How native speakers pronounce “myself”

and I had no idea what that meant. But I learned that I could broadcast myself live on this website, doing whatever I wanted.

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

looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself if today were the last day of my life what I want to do what I am

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

wished that for myself and now as you graduate to begin a new I wish that for you stay hungry

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

independently confirmed by Bloomberg.com. I ran through the numbers myself. 300 people have to take the drug for a year

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

But as I got older, I could see myself becoming that Hare Krishna.

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

every day in every situation I find myself in, I'm out there sharing the good news.

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

after waiting around for someone else to open a bookstore, I decided to do it myself. This was not the fulfillment of a

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

and to find a force in the world greater than myself. Through experience, we had both come to

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

But then it starts to sound like this: "My 20s are almost over, and I have nothing to show for myself. I had a better résumé the day after I graduated from college."

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

think about how other people are experiencing you. The way I do it is I almost envision myself having this out-of-body experience. Watching me through the eyes of others.

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

I put other people in experiments for a living, but this morning I decided to put myself in an experiment and pay close attention to what happened.

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

and pay close attention to what happened. Instead of keeping to myself and doomscrolling on my phone or checking my email,

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

I said, "You know what? I'm going to do this. And I'll feel myself getting rejected 100 days." And I came up with my own rejection ideas,

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

I felt so embarrassed. But because I filmed myself -- so that night I was watching myself getting rejected,

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

But because I filmed myself -- so that night I was watching myself getting rejected, I just saw how scared I was.

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

and he even asked me, "Why?" In fact, he invited me to explain myself. And I could've said many things.

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

What I really wanted to do was learn, and to change myself. So I turned the rest of my 100 days of rejection

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

for the last two and a half years, myself, with a team of about 50 people, including some of the best science teachers in the country,

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

Sound brutal, but perhaps familiar? Every morning I ask myself, how can I, knowing what I know, be doing this to my own son?

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

maybe you feel nervous -- it’s OK. I felt all of those things the first time I heard myself say it. So let me explain.

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

who left Robbins, Illinois all those years ago. So please allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Lauren Keyana Palmer,

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

and once we was out, I forgot to let myself free. Yet I'm here today,

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

when I walked out of that courtroom. first connection I needed was with myself. I was terrified of blowing the case.

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

I'd struck down the Guantanamo military tribunals. But Ben forced me to admit a truth I'd buried from myself. Every time I walked into the court,

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

She taught me to quiet my own thoughts and to trust myself to come up with the words after the other person had spoken.

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

multiple times a day, whether consciously or subconsciously, I need to remind myself not to fart publicly. (Laughter)

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Twenty years ago, I threw myself a bachelor party as a new professor at CU Boulder.

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

At times, it can really feel like our social fabric is unraveling. So after my 360, I decided to do some work on myself and to see if I could also learn some things

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

and all of it helped, I was still finding myself too often getting selfish or snippy. So I signed up for a nine-day silent retreat

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

she kept insisting that if I wanted to be less of a jerk to other people, I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself, which I thought was the kind of thing you hear

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

that when I saw my demons emerging in meditation, I should put my hand on my heart and say to myself, "It's OK, sweetie. I'm here for you."

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

I layered on an avalanche of self-criticism. I told myself a whole story about how I was an incurably self-obsessed, cranky monster

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

Mid-meditation, I put my hand on my heart, and while I definitely was not going to call myself "sweetie," I did silently say to myself,

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

and while I definitely was not going to call myself "sweetie," I did silently say to myself, "It's all good, dude, I know this sucks, but I've got you."

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

The first is what my friend Evelyn Tribole calls the toilet vortex. The reason why this looks childish and ridiculous is that I drew it myself. (Laughter)

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

And the flip side of this was on full display in my 360. All the ways in which I was torturing myself showed up in my relationships with other people.

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

they might reject me. They might see me as weird if I try to introduce myself. So I scurry into my apartment

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

I should assume that they're going to like me. And then one last thing I have to remind myself of was to overcome something called “covert avoidance,”

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

Basically, when I get back in touch with my ability to imagine myself with my partner, when my imagination comes back in the picture,

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

And then, more importantly, in this description about the other or myself -- it's the same -- what is most interesting is that there is no neediness in desire.

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

And so I began to ask a different question. "I shut myself off when ..." began to be the question. "I turn off my desires when ..."

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

"What turns me off is ..." and "You turn me off when ..." And people began to say, "I turn myself off when I feel dead inside, when I don't like my body,

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

when I feel old, when I haven't had time for myself, when I haven't had a chance to even check in with you,

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

And then I began to ask the reverse question. "I turn myself on when ..." Because most of the time, people like to ask the question,

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

(Laughter) So I turn myself on when, I turn on my desires, I wake up when ...

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

in order to go play, in order to go experience pleasure, in order to discover, to enter inside myself. Translate this into adult language.

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

I've led many teams and companies through burnout. I've also gone through it myself. Turns out,

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

Is this feasible? I like to ask myself: Is future me going to be mad at current me if I say yes to this?

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

EN: Making that happen in real life is, of course, easier said than done. And one of the things that is my little reminder to myself is that when I feel like I need more grit,

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

Now I said I have over a decade of demonizing stress to redeem myself from, so we are going to do one more intervention.

