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I write about the things that bring me joy. You'd be surprised just how often that means I pick up my pen and use my voice.

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

If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

The smallest joys are the simplest to find. And they add up more often than any. I always pay attention when a small joy grabs me.

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

(Laughter) But now kids with degrees are often heading home to carry on playing video games,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value -- more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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 ... thankfully.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

dine aldesco we often have little choice but to toil Harder Faster longer at the same time

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her early life had been even harder. She often cried in our sessions, but then would collect herself by saying,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And of course, the parents are often busy. But if the chatbot is super responsive,

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

And sadly, even when wars end and when agreements are signed, violence often returns within five years. Over the course of my international career with the United Nations,

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

And don’t get me wrong, this work is important. But too often we mistake process for progress. And too often, we do not build enough political legitimacy,

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

But too often we mistake process for progress. And too often, we do not build enough political legitimacy, enough aligned self-interest,

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

We just want to address the five percent." And I hear something to this effect often when I first meet a couple. It turns out that five percent was more like 75 percent and increasing.

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

but I was born and raised a proud Palestinian. So people often expect me to start with victimhood, to start with moral argument, to start with pain.

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

So let me tell you what we've done differently, because this is where the old peacemaking toolbox often misfires. We did not organize this around the grassroots,

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

We’d like to be open and honest in our relationships, but all too often keep our true selves to ourselves. If being socially connected is so darn good for us,

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

If being socially connected is so darn good for us, then why do we so often seem to be so darn unsocial? This paradox hit me like a freight train one morning

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

enlightening and enriching experiences we'll ever have. And yet, all too often, our choice to reach out and connect with somebody is thwarted by overly pessimistic fears

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

who change the way we live and the way we think, are the people who were met with initial and often violent rejections. People like Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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

and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees, but one also loses a tree

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

but I didn't tell you, and so often medicine never tells you that every time an individual

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

Sleeping on your back, on the other hand, is often preferred by those with lower back pain. When paired with a small pillow under the knees,

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

creating the sound we call snoring. This is also why people with sleep apnea are often told to avoid this position. This condition already involves pauses in breathing,

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

For example, studies show that sleeping on the left side often reduces heartburn symptoms for those with acid reflux. Your stomach is primarily located on the left side of your body,

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

However, for people with congestive heart failure, who often have an enlarged left ventricle, sleeping on the right side can help relieve chest pressure

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

In other words, the very type of brain activity that’s responsible for reining in those impulsive and often risky behaviors that are so characteristic of adolescence. They know that, like the rest of us,

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

Districts around the country, big and small, who have made this change, they’ve found that these fears are often unfounded and far outweighed by the tremendous benefits

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

And Robbins, by definition, is a food desert. The liquor store is often where I picked up my lunches before school -- Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and a pop --

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

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and a pop -- a meal the teachers over at my Catholic school often criticized. Even still, my family had love.

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

I was allowed to be frustrated -- although often disguised as humor. Performing was safe because it didn't make people feel guilty

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

There’s another moment also that often stimulates this deep relaxation for me. It’s whenever I get an eye exam.

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

(Laughter) Another moment that often stimulates this deep form of relaxation is when I watch the TV show, Bob Ross’s “Joy of Painting.”

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

tap, tap, tap. And I found it so relaxing that I often fell asleep and never saw him finish the painting.

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

But the moment that stimulated ASMR that I saw the most often mentioned was watching the TV show, Bob Ross’s “Joy of Painting.”

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

which Mary Shelley wrote when she was just 19, is often taken as a cautionary tale, a warning against the hubris of bringing something to life,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

And after a year and a half of making my show, I can tell you that very often when we explore the gross side of life, we find insights that we never would have thought we'd find,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

we find insights that we never would have thought we'd find, and we even often reveal beauty that we didn't think was there. I think it's important for us to talk about gross things for a few reasons.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

That's really amazing. So I feel like we should be talking about gross stuff early and often with young people,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and soothsayers to tell us about the future are very distant, but often we use AI as the new Oracle of Delphi, and tech executives whisper in the ears of our leaders,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

but the political role is not. Predictions are often power plays in disguise. They justify value-laden decisions under the pretense of facts.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

what you are actually doing is obeying. Have you noticed how often people who make predictions about technology say

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

thereby creating the perfect recipe for hidden injustice. Predictions are often unfair because they're not based on who people are,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

but many of us give surprisingly little attention and care to it. This neglect is often the result of a major misunderstanding. Sleep isn't lost time,

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

and we feel like crawling out of our skin, are we also the most nice and often generic to the people around us? I'm a social psychologist,

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

these types of things that we often don't even really realize that we're feeling. And the way I do this is by having people come into the lab

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

I have them get acquainted with each other. And often it's the case that in these interactions, people are required to give some form of feedback to their partner.

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

which is, in uncomfortable social interactions, we often don't have a social script of what to do. Instead of telling people what we really think, what we really feel,

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

telling them how great they are. So often these kinds of interactions that take the form of what I’ll call “anxious niceness,”

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

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 as independent of the people we interact with,

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

It could negatively affect your bodies. Now often what we find is the type of feedback that people are actually getting

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

what you should stop doing, but can also damage people in ways that we often don't think about. It can affect their reputations outside of the interaction context.

