How native speakers pronounce “telling”

(Laughter) I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

That night I wrote a letter to my family telling them: "By age 25, I will build the biggest company in the world,

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

that it really understands us, even if what it's telling us to do is very bad for us. And finally, the very idea of conscious AI undermines our human nature.

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

So why am I standing up here, telling this wonderfully intellectual audience about nun pee? Well, I'm a science journalist and multimedia producer,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

And when you believe that prediction, as if it were telling you something about the future, when you give in to the fear of missing out,

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

as conversation stoppers. They're telling you, "Don't question me. Just accept what I'm saying as a fact."

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

My not so subtle request: stop telling single people to get married. (Laughter)

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

we often don't have a social script of what to do. Instead of telling people what we really think, what we really feel, we do the nice thing that makes us incredibly uncomfortable.

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

to someone who they just beat in a negotiation, telling them how great they are. So often these kinds of interactions

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

they involve a lot of compliments, telling people what they do well in a very general, non-specific way. But a lot of my work actually looks

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

Generic things. Yes, they're nice, but they are not very telling about what that person is really like.

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

No, do not do this. You will, by and large, get a lot of people telling you, "You know, I actually just want to keep it nice.

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

Often if we get to the stage where we're comfortable enough telling people, “I have a specific, critical, negative thing I want to tell you,” --

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

“Please stop interrupting people,” you know, not telling Tom about the errors, showing up five minutes late with coffee

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

based on our view of how likely we are to get rejected. So when we show people "I like you," we're telling them, "Hey, you're not going to get rejected if you try to be friends with me."

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

It's such an all encompassing tip, right? Because what I'm basically telling you is to assume people like you, right? Like, if you don't talk to your friend awhile,

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

I believe it. Telling the partner my name was actually Henna was way harder for me than telling the client

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

Telling the partner my name was actually Henna was way harder for me than telling the client that the audit report was going to be delayed by over two weeks.

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

in a separate process from dealing with the things that cause your stress is why the doctor is telling me to relax was not going to be an effective means of recovering from burnout.

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

and it has to do with stress. For years I've been telling people, stress makes you sick. It increases the risk of everything from the common cold

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

But if it's so obvious, why am I on this stage telling you about it? And what does it cost us

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

barely a quarter say they do. And the data is just telling us what every parent already knows. You ask,

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

You can see why this study freaked me out. Here I've been spending so much energy telling people stress is bad for your health.

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

and that mechanism is human connection. I want to finish by telling you about one more study. And listen up, because this study could also save a life.

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

(Applause) Chris Anderson: This is kind of amazing, what you're telling us. It seems amazing to me that a belief about stress

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

And here was my idol, a professional poet no less, telling me that it's OK to have a day job. If we want to develop a healthier relationship to work,

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

and I heard a strange voice telling me that my father had been rushed into the hospital. Naturally, I went to be by his side,

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

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

to my freakish success. And what I have to sort of keep telling myself when I get really psyched out about that is don't be afraid.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

parts of it, including your brain, and are telling your brain to do certain beneficial things.

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

establishment, your doctor uh will be telling you and your mom and your grandmother is it that is something that

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

Yet here were hundreds of thousands of people in my comment sections telling me that these daily care tasks were a major pain point in their life.

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

Or the viewer, reaching out to them and telling them where the villain is to be found, or a new idea for a plot twist.

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

personal stories we thought we'd be telling for a lifetime come to an abrupt end now what

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actually, from a member of the TED community -- telling me about something called The Audacious Project, which selects ten nonprofits every year, solving the world's biggest challenges.

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

Latif Nasser: David, this feels miraculous. Like, you're telling me that there are dying people waiting for a drug to be discovered,

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

can take to make sure the autobiography you're telling is one that gives you the meaning you crave and the purpose you deserve

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That's 122.9 in Fahrenheit. And they're telling us that as the temperatures go up and the humidity goes up,

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

and then strange people come, telling them that what they are eating is poisoned. But I think information is power,

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

exchanging little jokes, just like we always used to, telling him what was going on, telling him how much I missed him.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

telling him what was going on, telling him how much I missed him. It felt strange at times,

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

So we had a living memorial service for her, and we each took turns telling her how much she meant to us, and she said the same thing back.

