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Just seeing what she could do. And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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Just seeing what she could do. And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) He didn't have to speak, but you know the bit where the three kings come in? They come in bearing gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

"I've listened to all these things your mother's told me. I need to speak to her privately. Wait here. We'll be back. We won't be very long,"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

newspapers as soon as he started to speak, and still he kept showing up because God's love

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

at Parnassus. You can speak out against book banning. >> >> Because books are not the things

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

endangering our children. >> >> And speak up for teachers and librarians who are doing the jobs that they've been

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

what they know, how they think, how they speak, and where they work. That new piece of capital, that new person to date

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

And I saw Israelis and Palestinians who did not see eye-to-eye begin to speak about the future in the same grammar. And trust began to grow in our coalition, in our process and in each other.

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

Beijing, China -- to speak, and I saw his message.

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

I wanted to make a proposal, I wanted to speak up in front of people in a group -- I felt there was this constant battle

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

don't only belong to my mandate as president. I continue to learn as we speak. I learned a lot today by listening to the previous speakers,

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

we could have a powerful voice in the world. That voice that is going to speak up against oppression, against autocracies,

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

So it's very important for us to be in those rooms, to raise our voices, to speak up, but also to be heard and to have an impact

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

What does that mean? Does it mean I should speak up more in meetings? Does it mean I should be quicker on my email?

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

has the potential to devolve into an argument, where our politicians can't speak to one another and where even the most trivial of issues

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

And he gave his kids a communication project. He wanted to teach them how to speak on a specific subject without using notes. And he said this: “I came to realize...”

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

More writing led to more visibility, more opportunities to speak on stages and being invited into more rooms

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

we never truly have a chance to personally improve, to speak up, to self-advocate,

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

And access and ease give us power. Something as simple as being able to speak the language of our communities gives us privilege,

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

It could be my upbringing. It could be the language I speak. It could be the way my body works. It could be my style of dress.

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

because they're afraid they'll get dropped. There are athletes who don't want to speak up when they're injured because they're afraid they'll lose their sponsorship.

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

were not moral failings, she gained the confidence to speak to her dental hygienist, and together they came up with solutions that work around her barriers.

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

when they are only taught how to speak compassionately to themselves. So what if mental health treatment started here?

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

Well, when you and I stand outside of the room, when we speak to one of these AIs like ChatGPT, we are the person standing outside the room.

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

In essence, we can learn the language of the brain, and then speak directly back to it. So we recently carried out this program in mice,

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

Thank you for sharing your story. I speak on behalf of everybody when I say that we're so sorry for your loss.

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

And you concatenate them together, and they speak language among each other. They typically speak English language.

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

and they speak language among each other. They typically speak English language. BS: I mean, speaking of just the sheer compute requirements of these systems,

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

But hasn't the ship already sailed? There are agents being released this year, almost as we speak. Yoshua Bengio: Right. If you look at the curve that I showed,

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

does it matter that we cannot? If machines can speak for us, grieve for us, pray for us, love for us,

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

or how to get started. Business groups and long-term care groups that I speak to use what I like to call the Mad Libs approach.

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

They created toolkits so that young people from coast to coast could elevate their stories, organize, speak out at school board meetings. They fostered spaces for young folks to be able to collaborate,

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

This is what I'm going to answer for you today. I speak six languages, and I focus my studies in linguistics.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

So what does that mean for intercultural partners now? Imagine a Japanese-French couple, and they speak English together. Are they unable to communicate the true strength of their feelings

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

because of this language distance? Now my husband and I, we mostly speak English together. Does that mean when I say "I love you" in English,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

fluffy futuristic concept, but it's already here as we speak today to change our lives and our planet for the better.

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

started hearing from the students and from the teachers, aside from the work we were doing to meet basic needs, so to speak, infrastructure, provide after-school programs, learning opportunities.

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

it can help to get that vitamin folate into their brain. And for a fraction of these kids, it can help them to speak, improve their verbal communication skills.

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

screens. So this is a way to speak their language about that which is that when

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

I mean, the fact that uh you know, Ted invited me to speak and then here I am again today is that for a couple

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

the language itself. So this is a language that I speak. And I'm pretty sure you're saying that,

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

before but finally i had a moment of realization where i thought if i choose not to speak out of fear

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

standing silent i must find the strength to speak up and one of the ways i do that is

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

not out of fear but out of courage to speak then there's something unique that my words can become

Amanda Gorman: Using your voice is a political choice | TED · TED

That's the practice. And then I speak to founders of AI companion companies, and they're building these AI sex therapy bots,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

with young boys who would much rather speak to an AI than speak to their parents.

