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If I'd had the emotional literacy when I was younger, you'd have heard me articulate pain. I do all I can to avoid all of those states,

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

(Laughter) I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Next time you stumble across a great song that you haven’t heard in a while. Next time you catch eyes with a stranger who offers a nod or a genuine smile.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

If you look at the interactions of a human brain, as we heard yesterday from a number of presentations, intelligence is wonderfully interactive.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

It's really prompted by a conversation I had with a wonderful woman who maybe most people have never heard of, Gillian Lynne. Have you heard of her? Some have.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

who maybe most people have never heard of, Gillian Lynne. Have you heard of her? Some have. She's a choreographer, and everybody knows her work.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

that will help you lower your cholesterol, a statin." And you've probably heard of statins, you know that they're among the most widely prescribed drugs

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

Krishna told me was one of the most remarkable things I had ever heard in my life. He said,

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

and told me she was there to talk about guy problems. Now when I heard this, I was so relieved. My classmate got an arsonist for her first client.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

If they read a book I hadn’t read, I read it. Or if they used a word I’d never heard in Oshkosh, I wrote it down on a piece of paper, and I would work it into my vocabulary.

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

Imagine how you would honestly feel if you heard the following about another couple. OK, I said honestly.

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

OK? "I heard they don't even sleep in the same bed anymore." "They claim they never want to get married."

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

Well, there were 40 of us to start with, and every time I heard someone's name called, I would give out the heartiest cheer.

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

We chose to ignore each other. You could have heard a pin drop that morning. That morning, a woman,

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

maybe you feel nervous -- it’s OK. I felt all of those things the first time I heard myself say it. So let me explain.

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

The most well-known cannabinoid is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. You may have heard this as "THC." THC is primarily known for its intoxicating properties,

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

One likely candidate is the neural hormone oxytocin, and you might have heard of this as “the love hormone.” It’s already well known

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

it's about doing things right. And we've heard, and we're hearing nowadays, so many stories about suffering,

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

to raise our voices, to speak up, but also to be heard and to have an impact on how these decisions are made today

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

or doing much of the stuff that we've heard from the previous speakers today. But at the same time,

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

and even more prayers, I survived. Millions of people heard my story. Presidents and prime ministers all over the world wanted to meet me.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

If you've ever worked in the corporate world, you probably have heard of this diabolical exercise. (Laughter)

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

and how to listen. Many of you have already heard a lot of advice on this, things like look the person in the eye,

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

look, nod and smile to show that you're paying attention, repeat back what you just heard or summarize it. So I want you to forget all of that.

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

and you need to let them go out of your mind. We've heard interviews often in which a guest is talking for several minutes

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

First I went to a coffee shop. I heard another American there and I knew, you know, he's less likely to reject me than I think.

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

Do they feel valued? Do they feel heard? Acting on those things that you hear as a leader

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

social health is about our relationships. And if you haven't heard this term before, that's because it hasn't yet made its way into mainstream vocabulary,

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

Next, strengthen at least three close relationships. OK, we've all heard of a to-do list, but I would like to invite you to write a to-love list.

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

Alright? Creating a fantastic new product. We've heard this story. We work with those people. OK, great. But there's one candidate,

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

T. Morgan Dixon: I would like to tell you about the most powerful woman you've never heard of. This is Septima Clark.

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

"Hi, my name is Jake Green. I heard you on Christian radio this morning, and God told me to bring you supplies."

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

and I picked up the receiver and I heard a strange voice telling me that my father had been rushed into the hospital.

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

thought that the candidates were smarter when they heard their voices compared to when they just read their pitches in a text, for example,

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

But we don't even blink when we hear somebody say this, because we've heard that kind of stuff for so long and somehow we've completely internalized and accepted collectively

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Why not think about it this way? Because it makes as much sense as anything else I have ever heard in terms of explaining the utter maddening capriciousness

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

(Laughter) So when I heard that I was like -- that's uncanny, that's exactly what my creative process is like.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that was not quite Tom. When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit the way that I worked too, and this idea already saved me once.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But do the dogs know what they're saying? Or perhaps you've heard the story of Clever Hans the horse, and he could do math.

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

A neural network has never opened a door or seen a sunset, heard a baby cry. Can a neural network that doesn't actually exist in the world,

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

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

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

(Laughter) We heard about this already. But actually, companies could employ this AI

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

Here's an example. I bet many of you might have heard of this so-called marketing funnel. And if not, here's a quick primer.

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

intense, and long-lasting. And I bet many of you might have heard already stories about humans really bonding with AI,

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

And yet here I was, literally dying from a disease that I'd never even heard about during medical school, called Castleman disease,

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

This concept of repurposing isn't new. You've probably all heard of Viagra before, right? Well, you may know that Viagra was repurposed from heart disease

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

door for one of the more exciting things I heard in my conversations a period of breathtaking creativity

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and like Mason's parents did, and heard the words "We've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

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

You've probably all heard that solar modules are cheap, but I'm not sure you appreciate just how cheap.

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

So how did I create that song? The band you heard is actually a real band. In fact, that's me playing the fiddle.