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

to building lives they cherish. And I rely on these tools myself, whether I'm trying to get my three young kids to bed,

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

a playlist with some dance-worthy Drake music and a note to myself to always be a light. What belongs in yours?

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

I let my anxious thoughts recede and gave myself over to everything around me. The bells tolling now and then down the road,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

they all fall away, and I can hear myself not think. Better than that,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

Now, these centenarians' stories along with the science that underpins them prompted me to ask myself some questions too, such as, when am I going to die and how can I put that day off?

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

to my freakish success. And what I have to sort of keep telling myself when I get really psyched out about that is don't be afraid.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that was going to keep him busy, I developed a meticulous postpartum plan for myself. My family would rotate in in shifts for the first 60 days.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

And when I should have been catching up on sleep, I would lay in bed at night and think to myself, "I'm failing.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

while managing my feelings of being overwhelmed. And I braced myself for more criticism. But what happened was entirely different.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

I looked down at the baby onesie that I was folding, and I thought to myself, "Why am I folding this?"

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

I said it out loud and literally braced myself for the laundry police?

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

ask for sleep medication. But as I consider myself to be a generally good sleeper, and also because I know how these drugs work,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

And I have to confess that usually I'm much better at giving advice than following it myself. But here's what I did.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

although, of course, it's not that easy to establish those numbers with certainty. And, well, I introduce myself. I'm Riccardo, I'm a psychologist and a PhD candidate,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

they weren't made for my disease. So I thought to myself, "Maybe there's another drug, made for another disease

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

but I was out of options. So I began to test it on myself. In the three years before I started sirolimus, I nearly died five times.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

had a wake-up call one day I caught myself speed reading bedtime stories to my son

How to slow down with Carl Honoré

Entire families just didn't have work. So I really started asking this question of myself, like, what do I do as someone who really wants to stay here,

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

I wasn't an economist. I didn't have a business major, didn't consider myself an entrepreneur. What I did know is that I cared very deeply about where I lived.

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

And wanting to chase that feeling of not having to convince myself that I wasn't the problem, or not having to convince myself that something was good,

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

of not having to convince myself that I wasn't the problem, or not having to convince myself that something was good, but just feeling good.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

my wake-up call came when I caught myself ogling a collection of one minute bedtime stories

Family

but my next thought was very different I said to myself whoa has it really come to this

Family

We are blindly driving into a fog, despite the warnings of scientists like myself, that this trajectory could lead to loss of control.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

is that there are multiple companies doing it already. I know, because I've done it myself. I've worked in what we now call generative AI for over a decade,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

but I do think this illustrates some of the confusion around this topic, which kind of leaves musicians like myself to come up with our own guardrails for how to use AI,

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

sidewalk tables I feel myself slowing down becoming more joyful

Slow Spaces

or at least slow it down a little, I remind myself, I try to remind myself

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

I remind myself, I try to remind myself of all the reasons I shouldn't want that,

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

Because I would wake up every morning in my default mood, which is grumpiness, but I would force myself to write a thank-you note and then another and then another.

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

I had been living my entire adult life in a way to prove to myself that I was good, because someone who is good is not someone who hangs up

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

Those feelings were so big, I worried that if I let myself feel them for even a minute, I would never, ever feel anything else again.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

and I was already in pretty good shape, I thought. And so I sent a recording of myself to some mentors, and I said, you know, I'd love some feedback.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

joy, awe, love, wonder -- that I couldn't even let myself experience them. I needed to find a new way to be.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

It's really my default to reduce myself to one dimension. Especially at work.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

I do like Excel. But it’s because I feel myself becoming a more full human. But I am a consultant.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

was the one who looked back at me in the mirror. I was by myself, and I was all alone. And the things that were said to me,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

and that takes up time that I might not necessarily have." I find myself in that thought process all the time, and what I remind myself of is that generosity alleviates stress.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

I find myself in that thought process all the time, and what I remind myself of is that generosity alleviates stress. It doesn't add to it.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

I believed that man, I believed what he said. And I walked out of there giving myself permission to take up space in Hollywood, knowing that I belonged there

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

Against all odds, once again, I gave myself permission to take up space, believing that I belonged.

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

to up my game as a CEO. First, sure, we've all seen CEOs, people like myself, who step on stages like this and say,

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

Yeah. At tax time, I found myself seated across from him, watching as he slowly tapped his pen

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

designed to create romantic love in the laboratory, and my own experience trying the study myself one night last summer.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

but of course I was intrigued. And when I got the chance to try this study myself, with someone I knew but not particularly well,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

but it seems really obvious in retrospect. I hoped that if I armed myself with the knowledge of romantic love, I might never have to feel as terrible and lonely as I did then.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

I am more confident about asking for what I want. But I can also see myself more clearly, and I can see that what I want is sometimes more

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

people have very different views of what the big AI risks are going to be. And I myself have like evolved on thinking about where we're going to see those.

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

"Well, in order to execute on that function, I've got to copy myself everywhere," and, you know.

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

I WENT TO CHECK OUT the secret behind the sauce for myself. Hi. Okay, what are we making?

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