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so I will get that out of the way right off the bat. But I'll tell you guys how I got started. I grew up on a farm, and I always loved animals.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

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so I will get that out of the way right off the bat. But I'll tell you guys how I got started. I grew up on a farm, and I always loved animals.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

quit so why' I drop out it started before I was born my biological mother was a young

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And as a college student, that's pretty freakin' sweet. So I started streaming to about ten viewers at a time almost every day.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

home to my college house. And I started to rehabilitate him in my backyard. So then one night, I'm live streaming, I'm cooking,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

My viewership shot up overnight, and I started live-streaming Bean's rehabilitation process. So I would call him from his perch to my glove,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

and the people watching my stream started becoming as invested as I was in his recovery. It was like they were doing it with me, sort of,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

because I was reaching so many people with Bean's story, the zoo that I worked at started allowing me to bring animals like cockatoos and reptiles home

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

To build the sanctuary. So I bought some land in Austin, Texas, started building animal enclosures, and I started growing my hair back --

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

So I bought some land in Austin, Texas, started building animal enclosures, and I started growing my hair back -- that takes about two years, in case anyone was curious.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

loss I was lucky I found what I love to do early in life W and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20 we

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

company you started well as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

my life during the next 5 years I started a company named next another company named Pixar and fell in love

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

And they get to be a part of it all live. So we're just getting started. Our next step is taking this Alveus approach to the wild.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctor started crying because it turned out to be a very rare

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

(Laughter) And I started wondering, are there things that I can do, systems that I can put into place,

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

will minimize the likelihood of it being a total catastrophe. So I started thinking about that, but my thoughts didn't crystallize until about a month later.

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

during those think weeks Gates stopped multitasking and started monotasking he focused on one task at a time without distractions

Slow Thinking

is taking off across the country. So it started with a few agencies. Hundreds of agencies are now using it.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

They buried their faces in their newspapers as soon as he started to speak, and still

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

and then restoration, to what looks pretty good as compared to where it started. (Applause)

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

but this relationship doesn't count. I'm just killing time." Or they say, "Everybody says as long as I get started on a career by the time I'm 30, I'll be fine."

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

But quantity pushes out quality, and they started spending a lot less time with each other in person.

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

If they were fitter than I were, I'd try to copy their habits. I started to take control of what we can control. You control you.

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

of my professional life. I had started Politico, it was my baby. It's emotional.

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

but I'm very concerned about what happened when we started putting computers and tablets on kids' desks.

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

And a few months later, the Second Intifada started and those we were sharing with were back in uniforms,

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

In the months that followed, we started to advocate together, from heads of state to briefing the UN Security Council with a joint message.

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

The second I had that thought about that experiment, my brain started screaming at me all the reasons why this was a really, really bad idea.

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

And every time that six-year-old won. And this fear even persisted after I started my own company. I mean, I started my own company when I was 30 --

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

And this fear even persisted after I started my own company. I mean, I started my own company when I was 30 -- if you want to be Bill Gates,

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

So she put out paper, started jotting down the colors and the rings, and is like, "How can I make this?"

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

And I became famous. A lot of people started writing emails to me and saying, "What you're doing is awesome."

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

I'm not sure I can do this. But my second thought then started turning to my data, as researchers will tell you, can happen.

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

as researchers will tell you, can happen. And I started thinking about thousands and thousands of data points, of people underestimating the joys they would experience

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

It has bothered me my whole life because I was running away from it. Then I started embracing it. I turned that into the biggest gift in my life.

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

I turned that into the biggest gift in my life. I started teaching people how to turn rejections into opportunities. I use my blog, I use my talk,

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

The only problem was a few weeks later, she started to notice another nodule in the same area. It turned out he hadn't gotten it all, and she wasn't good to go.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

And people immediately unplugged from the driving task, and they started shaving and curling their eyelashes, and they were like, picking up things from the backseat and plugging things in.

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

build our depots, EV charging infrastructure. And so what we’ve started to see, as we have these partnerships of fleet operators,

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

For 15 years, I worked on building AI. I started one of the early AI companies. I raised a quarter of a billion dollars to do it,

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

And while something left your head, a better thing took its place. You stopped checking your spelling and you started writing. You stopped remembering how to get there,

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

You stopped remembering how to get there, and you started thinking about what you’d say when you arrived. And notice how we keep pulling these tools closer to us.

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

Huh, that map kind of looks like a face. Uh-oh, your attention has started to drift. Throughout the day, your brain has been releasing a waste product

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

especially a child like me that was so eager to please. So when I started auditioning and booking, it became clear I was the one who could do it.

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

As the years flew by, I didn’t just perform on stage -- I started performing off it, too. I began designing a character to survive my life.

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

Somewhere along the way, I started believing I was a thing that saved us. I was Keke Palmer.

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

But it's only been in the past 100 or so years that we've started understanding the science of cannabis and its effects. We know that the cannabis plant contains hundreds of chemical compounds,

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

and the early data is really promising, but the data party has only just started. For those of you who were hoping to get the green light

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

Way before, way before the tariffs argument, I started working with Bob, and he had me, 20 minutes a day, focus on a single word.

