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Stanford and all of my workingclass parents savings were being spent on my college tuition after 6 months I

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Life is effort. Why wouldn’t I try? I spent far too long believing that joy was for someone more deserving than me. I spent even longer believing contentment was ambition's worst enemy,

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

I spent far too long believing that joy was for someone more deserving than me. I spent even longer believing contentment was ambition's worst enemy, when in fact we matter because we exist.

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

but she hadn't decided yet, so she'd spent the last few years waiting tables instead. Because it was cheaper, she lived with a boyfriend

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

She'd just bought a new address book, and she'd spent the morning filling in her many contacts, but then she'd been left staring at that empty blank

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

I have spent the last four decades in the reality of conflict. As a child,

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

I went to Bali this past year and finally spent some one-on-one time with that little girl who left Robbins, Illinois all those years ago.

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

and at the same time protect the institution he had spent his entire career defending. Harvey glimpsed that narrow door,

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

It's fascinating to see how much sleep you've gotten each night and to know what part of your night was spent in deep sleep or dreaming. But having all of that sleep data

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

I am a journalist, trained as a journalist, but I spent most of my last 35 years as an anthropologist.

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

He's pledged 99 percent of what's left to charity, and he stipulated that all that money has to be spent down within 10 years of his death,

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

So I made an appointment with the intern coordinator for Monday morning, and spent all weekend preparing for one of the biggest conversations of my life.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

A woman wrote to me about her friend who she considers her person. She spent so much time with her friend's kids that she was given car seats for them.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

She was giving a practice talk in my lab, and she spent weeks and weeks preparing it, probably harder than anyone else I'd ever seen

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

of looking up and to the right, and so you spent half the talk kind of staring at the ceiling or the exit sign in this case,

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

because you're pushing away this part of who you are that you think is shameful. But then so much of your personality is spent focusing on making sure nobody finds out this thing, right?

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

and hopefully success. So I spent three years doing a deep dive into research, interviewing psychologists, executive coaches, a neuroscientist,

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

and the benefits are immeasurable. How do you think I spent those first few weeks after getting laid off?

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

I worked around the clock. I spent hours finessing my Power Points, took meticulous meeting notes

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

but it didn't matter how many interactions you had or how long you spent in those interactions. So if you spent your entire day

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

or how long you spent in those interactions. So if you spent your entire day having high-quality interactions with different people,

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

They also asked, "How much time have you spent helping out friends, neighbors, people in your community?"

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

but that wasn't true for everyone. People who spent time caring for others showed absolutely no stress-related increase in dying.

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

I broke my left femur that day the largest bone in your body I spent the next 38 years largely ignoring that accident

How to master life transitions with Bruce Feiler

of interviews ten thousand pages of transcripts with a team of 12 I've spent years coding these stories for more than

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what consumers expect back. I've spent the last 20 years dedicating my career to building growth strategies

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

not least because it creates three times as many jobs for each dollar spent as compared to a dollar spent on fossil fuels.

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

for each dollar spent as compared to a dollar spent on fossil fuels. Why do they also ignore the fact that methane is as bad as coal

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

how I spent two years traveling around the world to explore the how and the why of

How to slow down with Carl Honoré

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But over the last few decades, the defense industry has spent far too long handcrafting exquisite, almost impossible-to-build weapons.

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

And I know that seems like a very strange first call at a moment like this, but I have spent the last 30 years developing technologies to analyze and authenticate digital images and digital videos.

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

I don't want a government handout. I want the career that I have spent more than 20 years building. And still, when I'm lying awake at night

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

when I was a kid I fell in love with hockey much of my childhood was spent playing it watching it or talking about it

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teaching our children about strangers. What would happen if we spent more time teaching ourselves? We could reject all the ideas that make us so suspicious of each other.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

to the average age of death, 79, you will have spent 10 years straight on your phone. No sleeping, just 10 years straight on your phone.

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

You know, we can depart this place having spent 10 years straight, or more, on our phones and having just left the world with a memory of horror

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

CA: I mean, you're spending it seems, like an order, or even orders of magnitude more than DeepSeek allegedly spent, although I know there's controversy around that.

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

we care about what I want or don't want I mean the Americans had spent over a trillion dollars enormous numbers of

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

I mean, people I've met -- I mean, so I've spent time talking with Demis Hassabis, who's head of DeepMind

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

And I reflected back, and I thought about the time I spent in undergrad ... five years in grad school, the tears.

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

more time with their kids than our parents spent with us because they think they have to be there to knit every

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

So I told them about me. I spent many months writing a book about the science of women's sexual well-being. I was thinking about sex all day, every day,

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

in actually having any sex. And then I spent months traveling all over, talking with anyone who would listen

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

You see, the very difference between him and I is that I’d spent the first 10 years of my life in village South Africa. And now, when I say village,

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

This is the kind of village that I'm talking about. It is the actual village where I spent the first 10 years of my life. So do you know what I saw when I was looking at images,

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

one of the biggest breakthroughs of the last century. We spent over a decade mapping out all three billion letters of our genome, the complete set of DNA.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

One out of six single adults has formed a romantic bond with AI. So I've spent the last decade studying this intersection of sexuality, technology and intimacy.

