How native speakers pronounce “kind”

issue was a photograph of an early morning Country Road the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And contentment means that any ambition that follows is the healthiest kind that exists. I'm capable of finding moments of joy.

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

They live up there and slightly to one side. They're disembodied, you know, in a kind of literal way. They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and indeed for financial decision-making, and social decision-making -- any kind of decision you have to make that would benefit from a rational assessment of the facts.

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

before one person is helped. And you're thinking, what kind of crazy statistic is that? The number should be one.

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

it's part of the principle of informed consent. You have the right to have access to this kind of information to begin the conversation about whether you want to take the risks or not.

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

You might change your mind in the heat of the moment, but at least you're practiced with this kind of thinking. Remember, our brain under stress releases cortisol,

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

But I want to use my time today to talk about an entirely different kind of drone use, much closer to home,

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

So this is the dock here. It looks like kind of an intergalactic grill. (Laughter)

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

Drones enable us to have a complete digital picture of the grid to prevent this kind of thing from happening. And if it does happen,

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

to get better information is super impactful. But the same kind of concept applies to drone delivery. So companies like Zipline and Wing are using dock drones

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

I was shy and I was plain. I was not the kind of girl whose typewriter was carried by men who looked

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

He through his faith and me through a different kind of faith. Maybe this time we would sit at the gate

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

But he warmed up to the idea thanks to a Mola mola who kind of whispered in his ear. I’ve also witnessed how we’re trashing the ocean --

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

a lot of trivial stuff, you might be a doomy and gloomy kind of person and kind of trivial. But change that.

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

When I was 19, I was invited to the kind of dialogue program the world loves to celebrate.

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

So at this point, some of you may be asking yourselves, "What kind of couples therapist recommends that couples live apart?" (Laughter)

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

Or worse yet, somebody would come and sit down next to you -- surely some kind of weirdo. But then there we all were.

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

otherwise she'd already be talking to you. She's going to think you're some kind of creep. You probably don't even have anything in common with her,

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

that has ever been guided by a randomized controlled clinical trial, what we consider the best kind of population-based evidence in medicine. People talk about thinking outside the box,

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

and support groups. It's through this kind of humbly curious communication that we begin to try and learn new things.

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

It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer. But we didn't learn about it from common cancers.

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

of our first Waymo ride with my two sons. I also have a daughter, but we kind of split up into two cars. But if we could play the video.

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

where the technology has moved from, “Will it work?” and “Can we produce the kind of safety outcomes that we care about?” to scaling.

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

at 170 million miles. That’s the kind of superhuman performance that we were seeking

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

Like he literally just fell on his knees, brushed it off and looked at the Waymo kind of weird. Why isn't --

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

even when they're distracted, drunk, tired and angry. We just kind of accept that that's the human condition. And so I think, you know, in the case of the child in Santa Monica ...

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

I said to you before, it's like, in some ways people go from, you know, is it safe, kind of to your poll, right? Is it safe, should I get in?

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

OK, I got in. It's kind of boring and amazing. I really like it.

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

I really like it. Oh, this is kind of not a big deal. Now I'm going to be the coolest person I know in my friend group.

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

I thought this was going in a whole other direction. TM: This is my point, is everyone kind of starts to imagine, what do I want to do instead of commuting?

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

your core body temperature starts to drop. Huh, that map kind of looks like a face. Uh-oh, your attention has started to drift.

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

He was exhausted. And not the kind where you just fall asleep -- the kind where you keep running and running and yelling and screaming.

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

And not the kind where you just fall asleep -- the kind where you keep running and running and yelling and screaming. I thought once we got into the car he'd fall asleep, but he didn't.

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

everything from high blood pressure to Alzheimer’s disease. But there are two flaws with this kind of messaging. The first flaw is that it's not completely accurate.

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

Some adults need eight, but some are just fine on six. The second flaw with this kind of doomsday messaging is that it can be counterproductive,

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

It was always when they were receiving positive personal attention from a kind and caring individual. And the examples they gave were very similar to my moments.

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

but the very idea of conscious AI depends on a deeper assumption, a kind of myth, really. And this is the myth that the brain is a computer

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

is that we've been so constrained by our metaphors, by the idea that it just has to be some kind of information processing. After all, if you think the brain literally is a computer,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

when people are receiving positive personal attention from a kind and caring person in the real world. I’ve also collected data from over 30,000 participants

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

when anyone gives you positive personal attention in a kind and caring way. It's also already known that your oxytocin levels, when they increase,

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

which are these balls of material that are undigested that owls barf up, and it's really kind of gross and awesome and cool. Now, the fact that I was obsessed with gross stuff as a kid

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

doesn't exactly go away, we just kind of pretend like it's not there. But truthfully, we all spend sort of a big part of our lives

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

You know, we're desperately trying to avoid being gross all the time, so I think many of us take this kind of voyeuristic delight in learning about gross things.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And when it's time to mate, up to 20 individuals will all get together in this kind of, like, conga line and they'll all mate together.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And we're very, very proud of that. And we hope to have these kind of values also in other countries, as I think it can save lives

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

It's cutting-edge technology, right? Well, it depends on the kind of AI and how we use it. AI can be a great technology to make predictions about molecules

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

But the illusion of a world without crime is a world filled with a very different kind of crime. Authoritarianism.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

as an anthropologist. I've kind of been embedded with a very unique subspecies. You might know them by their Latin name,

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

(Laughter) There is now a kind of sleep deprivation one-upmanship. Especially here in Washington, if you try to make a breakfast date,

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

My initial prompt was simply "surprise me." And yes, that's kind of as scary as it sounds. So no large company would ship something like that.

