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There have been three themes running through the conference, which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. So I want to talk about education, and I want to talk about creativity.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

So I want to talk about education, and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

to prevent those things from happening, or to minimize the damage. So what I want to talk to you about today are some of the things we can do in the form of a pre-mortem.

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

to help them with a decision. And so I want to talk about that. And I'm going to talk about a very particular medical condition.

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

And so I want to talk about that. And I'm going to talk about a very particular medical condition. But this stands as a proxy for all kinds of medical decision-making,

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

or a longer life that might have a great deal of pain towards the end? These are things to talk about and think about now, with your family and your loved ones.

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

But I want to use my time today to talk about an entirely different kind of drone use, much closer to home,

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

and kicked off her flats and told me she was there to talk about guy problems. Now when I heard this, I was so relieved.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

(Laughter) And I got a twentysomething who wanted to talk about boys. This I thought I could handle.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

But this isn't what twentysomethings are hearing. Newspapers talk about the changing timetable of adulthood. Researchers call the 20s an extended adolescence.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

one good conversation, one good break, one good TED Talk, can have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

shared experiences. My talk today isn't really about bees and ants.

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

We made a contract. Let's talk about dates. Let's talk about expectations while you guys are living separately.

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

Let's talk about dates. Let's talk about expectations while you guys are living separately. And by the time they came back to me,

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

rather than leaning in and talking to each other. Once talking, we stick to shallow talk, to small talk, rather than going deeper. We feel grateful but don’t express it.

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

why this was a really, really bad idea. "Clearly, she doesn't want to talk to you, otherwise she'd already be talking to you.

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

I was done, and I got up to leave, and she stopped me and she said, "Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me this morning." I've forgotten a lot of details

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

but to have deep conversations with a stranger and talk about things like, "Can you tell me what you're most grateful for in your life?"

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

who disagree about the most divisive political issues that divide us today talk about those political disagreements -- even those political disagreements,

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

You know, because of that I was in newspapers, in talk shows, in everything. And I became famous.

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

I don't want to waste your flower. If you want to do this, go across the street and talk to Connie. She loves flowers."

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

I started teaching people how to turn rejections into opportunities. I use my blog, I use my talk, I use the book I just published,

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

what we consider the best kind of population-based evidence in medicine. People talk about thinking outside the box, but we don't even have a box in sarcoma.

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

We'll even establish international collaborations. Those patients will start to talk to each other through chat rooms and support groups.

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

and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees, but one also loses a tree

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

yes, that is a wrench in an MRI machine, because how else am I supposed to talk about the invisible magnetic fields all around us?

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

You or someone you love will be that patient sometime very soon. How will you talk to your doctors? What will you tell them?

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

to watch different sectors of the economy start to talk about how powerful this technology is. You know, we have Dr. John Slotkin, a neurosurgeon,

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

And we're also really excited when we get to go and talk to folks as they move from logistics into now AV-adjacent roles

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

So it doesn't all require upskilling. SK: Well, we could talk for hours about this, but thank you so much. TM: Thank you.

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

Well, I've been researching this topic as a sleep physiologist, and I'm here to talk about why cannabis for treating insomnia is complicated. Humans have been using cannabis for at least 5,000 years.

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

like finding the right words ... when you're doing a public talk that you've had to memorize. (Laughter)

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

OK, look, I know how this sounds. Lawyer wins big case, gets a fancy TED talk invitation, talks for 14 minutes about how great he is.

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

but there was certainly a Boston Tea Party. Justice Sotomayor, I wish I had an hour to talk about this with you, because this argument by the government is wrong every which way.

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

who taught a lawyer to “yes, and” the justices? That would be a hell of a TED talk. But no, that's not it either.

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

and they would play with my hair more and talk to me about different hairstyles and haircuts I could get. And I even enjoyed the gentle sound of the scissors --

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

of our collective, digitized past. We talk about ourselves endlessly, and so do they.

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

I suppose it's understandable. And back in the real world, talk of conscious AI does other things too -- it conjures this sense of technological wonder and magic

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

that there's something a little gross about pee. You know, it's something that we don't really like to talk about, and we keep the act of doing it very private.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and we even often reveal beauty that we didn't think was there. I think it's important for us to talk about gross things for a few reasons. So, first of all, talking about gross stuff

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

because, as I said, politics on one side or geopolitics, if we're trying to talk bigger, it's not just about military and economic might,

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

But many of the people who have experienced this haven't really had a forum to talk about it. And today, this video that I made is my most popular video.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And the comment section for that video became sort of like a self-help section, where people could talk about their tonsil stone experiences and, like, tips and tricks for getting rid of them.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

and, like, tips and tricks for getting rid of them. And I think it became this great way for people to talk about something that they'd never felt comfortable taking about publicly.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And, of course, I always tell them that I am not a medical professional, and that, if possible, they should talk to a doctor. But the truth of the matter is that everyone should feel comfortable

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

who were women, to ask questions about it. And it's also not a topic that women talk about publicly. So there's this gap in what we know,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

because we're relying on forecasting more than ever with AI. And based on how we talk about prediction, we're being much too naive about it.

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

Just accept what I'm saying as a fact." I'd like for this talk to be a conversation starter. I hope it'll persuade you to ask more questions.

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

because those modern models, they are so smart, they know what WhatsApp is, they know how people talk. I just had to tell it.

