How native speakers pronounce “life”

graduation today I want to tell you three stories from my life that's it no big deal just three

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

in my life and 17 years later I did go to college but I naively chose a college

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how College was going to help me figure it out and here

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

had saved their entire life so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay it was

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

So this was when it really clicked for me, right? I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, but I wanted to do it at a much, much larger scale.

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

of any practical application in my life but 10 years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

your future you have to trust in something your gut Destiny Life Karma whatever because believing that the dots

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

loss I was lucky I found what I love to do early in life W and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20 we

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

and very publicly out what had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone and it was

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

one of the most creative periods per of my life during the next 5 years I started a company named next another

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

medicine but I guess the patient needed it sometime life sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

it is for your lovers your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

asked myself if today were the last day of my life what I want to do what I am about to do today and whenever the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life because almost everything all external expectations all

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

because death is very likely the single best invention of life it's life's change agent it clears out the old to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

true your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life don't be trapped by Dogma which is living with

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

named Stuart brand not far from here in Meno Park and he brought it to life with his poetic touch this was in the late

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

It may sound naive. Life is far more complicated than that. I won’t argue with you.

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

I know that that's true. No one makes it through their whole life intact. If you talked to every pillow I've had in my life,

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

No one makes it through their whole life intact. If you talked to every pillow I've had in my life, you would hear about plenty of tears.

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

but I am deserving of my own best efforts. Life is effort. Why wouldn’t I try? I spent far too long believing that joy was for someone more deserving than me.

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

When you turn your face up to the sky, remember, life is made of the average days, and each one offers joy aplenty.

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

He loved it, but he had a girlfriend in England. This was the love of his life, Sarah. He'd known her for a month.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life. Another form of life.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

They're just a form of life. Another form of life. But they're rather curious.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Because you are, aren't you? There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life. If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often ...

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

"If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years, all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years, all forms of life would flourish." And he's right.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

what is my purpose here am I living the right life for me grappling with such questions is hard

Running

You don't want to have to manufacture all of this on the spot. And you also want to think about things like quality of life. Because you have a choice oftentimes,

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

Because you have a choice oftentimes, do you I want a shorter life that's pain-free, or a longer life that might have a great deal of pain towards the end?

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

do you I want a shorter life that's pain-free, or a longer life that might have a great deal of pain towards the end? These are things to talk about and think about now,

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

much closer to home, that's already having life-saving impact. And I think the best way to understand it is just to show it to you.

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

They were able to guide in first responders, and they saved this guy's life. Another example.

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

Wanting to testify about the greatest love in my life, which is reading.

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

my joy. I can't imagine what life would be without reading.

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

Novels teach us empathy by putting us into another person's life, and they define our history by showing us how

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

How much of the ocean should be protected? It's our life support system. We need to treat all of it with respect.

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

Twentysomethings like Alex and I had nothing but time. But before long, my supervisor pushed me to push Alex about her love life. I pushed back.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not just for Alex and her love life but for the careers and the families and the futures

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

These are the facts. We know that 80 percent of life's most defining moments take place by age 35.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

of the decisions and experiences and "Aha!" moments that make your life what it is will have happened by your mid-30s.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

We know that personality changes more during your 20s than at any other time in life, and we know that female fertility peaks at age 28,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

for language and attachment in the brain. It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

when you pat a twentysomething on the head and you say, "You have 10 extra years to start your life"? Nothing happens.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And as hard as her 20s were, her early life had been even harder. She often cried in our sessions,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

But what Emma needed wasn't some therapist who really, really cared. Emma needed a better life, and I knew this was her chance. I had learned too much since I first worked with Alex

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

where it's cold, it's dark, it's high pressure, but it's where most of life on Earth actually exists. The merger of new technology and ancient wisdom.

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

or didn't do. You're deciding your life right now. Thank you.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

I invite you all to remember a time in your life, a period in your life when you felt fully integrated into a group.

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

Do you look back on that as something special and magical, that time in your life? The great biologist E.O.

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

And there is a commonality to all of them. That all of them maniacally focus on controlling life's variables that you can control.

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

That became my mantra, and that became my map for life. When I watched these people,

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

That helped me through one of the hardest periods of my professional life. I had started Politico, it was my baby.

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

This technique helped me through what was probably the hardest period of my life, but the most wondrous period of my life.

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

what was probably the hardest period of my life, but the most wondrous period of my life. It’s about seven years ago, and we adopted a teenage boy,

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

And he had lost his parents, it was a rough part of his life. And he's a young guy doing what you do when you have a rough period of life.