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

We need other significant others. And there's an overlooked kind of relationship that we can turn to. Friendship.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

that's conventionally given to a romantic partner. Some had this kind of friendship and a romantic partner. It’s not either/or.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

or "the greater part of my soul." The kind of language we now use in romantic relationships. From China to Jordan to England,

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

what friendship has the potential to be, and if we can recognize that there is more than one kind of significant other then we can imagine more ways for us to find love

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

but also two of my closest friends. One of them we kind of like had a courtship process to recruit him to come to our city and live with us.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

about trying to buy property together. The kind of place where we could raise kids alongside one another, our working title for the place is “The Village.”

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

I'm a fidgety, skeptical guy. And that kind of led me to unfairly lump meditation in with aura readings, vision boards and dolphin healing.

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

tell them what they could have done better next time. And I think we all kind of know what it feels like to be in one of these studies.

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

So before we do that, I just want you all to kind of get a sense of the typical pattern that we see when people are engaging in these interactions.

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

So I signed up for a nine-day silent retreat where I would practice a kind of meditation that has been shown to boost your capacity for warmth.

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

I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself, which I thought was the kind of thing you hear from Instagram influencers and spin instructors, so --

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

Or "It was so great how you didn't even ask me anything about my side, or what I was willing to kind of, you know, change on or be flexible on."

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

These are typically the kinds of facial expressions that we actually see from people, kind of sneering, a little bit of side eye,

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

physiologically, to those whites. They'd be more attuned to those, kind of, nonverbal signals of anxiety. And that's exactly what we found.

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

even the higher their cortisol reactivity, indicating some real deep, kind of, under-the-skin stress response, the more those Black participants became linked up to them over time.

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

Taken together, my two excellent drawings represent a kind of amateur unified field theory of love. I call it “Me, A Love Story.”

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

it can make it very difficult for you to climb up, difficult to kind of know where you stand, what you should do better, what you should stop doing,

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

What I've found is that for every one person who loves this kind of general, generic, nice feedback, there's another person who feels like it's lazy,

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

People get into a bit of a dance with each other. I give you nice feedback, you kind of know it's BS, but you smile and say thank you and then, you know, go on your way.

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

on all those other kinds of forms of being timely. And when we do the kind of general feedback that is negative, the "please stop," we need it to be specific.

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

the "please stop," we need it to be specific. So kind of, one of the more common forms of general negative feedback people get is "You don't take enough initiative here."

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

what they should be doing instead. And I think as we think through kind of, scaling this type of feedback, it can be very scary to make these types of change.

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

and so do those stress responses when you know and you're anticipating giving this kind of feedback that isn't going to sting.

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

of looking up and to the right, and so you spent half the talk kind of staring at the ceiling or the exit sign in this case,

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

We've had them before. We know what it's like. The kind of conversation where you walk away feeling engaged and inspired, or where you feel like you've made a real connection

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

You know, I grew up with a very famous grandfather, and there was kind of a ritual in my home. People would come over to talk to my grandparents,

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

She won a Pulitzer Prize. He's a Russian ballet dancer." And I kind of grew up assuming everyone has some hidden, amazing thing about them.

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

we're more empathic in adulthood, right? And so he kind of argues that the therapy experience is similar to the chumship experience,

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

they have high rates of what's called concordance, which means that, however your spouse feels is kind of how you feel. Their, sort of, energy affects you a lot more

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

(Laughter) It's kind of the fatal erotic blow, isn't it? And when you love, how does it feel?

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

to our mental flexibility and our resilience. It's kind of like exercising a muscle. You have to break down the muscle mass before it rebuilds its strength.

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

or team members amongst themselves. Employing some kind of employee listening strategy could help you understand what your employees are truly feeling.

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

but the core pieces are to find the time and space to connect, to use some kind of employee listening strategy so that they're gathering

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

within work, life and your relationships. Now boundaries kind of have a bad reputation, right? Some people think of them as an excuse to work less.

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

Now when we first start to say no, it will be extremely uncomfortable, kind of cringe, you're probably going to feel guilty. This is natural.

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

or we don't have that connection with, well, then we kind of get a little weird about it. And what we really need to do is pay attention to those differences,

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

that we actually have an opportunity to learn and grow from. But we've kind of been taught to politely ignore when we're different from one another.

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

Now most of us have seen that relationship, and if we're being honest, we kind of notice that there's some differences between them

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

that there's some differences between them that make that connection kind of unlikely, right? OK. But you know what?

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

And it was the willingness of being able to connect across differences that most of us would kind of politely ignore, or would assume were not available to us.

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

How did they transition out of sport? What kind of exercise were they doing now? What were their long-term health issues?

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

Now, this is new territory for me. I don’t usually get these kind of cold calls. But they wanted me to work with five other individuals,

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

"I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?" It seemed kind of odd to do, and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

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

There's probably someone already waiting who also wants the kind of relationship that you are desiring. CSB: I think that's just so nice to hear, too, in the pandemic,

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

there are bright lights and a camera in your face, kind of like this. (Laughter)

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

(Applause) Chris Anderson: This is kind of amazing, what you're telling us. It seems amazing to me that a belief about stress

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

it didn't take long as a teacher to realize that my male students were acting kind of strange. I remember there was this one year,

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