How native speakers pronounce “mistakes”

And we run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

when you toggle back and forth between tasks you make more mistakes and take much longer sometimes twice as long than

Slow Thinking

that testing some of those beliefs that hold us back can reveal places where we're making mistakes about other people and show us how to reach out,

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

he’d look right at me, and he’d say the kindest things like, “There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.”

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

"Oh my God, this thing writes, and it makes mistakes, but it's so brilliantly verbal."

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

when we feel constantly rushed we make more mistakes and are less creative and less productive

Slow Work

I really believe that society figures out, over time, with some big mistakes along the way, how to get technology right. And C, this is going to happen.

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

and kind of steward this technology into the world in a responsible way. We've definitely made mistakes, we'll definitely make more in the future.

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

DNA is extremely long, and yet, at the same time, sensitive to the smallest mistakes. Imagine trying to write something the length of 30,000 books

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

artificial general intelligence. Except when it makes small, silly mistakes, which it often does.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

which it often does. Many believe that whatever mistakes AI makes today can be easily fixed with brute force,

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

that were allegedly going to help me progress in my career. I made a couple of mistakes. One, I thought that being snarky was a good career move.

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

the obstacles that have tried to stop us, the mistakes that haunt us. But selfishly, to know about myself and my place in the world.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

And if past is prologue, we will learn from these mistakes and create a future we imagine. And in this future,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

Today's AI uses server farms that do not fit. Today's AI also makes mistakes. This AI system on a robot car does not detect pedestrians.

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

For physical intelligence, we need small brains that do not make mistakes. We're tackling these challenges using inspiration

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

It's not sustainable. It makes inexplicable mistakes. Let's not settle for the current offering.

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

concentrating on what we haven't mastered yet, which means we have to expect to make mistakes, knowing that we will learn from them.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

Then we concentrate on what we have already mastered and we try to minimize mistakes. Both of these zones should be part of our lives,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

we would get faster, especially if we also identified what mistakes we're making and practiced typing those words.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

(Laughter) "We'll learn from your mistakes!" I looked for a surgeon who I felt would do a good job,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

And fourth, we must be in a low-stakes situation, because if mistakes are to be expected, then the consequence of making them must not be catastrophic,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

and not taking the risks necessary for learning. But they learn that mistakes are undesirable inadvertently

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

when teachers or parents are eager to hear just correct answers and reject mistakes rather than welcome and examine them to learn from them,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

and counts towards a final grade, rather than being used for practice, mistakes, feedback and revision, we send the message that school is a performance zone.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

What do we want to get better at and how? And when do we want to execute and minimize mistakes? That way, we gain clarity about what success is,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

First, we can create low-stakes islands in an otherwise high-stakes sea. These are spaces where mistakes have little consequence. For example, we might find a mentor or a trusted colleague

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

by asking questions about what we don't know, by soliciting feedback and by sharing our mistakes and what we've learned from them,

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

But none of that will do any good unless you prevent the mistakes that can set you back, the unnecessary searches for explanations,

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

I started making every mistake possible in trying to bring it to life. But through those mistakes, I've learned what it means to be a successful intrapreneur,

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

I've learned what it means to be a successful intrapreneur, and I'm going to share those mistakes today in the hopes that if there's anyone that has an idea

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

and those "blockers" were actually deeply invested in the success and were trying to prevent me from making the mistakes that would get the project killed.

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

that would get the project killed. And to be clear, I was making a lot of mistakes. It's only because of them that the project not only lived on,

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

to happen more often than ever before. Moments such as sharing feedback, identifying mistakes or calling out disrespect --

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

You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgment brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing. But if you do need to talk about something,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

suffer a double curse. First, they make mistakes and reach poor decisions. But second, those same knowledge gaps also prevent them from catching their errors.

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

There will be some situations where we can get an idea of why they make mistakes. Last year, a self-driving car blocked off a fire truck

Why Does Uncertainty Bother Us So Much? | Adam Kucharski | TED · TED

Start by truly learning how to forgive yourself. We are all more than our mistakes. We are all more than who we were yesterday.

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care | Cleo Wade