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

to have imagined this final monstrosity I'm going to play for you. This is a song that, when my wife first heard it, she said, "This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen."

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

Some might say alienated. We've heard that story before. What's wrong with this picture?

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

Germany a concert is underway that will finish in 2640. Yes you heard right the year 2640 more than six centuries from now

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or even inversely related to measures of talent. So far, the best idea I've heard about building grit in kids is something called "growth mindset."

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

except for one thing. He'd already heard it. Those many years earlier, after I'd received his note

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

I encourage you to just look around. People everywhere are dying to be seen and heard, to know how they matter.

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

(Applause and cheers) Now, you might have heard me sing that song. It was September 12th, 2022,

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

(Laughter) Everything you've heard, in other words, about the less than glamorous side of being a CEO, it's true.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

By organizing petitions, making sure their school boards heard what they had to say. They even went on offense, creating banned book clubs and libraries,

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

and then you get an idea and you go compose a song that is inspired by what you've heard before, but a new direction,

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

it'd be very hard for you to say like, this much was from this song I heard when I was 11. CA: That's right.

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

as agentic software engineering really starts to happen. CA: I've heard engineers say that they've had almost like religious-like moments with some of the new models

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

but, you know, I think there will be cases where a company says, OK, we've heard the feedback from society. People really don't want models to censor them

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

To me, it was just four letters string together. Just something I heard around the street here in Australia. (Laughter)

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

to all my fellow in the audience. You heard that right. At a recent event, the crowd went crazy

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

to revolutionize farming. As we've heard, we'll also need a global shift to more plant-based diets and much

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

CA: Well, you really touched a nerve, in the most powerful way, by being eloquent, as we've just heard, and by being vulnerable and, you know,

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

find a friend. Um I've heard of parents who like, you know, two women go and sit

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

Um, one is free play Fridays, and I actually just heard of a kid who organized a free play Friday in his

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

thought that was the only family I'd ever heard of like that. And I've I've

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

And I've I've heard of other families since then. Anyways, when the next week comes for

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

They've had so much instruction all the time that I've heard in schools the kids wait to like to fill

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

right? I've heard of schools where they say that a kid's uh I hate L like pencil

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

I mean, when I began to write it, you heard me talk about poetry and the way that I write it. And it's like, very mystical.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

choice to have a voice the choice to be heard is the most political act of all

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

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

has something the complete opposite of yours. Third, someone has something you've never even heard of before. Fourth, someone has something you thought you knew everything about,

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

And so she wrote her first poem, a love poem unlike any I had ever heard before. And the poem began,

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

catastrophic statements. I'm sure you've all heard them. “Robots are taking our jobs.”

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

I was 23 years old when I first heard about Reproductive Justice. I was working at Women with a Vision,

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

I've always wanted to be a mother. Growing up, I heard all about the joys of motherhood. I used to dream of watching my womb weave wonder into this world.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

for murdering Trayvon Martin, I heard Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, speak.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

nor no mind expressed ♫ ♫ What heart heard of, ghost had guessed: ♫

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

even though when I called her to say, "Hey, have you heard of TED, T-E-D?" She said, "Oh my God, Kelly, it's not another virus, is it?"

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

We've all done this. And if you haven't said it, then you've probably heard it. Intuitively, we understand

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

Erotic audio stories have characters and plot, but like the sounds you just heard create a blueprint for your mind to then fill in the blanks.

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

of longevity is, they probably couldn't tell you. They've probably heard of the South Beach Diet, or the Atkins Diet. You have the USDA food pyramid.

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

People like you and me who have a simple human desire to be seen and heard. And there's something

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

I am a late bloomer. In fact, a friend of mine you may have heard of -- Chris Rock --

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

And to those people, I respond with a quote from this Brooklyn poet you may have heard of, Jay-Z.

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

These masters of their field. And the most surprising answer I heard this year was from two 11-year-olds named Sophie and Dilan.

3 Habits to Practice Curiosity — and Escape Your Phone | Nayeema Raza | TED · TED

And then we borrowed a trick which is known as the two-second fold. You might have heard of this. It's amazing because the robot is doing exactly the same thing

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

that could be impacted by digital fashion the most. Some of you might have heard a lot of negative hype and sentiment around NFTs,

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

that if she says to me, "Thanks (Arabic)," I won't say, "Dis, 'Merci, Maman,'" and hope no one has heard her. (Applause)

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

nor did they really talk about it being excruciating -- as I had heard it earlier in the shame interviewing. They just talked about it being necessary.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

or foreign limb syndrome. You may have heard of something called phantom limb syndrome, in which people who have had an amputation

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

seem to draw strength from them. And I've heard the popular wisdom that that has to do with finding meaning. And for a long time,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

you highlighted earlier? One of the best pitches I've heard followed this arc perfectly. The story started with a disturbing status quo.

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

So we felt better. We felt heard. We felt less alone.

Why Venting Doesn’t Help You Deal with Anger | Jennifer Parlamis | TED · TED

I remembered: support and empathy. I wanted to create a safe place where he could feel seen and heard. So I suggested we sit down together

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