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

under a system of oppression, which started as an apartheid-like regime and ended as a genocidal war.

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

who has always been fascinated by gross stuff. So fascinated, in fact, that I started a weekly YouTube series called "Gross Science,"

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Twenty-five percent of millennials are projected to never marry. And don't get me started on what's happening with Gen Z. (Laughter)

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

and find a way to help. I started by supporting underground schools because the Afghan girls are not giving up on learning,

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

"Can I give you some feedback?" And immediately my heart started pounding. I'm like, oh great, here we go.

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

I know you, in the talk, sort of shared -- you started with two tips, this idea of first, assuming that people like you

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

So people that are traveling, people that have just moved to the city, people that have just started school, people that have just retired, right? Those are the people to try to connect with versus, you know,

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

and being invited into more rooms where people started asking me, "Hey, would you ever consider doing marketing consulting on the side?"

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

offices around the globe closed, and my colleagues and I started studying this transition into remote work, remote work-life balance,

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

what it was like being in this new space. And this is where I really started to see the effect of connections and loneliness really came front and center.

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

where she didn’t know anyone. She started a new role working from home, all while managing her dad's new diagnosis of dementia.

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

"I'd love to help with that, but I only have 30 minutes today. Is that enough time to get us started?" Or it could be, "Thank you so much for the invite, but I already have plans."

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

correlates with female success. So isn't it time that we started investing in our female athletes and giving what they need

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

(Laughter) And I started very young doing surgery. This is me operating on my brother,

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

that things became doable and sustainable and viable. So I started this talk talking about the tush, so I'll end with the bottom line, which is,

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

of their uncomfortable internal experiences. When I first started learning this stuff explicitly -- we grew up in a family where uncomfortable feelings were not allowed,

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

without me being trapped in the dark with predators. AN: And I started doing it 20 years after Emily did, but it's never too late, you can always recover.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

and we were not close our whole lives. And then we started reading the research that said that connection and sharing support was the way out of burnout.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

that said that connection and sharing support was the way out of burnout. And we started trying, and we, like, broke down this 30-year barrier of, you know,

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

This study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for eight years, and they started by asking people, "How much stress have you experienced in the last year?"

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

and they ranged in age from 34 to 93, and they started the study by asking, "How much stress have you experienced in the last year?"

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

standing as role models. And it all started with your commitment to start walking, your agreement to organize your friends and family

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

I decided to research the science and the habits of the place, and I started with the genetic profile. I discovered soon enough

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

that over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

When she came to our clinic, though, we tried a different approach. Our approach started with our medical assistant, someone who had a GED-level training

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

fewer visits to the E.R., better health? Well, quite simply, it started with that question: "Veronica, where do you live?"

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

And it's the beginning of rational humanism, and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that was not quite Tom. When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit the way that I worked too, and this idea already saved me once.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Not just bad, but the worst book ever written. And I started to think I should just dump this project. But then I remembered Tom talking to the open air

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And, you know, if we think about it this way, it starts to change everything. This is how I've started to think, and this is certainly how I've been thinking in the last few months

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But as I approach my 40s, I've started to feel pain in weird places.

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

that these daily care tasks were a major pain point in their life. And so I started to wonder, what if we started here? What if we started with these care tasks?

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

And so I started to wonder, what if we started here? What if we started with these care tasks? Could making daily tasks easier improve mental health quicker?

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

I stopped thinking about the way that laundry should be done. And instead, started thinking about how I could make laundry functional for me.

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

how to speak compassionately to themselves. So what if mental health treatment started here? By shifting the idea of care tasks

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

next 38 years largely ignoring that accident I went to college started writing got married and had children I had what I

How to master life transitions with Bruce Feiler

can be actively harmful. Many younger people have started using the suffix "-pilled" to mean "convinced into a lifestyle."

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

The story of human intelligence might as well have started with this little critter. It's the last common ancestor of all vertebrates.

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

So how do we bridge the gap between AI and humans? We started to tackle this problem by revisiting the famous scaling laws. Here's an example of a scaling law,

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

Content 2.0 is personal. What started with simple home pages for everyone, memes and blogs,

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

job moved his family across the country then started a few days after the Great Recession sales cratered and soon he was out of a job

Superpower

But I was so sick, I didn't really know what my doctors meant, until my family came in the room and started hugging me goodbye, and a priest read me my last rites.

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

So I began to test it on myself. In the three years before I started sirolimus, I nearly died five times. But since starting it, I've been in remission for over 11 years.

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

it gave us the courage to really take this leap and to start this organization. We got started, and then we applied for funding, and we were so hopeful we would get it,

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

and it's still barely being utilized. This is why we started Every Cure, to unlock these hidden treatments and make sure they reach every patient they can possibly benefit,

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

But that spirit shaped me. When I started a school lunch program, I was not trying to end world hunger.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

a professor who lost her job in a university shake-up started building hand-painted birdhouses that she sold at

Create

So as a nutrition student, I started researching on school feeding programs. But what I mostly found was flawed systems and broken promises.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

he considered suicide but then he started to cook then write poetry then paint I used to get out my hostility by

Create

I stopped looking for the perfect model, and I started looking at the strengths of the communities and the people around me.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED