imposter gets it again, he has to use his set of instructions to figure out how to respond. From the outside, it might be impossible to distinguish these two rooms,

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

to co-opt the neural algorithms discovered by evolution, but implement them in quantum hardware that evolution could never figure out. For example, we can replace neurons with atoms.

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

It took us a few decades after the invention of computers, to figure out how to make computer games that stand the test of time,

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

Arnold van ganap is a mostly forgotten figure today though his influence affects all of us

Rites

all these stories have one thing in common the central figure leaves a world that is comfortable and safe and enters a

Desert

You also don't have the energy to figure out how do you impact something like an economy? Often what we really need is a new imagination.

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

Early on, it was really about individual donors and grants. And then over the years, we've tried to continue to figure out how to diversify the revenue so that we can be sustainable.

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

Taylor used a stopwatch and a slide rule to figure out how long Factory workers should take for every single task down

Timekeeping

There's no moral high ground either in saying all you have to do is figure out how to jam us and you win. BS: And it sounds like a lot of defense systems that exist today

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

and very low error rates in connectivity. People have to try to figure out how to strap stuff onto our appendages, like our hands and our eyes and our ears

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

All you have to go on is this grainy photo, and you don't have the time to figure out if four of your soldiers are, in fact, missing.

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

As these credentials start to roll out, they will help you, the consumer, figure out what is real and what is fake online. And while they won't solve all of our problems,

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

The beauty of licensing is that the two parties can come together and figure out what works for them. And this is happening more and more now.

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

Both start-up founders, both single, trying to figure out our lives, our companies, this new city together.

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

And still, when I'm lying awake at night and wishing and maybe trying to figure out some way that I could stop this thing, or at least slow it down a little,

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

Let's summarize it. OK, I'm struggling to figure out how to respond here, so let's get AI to write a response.

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

like we are carrying the weight of the pandemic, trying to figure out all of this political division, fighting all of the mental, physical, social violence in our homes,

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

About seven years ago, I started documenting my experiences to try to figure out why. What I found was that something really beautiful was going on.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

or when you're in a new place and you're trying to figure out what the right thing to do is. Sometimes breaking the rules a little bit is where the action is.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

So, I have a pretty fun job, which is to figure out what makes people happy. It's so fun, it might almost seen a little frivolous,

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

to solving some of the toughest problems we're facing. It's taken me almost a decade to figure this out. Pretty early on in my career,

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

I believe very deeply that humans will be at the center of that. I also believe that we probably do need to figure out some sort of new model around the economics of creative output.

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

Again, I think in the world of AI, there will be a new model that we figure out. CA: From the point of view, I mean,

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

But I think it would be cool to figure out a new model where if you say, I want to do it in the name of this artist and they opt in,

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

I think that's a good thing to explore. CA: So, I think the world should help you figure out that model quickly. And I think it will make a huge difference actually.

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

And we have to build a society to get the tremendous benefits of this and figure out how to make it safe. CA: Well, one of the conversations this week has been

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

There's a place where that starts to interact with real-world harms that we have to figure out how to draw the line for, but, you know, I think there will be cases where a company says, OK,

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

crisis domestically not because they're trying to figure out how do we respond to Elon Musk you know who is not only by

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

to assassinate someone to help them figure out how you would Target and kill a major CEO of a company now I mean we

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

regulatory environment and that means that we're only going to figure out you know where things break when they break

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

where it's still this, you know, people are still trying to figure it out, it is my responsibility to be that change

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

is not that, it's delivering the means to figure out how to make the cuts. Do you see any rationale for that at all?

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

where the state of New York is trying to curb the divorce rate for some reason, and we'll figure out why. And in order to do so,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

or the necessary understanding of the impacts of stress and trauma. So we wanted to figure out how we could provide, you know, that knowledge, those skills,

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

But don't stop asking questions until you figure out as much as you can about the system. And then I think maybe I'd say the third piece of advice would be

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

and if things go wrong, I'm going to be able to figure out how to make them better.

