How native speakers pronounce “little”

and about the importance of conserving their rainforest habitats, too. They also have a little iPad to play games on now. It's very, very cute.

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

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

We were sitting there, and I think they just went out of sequence, because we talked to the little boy afterward and said, "You OK with that?" They said, "Yeah, why? Was that wrong?"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

because she was disturbing people, her homework was always late, and so on. Little kid of eight. In the end, the doctor went and sat next to Gillian and said,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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Now, I'm a neuroscientist by training and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress. It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate,

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

So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep, worrying about the hole in the window,

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

30 seconds per work starts to seem well a little slow and not in a good way it's true that speed is fun sexy beguiling it

Running

So suppose you go to your doctor and the doctor says, "I just got your lab work back, your cholesterol's a little high." Now, you all know that high cholesterol

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

and I can just control it right here from my laptop. So it's a little bit like playing a video game. But I can fly around,

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

Maybe this time we would sit at the gate a little bit longer and I would ask him what he was reading.

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

(Laughter) He was a little apprehensive. (Laughter)

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

(Laughter) Okay, now that sounds a little flip, but make no mistake, the stakes are very high.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

When someone snaps at you, do you snap back, or do you show a little bit of grace? At night, do you get hammered, or do you get some sleep?

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

Four, you control how you're seen. This one might seem a little too absurdly self-indulgent, but it's actually a magic trick.

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

maybe the purpose of life is about leaving little pieces of ourselves behind in others. And I hope today that I've left a little piece

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

is about leaving little pieces of ourselves behind in others. And I hope today that I've left a little piece of what all those people poured into me, with you,

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

of what all those people poured into me, with you, and that you can leave little pieces of yourself in many others, and you can do it because you control you.

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

It teaches them that there's always a little bit of reward, always a little bit of dopamine available just one swipe

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

Everywhere. You know, if you're going to be a little bit late, you would ride with my mom

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

It also shows us that sometimes, when we decide to do things a little differently, we can avoid the difference

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

the months and the years of our lives. And yet, on the other hand, just look around a little bit. It's not clear that all of us have gotten this memo.

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

all filing onto the train, everybody in a desperate search for their own little acreage of solitude right along the window.

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

I'd try to have a conversation with her, try to help us get to know each other a little bit. Turn this 30-minute dull ride into something a little more interesting.

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

try to help us get to know each other a little bit. Turn this 30-minute dull ride into something a little more interesting. Turn a stranger into a momentary acquaintance.

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

It's something we see over and over again in varying shades and magnitudes across different contexts that vary a little bit across people -- but that consistent signal is there.

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

Pessimistic beliefs in that way are self-fulfilling. This little experiment was just the tip of a very large iceberg that came into view for us in many ensuing years.

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

that it will turn out well, and as a result, we tend to hold ourselves back a little too often. I've found in my life and in my research

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

and show us how to reach out, empower us to reach out a little bit more often than we might otherwise, to make both our own lives and those we reach out to a little bit better.

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

empower us to reach out a little bit more often than we might otherwise, 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?

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

But let me assure that what you did there had very little to do with science. That was really the "what" of science.

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

The only problem is that when I graduated from medical school, I didn't get one of those little doohickeys that your mechanic has to plug into your car

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

with something that gets them to lean forward in their seat. Something that ignites a little curiosity fire in their brain. And we need that today more than ever.

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

for the first time in that itty-bitty little one percent of cancers called sarcoma. In 1966, Peyton Rous got the Nobel Prize

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

What are the experiments that are being done? Do this little exercise with me. Up there on the screen, you see this phrase, "no where."

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

does matter in your life. I didn't tell you one dirty little secret. I told you that in medicine, we test predictions in populations,

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

Son 2: Oh, my gosh. Waymo: If you're traveling with little ones or expecting, please see the --

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

The smaller cell became what we now call the mitochondria, the little powerhouse inside almost every complex cell on earth. That merger created an energy surplus so vast,

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

These early start policies have a direct effect on how little sleep American teenagers are getting. They’re also pitting teenagers in a fundamentally unwinnable fight

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Your calendar probably went next. Then little judgment calls you used to make for yourself. The tool was great at it, so you let the tool do it.

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

it wasn't enough. When I was eight, we moved somewhere a little nicer and qualified for Section 8 -- which is a subsidized housing program.

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

I went to Bali this past year and finally spent some one-on-one time with that little girl who left Robbins, Illinois all those years ago.

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

that as they click through each option, I want it to last a little bit longer. So when they ask me, “One or two?”

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

Now, I think most of us would agree that there's something a little gross about pee. You know, it's something that we don't really like to talk about,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

To explain what I mean, why don't I tell you a little bit about what I was like as a child? So, I was what you might call a gross kid.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And why is that? I think really little kids are like little explorers. They just want to experience as much as they can

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

You should feel free to touch as many toads as you want. So at a certain point, when kids get a little bit older, there's this way that engaging with gross stuff

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

or competitions to see who can make the grossest face. And they do that in part because it's a little bit transgressive, right? But there's another layer to why we define stuff as gross.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

because there is so much out there in the world that is a little bit gross. Like, think about going for a walk in the woods.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And that is wonderful when it's about something as goofy as tonsil stones, but it's a little sad when a video can have an effect like that when it's about something as common as periods.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and the people who were trying to come and kill us. And we had that little radio with batteries, and we were listening to these meetings and these speeches,

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

there were all of 274 billionaires in the world. It was a very aspirational little club. You know, Bruno Mars in his song "Billionaire" sings of dreaming

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

Sleep occupies nearly a third of our lives, but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it. This neglect is often the result of a major misunderstanding.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

that are at the moment dormant inside us. And my little idea that will do that is sleep. (Laughter)

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

I thought, this is incredible. And it's also a little bit scary. How can we make it more scary?