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

it was a rough part of his life. And he's a young guy doing what you do when you have a rough period of life. And I remember thinking, you know what?

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

I want you to imagine yourself on your deathbed, thinking about your life. And did you live a life that you were proud of?

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

thinking about your life. And did you live a life that you were proud of? Did you live a life that you could feel,

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

And did you live a life that you were proud of? Did you live a life that you could feel, "You know what? I did it my way."

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

for that answer to be: “Yes, that was it. I lived the life I wanted to live." Then write down the three things that it would take to do that

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

between now and then, to actually achieve the life that you want to achieve. That's your North Star.

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

That puts you ahead of 95 percent on Earth in terms of taking ownership of what you want to do with your own life. Man, I'm blessed.

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

who poured a lot of knowledge and a lot of love into my life. Richard Powers, in his book "Bewilderment," says,

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

Richard Powers, in his book "Bewilderment," says, maybe the purpose of life is about leaving little pieces of ourselves behind in others.

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

I have to bring in Israelis and Palestinians to the hardest room in my life. So that's what I did.

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

but it's also OK if you want to protect it from public opinion. It's OK if you're in a season of life where you both just cannot prioritize sex. It's OK if people are confused about your relationship.

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

There's a fundamental paradox right at the core of human life. On the one hand, decades of research have shown

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

determines so much about our happiness, our health and our success in life. But highly social creatures like us might avoid reaching out

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

I've got to be a better person. I cannot let that six-year-old keep dictating my life anymore. I have to put him back in his place.

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

And I was just walking and that was the longest walk of my life -- hair on the back of my neck standing up,

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

talk about things like, "Can you tell me what you're most grateful for in your life?" Or "Can you tell me about one of the last times

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

All I did was run. I felt, wow, this is like a microcosm of my life. Every time I felt the slightest rejection,

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

No research I've ever been involved with has changed the way I live my life more than this. My train rides are almost never silent anymore.

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

I think they're still there. But the life and death feeling I was feeling the first time was no longer there,

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

And then Day Three: Getting Olympic Doughnuts. This is where my life was turned upside down. I went to a Krispy Kreme.

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

has also affected how I've made some big choices that I have been a part of in my life, including when pain struck my family.

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

we tend to hold ourselves back a little too often. I've found in my life and in my research that testing some of those beliefs that hold us back

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

to make both our own lives and those we reach out to a little bit better. You want to change your life for the better? I suggest keeping some data-driven courage in mind.

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

People were more likely to say yes to me. And then I learned I could fulfill my life dream ... by asking.

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

because I thought I could fulfill my life dream just by simply asking. I used to think I have to accomplish all these things --

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

was my boogeyman. It has bothered me my whole life because I was running away from it. Then I started embracing it.

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

Then I started embracing it. I turned that into the biggest gift in my life. I started teaching people how to turn rejections into opportunities.

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

and I'm even building technology to help people overcome their fear of rejection. When you get rejected in life, when you are facing the next obstacle

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

So when someone came by and stole a package from my porch, I decided to dedicate a year of my life to making the world's least boring microcontroller tutorial video.

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

And this is all fine and well, but it probably doesn't matter in my life." And you're probably right.

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

And you're probably right. Sarcoma may not matter a whole lot in your life. But where the blanks are in medicine

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

But where the blanks are in medicine does matter in your life. I didn't tell you one dirty little secret.

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

and we'll finish the rest over the next four years, because I know this will be the most important thing I do my whole life. And even though this is going to cost us $60 million to make,

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

which is for many, many people who do not have a driver's license, it’s their first time ever in life -- and so those are very special moments --

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

parks could come back community life could sort of come back to the center of a city. So that's a vision.

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

You see, two billion years ago, life on Earth was mostly single-celled until bacteria figured out a new trick, photosynthesis,

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

Now at the time, oxygen was poison. It shredded the delicate chemistry that nearly all life on Earth depended on, and the planet changed faster than life could keep up with.

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

It shredded the delicate chemistry that nearly all life on Earth depended on, and the planet changed faster than life could keep up with. Some scientists call what followed the first mass extinction event

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

and anything starting to form. And you've lived your whole life inside that gap. Close it and the answer arrives instantly,

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

because the alternative, being replaced, is far worse. But every major transition in the history of life has a condition: the parts have to remember that they are parts.

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

and I starred in my own movie. Suddenly, we had access to a life that didn't require constant vigilance. Each opportunity gave way to a world we never knew was possible.

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