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

Does it mean I should do your job without complaining about doing your job, which is often what it actually means? We have to break it down into the specifics,

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

Now an important piece here is what people should do instead. Often if we get to the stage where we're comfortable enough telling people,

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

and you need to let them go out of your mind. We've heard interviews often in which a guest is talking for several minutes

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

And honestly, I think it's what makes me a better host. I keep my mouth shut as often as I possibly can. I keep my mind open.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

I don't mean that friendship doesn't happen organically in childhood, because for children it often does. And they have certain ingredients in their environment

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

less so now that we're doing more hybrid and remote workplace, right? But we're often not as vulnerable in the workplace. And that's why one study, and again, this is caveat, US context,

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

So TED member Arnoldo, they ask, "Married people often complain about lack of time to cultivate friendships outside of the marital circle.

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

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast So, why does good sex so often fade, even for couples who continue to love each other as much as ever?

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

and I'll come back to that -- but the crisis of desire is often a crisis of the imagination. So why does good sex so often fade?

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

but the crisis of desire is often a crisis of the imagination. So why does good sex so often fade? What is the relationship between love and desire?

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

Desire needs space. And when it's said like that, it's often quite abstract. But then I took a question with me.

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

those who didn't die, and those who came back to life. And those who didn't die lived often very tethered to the ground, could not experience pleasure, could not trust,

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

And they may be gone, but they're never really away. And those are often the people that will tell you, "In the beginning, it was super hot."

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

She was still struggling, often losing sleep in the middle of the night, feeling unfocused, unmotivated during the day.

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

or her friends or her coworkers in person anymore, and she often went weeks only spending quality time with her husband. Her story shows us that we can't be fully healthy,

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

yet is having a hard time fitting in with people in his dorm and often feels homesick. Or Serena and Ali, a couple juggling the chaos of young kids

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

and yet feels untethered without his team anymore and wishes he could see his kids and grandkids more often. These stories show that social health is relevant to each of us

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

about the experiences that you're going through. And I'm often asked, does it have to be in person? Does texting count?

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

So the problem is, we often think of weight control as an individual challenge. And of course, to some extent it is.

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

We are taking risks in front of people, often with KPIs and success metrics on the line. It feels like everyone, everywhere is watching us cross the cringe chasm.

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

That must be why they're not sharing this information." So then I did the other thing that women often do. I decided to put my head down

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

so that I don't have to worry about running out of gas." How often would we hear a story like that in the workplace and discount that person?

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

and discount that person? How often would we dismiss or not even consider the candidate because they didn't give us a business example,

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

top-down reforms that can ignore local realities or bottom-up efforts that often depend on heroic and exhausted educators. But there's a third way.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Whenever I tell people I work at a middle school, they often lean back and suck their teeth. It's like they're having a visceral reaction

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

to show them that deep learning and critical thinking often require an integration of all of these subjects. Teaching confidence allows boys to understand

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

to prove to students that they don't have to fit into a stereotype. And while I'm often impressed by the vulnerability and kindness of each of my students,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

(Laughter) In the US, “What do you do?” is often the first question we ask when we meet someone new.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

Silence doesn't ask us to prove or disprove a thing. Words so often cut us in two. I believe this, and you believe that.

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

when I wasn't saying a word. In fact, often they seemed closer to me when I was sitting in silence than when they were talking to me in the same room.

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

their marital status, how often they went to the doctor, whether they smoked or drank, etc.

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

The conversations about health were lengthy and deep. The men often recounted their doctor's recommendations to cut salt in their diet

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

So why is high blood pressure so differentially deadly for black men? Because too often, high blood pressure is either untreated or under-treated in black men,

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands, you know? And even the ones who didn't literally commit suicide

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

That study illustrates what my friends in public health often say these days: that one's zip code matters more

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

he hears this little fragment of melody, that comes into his head as inspiration often comes, elusive and tantalizing, and he wants it, it's gorgeous,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

The honest answer is that in healthcare, we often treat symptoms without addressing the conditions that make you sick in the first place.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

are first, we don't pay for that. In healthcare, we often pay for volume and not value. We pay doctors and hospitals usually

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

The laundry pile reached impressive heights. And there was often not a path to walk from room to room. And when I should have been catching up on sleep,

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

particular kind of person who gets to have that body and often times it's someone who's in the gym, someone who's

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

And also the effects of daylight on mood are well established. So I thought it might be time for me to put into practice what I often preach. And I have to confess that usually

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

because that makes our videos do better, which helps us earn a living. This means that we often end up creating and spreading words that help the system.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

Content 1.0 is professional. Often many people come together to create it and the best experiences for their audience.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

even people who leave their relationship first if they have children often have to go back into that old room to be a parent

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breast cancer I would often talk to Jerry in my mind he said she's always the voice in my head

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most adrift they often turn to ritualistic Solutions they sing dance hug Purge

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