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

And then it felt right. And you know how you talk to friends -- at some point I was walking around and I was sending it a voice message.

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

In ancient Rome, friends would talk about each other as "half of my soul," or "the greater part of my soul."

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

from one of my students recently. She was giving a practice talk in my lab, and she spent weeks and weeks preparing it,

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

probably harder than anyone else I'd ever seen on preparing a talk like this. And then she went and gave it, and she came back and I said,

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

And then she went and gave it, and she came back and I said, "How did the talk go? Did it go well?" She said, "It was terrible. It was horrible.

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

if nobody's looking, put your hand on your heart and talk to yourself the way you would talk to a good friend. For ambitious people, this may be a little scary.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

what's some neutral feedback that you could give me at the end of my talk? How about "I would switch the order of the points on your talk"

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

at the end of my talk? How about "I would switch the order of the points on your talk" or "I would change the font."

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

The first time I actually got this type of critical nice feedback was after a talk I gave and the person came up to me and she said,

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

And she opened with three things that she thought I did well. "I really liked points one, two and three you made in that talk. They really resonated with me.

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

And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don't want to talk to them? (Laughter)

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

And many of them, almost most of them, are more likely to text their friends than they are to talk to them face to face. There's this great piece in The Atlantic.

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

heads of state, plumbers. I talk to people that I like. I talk to people that I don’t like. I talk to some people that I disagree with deeply on a personal level.

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

and my ex, he pushes me back into the hallway to talk to my neighbors and says to me, you know, "You're writing this book on friends.

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

I talk to people that I like. I talk to people that I don’t like. I talk to some people that I disagree with deeply on a personal level. But I still have a great conversation with them.

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

But I still have a great conversation with them. So I'd like to spend the next 10 minutes or so teaching you how to talk and how to listen.

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

or that would look like me just standing in the hallway hoping that my neighbors talk to me. And so to make friends, you have to overcome covert avoidance

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

Do that. Err on the side of caution. Talk should not be cheap. Number six: Don't equate your experience with theirs.

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

that a lot of the members also really love some of the things you shared there. So thank you so much for that wonderful talk and for those tips which we will dive into in this conversation.

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

we are free to make friendship territories of pleasure." So can you talk a little bit more about this and just why friendship holds such an important role

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

loneliness is more toxic for your body than having a poor diet or not exercising. And these are things that we talk about in the public health conscious, but we don't talk about social connection enough.

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

And these are things that we talk about in the public health conscious, but we don't talk about social connection enough. Maybe for our UK folks, you all have a prime minister of loneliness.

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

So it's a little bit different, right? But when we talk about the impact of loneliness, there's actually three different dimensions of loneliness.

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

Why do we not listen to each other? Number one, we'd rather talk. When I'm talking, I'm in control.

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

like, we just need an entire community to fulfill us. WPR: You touched on this a little bit in the talk, and in the book, you separate, sort of,

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

the way you think about friendship to two categories. You talk about, you know, sort of a backward look at how we've traditionally experienced friendship,

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

better platonic relationships. And so if we could just talk a little bit about sort of that first section, just diving into how we as a culture tend to think about friendship

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

and there was kind of a ritual in my home. People would come over to talk to my grandparents, and after they would leave, my mother would come over to us,

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

You do the same thing. Go out, talk to people, listen to people,

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

seem like are just really challenging for us to develop. But I guess, can you talk about sort of, why this breakdown happens and really when we start to see that it becomes more difficult

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

And I think before we get into some of those specific questions, I know you, in the talk, sort of shared -- you started with two tips,

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

Because what I'm basically telling you is to assume people like you, right? Like, if you don't talk to your friend awhile, assume that they're still interested in being friends with you.

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

I look at this person -- by the way, in desire people rarely talk about it, when we are blended into one, five centimeters from each other.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

If you're feeling really ambitious, after this talk, go outside and make a phone call. I know, you're not a phone person,

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

Remember that setback I asked you to think of at the beginning of this talk? Visualize it again.

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

are exactly where burnout starts. So let's talk about how you can create a system to support your ambitions

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

Is future me going to be mad at current me if I say yes to this? It's important to talk to future you. And does this align with what future me wants?

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

mental health was a taboo topic shrouded in stigma. And now public figures talk openly about it, there's an entire industry to support it,

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

changing direction might look like naming how awkward it is to have to talk about this, maybe with a little bit of humor. Or let’s say you get called on in a meeting

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

And if you don't know where to start, let's talk about it over a Capri Sun. Can't promise I won't make it awkward,

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

it was usually a different doctor every couple of weeks. Nobody asked us about our periods, and we definitely didn’t talk about it. You know, even the open-weight women had issues

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

And I thought, wow, it would be so great to talk to the women who've been through all of this. Do they have a database

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

But the gas gauge didn't work. So they talk about -- feels real, right? (Laughter)

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

other medical professionals, all together so that we could talk about what we need to know about female athletes. If people knew better, they could do better.

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

is what allyship looks like in action. Now I'll be honest, I avoided it because I just wanted you to hear my talk. I know right now the media is all the rage.

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

And they wanted me to lead the female athlete component of that. OK, So that should be the end of my TED Talk, woo, and the rest of the world is great.

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

Because it was when that happened with this walk-and-talk idea that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | 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

so I'll end with the bottom line, which is, walk and talk. Walk the talk.

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