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over I didn't see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And they get to be a part of it all live. So we're just getting started. Our next step is taking this Alveus approach to the wild.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

Don't they? It's a way of getting their head to meetings. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

or to prevent the bad things from happening in the first place. Getting back to that snowy night in Montreal, when I got back from my trip,

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

but I see organization as a gradual process, and I'm getting there. Thank you very much.

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

or 100 percent if you consider that no one's getting through adulthood without going through their 20s first. (Laughter)

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

governors and many heads of state. Together, we're getting phones out of schools around the world.

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

in the hallways again. We're getting the age raised for social media to 16.

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

I said, "You know what? I'm going to do this. And I'll feel myself getting rejected 100 days." And I came up with my own rejection ideas,

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

in the conversation, the trouble I have is getting them to come back. These conversations go much better than people expect that they will.

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

But because I filmed myself -- so that night I was watching myself getting rejected, I just saw how scared I was.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Great." And then Day Three: Getting Olympic Doughnuts. This is where my life was turned upside down.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

and it won't take long before you start getting back some incredible footage like this. (Video) Hello.

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

recommended by sleep scientists and pediatricians. The major factor preventing teens from getting the sleep they need is a matter of public policy.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

These early start policies have a direct effect on how little sleep American teenagers are getting. They’re also pitting teenagers in a fundamentally unwinnable fight

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Then there’s the risk of putting a sleep-deprived teen behind the wheel. Studies have shown that getting five hours or less of sleep per night is the equivalent of driving with a blood alcohol content above the legal limit.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

You close your laptop and it's gone. But while your laptop is closed, the AI keeps getting better at your job. And if we stay separate, the AI is not your tool.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

or constantly changing your bedtime, can take its toll. Regularly getting less than seven hours of sleep each night is linked to all sorts of health issues,

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

One of the biggest worries we have about our sleep is that we're not getting enough and that anything less than seven hours a night

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

sometimes important nuances get lost. So yes, it's true that not getting enough sleep in the long term is associated with health problems like cardiovascular disease,

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

Now orthosomnia might be an extreme example, but the anxiety of not getting enough sleep is keeping some of us up at night.

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

who wondered if he could actually isolate those hormones from the urine and use it to help women who are having trouble getting pregnant. Obviously, the problem with this was that in order to test this idea,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

where people could talk about their tonsil stone experiences and, like, tips and tricks for getting rid of them. And I think it became this great way for people to talk about something

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Last February, I released a video on menstruation, and to this day, I am still getting messages from people around the globe who are asking me about their periods.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is getting enough sleep. (Applause)

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

But there was a hitch. I wasn't getting hitched. My rationale, without a wedding in sight,

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

And that is this. If getting married makes you happy, why is it that the happiest places on Earth

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

I was being told I was no longer a "culture fit," which meant I wasn't getting that job. As an added bonus, per company protocol,

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

"As you know, I piloted a new onboarding process this quarter and it's getting great results. We can roll it out across the company next year,

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

maybe your palms are sweating? You can start to feel yourself getting a little tingly just with the mere thought of being called upon today?

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

and all of it helped, I was still finding myself too often getting selfish or snippy. So I signed up for a nine-day silent retreat

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

But I was in it to win it. I really wanted to be a nicer person. I kept getting tripped up though, because the woman who was running the retreat, my teacher,

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

Now often what we find is the type of feedback that people are actually getting isn't always super direct.

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

Learn to have a conversation without wasting your time, without getting bored, and, please God, without offending anybody.

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

So pick whoever in the group that you really liked and ask them, "Oh, would you be open to like, getting coffee, getting tea like, before or after our next group?"

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

"Is it possible to have a strong virtual friendship? How important is in-person connection or getting together in real life?" MF: Yeah, so this is such a nuanced question in some ways, right?

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

I had at least one client on retainer, and I was getting ready for the biggest professional milestone of my career, the launch of my book

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

How do you think I spent those first few weeks after getting laid off? I'm not a phone person either,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

It was more than struggling to, you know, the fear of getting sick or juggling childcare. The isolation hit deep.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

A non-negotiable could be something like meditating 10 minutes a day, getting to your kid’s baseball game or prioritizing that workout.

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

It might be surprising, but I'm actually also an introvert. However, keep in mind that just like getting eight hours of sleep at night, the exact amount that's right for you personally

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

Not every twinge of cringe needs to be overcome. Just the one stopping you from getting to where you want to go. It's up to you if you want to jump.

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

We love stories, alright? That's great. Keep loving the stories. But also getting to know about folks' experience gives us a bit of perspective that we might not otherwise have.

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

It's innate. It's in my body. Think about if we considered it that way. Think about if we considered getting to know folks' stories and having empathy for them

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

So I ask, like, "Why'd you change clothes?" She says, "Oh, I'm getting my home appraised today. So I'm actually going to pretend to be the cleaning lady,

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

by overexercising, underfueling, worrying about their body image. They were getting injuries, and they were getting severe eating disorders.

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

They were getting injuries, and they were getting severe eating disorders. But two great things happened.

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

This was a new era. Not only was I getting access to the database, but they wanted transparency, and they wanted to work together

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

Amelia Nagoski: Well, it began with me going to school while I was getting my doctorate in musical arts in conducting. I ended up in the hospital, and I had abdominal pain,

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

First, there's this amazing thing about actually getting out of the box that leads to out-of-the-box thinking.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

Not that the stress is bad for you, it's getting stuck in the middle that is bad for you, never having an opportunity to take your body through the cycle.

