How native speakers pronounce “hard”

in my parents garage when I was 20 we worked hard and in 10 years Apple had grown from Just the Two of Us in a

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

But for most of us, it can be really hard to see ourselves in such legends. It leaves us feeling like that work is just a far-off dream

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

am I living the right life for me grappling with such questions is hard even scary

Running

their thoughts most found it hard when given the option almost half found

Running

when given the option almost half found it so hard that they chose to self-administer Electric shocks rather

Running

still runs deep in our culture second slowing down can be hard we all struggle to put on the brakes me included

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who displayed his temper more than his ambition. And as hard as her 20s were, her early life had been even harder.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Do the next right thing. It's really hard to be a good person. It's hard to be moral.

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

It's really hard to be a good person. It's hard to be moral. It's hard to do all the things right.

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

It's hard to be moral. It's hard to do all the things right. It's pretty easy to do the next right thing.

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

and something that comes up a lot in my work is this belief that relationships are hard. And we believe that due to one primary reason:

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

But because when I went home, the reality stayed hard, complicated, unsafe, and I couldn't do anything about it.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

the public narrative is collapsing so fast -- it's so hard, it's so polarized. In a room like that, if you start with the word peace,

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

(Applause) If we continue to accept the narrative that relationships are hard, then we'll continue to do nothing about it.

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

then we'll continue to do nothing about it. If our relationships feel hard, I encourage us to reflect on what is hard about it.

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

If our relationships feel hard, I encourage us to reflect on what is hard about it. Is it really the relationship

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

with all of these challenges that seemed to me at the time very hard and difficult. How would this child respond to us?

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

with big dark eyes and just a relentless smile, despite a really, really hard start in her life. We reached out to Lindsey

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

Now I want to be clear, raising a child with an intellectual disability is hard. It's really hard.

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

raising a child with an intellectual disability is hard. It's really hard. Lindsey is not just one handful.

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

Basically, if you feel something here, you remember it here. This is why memorizing a boring equation is hard. But you know, remembering that song you sang as a teenager

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

And for better or for worse, it was also a really hard job. And so I think there’s an opportunity,

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

but eventually you won't. The advantages of integration will be hard to compete with. Think about what we even do when we use a computer today.

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

I could be “True Jackson, VP,” “Working at a grown-up job never really knew I could work this hard.” (Cheers)

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

Perhaps you're not as patient with your loved ones. You might find it hard to concentrate or stay alert, or you might find it difficult to remember things,

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

This is a room of sleep-deprived women. And I learned the hard way the value of sleep. Two-and-a-half years ago, I fainted from exhaustion.

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

It's like, it's almost like you have to experience an agent. It's kind of hard to explain. It took me a few weeks.

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

(Laughter) Hard pass. (Laughter)

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

Then a neutral person, somebody you might overlook. Then a difficult person, probably not hard to find. And then we finish with all beings everywhere.

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

who feels like it's not helpful. And I actually learned this lesson the hard way from one of my students recently.

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

and always-behindness that society seems to want us to feel. It’s courageous because it’s hard to look at your demons. And it’s happiness-producing because when you high-five your demons,

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

or we see people as potentially rejecting us and harming us, it's really hard to foster connection. And this really materialized for me one day when I had bought an apartment,

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

That's what they cared about? I couldn't understand when I was working so hard to deliver quality work, and I wish I could say I underwent some immediate transformation

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

where I was rewarded with good grades because I put in the effort and I worked hard. But in truth, work is full of real, flesh-and-bone people

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

whereas people who are connecting, you need to put in that effort. So burnt out individuals had a hard time even making those high-quality connections.

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

How do we effectively set boundaries? Well, it starts with this hard truth: you can't do everything

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

who’s eager to get involved in campus yet is having a hard time fitting in with people in his dorm and often feels homesick.

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

This means we hustle when we need to, because goals do require hard work. And we prioritize balance and boundaries when we need to

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

Making lifestyle changes to not only lose weight but to maintain a healthy weight long-term is hard. Ask anyone who has ever tried.

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

It's easy to peter out when your mindset muscles start saying "This is hard." But if you want to play to win

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

A lot of the lightweights lost their menstrual cycle. We just thought that meant we were training hard and we were working really hard, and we we're nice and lean.

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

We just thought that meant we were training hard and we were working really hard, and we we're nice and lean. You know, a lot of us developed poor body image.

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

And those women 50 years ago who fought so hard for Title IX, to keep fighting and keep the mission going.

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

But one of the things that causes burnout is our inability to recognize the hard stuff welling up inside us. And the solution is to be able to turn toward the difficult feelings

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

and yes, your pounding physical heart, working so hard to give you strength and energy. And when you choose to view stress in this way,

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

To bypass suffering, normalize your feelings. No matter how hard things seem, emotions and urges are waves.

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

but so much less if we're going five miles an hour. 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,

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

To three: name it -- that one thing that everyone is willing to work hard for; a ridiculously simple goal that doesn't just benefit the individual

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Let me put that differently. It's hard to doubt what hasn't been said. Silence doesn't ask us to prove or disprove a thing.

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

I've cared for people who live and work in conditions that can be hard, if not harsh, and that work has led me to believe

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

but I also want to refer you to a specialist, if that's okay." Now, specialists are a little hard to find in South Central Los Angeles,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and what is he then to do with the rest of his life? This is hard. This is one of the most painful reconciliations to make

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

whose living and working conditions again, can be hard, if not harsh. We can all invest in making sure that we improve

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Not catching a wave. paddling extremely hard and almost catching a wave

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

>> You You can grunt if you want to. >> It's hard to do without grunting. >> Right, return, left, return, right,

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

“I’m failing,” with one that says, "I'm having a hard time right now. And people who are having a hard time deserve compassion."

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

with one that says, "I'm having a hard time right now. And people who are having a hard time deserve compassion." If it's too hard to shower today,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

And people who are having a hard time deserve compassion." If it's too hard to shower today, grab the baby wipes.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

but you deserve to be clean. If it's too hard to cook dinner, get paper plates,

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

All right, let's turn around and paddle straight in as hard as you can. Yeah. Muscles matter.

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

Go straight. >> Hard, hard, hard. >> How do we know our true potential?

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

30s then has a midlife crisis sometime between 39 and 44 and a half it's hard to overstate how powerful that idea was

Linear

Like, this earlier version of a now-famous AI chatbot that tried really hard to convince a “New York Times” reporter to break up with his wife.

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

to the one I was describing before, but it's not hard to imagine an emotional connection occurring between a branded AI and a human.

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

maybe you're a people pleaser or prone to denial okay this phase is hard for you but others excel at turning the page if

Superpower

his family to take a job running a non-profit the point is transitions are hard start with whatever skills you already have

Superpower

he's hardly alone many people have a hard time accepting what sart called the facticity of their situation

Accept

But the key to this work is working hand in hand with government. Although it's hard, as a truly African and local organization,

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

is where the gift lie. Sometimes we have to sit long and hard, in the anguish and the pain of the things that we suffered

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

priorities we shape shift as I call it maybe we've been working too hard and want to devote more time to giving back

Meaning

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

The choice between the hard right and the easy wrong. It seems hard to choose correctly, but it would turn out to be even harder to take what looks like the easy wrong.

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

And right now in the European Union, the fossil fuel lobbyists are arguing as hard as they can to stop legislation to try to deal with methane leaks

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

But I have to take you off on a diversion now to complain about how hard my job is. Back in 2007,

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

and I think we can all relate to it. If we work really hard for something, that reward should come back to us.

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

Every community has a future where you can show up every day, you can work hard, you can get ahead, but that's not at the expense of the person beside you getting ahead.

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

because we feel guilty ashamed afraid breaking any taboo can be hard but hard it's not the same as impossible

Slow

breaking any taboo can be hard but hard it's not the same as impossible look what happened with covet 19.

Slow

just hand capabilities to adversaries that will accelerate their own timelines? ES: This is one of the wickedest, or, we call them wicked hard problems. Our industry, our science,

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

There are serious, smart, hard-working journalists and fact-checkers out there who work every day,

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

put in 70 or 80 hour weeks at the same time working hard now has cultural cachet it's proof that you

Work

AI should be allowed to, too. But this is a very hard claim to justify. Artists have been learning from each other for centuries.

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

should be paid for. Licensing is hard work. It will slow you down in the short term,

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

for example taking breaks when one tech company took a hard look at the working habits of its staff guess

Slow Work

I didn't have someone so close to me die before. It hit me really hard. Every night I would go back to our old apartment and just get on my phone

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

new styles that maybe we can't even imagine today. Much like it would have been hard for somebody like John Philip Sousa to have imagined this final monstrosity I'm going to play for you.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

The kinds of things you need to learn in seventh grade math, sure, they're hard: ratios, decimals, the area of a parallelogram. But these concepts are not impossible,

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

could learn the material if they worked hard and long enough. After several more years of teaching,

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

but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

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

Big smiler, enthusiastic hugger. But even for Chung, being a barista is hard. And that's because you are encountering people in a very dangerous state.

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

And so, no, America, you did not lose your motivation. Each of you is working hard, pursuing your dreams, balancing the different aspects of your life.

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

I have the emotional stability of a theater kid. You know, for months, Mondays would hit me super hard. Anybody hate Mondays?

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

does not necessarily mean you should have acted differently. It sounds very simple and it is very hard to accept. But ...

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

The house and everything in it burned, including almost everything that my dad had worked so hard to do and leave for us after he died.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

That is a failed life. And that hit me super hard. So I made some changes and sure enough,

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

It's a lot. Making it hard to believe in the goodness in the world. And harder still to believe in the goodness of ourselves.

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

in order to believe in ourselves. I’m a child of the ’60s, and that was hard. Oh.

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

like, let's do more nice things for more people, yes. But also, "my life is stressful and hectic and hard, and that takes up time that I might not necessarily have."

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

I truly believe a solve here, when we are consuming so much hard news about the world, and it's so reasonable for us to feel so terribly depressed

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

But I think UNICEF is just such a big, broad charity that it can be a little hard to envision how your own small donation will make a difference.

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