How native speakers pronounce “focus”

and very publicly out what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone and it was

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

respond to messages another to handle admin and a separate block to focus on a creative project

Slow Thinking

And there is a commonality to all of them. That all of them maniacally focus on controlling life's variables that you can control.

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person who responds to me, may well imprint or focus on the chatbot, which is going to compromise

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to learn the skills that are needed. And then I think while there's a lot of focus on sort of the jobs, there are also small businesses in these places where we’re launching

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

I started working with Bob, and he had me, 20 minutes a day, focus on a single word. He didn't send an app.

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

or fire them from our team, we have to focus on those replacement behaviors, what they should be doing instead.

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

we really do need an entire community to feel whole. Because if we just focus on being very nuclear, you know, just having a spouse

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It's willful. It's intentional. It's focus and presence. Merry Valentine's.

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on the TV. But I really needed to shift my focus. I still loved sports, and I had to figure out

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

I think, for so many, and I'm curious if we can focus on that for a moment. Like, what are some of the earliest warning signs of professional burnout?

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It allows them to put a frame around their thoughts and emotions so they can focus on it a little more deeply throughout the day. Students also keep gratitude journals.

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

that would appeal to black men. We conducted about a dozen focus groups with a broad cross-section of black men,

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Shouldn't we just provide pills and procedures and just make sure we focus on the task at hand?" Certainly, rescuing people at the water's edge

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

And those brain images are like fuzzy, out-of-focus pictures of the scratch pad of the brain. They tell us a little bit about how the brain is processing

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

And we're going to do this experiment on you right now. I'd like you to focus on my hand, and I'd like you to track it. OK, great. Let's do that just one more time.

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

Content 3.0 has a chance to completely change this, again. The producers can focus on creating a model. This does not even have to be the final content,

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

and companies can't expect to make back the costs in sales. Instead, we focus on new drugs for profitable diseases, and no one, not the NIH, not the FDA, not pharma,

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

15, 20 or even 30 diseases for a given drug, but they have to pick the one or two to focus on. And oftentimes, those dozens of opportunities just sort of get lost.

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

By feeding kids in school, we're not just giving them calories, we're giving them the ability to focus, to grow and to thrive. So today, we harness the power of local governments,

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

is to deploy this technology in a highly targeted way. We will focus our restoration solution on the reefs that are the most connected to other reefs

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

eighty percent of it comes from burning fossil fuels, and we should focus on adaptation as well, almost exclusively. Well, we need adaptation.

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

maybe we become burned out from serving others and want to focus on our own loved ones

Meaning

Part of just being a dreamer is understanding that I decide what I focus on. We've gotten the opportunity to write our own story.

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

and in the companies in both places. The reason I focus on US and China is they're the only two countries where people are crazy enough

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

invite them to have a coffee or take a walk focus on what they say and how they say it don't schedule anything for right

Connect

thermal, ultraviolet, hyperspectral vision, those are the things that people focus on when they look at IVAS. But there’s a whole other layer,

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

First, I want to tell you what I think we shouldn't be doing. The most important thing is to not focus on engagement, is to not optimize for engagement

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

Today, we're mostly focused on helping us be more productive. But why don't we focus instead on what actually matters to us? Why don't we give these AIs a goal to help us be happier, live a better life?

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

But that's a different talk. What I want to focus on today is that using AI in this way

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

And according to the research, I'm not alone. Unfortunately, the human brain is wired to focus on the negative. Now, this might have been helpful when we were cave people,

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

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

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

And it was overwhelming, but it was also wonderful. Because it allowed me to focus on the hundreds of things that go right every day,

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

I learned dozens of lessons during this project, but let me just focus on five today. The first is: look up.

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

which is where regular people like you and me go to learn improvisation. We were specifically interested in one exercise: Give focus. In this exercise, one person gets the center of stage.

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

In one wave of classes, asking people to feel uncomfortable doubled the time they took focus. Those people were also more daring.

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

to balance the trade-offs and to adjust my focus when needed. You know, I'll probably never forget,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

So there will be many models, but I think we will, I hope, continue to focus on building the best defining product in this space. CA: I mean after I saw your announcement yesterday

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

understand what the threats that we, collectively, society, most want to focus on, and make sure that as models are getting more capable,

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

I speak six languages, and I focus my studies in linguistics. And I worked with intercultural couples to uncover their language behavior

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

it will be more important than the political decisions are made. So for me, my focus is, can we think of a way of ensuring

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

This is where I think personal achievement falls short. By definition, personal achievement focuses on you, to focus on the self. And if that's all there is, it's difficult to have significance.

