How native speakers pronounce “reason”

thinking you have something to lose you are already naked there is no reason not to follow your

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

(Laughter) because she was the main reason we were leaving the country. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason. Around the world, there were no public systems of education,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

time and attention which points up a final deeper reason behind all this rushing for many of us speed and busyness are

Running

is a whole bunch on systems shut down. There's an evolutionary reason for this. Face-to-face with a predator, you don't need your digestive system,

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

think of John Updike. And if this wasn't reason enough to love books, they also help us develop and

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

We need to treat all of it with respect. Part of the reason for my wish was because of what I've seen, what I've explored,

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

And after: what’s happening on our watch. But there is reason for hope. In the Nusa Penida Hope Spot

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

That weak tie helped her get a job there. That job offer gave her the reason to leave that live-in boyfriend. Now, five years later, she's a special events planner for museums.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

is this belief that relationships are hard. And we believe that due to one primary reason: our metric of success is based on what we've seen everyone else do.

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

(Cheers and applause) And the reason we're doing this is because it breaks my heart when I see teachers who get paid salaries ,

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

That one accident in a dying world is the reason everyone in this room is alive today. Biologists call these moments major transitions

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

Now consciousness, has to be said does remain a bit mysterious, but perhaps one reason for this is that we've been so constrained by our metaphors,

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

and we don't want to make the same mistake again. This is one reason why even trying to build conscious AI is a very bad idea. But if conscious AI is just an illusion created by design,

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

we’d be sacrificing our ability to control, to regulate them and perhaps even to turn them off and for no good reason at all. And this is one reason why even AI that merely seems to be conscious

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

and perhaps even to turn them off and for no good reason at all. And this is one reason why even AI that merely seems to be conscious is very dangerous for our society, too.

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

because it's a socially acceptable way to explore the gross side of ourselves. But there's this other reason that I think talking about gross stuff is so important.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and over your own health. There's another reason that talking to your doctor about your health and gross stuff

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

just because no one was there to ask a question. There's one final reason that I think talking about gross stuff is so important, and that's because you just never know what you're going to find

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

it was illegal to predict the death of the emperor, for the very simple reason that they ended up with a murdered emperor on cue.

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

that means that we’re basically paying for our own way, and insurance loses its reason for being solidarity and the pooling of risk. It might be that in cases in which fairness matters,

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

with everything I was supposed to want and no reason. No reason to get out of bed.

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

and no reason. No reason to get out of bed. And then in early 2025,

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

But I think there's two reasons why we tend to really devalue it. One reason is because we just don't know how to make friends. So luckily, I am going to help you with that a little bit today.

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

So luckily, I am going to help you with that a little bit today. But the other reason has to do with something I like to call the “paradox of people.”

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

(Laughter) There is no reason to learn how to show you're paying attention if you are in fact paying attention.

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

or you've been perfectly understood. There is no reason why most of your interactions can't be like that.

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

you have to assume that people like you, right? The reason is, when researchers told people, “Hey, you’re going to go into this group, and based on your personality profile,

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

(Laughter) Now, there's a really good reason why I don't allow pundits on my show: Because they're really boring.

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

I can bolster my own identity. But there's another reason: We get distracted.

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

Some people think of them as an excuse to work less. Others as a reason to say no to everybody and everything. And some even believe they minimize your dreams.

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

doesn't address its root cause. There's a reason why a one-week vacation doesn't magically cure us. There's a reason why our intentions to practice self-care

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

There's a reason why a one-week vacation doesn't magically cure us. There's a reason why our intentions to practice self-care and set better boundaries

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

why do women live longer than men? And one major reason is that women are more likely to prioritize and groom their face-to-face relationships

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

It's a place of loyalty and trust. For that reason, it's one of the few places where we can fearlessly be ourselves

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

which, decidedly unlike any of my previous books, went out in the world for some reason, and became this big, mega-sensation, international bestseller thing.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that third answer to Veronica's compelling question. Part of the reason that we have this conundrum is because there are not nearly enough upstreamists

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

But here's the thing -- it's all fake. The entire reason these aesthetics exist is because the TikTok algorithm has decided that words like cottagecore

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

becomes the last straw but for whatever reason a lot of Life Quakes involve a clumping of disruptors we get into what

Lifequakes

thanks to content 3.0. The reason is that we can now create interesting content at or above the rate of consumption.

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

are afraid of what might come whatever the reason faced with a defining moment we balk

Accept

to give the appearance of a longer neck. Calves are being injected with Botox for the same reason. Having a slimmer jawline is so desirable

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

the process isn't always easy one reason we're so reluctant is that some of those old ways we enjoyed

Shed

Terrell was an inspiration to his younger siblings and the reason why I became a lifelong advocate for peace. He came home from winter break.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

We have the ability to do so. But the single biggest reason we have not been able to move faster is the ferocious opposition to virtually every policy proposal

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

Which means that those remaining customers have higher prices and even more reason to go solar. And the power demand in Pakistan fell nine percent in 2023

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

even accuracy we can change it at any time for any reason including one as simple as making ourselves feel better

Tell

and in the companies in both places. The reason I focus on US and China is they're the only two countries where people are crazy enough

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

but understand it and build on it. Each and every one of you has a reason to use this technology. If you're an artist, a teacher, a physician,

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

Now, it's almost every day. And the reason for this escalation is a combination of things. One, generative AI.

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

has serious negative consequences for the people behind that work. And this is for the simple reason that generative AI competes with its training data.

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

being outcompeted by AI models they have reason to believe were trained on their work. The freelance platform Upwork wrote a white paper

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

(Laughter) I apologize for lying, but there is a reason for it. I'd like to start with a question.

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

if slightly exaggerated, picture of the world of knowledge work today. Welcome to the age of outsourced reason. Where the knowledge worker no longer engages with the materials of their craft.

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

Even though it hurt to blame themselves, it gave them a reason for the terrible thing that happened, like losing someone they love for no reason at all.

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

it gave them a reason for the terrible thing that happened, like losing someone they love for no reason at all. Maybe some of you can relate.

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

and I was filling out my tracker on vacation, and it struck me that night for some reason that my loving Ashley question

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

I was doing fine. And for some reason, that night, it struck me. Chris, this is not the promise you made Ashley on your wedding day.

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

That makes sense. The second reason is where it gets more interesting. We have a bias when it comes to people we're close to.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

You're sitting on the throne when you make art. Another beautiful reason to create is because it reclaims your most valuable resource

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

when AI is just going to do it better and cheaper anyway? There's no reason to create anymore." I'm hearing this all the time.

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

"What's the point? There's no reason." There has never been a better reason to create art than the incoming storm of AI.

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

are we still together? And the reason I think you might be wondering this is because I have been asked this question

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and it's a problem when we confuse those two things. And the reason they get confused, the reason it's easy to confuse them

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

And the reason they get confused, the reason it's easy to confuse them is because personal achievement is easy to quantify.

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

and you can achieve. That's one reason. The other reason is that personal achievement feels good.

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

That's one reason. The other reason is that personal achievement feels good. We think what we want is happiness,

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

where the state of New York is trying to curb the divorce rate for some reason, and we'll figure out why. And in order to do so,

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

(Laughter) The reason that I think this is so important is that I think everyone should be having some of these very painful conversations

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

before they enter marriage, and do so freely with full consent. But the reason that brought that declaration into being leaves many of us feeling that arranged marriages are old and irrelevant.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

And I think maybe one unspoken reason, maybe even subconscious reason, is that it's

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

one unspoken reason, maybe even subconscious reason, is that it's becoming such a drag.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

took his own life. And the reason he took his life was because he had a profound connection with a device.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment. And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you. Because there's nothing more beautiful

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

And when you raise everybody up, there's a lot less reason to have conflict, a lot less reason to have my children fly 10,000 miles around the world

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

there's a lot less reason to have conflict, a lot less reason to have my children fly 10,000 miles around the world to kill your children.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

But I do know that it's possible. And the reason I know that is because before I was in AI, I was a cognitive scientist, a cognitive neuroscientist.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

Yes, highly likely, GPT-4 says, presumably because it cannot correctly reason that if a bridge is suspended over the broken nails and broken glass,

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

so that we can inspect and ensure diverse norms and values. So for this reason, my teams at UW and AI2 have been working on commonsense knowledge graphs

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

It's the closest I've ever come. And the only reason I took my finger off the trigger was thanks to a few lucky coincidences.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

And, roughly translated, it means "the reason for which you wake up in the morning." For this 102-year-old karate master,

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

So, why doesn’t everyone just walk more? One big reason is that many people don’t have access to safe, well-maintained places to stroll.

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

It’s an exciting time to teach our digital companion to learn to reason and to interact with this beautiful 3D space we call home,

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

because it started with zero prior knowledge And the reason we did that is because then we would build a system that was more general.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

And then if you, you know, the reason I thought about this and was so excited about this, is that this is the beginnings of understanding disease

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

They have creativity. They can even reason to some extent and formulate rudimentary plans. They can act autonomously if we allow them.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

and our future performance. The reason many of us don't improve much despite our hard work

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

during a championship match. One reason that in our lives we spend so much time in the performance zone

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

you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena for the explicit reason to control and predict. And now my mission to control and predict

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

And I think there's evidence -- and it's not the only reason this evidence exists, but I think it's a huge cause --

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

and you'd like to make contact. You don't even have to have a particular reason. Now I want you to take out your phone or whatever device you use, right now,

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

that are misfiring, then it stands to reason that the experience of being in-body, of being embodied,

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

Heartbreak is far more insidious than we realize. There is a reason we keep going down one rabbit hole after another, even when we know it's going to make us feel worse.

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

Getting over heartbreak is not a journey. It's a fight, and your reason is your strongest weapon. There is no breakup explanation that's going to feel satisfying.

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

we can't risk losing anyone. Especially not for the reason of avoiding a challenging conversation. In a world where we are experiencing increasingly rapid cycles of change,

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

the gig economy is the easiest and fastest place to get hired. For this reason, some have called it an “alternative safety net.” So, considering all these factors and many others,

What is a gig economy?

Joe Kraus says, "Persistence is the number one reason for our success." You've got to persist through failure. You've got to persist through crap!

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Richard St. John

You could be arrested for having it in your house. Reason? Shame. I talked to indigenous people all over India

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi