How native speakers pronounce “lesson”

I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back, drawing,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did. The teacher was fascinated.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

because it's the key fault line that continues to fuel radicalization. So my lesson is this: in a transactional world,

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

He was like, "No one has done this before." And I came in prepared with powerpoints and my lesson. He said, "Wow, I can use this.

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

And even though this is going to cost us $60 million to make, my official declaration tonight is every single lesson plan, every teacher training,

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

And I answered the worry. That lesson is true for all of us. You don't just got to do it, you get to do it,

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

who became our voice when we did not have one. So that's the lesson that I've learned, that no matter how small you are as a country,

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

and to the belief that every life carries equal worth. My final lesson: stay ambitious.

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

Don't worry, I'm not going to actually do this. This was all just a ruse to teach you a lesson which is, in uncomfortable social interactions,

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

A trade-off is typically something like rescheduling a social activity, canceling your golf lesson. This one's a little controversial,

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

so the first lesson is that the linear life is dead the second lesson is that

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so the first lesson is that the linear life is dead the second lesson is that the non-linear life involves many life

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us how to play that brings us to the third and final lesson and the purpose of this course

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everyday Act of reinvention that's why the third lesson is that life transitions are a skill we can and must master

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is so important to both people's humanity and happiness. Alright, second lesson was: smell the roses. And the dirt. And the fertilizer.

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

but behavior very often changes our thought. And finally, the last lesson I want to tell you about is: practice six degrees of gratitude.

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

and scenes and all of this. And so I often said writing the memoir was a lesson in humility, because I really had to sit and work at it every day.

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

because I really had to sit and work at it every day. And also a lesson in being edited, because usually I write a poem,

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

Wild women have hurricanes in their bellies, releasing a flood of a lesson. Oh, wild women, they fly free.

"Wild Women" | Sunni Patterson

and how the lessons learned at my house connect to society's future. Lesson one. You have to robot-proof your home.

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

the moment one of these robots comes into your home. Lesson two. Transit with a robot is really rough.

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

and the city itself. Lesson three is that robots aren't always welcome. So of course, as you can imagine,

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

It's completely up to us to decide. Lesson four is that you can send your robot to work. So Tova was at home and I went out with a friend

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

while still allowing us to embrace the efficiencies offered by AI. Lesson five is that robots really bring out the best in us and the worst in us.

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

(Laughter) There's a client that taught me this lesson really well. She was an ex dominatrix, now author.

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

and holding on to calm long enough to keep going. A lesson I would need again and again. That clarity was a far cry from my childhood,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

Which leads me to lessons my mother Lolly taught me. Lolly’s number one lesson: don’t settle.

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

The only thing that is certain is uncertainty. Nothing teaches me this lesson more viscerally than being in the ocean,

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

So there we have it. The first lesson for successful life, everyone, is this: choose your parents very carefully.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

and this study starts to explain how. So the second lesson is this: parents really matter.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

Now at the start, I said the first lesson from this study was not to be born into poverty or into disadvantage,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

And in an independent study created by Dr. Cornel West, I learned my biggest lesson of all. See, there are certain elements of our society

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

in their abilities to demonstrate alternate realities. This lesson reinvigorated my love for these two spaces because I realized they'd always been primed for imagination and exploration

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

A robotics technical term. I was disappointed, but I learned a very important lesson. The physical world,

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's situation. So the lesson here is that emotions that you seem to detect in other people

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

different experience. And so the lesson here is that emotions which seem to happen to you

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

that this can be helpful. So the first lesson I learned was to socialize your vision early and often.

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

and what I thought I could do for our customers and our business. The second lesson that I learned, very similar to the first, but on the flip side,

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

but I think I deserved it. So the last lesson that I learned, and the one that I feel is most important and possibly counterintuitive,

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