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

You take glee in seeing what might happen if you just put it out there. Like, is any part of you feeling that that's a little bit reckless? Peter Steinberger: I wouldn't say so.

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

Mac mini sales by multiple percent. So most people give it their own little Mac mini. Mine's a little princess.

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

So most people give it their own little Mac mini. Mine's a little princess. Mine got a Mac studio.

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

based on correlational data that the “get married” crowd is a little too wedded to. Any serious scientist who looks at these data

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

Because I knew exactly what Afghan girls were going through. When I saw pictures of little girls standing outside the locked gates of their schools,

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

like the obstacles are too big and there's little we can do to fix the problem. But there's a lot I have learned over the past few years,

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

Married people, you're not off the hook. I’m going to get a little morbid for a moment and have you contemplate

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

But I'm going to make you wait a second, because I should give you a little background on me. I used to be an anchorman.

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

Now, to get us all into this mindset of what it's like to feel awkward, but maybe potentially a little bit nice, I want you all to think

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

from the person who's sitting next to them, in an effort just to get a little bit more distance. One of my favorite findings is in doctor-patient interactions,

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

maybe your palms are sweating? You can start to feel yourself getting a little tingly just with the mere thought of being called upon today?

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

that we actually see from people, kind of sneering, a little bit of side eye, you know, arms crossed, these types of things.

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

the more those Black participants became linked up to them over time. And I think this finding is a little bit terrifying. I think it means that we often think of our own stress and our own physiology

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

isn't always super direct. Sometimes it's a little bit patronizing. So you could probably see where I'm going with this.

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

may you live with ease." After you've generated a little warmth, you do a bait-and-switch and move onto yourself.

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

and talk to yourself the way you would talk to a good friend. For ambitious people, this may be a little scary. You might fear it's going to erode your edge.

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

And it's distracting and it creates a distance." So I thought a little bit about it with my eyes probably rolled up inside my head,

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

One reason is because we just don't know how to make friends. So luckily, I am going to help you with that a little bit today. But the other reason has to do with something I like to call

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

And I actually want to read something back to you from your book to help us understand a little bit more about just the importance of this type of relationship.

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

we are free to make friendship territories of pleasure." So can you talk a little bit more about this and just why friendship holds such an important role

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

Maybe for our UK folks, you all have a prime minister of loneliness. So it's a little bit different, right? But when we talk about the impact of loneliness,

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

like, we just need an entire community to fulfill us. WPR: You touched on this a little bit in the talk, and in the book, you separate, sort of,

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

better platonic relationships. And so if we could just talk a little bit about sort of that first section, just diving into how we as a culture tend to think about friendship

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

And it's about much more than just the pleasure of connection there. Can you explain a little bit about that? MF: Yeah. So Harry Stack Sullivan, he's a psychiatrist,

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

You're going to feel uncomfortable, right? Maybe a little distrusting. That's not a sign that you need to stop showing up.

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

every boss I ever had, saying, "Hey, I'm a little more available than I thought I'd be to do some marketing consulting."

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

is how I won my first few big contracts. It's how I was able to take that little side hustle and turn it into a thriving business,

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

and the strategizing, and the exploration, and the phone calls, you're a little exhausted. Sometimes you just need to rest.

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

the ability to stay connected to one's self in the presence of another. So I want to draw that little image for you, because this need to reconcile these two sets of needs,

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

or our need for togetherness and for autonomy, and if you think about the little kid who sits on your lap and who is cozily nested here and very secure and comfortable,

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

Don't we have everything you need together, you and I?" then there are a few little reactions that all of us can pretty much recognize.

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

came back a long time ago, and that little child who comes back is the child who will forgo a part of himself

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

You felt mutually connected. And when you left, you felt a little more energized and uplifted. And it didn't necessarily need to be a happy experience.

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

And then ask for more. Probe a little deeper. Answering questions expansively encourages you to open up

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

So what that does is that encourages them to open up because they've now learned a little bit more about you. They have more insight into your life.

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

We can do better. Let's do our part to connect a little more, engage a little more,

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

Let's do our part to connect a little more, engage a little more, and make work truly work for us.

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

canceling your golf lesson. This one's a little controversial, but maybe you're not watching Sunday Night Football.

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

I felt like that ship had sailed. To say something now would feel a little risky and a lot awkward.

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

And we start to notice and remember how that felt, which is usually a little icky. And because we don't love to feel a little icky,

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

which is usually a little icky. And because we don't love to feel a little icky, we start to act in ways that avoid that feeling.

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

changing direction might look like naming how awkward it is to have to talk about this, maybe with a little bit of humor. Or let’s say you get called on in a meeting

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | 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 access to water is indeed a privilege. In fact, a little more than a quarter of the world's population does not have access to safely managed drinking water at home.

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

in the ways that you're able to in that relationship. Now I have a little secret. A confession, if you will.

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