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

If you're breathing faster, it's no problem. It's getting more oxygen to your brain. And participants who learned to view the stress response

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

And when you choose to view stress in this way, you're not just getting better at stress, you're actually making a pretty profound statement.

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

When our emotional mind is on fire, it's so hard to think clearly. But we're so good at getting better with the right tools, and STOP is like a quick one.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

and wandering out into a vast open meadow. Getting out of your head and coming back to your senses. Just about all of us are bombarded by more agitation and distraction

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

Whether you've had a cardiac event and you're in rehab and exercising, getting higher now. Whether you've had a flu vaccine.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

whether you don't smoke, or if you did, whether you quit, and getting towards the top predictors are two features of your social life.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

or maybe changing the position of the camera. So it's not identical, but I think we are getting closer with the technology. HW: Great. Thank you so much.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

And she would run like hell to the house and she would be getting chased by this poem, and the whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper and a pencil

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

people who are coming to the healthcare system and getting a glimpse of what it feels like to be part of something that works,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

not only do they tell us that we're this close to getting the healthcare system that we want, but that there's something that we can all do to get there.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

attention to muscles and to even dip my toe into getting stronger. But, as you

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

I think this was so integral to my growing up in getting me to understand from a very early age that

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

We're feeding in English sentences, we're getting English sentences back. It really looks like the models understand us.

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

might be exactly the same, the process of getting from input to output -- completely different. So again, what does that tell us about AI?

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

How many of you have heard the word "unalive" being used in person? OK, I'm getting, like, 40, 50 percent. Great.

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

all of these are starting to look pretty good. Even video is getting interesting. Let's have a look at what TED AI could look like in the future.

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

is to help move consumers from the upper part of the funnel, getting them to know a brand, to the bottom part of it,

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

to the bottom part of it, getting them to buy or endorse. Well, that's at least the theory.

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

eventually have to confront them even people who fear getting bogged down in the messy middle will eventually have

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to give AI a true human sense of humor. A human sense of humor is not about making a joke or getting it. It's rooted in our vulnerability.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

weren't working for this patient. He was getting ready to say goodbye to his wife and daughter, because he was getting ready to be transferred to hospice care.

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

He was getting ready to say goodbye to his wife and daughter, because he was getting ready to be transferred to hospice care. But we recommended this number-one drug from our platform,

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

fifth tool of mastering a life transition many of the techniques for getting through difficult periods have an

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smoke from the Canadian wildfires. And they're still getting worse today. The wildfires have doubled over the last 20 years in frequency,

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

Most of the financing comes from private sources, but developing countries are not getting their share of it. We need to reform the policies that are leading to this,

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

but we feel generally glad that Pakistanis are getting their power from cheap and clean sources. It seems in general a good thing.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

and it was really the organization that I needed when I was getting started that I didn't have. One of the projects that The Industrial Commons right now is working on

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

you can work hard, you can get ahead, but that's not at the expense of the person beside you getting ahead. That there's opportunities for your kids

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

ES: Well, I'm of the age where some of my friends are getting really dread diseases. Can we fix that now?

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

PL: We need all of our robots and all of our people to be getting the right information at the right time. That means they need a common view of the battlefield.

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

Hany Farid: Depends on the platform. Signal-to-noise ratio is getting close to one. Stay off of Twitter, of X, and stay off of everything else for that matter.

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

LN: So what do you think? HF: I would say we're getting close to 50 percent. LN: Can you differentiate between things that have, like,

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

then going to fake sites to authenticate them. And it's all getting very weird, don't do it. LN: Last one, most important one.

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

that the AI could complete, and it's getting better exponentially fast. It's doubling every seven months.

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

understand and feel the art more deeply even television is getting in on the ACT invented in Norway slow TV serves up fly

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we must take the one less traveled. Beyond getting the job done, a tool for thought helps us better understand the job.

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

a tool for thought helps us better understand the job. Beyond getting it done faster, it helps us get it done better.

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

it helps us get it done better. Beyond getting us to the right answers, a tool for thought helps us ask the right questions.

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

In other words, we need to be gritty about getting our kids grittier. Thank you.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

Why am I a failure expert? Because I don't mind getting killed by virtual monsters. He doesn’t mind seeing me getting beaten by virtual monsters,

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

Because I don't mind getting killed by virtual monsters. He doesn’t mind seeing me getting beaten by virtual monsters, so we can both learn.

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

with the intention to connect. So none of you are getting away with it today when I talk about how we need your art,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

I work with thousands of creatives, thousands of artists, and I'm getting dozens of DMs each week that say, "I don't know how I can be spending my time at my piano

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

and it's true that these questions do provide a mechanism for getting to know someone quickly, which is also a mechanism for being known,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and say, I have a question, give me an answer. But you're getting like, proactively pushed things that help you, that make you better or whatever.

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

that the most important driver of the world and people's lives getting better and better is new scientific discovery. We can do more things with less,

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

is this iterative process of deploying them to the world, getting feedback, while the stakes are relatively low, learning about like,

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

most want to focus on, and make sure that as models are getting more capable, we have a system where we all get to understand

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