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

And you hear these horrible stories and I agree with you. It's like, how do we focus on the successes, right? And then also in those successes,

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

And this approach allows me to then focus on making or remaking the match. But that got me wondering.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

GM: So there are a lot of jailbreaks that are around fictional characters, but I don't focus on that as much because the reality is that there are large language models out there

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

So these are two obviously undesirable probable outcomes of AI's roll out. And those who want to focus on the benefits of open source don't want to think about the things that come from chaos.

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

performed for his troops at Valley Forge to keep them motivated. So why would people of action focus so much on an ancient philosophy? This seems very academic.

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

to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former.

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

And there are many tools in the toolkit to get you there. I'm going to focus on one that completely changed my life in 2004. It found me then because of two things:

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

What's the real challenge here for you? It's the focus question. It recognizes that at the start of a conversation,

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

that our minds matter when it comes to sex, but we’re quick to focus on bodies, touch and sensation as the most crucial elements.

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

as the presence of sexual stimuli. In other words, using their memories, fantasies and some focus, women can turn themselves on with their thoughts.

The Relationship Between Sex and Imagination | Gina Gutierrez | 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

where the kids need to be driven, they stop everything and they focus on their God, their social network, and then, hardwired right in the religion,

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

But I also think it's a mistake to focus exclusively on the march of science and the kind of tangible objects,

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

generating well over 6,000 academic papers and books. But today I want to focus on just one finding -- perhaps the most important discovery to come from this remarkable study.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

Imagine an autonomous robot transporting medical supplies while caretakers focus on our patients or augmented reality, guiding surgeons to do safer, faster

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

but I think for this conversation, I'd love to focus in on this theme of what it might do to unlock the really big questions, the giant scientific breakthroughs,

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

it unlocks an entire new branch of discovery or new research. And that's what we try and focus on at DeepMind and Google DeepMind to crack those.

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

And yes, I get it, this is a super arresting thought but I honestly think this frame helps sharpen our focus on the critical issues. What are the risks?

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

and talking about downsides. Thinking in this way helps us focus on the huge challenges that lie ahead for all of us.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

but being clear about when we want to be in each of them, with what goal, focus and expectations, helps us better perform and better improve.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

then we stop spending time in the learning zone. We focus all our time on just doing our job, performing,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

When I needed a knee surgery, I didn't tell the surgeon, "Poke around in there and focus on what you don't know." (Laughter)

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

It can also be motivating, and it provides us with information to identify what to focus on next when we go back to the learning zone.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

does not have the same effect. Now, for me this focus on experiments is also personal.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

Since pandemic, my focus has been to compile the largest data sets and artificially preserve nature.

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

My one year turned into six years: Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups. At one point, people were sending me journal pages

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

the problem is too big to fix, visualize what it would look like for you to focus on a single problem. The climate crisis is the symptom of many interconnected problems,

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

they probably care about backing the next Uber or DoorDash. So you should focus your story on the size of the market opportunity. If you're pitching to a philanthropist or a nonprofit,

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

their motivation is likely about large social impact. So focus on showing how your product or idea will improve things in a lasting way.

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

If you're pitching a project at work, focus on the people you're pitching the project to. What do they care about?

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

Now, I sat on the idea for a while, really wanting to focus on the work that was right in front of me, but I couldn't shake it.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

They say they’ll connect you with clients and take care of some of the entrepreneurial and administrative stuff so you can focus on the work. But there are some hidden costs to consider.

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so I understand before trying to be understood. When I focus on the principles of the compass, I'm able to move from reactive to proactive,

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

take a few deep breaths, focus on the other person, and do it anyway. For the record, if I call you a flirt,

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

There's no magic; it's practice, practice, practice. And it's focus. Norman Jewison said to me,

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

and I'm one of many people who believes that this focus on gadgets, on accessorizing --

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

how can we possibly persuade world leaders to sustain a focus on global issues? Indeed, the powerful American politician Tip O'Neill once said,

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

After all, many data-driven areas of science increasingly focus on prediction because it's fundamentally an easier problem than explaining.

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

But explanation can sometimes really matter if we want a better world. The focus on prediction is particularly troubling in the field of justice. Increasingly, algorithms are used

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

but causing these incident commanders to focus their attention on evaluating all of this data and overlooking more important aspects.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED