How native speakers pronounce “sitting”

Next time you put on your favorite socks or adjust so you’re sitting just right. Next time you stumble across a great song

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

This really happened. We were sitting there, and I think they just went out of sequence, because we talked to the little boy afterward and said,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. And when they got out of the room,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

That made Alex's 20s a developmental sweet spot, and we were sitting there, blowing it. That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

but then sometime around 30 it was like the music turned off and everybody started sitting down. I didn't want to be the only one left standing up,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Too many thirtysomethings and fortysomethings look at themselves, and at me, sitting across the room, and say about their 20s,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And in the video, you see the mother sitting in the car. And you see the kid coming out of the store.

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

because if you do not stir the room, you get positions sitting next to each other forever. You can certainly put the chickpeas next to the tahini,

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

made happier and healthier by connecting with other people, now sitting hip-to-hip with another perfectly reasonable human being.

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

to either keep to themselves in solitude or to try to connect with a person sitting next to them -- rather than just imagine it, to actually do it --

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

reported having a less pleasant and happy commute than those we asked to connect with the person sitting next to them. People’s beliefs about social interaction here weren’t just wrong --

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

I came downstairs and I saw this big guy sitting behind a desk. He looked like a security guard.

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

it's really fun to think about parts of cities that would get recaptured, you know, space right now where cars are just sitting all day, people are at work, the cars are just sitting.

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

you know, space right now where cars are just sitting all day, people are at work, the cars are just sitting. Most of those parking lots

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

and it’s going to take a really thoughtful approach, right? Because, I mean, I'm sitting here talking about building the world's most trusted driver.

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

So does it mean that if you've got insomnia, you should be sitting back on the couch each night with a joint? (Laughter)

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

Well very simply, they’re sitting close to the camera, they’re gazing into the lens,

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

within 10 years of his death, as opposed to just sitting in a foundation, gathering interest for years.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

they pull their chair a couple inches away from the person who's sitting next to them, in an effort just to get a little bit more distance.

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

And we do the exact same thing. We're sitting there having a conversation with someone, and then we remember that time that we met Hugh Jackman in a coffee shop.

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

You receive bad news that rocks you. You're now sitting there in this predicament of trying to figure out:

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

is this, your tush. Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours. Sitting is so incredibly prevalent, we don't even question how much we're doing it,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay. In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

surrounded by cranes, start-ups, design studios, young people aren't just sitting in classrooms. They're creating digital marketing campaigns for small businesses,

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

a five-minute impromptu speech on your personal weaknesses to a panel of expert evaluators sitting right in front of you, and to make sure you feel the pressure,

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

because we're most responsive to everything around us. And after I tried this medicine of just sitting quietly a few times, I noticed something strange.

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

and the aged heater groaning in the winter cold and the very foundations of the cabin in which I'm sitting, shaking in the wind.

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

Which for me really consists of such inner resources as you’ve gathered, probably just by sitting quietly alone. And I realize this can all sound a little otherworldly, but to me,

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

but here she was doubled over in pain sitting on my exam table. Her head, clearly throbbing, was resting in her hands.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

all I can think about is how many more life-saving drugs are sitting at our local pharmacies that could be life-saving for patients with diseases today.

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

Please join us to unlock every cure so that no patient suffers when there's a life-saving cure sitting on the pharmacy shelf. And instead of hearing "we've tried everything,"

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

but we'll invent our own computer language. Now you and I are sitting here, watching all of this, and we're saying, like, what do we do now?

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

So what now? You might be sitting there thinking what you'd say or how to get started.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

Anticipating temptations makes you prepared and hence less tempted. Alright, what about the person sitting next to you? Look at them for a second.

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

You hold goals for others, they hold goals for you. This might be a good time to say thank you to the person sitting next to you. I will be waiting here.

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

Remembering that there's someone in a factory who made the fabric for the chairs you're sitting in right now. That someone went into a mine and got the copper for this microphone

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

You know, I'll probably never forget, I was sitting in a cabin in mountains of North Carolina. It was 9pm one day,

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

The power is in your hands. You're sitting on the throne when you make art. Another beautiful reason to create

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

But there's no like, we don't secretly have, we're not secretly sitting on a conscious model or something that's capable of self-improvement or anything like that.

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

so it doesn't feel any different. And it's strange to be sitting here talking about this, but like, you know,

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

of like a little toddler sitting in a doctor's office waiting room or something, and there was a magazine, like one of those old,

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

So a partner in the middle of a conversation may be sitting there and looking totally calm on the outside, but inside, their heart rates

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

I would absolutely say something. Even when we were just sitting in a talk, I saw the lady next to me pull out mints,

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

and keep learning and collaborating. DF: What you're saying is almost like sitting with the pain, sometimes. And I think that it's sitting with the pain,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

DF: What you're saying is almost like sitting with the pain, sometimes. And I think that it's sitting with the pain, sitting, in our cases,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

And I think that it's sitting with the pain, sitting, in our cases, with the loved ones of patients who didn't make it,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

requires being able to envision, you know, you sitting in this hospital room and they told you they can't save you.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

And she was like very frantic. And the lady sitting next to her saw like, "Is there something in the matter?

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

I'm sitting in a bar with a couple of friends -- literally, a couple, married couple.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

that was completely burnt black by the radiation. But on the front step, a person who was sitting there blocked the rays from hitting the stone.

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

Growing small requires enormity of will: just sitting still in the doctor's waiting room watching the future shuffle in and out,

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later. I was sitting in the back of my used minivan in a campus parking lot,

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

to feeling like an absolute idiot all the time. I was sitting in rooms with brilliant people asking very dumb questions.

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

I am comfortable sounding like a moron. I am great at sitting in rooms with brilliant people asking very dumb questions.

Forget the Corporate Ladder — Winners Take Risks | Molly Graham | TED · TED

and start slaying. In families, bravery is mostly just sitting there. With a posture that communicates "I can hear anything you want to tell me."

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

or some other socially acceptable busyness. In my worst moments, when sitting on my hands is just unbearable, I have dreamed of going to get an MFA in Paris.

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

A few of the strategies we observed: they eat off of smaller plates, so they tend to eat fewer calories at every sitting. Instead of serving family style,

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

Right? I mean, the solution is so famous. It's sitting there printed on every carton of milk in every grocery store in the country, right?

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

but in my heart, I always wanted to run. The sitting congresswoman had been in my district since 1992. She had never lost a race,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

became using my GPS to figure out how much traffic I'd inevitably be sitting in. The flowers became the screen saver to my laptop I spent way too much time on.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

I mean, I think I'm standing on a stage, and you think you're sitting in a seat. But that's just the electrons in your body

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

Once upon a time, not long ago, I was sitting in a restaurant with my friend, ordering food. So I looked at the waiter and said,

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

you could possibly be feeling that you're up near the ceiling, looking down at your own body sitting in the chair below. People do report such experiences,

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

Maybe we can just marvel at the efforts of people over millennia, from the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree to the modern philosopher and neuroscientist

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

or sat with the boys, and been laughed at for being a boy who should be sitting with the girls. I survived that childhood through a mix of avoidance and endurance.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

I mean, partially, it was the repetition. I remember there was a day I was sitting at the computer, making the sound of a neuron.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

and I noticed that I was doing my most important work there invisibly just by sitting still, and certainly coming to my most critical decisions

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

and that in fact those who gained weight were sitting, on average, two hours more per day than those who didn't.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

I mean, personally, I'm not a natural disrupter, and prefer sitting in old libraries, reading books. But because of what I’ve discovered in those libraries

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED