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out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

think meaningfully about several things at once science tells us that what passes for

Slow Thinking

inefficient as it sounds once you get interrupted it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to

Slow Thinking

We also have a classics book club and a romance book club, and once a year those two groups come together to

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

They have top priority for protection. They can't put them back once they're gone. We can help restore some of the damage that we've inflicted,

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

and as research is just starting to show, simply harder and more stressful to do all at once in our 30s. The post-millennial midlife crisis isn't buying a red sports car.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

and the loss of seagrasses and oysters and clams that once filtered the water and fed people locally.

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

Let the clams do the rest. Seagrasses began to grow again once the clams were back. The water became clearer.

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

rather than isolation. Once you find that common ground, you can build something

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

rather than leaning in and talking to each other. Once talking, we stick to shallow talk, to small talk, rather than going deeper. We feel grateful but don’t express it.

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

Just like you move a mountain -- not by pushing it all at once, but one shovelful at a time. The way you change how you approach other people happens slowly, over time.

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

But even more than that, I love giving that to other people. This is why, for the last 15 years, once a month, I've uploaded a free science or engineering video to YouTube

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

So I adapted. Not all at once, but over the years. By the time I landed my own TV show, I was undoubtedly the breadwinner,

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

the kind where you keep running and running and yelling and screaming. I thought once we got into the car he'd fall asleep, but he didn't. He couldn’t, and that scared me.

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

but because I couldn’t un-know what was at stake. Once you've seen life on the other side of poverty, you can't unsee the contrast.

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

I'm just a girl that wanted herself and her family out of poverty, and once we was out, I forgot to let myself free.

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

then what else could it really be? But once we see the brain more clearly for what it really is, many new possibilities arise.

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

speaking for those who don't have a voice right now. Because once we did not have a voice, and there were people around the world,

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

When I think about the 11-year-old girl I once was, I want her to be proud of who I am today.

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

you do a bait-and-switch and move onto yourself. Once again, you conjure the image and send the phrases. After that, it's on to a mentor, somebody who's helped you in your life.

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

or how much you've suffered. Somebody asked Stephen Hawking once what his IQ was, and he said, "I have no idea. People who brag about their IQs are losers."

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

So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide. Give me belonging, give me identity,

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

where this person that is already so familiar, so known, is momentarily once again somewhat mysterious, somewhat elusive. And in this space between me and the other lies the erotic élan,

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

one that enabled me to start contributing to my family's expenses once again. Better yet,

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

she ate healthy foods, she went to therapy once a week. And these actions really helped.

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

but I've had plenty of those. I once texted a snarky complaint about a client to my work friend, which instead went to the client.

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

But my niece Aria is seven, and interestingly, she has never once said to me, "Henna khala, this is awkward,

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

So I didn't even want to believe this was true. But once Emily brought me a huge stack of peer-reviewed science, I couldn't deny anymore, yes, stress manifests in the body

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

wants schools that keep growing with the world around them. School cannot be something we redesign once a century. We need community-based design as a muscle,

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

Caring created resilience. And so we see once again that the harmful effects of stress on your health

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

I once met this Chilean guy at a hostel. "So what do you do?" I asked him.

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

our fates are intertwined. Septima Clark once said, "The air has finally gotten to a place where we can breathe it together."

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Because when reality makes a house call, as it will more than once in every life, when suddenly the phone does begin to ring in the middle of the night,

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

I've been lucky enough to have Denny as my barber for the last eight years. He said to me once, "Hey Doc, you know,

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

and she went back. She went back not just once, but twice more. In the three weeks before Veronica met us,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Like my dad, for example, was a chemical engineer and I don't recall once in his 40 years of chemical engineering anybody asking him if he was afraid to be a chemical engineer, you know?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit the way that I worked too, and this idea already saved me once. It saved me when I was in the middle of writing "Eat, Pray, Love,"

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and they were terrific, right? But every once in a while, very rarely, something would happen, and one of these performers would actually become transcendent.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

My family would rotate in in shifts for the first 60 days. The cleaning crew would come once a month. The new moms group would drop off dinners.

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

Oh god. >> Using all of my muscles at once prompted actually a little bit of a strange

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

that people have come up with once they embraced the idea that care tasks are morally neutral. In my experience, people will exhibit mind-blowing creativity

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

you will subconsciously change your posture once the horse has given the correct 18 taps. So Hans couldn't do math,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

they're just seen as regular words. But once again, social-media algorithms are a vehicle enabling and accelerating this process

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

everyone who is involved in creating that piece of content. This piece of content is created once to appeal to as many people as possible. It has a high fixed cost,

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

Now I didn’t use any theories to create that cartoon. And I once said at a talk at Google, there is no algorithm for humor.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

Having a slimmer jawline is so desirable that a Seoul plastic surgery clinic once displayed the human bones of jaws it had shaved down in a glass vase in its lobby.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

I'll tell you a story. My dad once sold our TV, the only TV we had,

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

it floats it reoccurs it happens all the time and sometimes only once it's sharing your story with others

This is something very important. Once you're able to know where the leaks are coming from, the solutions are extremely simple.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

maybe even a fairy tale Once Upon a Time

Tell

if so then you've come to the right place because I was once you a type a racing through life instead of living it then I

How to slow down with Carl Honoré

betting on China as the only economy or government worth pandering to. Tech companies that once partnered with the military had decided that national security was someone else's problem.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

and of course, things that we just can't talk about. It used to be a case would come across my desk once a month. And then it was once a week.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

It used to be a case would come across my desk once a month. And then it was once a week. Now, it's almost every day.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

back into the original image. And when this process is done, not once, not twice, but billions of times on a diverse set of images,

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

we may never reach the Nirvana of leisure and pleasure once predicted by the likes of Shaw and Keynes but we can

Work

can understand and adapt to us in ways that no person is able to. Once we have that, we're going to be even less likely to interact with each other.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

and I remember he told me "Everything happens only once and this will never happen again."

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

of my life I play once or twice a week and nothing lifts my spirits more than

Leisure

This echoes an ancient question. People once asked if writing, if books, if the internet

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

does it matter that we cannot? People once asked if maps can navigate for us, does it matter that we cannot?

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

Now the key to all this is that we cannot only experience this once in a while. We cannot only have grateful experiences.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

Opportunity is the gift within every gift, and we have this saying, opportunity knocks only once. Well, think again.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

and we are not stopping to see the opportunity. But once in a while, something very difficult is given to us,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

How can each one of us find a method for living gratefully, not just once in a while being grateful, but moment by moment to be grateful.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

Oh, yeah. Against all odds, once again, I gave myself permission to take up space,

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

for culturally inclusive curriculum in schools. Once again, the person who stole the show was a student named Sydney Griffin. She illustrated why it's so critical

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

I think if I were like transported from 10 years ago to right now, all at once, it would feel very disorienting.

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

like everything everybody says is true. A thing my cofounder Ilya said once is, I don’t know. This is a paraphrase, something like,

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

before we have a ceasefire so there's a lot of risk around that even once we have a ceasefire that ceasefire is not a

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

I think there will be less Ukraine in the headlines once that ceasefire is in place so let me just make sure that I'm

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

America still does have the power and the sway and the influence that it once had or how does this how does that

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

I eat meat. Once a week, you know, making a shift to not do a

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

cells to grow into chicken meat. Once we grow this meat for about 2 weeks, we are

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

I mean, that's one of the whole things. Once you've got the data, when you've got the entire nation's data,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

But when that fades, when that starts to fade, sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once, a question comes up: "Is this it? Is this all there is?"

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

I think I especially have this tendency where once I'm aware of what I'm doing, I think that's it.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

you know, small church, lots of opinions. Especially once my grandfather passed away and she was like the head of the ministry.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

And then here they come. And then it happens all at once. That's how that works, I think.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

in marriage and in divorce. So, a mentor of mine once told me, "You should always marry your second husband first."

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

it and they were doing two things at once. They were protecting their