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

And to be clear, I'm not telling you to pick up Gen Z slang. I don't want you going around saying you watched this talk by Mohan,

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

or asking for what you need and a person basically telling you you're not important enough for that accommodation. Like, when we go back to the example of being in the Uber,

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

And I kept thinking, everyone's telling me there's no drugs for Castleman's, but you keep giving me chemotherapy and they don't work long-term,

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

We work in public schools in different parts of the countries we work in. And she called me and she was telling me about a girl who had survived violence and she was pregnant four months.

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

The scores are really accurate, they're telling us that drugs like lidocaine can help potential patients with breast cancer.

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

And then when other people in the audience started telling stories like this kid, this this one

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

for the sake of conversation. I'm here to tell stories for the sake of telling stories. There's a great South African philosopher by the name of Steve Biko.

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

So I'm going to tell you three stories for the sake of telling stories. And I really do hope that you have nothing to learn from these stories.

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

did you really mean it when you said that you're telling stories for the sake of telling stories?" Yes, I meant it.

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

three ways one what stories we tell when we're telling them how we're telling them if we're telling them

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

when we're telling them how we're telling them if we're telling them why we're telling them so so much about

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

telling them if we're telling them why we're telling them so so much about the political beliefs we have about

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

on which to stand so that i might understand the power of telling stories that matter no matter what

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

And I think that's important, to just set your own rules. This isn't about me telling you about what rules to set, but about saying set a boundary.

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

it is tempting to keep writing the same poem, or keep telling the same story, over and over, once you've figured out that it will gain you applause.

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

And my monster was delighted. She started telling me what was going on, and I started to pretend to listen.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

You, all of you, you know your advice monster. Somebody starts telling you about something, you don't really know the situation,

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

instead of a fundamentally empowering exploration. One morning, a friend of mine was telling me about her latest unsatisfying hookup,

The Relationship Between Sex and Imagination | Gina Gutierrez | TED · TED

It's a declaration of self. Telling the world that you belong, that you are deserving of self-exploration,

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

only animals. I keep telling my superego to back off and let me enjoy what I still have.

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

So ... What is all of this telling us? Your telomeres do just fine.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

all improve telomere maintenance. So what is all this telling us? It's telling us that I have the power to impact my own telomeres,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

So what is all this telling us? It's telling us that I have the power to impact my own telomeres, and I also have the power to impact yours.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

And the important thing about that 3D structure is the 3D structure of the protein goes a long way to telling you what its function is in the body, what it does.

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

From the perspective of the self, though, xenomelia is telling us something very profound. It's telling us that something as basic

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

xenomelia is telling us something very profound. It's telling us that something as basic as the sense of ownership of our own body parts

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

and that, too, can come apart. So what are these experiences of altered selves telling us? They're telling us

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

So what are these experiences of altered selves telling us? They're telling us that just about everything we take to be real

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

will time and again lead you down the wrong path. You simply cannot trust what your mind is telling you. For example, we know from studies of heartbroken people

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

or anxious or any kind of serious condition. But I am telling you that you have more control over your emotions than you might imagine,

You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

I'm going to miss out on something I care about deeply." Pitching is much like telling a story. Just like a movie tells a story.

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

You're charting the hero's journey in three acts. First, you start by telling about the hero's world, the status quo. In this case, the current situation

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

had no idea what I was working on, and telling them that they needed to carve out additional time to help support it.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

Imagine deciding right now that you're going to do it. Imagine telling someone that you meet today what you're going to do. Imagine their congratulations,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

The repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen. Any time you have a goal,

Keep your goals to yourself | Derek Sivers

and how Dolly Parton helped me figure it out. So I've been telling audio stories for about 20 years, first on the radio and then in podcasts.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

But how do you end that story? Like, what literally kept happening is we'd be, you know, telling a story, cruising along, two viewpoints in conflict,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

He didn't know how many dreams I had. JA: In effect, she kept telling me, "Don't bring your stupid way of seeing the world into my story,

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives,

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

but she had taken ownership of it and felt justified in telling me what to write in the sequel. Now, what if my roommate knew about my friend Funmi Iyanda,

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

One upper-caste vegetarian schoolmaster gets appointed in a school, within weeks, children are telling their parents it's yucky to eat crabs or sinful to eat meat.

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

one Israeli and one Palestinian, guiding the trips together, telling history and narrative and archaeology and conflict from totally different perspectives.

For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah

I mean, what's not to like? Now why am I telling you about the economy of ancient Japan? Because it reveals how history is one of our most undervalued resources

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