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

old-fashioned way, you know, outside, no agenda, no adults watching, just figure out what to do, have fun that way, or

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

get married and bring babies home from the hospital with the expectation that we'll figure it out. But the truth is, we often harm and disrespect the ones we love.

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

If we one day wish to be a multiplanetary species, we'd have to figure out how to grow things on Mars, make it more hospitable, and possibly terraform.

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

For instance, if you're dating, I want you to figure out what that boundary is. Maybe it's no AI for three months, right, when you're dating.

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

But there are plenty of things I have trouble understanding. So I write poems to figure things out. Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something

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

metagenomics, which is a tool that allows us to figure out what species are present

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

and that means that we can use it to figure out how to use gene editing tools in the right gene, in the right organism.

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED · TED

So if the brain can put this together, someday we will figure out how to do that for artificial intelligence. There is, however, a problem of incentives.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

Maybe, you know, the incentives are different. Or maybe superintelligence will magically figure all this out, and it'll bring us to a better world.

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

if you're on the receiving end of somebody's advice monster, you're constantly getting the message that you can't figure this out yourself. And that cuts away at your sense of competence and your confidence

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

And a nice warm face of love that says, "This is so hard, but you will figure it out." Personally, I thought love meant action.

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

Alright, OK. Let me try to figure this out for everyone here. Chin down.

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

that's the investigation I've been on, trying to figure out what are the prime movers when we see change this momentous.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

(Applause) By then, I was already a public figure, but stepping into that role

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

the pharma companies show that their drugs were not harmful to consumers, which seems kind of obvious, but somebody had to figure that out. And so what we needed at that point was not just kind of new miracle drugs.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

It will keep you up at night tossing and turning, trying to figure out why and trying to answer that age-old question of “Is that all there is?”

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

became using my GPS to figure out how much traffic I'd inevitably be sitting in. The flowers became the screen saver to my laptop I spent way too much time on.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

then all I have to do to reverse the signs and symptoms of aging is figure out where to buy that Costco-sized bottle of grade A organic fair trade telomerase, right?

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

CA: So this thing was not programmed to have any strategy. It was just told, try and figure out a way of winning. You just move the bat at the bottom and see if you can find a way of winning.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

So if you know the shape of the protein, and then you can kind of figure out which part of the surface of the protein

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

It has to use a camera to look down, analyze the cable, figure out where to grasp it and how to pull it apart to be able to untangle it.

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

It’s very hard to tell what’s going on and for the robot to figure out how to open up that bag. So what we did was we had the robot train itself.

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

to connect the world and figure out how it works. And that's the connection that we're missing.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

And so I pulled back out of the research and thought, I need to figure out what this is. And it turned out to be shame.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

And so I thought, this is my chance to beat it back with my measuring stick. I'm going in, I'm going to figure this stuff out, I'm going to spend a year, I'm going to totally deconstruct shame,

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

But some people actually don't need a lot. And so what we want to do is try to figure out for ourselves what's right for me.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

scientists have tried for decades to figure out how to create a blight-resistant chestnut tree. And it's happened.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

Speaking of rates, it can be hard to figure out exactly how much money you’ll make. Earnings vary based on location;

What is a gig economy?

I want to tell you about my search for purpose as a journalist and how Dolly Parton helped me figure it out. So I've been telling audio stories for about 20 years,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

but I just had this intuition that Dolly could help me figure out this ending problem. And here was the basic intuition:

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

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

they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out was the amount they were moving,

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

And we take car crashes for granted. We figure it's a natural risk of being on the road.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

They’re going to save your grade, and when we figure out how to get you the rest of the money, then you can register for that class and they’ll give you the grade."

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

"What was that about," I’m saying. What was that about? It took me 100 miles to figure out that, in my heart, in me, I had become a prisoner.

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