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

like this story. I spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to tell this story, and I wondered if the best way

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

to uncover what all of these thousands of questions really are. I have spent the greater part of this past year living alongside an AI humanoid robot.

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

I've worked across contested spaces for as long as I can remember. I spent a decade alongside Palestinians and Israelis, who were fighting for a just and viable peace.

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

He's an impressive guy. I spent a lot of time on his stoa, his porch, asking life and training advice.

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

When I was 25, I got offered a crazy job. I had spent a couple of years climbing the stairs in Human Resources at Facebook

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

to feeling confident and capable. I spent another three years on this project, learning and growing,

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

This is the question I was forced to confront when the company I'd spent a decade pouring my soul into shut down. My work had been my entire identity,

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

it can be really overwhelming. So I've spent most of their lives just making it up as I go along. However, something changed me a few years ago,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

If she didn't know any better, she'd think that her student spent the past 20 minutes just staring at the screen. But if she presses undo a few times,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

(Applause) I have spent my life in this, and I will keep doing it. And my ask from you

Your Inner Fire Is Your Greatest Strength | Xiye Bastida | TED · TED

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. I only saw the sunrise when pulling all-nighters to get work done.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

Disease span, the opposite of health span, is the time of your life spent feeling old and sick and dying. So the real question becomes,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

And big data. Like the 15 million images that my lab spent years curating called ImageNet. Together, they ushered in the age of modern AI.

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

and then sharing the incredible work of the archaeologists who spent lifetimes piecing together the mysteries of Teotihuacán. Here's what hit me.

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

I wasn't even a good student, I spent more time tinkering than doing homework. But I love engineering,

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

we teamed up with Rui Peredo, renowned whale biologist who spent decades studying sperm whales. These giants can dive to over a mile deep to hunt,

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

So I'm very optimistic, of course, that's why I spent my whole life working on AI and working towards AGI. But I suspect there are many ways to build the architecture safely, robustly,

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

I'm still pretty klutzy, actually, but I have spent my entire career studying how to make robots less clumsy. Now let's start with the hardware.

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

but trying to predict the moves grand masters made and analyzing them. Each of us has probably spent many, many, many hours typing on a computer

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

without getting faster, but if we spent 10 to 20 minutes each day fully concentrating on typing 10 to 20 percent faster

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

performing, performing, performing, we spent more time exploring, asking,

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

I'm a fashion academic and innovator, and I've spent a lot of years researching how and when people adopt new trends, whether their dad's sneakers or Snapchat filters.

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

Now over the past few years, we have spent a lot of time basically mapping these cancer-emergent RNAs across human cancers.

What If a Simple Blood Test Could Detect Cancer? | Hani Goodarzi | TED · TED

She said, "Everything is fine, but once, I spent a whole night asking and trying to translate the meaning of the word 'toqborni' for him."

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

The poor woman had mistakenly told him "toqborni," and then spent the whole night trying to explain it to him. He was puzzled by the thought: "How could anyone be this cruel?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

So clearly understanding this is going to take many more experiments. In fact, this is something that I've spent much of my career studying. It's called a superconductor.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

(Laughter) I spent hours, days, weeks in secret meetings, arguing with my colleagues over this little bump,

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

And so then I went back into the research and spent the next couple of years really trying to understand what they, the whole-hearted,

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

and they asked them, how often do you spend time outdoors? And only two out of five spent time outdoors at least once a week.

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

We've just somehow forgotten how to see it. We've spent too much time watching David Attenborough documentaries where the nature is really sexy --

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

and she became obsessed with figuring out what that was. And so she spent countless hours going through every minute of that weekend in her mind,

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

Wetting down old sea turtles stranded at low tide outside our house. I spent more time outside than in, delighting in the wonders of nature.

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

That we humans were a plague on our own planet. I've since spent the past 10 years lobbying decision makers across business, policy and civil society,

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think,

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

Most of the time in my childhood, I spent in this yellow boat, with my dad. He was a wildling in many ways, my dad,

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

and he apologized. You know, that time spent together, it was valuable for me,

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

who came from the place that invented suicide bombing. I spent a lot of time in my room. When I left Nashville,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

and many more besides. And their whole life will be spent taking pieces of many different places and putting them together

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

This was the wrong answer. I had spent 15 years in Anglican schools, so I had had enough hymnals and crosses to last me a lifetime.

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

(Laughter) So, after I had spent some years in the U.S. as an African, I began to understand my roommate's response to me.

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

When I was growing up in the '70s, the typical American spent one tenth of their income, American family, on transportation.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

in bicycling and in walking. And they spent 60 million dollars on bike facilities, which seems like a lot of money,

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

which seems like a lot of money, but it was spent over about 30 years, so two million dollars a year -- not that much --

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

because it was nothing more than a rancid landfill that kids like Sonny Boy spent hours rummaging through every single day to find something, anything of value.

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

wherever he is, and share with him how much the time I spent on Smoky Mountain inspired me. Thanks to him and so many others,

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

and I went on to the University of Wisconsin. I spent two years there writing on oil spills. No one was interested in oil spills.

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

a system as big as slavery?" She instead spent 10 years making 19 trips, freeing 300 people,

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