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

who would much rather speak to an AI than speak to their parents. And so the next time you're using an AI,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

I heard Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, speak. Her testimony so deeply impacted me

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

We were told to be silent. But speak to your girls of this wartime, a year preceded by a score of the same,

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | TED · TED

often adversarial, rarely rooted in mutual understanding, speaking past each other if they speak at all. Sometimes, horizon two, the voice of the entrepreneur,

A Fresh Approach to Resolving Conflicts | Darya Shaikh | TED · TED

JC: First of all, I never like to presume to speak for the TED community, but I would like to tell you that I have a feeling

Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age | TED · TED

to pick apart every potential decision rather than take action. Now while I can't speak for everyone's experiences, from conversations I've had with my peers and my mentors,

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

and the science that actually, all of these amazing things we've been doing in the lab, so to speak, are actually ready for prime time for general use,

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

They’ll interact with us and, of course, with each other. They'll speak every language, take in every pattern of sensor data,

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

and they inspire my life's work every single day. But quite frankly, they'll speak for themselves. Over the years, I've never shied away from highlighting risks

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

That begs the question: Does the language we speak shape the way we think? Now, this is an ancient question.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

if you didn't know which way you were going. In fact, people who speak languages like this stay oriented really well. They stay oriented better than we used to think humans could.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

or a word like "eight." In fact, people who speak these languages don't count, and they have trouble keeping track of exact quantities.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

Now, this has consequences. So, people who speak different languages will pay attention to different things, depending on what their language usually requires them to do.

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

It's about how you think. It's how the language that you speak shapes the way that you think. And that gives you the opportunity to ask,

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED

(Laughter) To speak more clearly despite a lisp, he went through his speeches with stones in his mouth.

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

and ignorant. How could she speak that way? At that moment, I started thinking.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

It definitely hurts! I'm denied the right to speak my own language in my own country? Where could this happen?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

And I thought, "Well, what's the struggle?" And she said, "Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think,

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

WPR: I'm curious just where you see the study going from here. RW: We are collecting more data, even as we speak. We are collecting more information from the children.

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

Now, I understand that there are certain parts of this nature that speak to us in a special way. Places like Yellowstone,

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

that give rise to our sense of ownership of our body parts, they're misfiring, so to speak, and the consequences can be serious.

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

the fact that after the lovemaking, you got lost coming down the mountain, argued like crazy and didn't speak for two days. What I tell my patients is to compile an exhaustive list

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

We can have a positive function in the ecosystem. I can only speak for myself, even though I know I share this perspective and these feelings with many.

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

What do they care about? How can you speak to what motivates them? For example, if you're pitching your start-up idea to a venture capitalist

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

of change? Speak up. Advocate for yourself.

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

but also to the safety of patients and the care team. In fact, research also tells us that when we do speak up, we experience more job satisfaction,

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

While I was embarrassed, I had a split second to decide. Stay silent, or speak up. The compass came in handy in that moment.

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

champion the right and be the voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. No matter how shaky or unsure,

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

Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

That happens. They speak to me all the time. And most of all,

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

is suburban sprawl. It's being emulated in many places as we speak. By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

where again, they're burning half the fuel. And then it's usually won by cities where they speak German, like Dusseldorf or Vienna,

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

Chris Anderson: Cai is incredible, Cai's language is Mandarin. Many of us do not speak Mandarin. But Cai agreed to do a wild experiment.

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. And my family and friends had gathered there to hear me speak. And I said, "Thank you for being here."

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

And on Earth Day, 1990 -- the 20th anniversary of Earth Day -- that’s when I began to speak. And that’s why I said, "Thank you for being here."

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

And I’m thanking you, and I'm thanking my family because they had come to hear me speak. And that’s communication.

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

out of the dozens I've explored by looking across the last millennia, which speak to the ecological dilemmas of our time. Now if I could travel back to any moment in the past,

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

The world will say to you, "How do we speak to bias and bigotry?" Start by having the first conversation at your own kitchen table.

Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care | Cleo Wade