How native speakers pronounce “point”

I never thought of it. I mean, he was seven at some point. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Wouldn't you? But this was the 1930s, and ADHD hadn't been invented at this point. It wasn't an available condition.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

than when you're confronted with a medical decision to make. And at some point, all of us are going to be in that position, where we have to make a very important decision

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

And so you're thinking, "Yeah! Give me the statin." But there's a question you should ask at this point, a statistic you should ask for

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

Why not, doc? Give me the prescription anyway." But you should ask at this point for another statistic, and that is, "Tell me about the side effects." Right?

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

to these kinds of situations. I think the important point here is recognizing that all of us are flawed. We all are going to fail now and then.

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

Three years into college, I had a 1.491 grade point average that I was dragging around. I was smoking a pack of Camel Lights a day.

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

high-quality information available to everybody in this room than at any point in humanity. It's all free, and it's not even close.

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

Without these, a peace agreement becomes a lid on a boiling pot. It looks calm until the pressure finds the weakest point -- then it erupts.

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

and violence becomes currency. Empathy for the other side is rarely the entry point. When I was 19,

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

especially when they only had a couple years left in the house. So at this point, some of you may be asking yourselves, "What kind of couples therapist recommends that couples live apart?"

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

this solution would not work. And that is the point. When we're thinking about our relationships,

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

nor dignity nor an end to the occupation for the Palestinians. And we are at an inflection point. We either break this cycle

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

But what's not boring is you point out that squirrels are one of the only mammals that can survive a fall from any height

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

of course -- it sprays the glitter followed by the fart spray. I should point out, by the way, this whole video was sort of a modern-day homage

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

and jump in a Waymo, use the Waymo app. It'll take you from point A to point B. And we're at this point

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

It'll take you from point A to point B. And we're at this point where the technology has moved from, “Will it work?”

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

they're demanding and requesting and advocating for us to come. And so that’s a really exciting inflection point. SK: It’s worth triply underlining what you just said:

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

to think differently about this technology. And so, you know, to your point: it’s clickbaity. And on the other hand,

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

but if you do not need a driver’s license to be in a Waymo to get from point A to point B, that is fully autonomous,

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

do the thing you want to be doing. Let the Waymo driver get you from point A to point B. And so when you ask me about competition,

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

I thought this was going in a whole other direction. TM: This is my point, is everyone kind of starts to imagine, what do I want to do instead of commuting?

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

You stretch in an attempt to stay awake. But at this point your motor skills have also taken a hit. Studies have found that people who have been awake for 19 hours

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

or their ability to get the best education for me and my three siblings. It got to the point where my career became the center of our orbit, and not because we chased success,

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

"What are you afraid of?" Now look, at that point, I’d argued 52 cases. I’d saved the Voting Rights Act.

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

Now the seductive power of this vision -- of being at such a pivotal point in the history of life on Earth -- I suppose it's understandable.

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

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

it becomes a way to protect our souls. I think at a certain point, kids really begin to internalize this link between disgusting things and immorality.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And you know how you talk to friends -- at some point I was walking around and I was sending it a voice message. And then I froze because I actually,

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

the Taliban tried to kill me, shooting me in the face at point-blank range. I was 15 years old.

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

And it came out, of course, on Valentine's Day. The “get married” advocates like to point to data that show that married people report higher life satisfaction

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

Some people even questioned my motives for promoting meditation. It got so bad that at one point my wife, who was reading it with me, got up and went to the bathroom and cried.

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

and up you go. And that is the whole point here. Self-love, properly understood, not as narcissism,

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

How many of you have ever been told, “Please take some more initiative”? I think most of us at some point in our lives have experienced this. What does that mean?

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

And we start chatting. And at some point, you know, I asked them, like, "Is there a group where we can keep in touch?

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

Especially in work conversations or in conversations with our kids, we have a point to make, so we just keep rephrasing it over and over.

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

and who is cozily nested here and very secure and comfortable, and at some point all of us need to go out into the world to discover and to explore.

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

that exploratory need, curiosity, discovery. And then at some point they turn around and they look at you. And if you tell them,

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

And that number continues to rise. So at this point, my me-search shifted, as I began to wonder about the effects of connections,

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

Her body got stronger. Her mind got more resilient, but only up to a point. She was still struggling,

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

especially in these moments of the unknown. Pushing yourself to the point of unsustainability is an extremely toxic cycle.

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

and intentional about our relationships. And that is really the point. Be proactive and intentional about your social health.

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

In this mindset, your biggest, beefiest goals come from outside of you. Now, case in point, a 2019 KPMG study found in a survey of over 2,000 college-educated women

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

and an endocrine fellowship. At this point, my family, my friends, my colleagues thought I was nuts.

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

and technologies that are racing outside our control. But not far away is a place where debates are beside the point, and where actually we gather the reserves we need

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

who were able to achieve target blood pressure levels and a three-point drop, on average, in the blood pressure of each participant.

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

in the blood pressure of each participant. If we were to extrapolate that three point drop to every single black man with high blood pressure in America,

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

I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And she felt it coming, because it would shake the earth under her feet. She knew that she had only one thing to do at that point, and that was to, in her words, "run like hell."

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

whose responsibility is it? And that brings me to that third point, that third answer to Veronica's compelling question.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

And I know you know what I'm talking about, because I know you've all seen, at some point in your life, a performance like this.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

in my comment sections telling me that these daily care tasks were a major pain point in their life. And so I started to wonder, what if we started here?

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

favorite muscle? >> Can you point that? >> Well, you won't see it on this map.

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

And yet no cigar. >> I love Bonnie's point that pushing and stressing and building up our muscles is

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

it's slightly blurred, and around the point of fixation, which is indicated by the gray dot here, you have a little scotoma,

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

We've been whitewashing Black slang since the days of "cool" and "high five," which, at this point, have become so mainstream they're just seen as regular words.

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

If you already have billions of data points, the next data point doesn't tell you much that's new. But what if you could create a nonredundant dataset,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

But what if you could create a nonredundant dataset, where each data point is chosen carefully to tell you something new, compared to all the other data points?

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

We have never been able to do this before at any point in human history. Improv is so interesting and fun

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

Or strategize with him about where the villain can be found, but you see the point. It opens up an entirely new and so far underexplored medium.

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

his family to take a job running a non-profit the point is transitions are hard start with whatever skills you already have

Superpower

but it brought our family closer the larger point is worth emphasizing we have a choice in how we tell our life story

Tell

And I think, frankly, is the point at which the revolution really started. BS: If you fast forward to today,

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

The consensus in the industry right now is the open-source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger.

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

Let's say we end up in this place, and we hit that point of recursive self-improvement. AI systems take on a vast majority of economically productive tasks.

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

Just ask Ukraine. At this point, you might be wondering why a guy in a Hawaiian shirt and flip flops is up here

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

kind of have this type of autonomous mode? PL: This is another point. It's usually not one that I make on a stage,

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

we shouldn't open Pandora's box. And my point to them is Pandora’s box was opened a long time ago with anti-radiation missiles that seek out surface-to-air missile launchers.

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

that act out our will autonomously for decades. And so the point I would make to people is you're not asking to not open Pandora's box.

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

You're asking to shove it back in and close it again. And the whole point of the allegory is that such cannot be done. And so that's the way that I look at it.

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

extracurriculars can be wonderful but only up to a point Trouble Comes when kids are over

Family

If you image parallel lines in the physical world, they will converge to a single point, what's called the vanishing point. A good intuition for that, the railroad tracks.

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

but you can see that they narrow as they recede away from me and intersect at a single vanishing point. This is a phenomenon that artists have known for centuries.

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

on the parallel sides of the wall in our basement photo, and you can see a lack of a coherent vanishing point. That suggests a physically implausible scene.

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

Surprisingly, shadows have a lot in common with vanishing points. Here, what I've done is I've annotated a point on a shadow with the corresponding part on the bottom of the rail

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

And I've extended those lines outwards. And they intersect, not at a vanishing point, but at the light that is casting that shadow.

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

for so-called content credentials that can authenticate content at the point of creation. As these credentials start to roll out, they will help you, the consumer,

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

in every home. And at some point I realize this is happening faster than I anticipated,

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

And the current ways that we're training them is not safe. And all of the scientific evidence in the last few months point to that. CA: Yoshua, thank you so much.

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

It will slow you down in the short term, but you'll ultimately reach exactly the same point -- models that are just as capable, just as powerful --

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

stretching or reading a book the point is to let your mind wander reset and reflect

Slow Work

and talk to each other instead of scrolling our feeds. We're way past that point. I think that the only solution is to build the tech

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

I suspect that some of you may have enjoyed that song up until the point you found out it was AI. And to me, that would imply

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

But here’s something I also believe: The Luddites had a point. (Laughter)

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

each has its own unique flavor that's the whole point but all have a calming effect on me

Slow Spaces

in developing AI software. What if AI gets to the point where it can do a better job of thinking than humans?

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

who is successful here and why? My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to predict which cadets

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

even how safe kids felt when they were at school. So it's not just at West Point or the National Spelling Bee that grit matters.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

So if you want to be more physically active, there is no point in yelling at yourself. I yell it, "You should walk more!"

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

was with the guy who invented my coffee cup lid. And until this point, I had given approximately zero thought to coffee cup lids.

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

in isolationism and jingoism. Which brings me to my final point. Which is my hope that we use gratitude as a spark to action.

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

that would shade and feed us after he was gone. Or even though I was only 12 at this point, he started a coop of doves and put my brother in charge

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

You're seeing these and you're like, pretty obvious, right? Which is kind of the point, because from the ancients to the moderns, these ingredients have been remarkably consistent.

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

how long would it have taken me to get this wake-up call? OK, so at this point some of you are into this, some of you are like, "This is fine for you,

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

It's a good headline, right? I think it entirely misses the point. The important thing about these studies

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

I want you to picture yourself at a campfire. It's been a long journey to get to this point. You're tired, your clothes are maybe caked with dirt, with sweat,

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

Dr. Alok Kanojia talks about this, particularly with young men. And because we have this huge, like, "What's the point of going forward," we see a lot of people relying on lateral experiences.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

we see a lot of people relying on lateral experiences. So because there's no point to our future, it's all hopeless, we're instead indulging in things like phone addiction, gambling addiction,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

This is a DM I got the other day. It says, "What is the point of making art in this world when AI is just going to do it better and cheaper anyway?

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

I'm hearing this all the time. "What's the point? There's no reason." There has never been a better reason to create art

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED