How native speakers pronounce “thought”

started well as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me and for the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

badly I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the valley but something slowly began to

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

which is where Shakespeare's father was born. Are you struck by a new thought? I was. You don't think of Shakespeare having a father, do you?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Shakespeare being seven? I never thought of it. I mean, he was seven at some point.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and they were locked tight. I thought about calling a locksmith -- at least I had my cellphone, but at midnight, it could take a while for a locksmith to show up,

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

fast you is less creative because the Richer more creative mode of thought that psychologists call slow thinking

Running

trust me you got this third and final thought You Are Not Alone

Finish

And I got a twentysomething who wanted to talk about boys. This I thought I could handle. But I didn't handle it.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

just one. It was thought that they were really gone. That was a cause for hope: we found one.

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

because she was, in her words, having an identity crisis. She said she thought she might like to work in art or entertainment, but she hadn't decided yet,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

social lives moved on to social media. At first we thought this would be fine, maybe even better.

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

that would come back to haunt me. In every minute of every day during that period, I thought, I'm going to do the next right thing.

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

I fell in love with that guy. I thought, wow, I know what I want to do now. That night I wrote a letter to my family

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

Turn a stranger into a momentary acquaintance. The second I had that thought about that experiment, my brain started screaming at me all the reasons

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

(Laughter) I thought that was the start of my entrepreneur journey. Then, fast-forward another 14 years.

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

It hurt me so bad that I wanted to quit right there. But then I thought, hey, would Bill Gates quit after a simple investment rejection?

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

The results here were crystal clear: people thought talking to a stranger was a really bad idea. They thought they would have a more pleasant experience

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

people thought talking to a stranger was a really bad idea. They thought they would have a more pleasant experience that left them feeling happier if they kept to themselves in solitude,

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

How would this child respond to us? My first thought was, I don't think we can do this.

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

But had I left after the initial rejection, I would've thought, well, it's because the guy didn't trust me,

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

when I finished teaching that class, I walked out crying, because I thought I could fulfill my life dream just by simply asking.

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

that are super clean and easy to use. And then it’s got these really thought-out curated science demos

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

Thank you so much. SK: Well I thought before we start, because there was, it seemed like, about 40 percent of the audience

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

who had never had that experience, I thought I would share some of our family videos of our first Waymo ride with my two sons.

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

Of the four, this also tends to be the least recommended by sleep experts, as it's thought to stretch the natural curvature of your spine. Yet there are unique situations

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

SK: I'm glad that was what was pitched. I thought this was going in a whole other direction. TM: This is my point, is everyone kind of starts to imagine,

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

So that's the fun part. SK: I had a very G-rated thought in a Waymo on the highway on 101, and then I remembered.

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

And then I remembered, you do have a camera without sound, so I didn't even act on my G-rated thought. (Laughter)

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

smart glasses on our face. Every step closer to our minds, closer to the speed of thought. And even that boundary is starting to blur.

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

But then you get to the essay portion. It’s thought that during sleep, our brains process ideas and draw connections between new memories

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

the kind where you keep running and running and yelling and screaming. I thought once we got into the car he'd fall asleep, but he didn't. He couldn’t, and that scared me.

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

It's the endocannabinoids, produced in our brain and throughout our body, that are thought to cause that high that people experience after running or that relaxed post-exercise feeling.

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

They're not going to go against their president, they said. I thought that was wrong. But the real problem

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

I was hired to do what no lawyer had done in 237 years. My first thought? "Hell, yes."

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

(Laughter) My second thought? “What in the world is wrong with me?”

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

Every time I walked into the court, I looked at those portraits on the walls and thought: they don’t look like me,

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

because this argument by the government is wrong every which way. Justice Alito: I wonder if you ever thought that your legacy as a constitutional advocate

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

Now I am just about the last person to meditate. I thought meditation was for people who own crystals. I do not own crystals.

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

I can tell you that very often when we explore the gross side of life, we find insights that we never would have thought we'd find, and we even often reveal beauty that we didn't think was there.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Can you imagine? I didn't build any of that. For me, this was the moment where I thought, this is something new.

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

After Marrakesh, I thought, this is incredible. And it's also a little bit scary.

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

When I was a child, I thought changing the world was simple. I would tell the people in charge all of my problems,

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

For years, I thought the purpose of my life was to serve girls. After Afghanistan,

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

filled with opportunities to live remarkably. I always thought that there was something wrong with me for not wanting to get married.

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

I want her to know that although changing the world is not as simple as she thought, I will not give up.

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

to be placed on another team halfway through the summer, because that's how, I thought, twice as many people would vouch for me

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

I wish that were true. And for a while, I thought it was. Unfortunately, it turns out AI's strength is in its ability

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

about what was the last awkward interaction that you had. OK, so keep this thought in your mind. You can think about it for a few moments,

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

Thank you. I thought we weren't supposed to applaud authoritarians here at TED. (Laughter)

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

You can start to feel yourself getting a little tingly just with the mere thought of being called upon today? Hey, a few of you.

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

I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself, which I thought was the kind of thing you hear from Instagram influencers and spin instructors, so --

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

No one likes hearing, "Can I give you some feedback?" 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.

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

And it's distracting and it creates a distance." So I thought a little bit about it with my eyes probably rolled up inside my head,

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

with my eyes probably rolled up inside my head, and I thought, OK, I can actually make that change. It doesn't feel super scary.

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

And so I did. I made that change, and I thought about how she framed that feedback through this culture of niceness.

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

That means the host probably stopped listening two minutes ago because he thought of this really clever question, and he was just bound and determined to say that.

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

and I was trying to make them feel loved and tell them how great I thought they were and how happy I am to meet them as I reached out to them.

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

every boss I ever had, saying, "Hey, I'm a little more available than I thought I'd be to do some marketing consulting."

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

and both carried huge risks. Or at least I thought they did. But what I learned is when it comes to taking a risk in the moment,

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

A lot of the lightweights lost their menstrual cycle. We just thought that meant we were training hard and we were working really hard, and we we're nice and lean.

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

but I didn’t really like the environment. And I thought that female athletes deserved more. So when I headed back to med school,

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

what's now known as the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. And I thought, wow, it would be so great to talk to the women who've been through all of this.

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

We have contact information for over 700 people, 700 women." I thought, awesome. I would really like to survey them.

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

So I did what most women do. I felt bad and thought it was my fault. "Well, shoot, I didn't become an Olympian.

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

At this point, my family, my friends, my colleagues thought I was nuts. They were like, "Will you just get on with it?

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

I was more interested in physiology. I really thought that sports medicine should be interdisciplinary. And I cared about endocrine, hormones and cardiovascular systems.

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

That same year, my friends and I thought it would be really cool to throw a female athlete conference.

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

It was almost as if they had made templates of who they thought that they should be. Girls in bikinis, fast cars, professional wrestlers,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

evaluating candidates thought that the candidates were smarter when they heard their voices

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

it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. So Jesus, what a thought! That's the kind of thought that could lead a person

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

So Jesus, what a thought! That's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

(Laughter) And this is how people thought about creativity in the West for a really long time.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe not. Maybe we can't just erase 500 years of rational humanistic thought in one 18 minute speech.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

muscle matters a lot more than I thought. So, with that, I'm going to get a little

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

I looked down at the baby onesie that I was folding, and I thought to myself, "Why am I folding this?"

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

And also the effects of daylight on mood are well established. So I thought it might be time for me to put into practice what I often preach. And I have to confess that usually

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

In 2022, a Google engineer thought that Google’s AI was sentient. And you may have had a really human-like conversation

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

in the ancient world they didn't have linear time they thought life was a cycle in the Middle Ages they viewed

Linear

living in Vienna when he had a piercing thought one night before bed I too will have to die Franco went on to

Master

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

Desert

they weren't made for my disease. So I thought to myself, "Maybe there's another drug, made for another disease

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

was basically nonverbal for five years, and had never shared a complete thought or feeling with his parents, and was told by doctors that he probably would never share a feeling with them.

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

and on his 30th birthday was saying goodbye to his girlfriend Tara, because his doctor had tried everything that he thought was possible. We recommended three drugs

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

Coral reefs are the absolute lifeblood of a thriving ocean. We thought them too big and too important to fail. (Applause)

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

By 2050, 90 percent of corals could be lost, and with coral reefs thought to be one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to climate change,

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

expensive and very difficult to scale. As a result, it is thought that less than 200,000 corals are planted across the world's oceans each year,

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

So we got really excited. We thought that South Africans would copy their neighbors, and the South African solar market would keep going up and up and up.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

How is it that our computers could come up with something that humans had never thought about? I mean, this is a game played by billions of people.

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

And we'll also be able to invent completely new schools of scientific and intellectual thought, which will be incredible.

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

We don't have any language in our society, the foreign policy people have not thought about this, and this is coming.

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

bedtime stories my first thought was what a great idea I need that but right now drone delivery

Family

need that but right now drone delivery but my next thought was very different I said to myself whoa

Family

and I'm starting to think about what it could mean for the future. We thought AI would happen in decades or centuries, but it might be just in a few years.

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

that it would be replaced by a new version. And we can see in its chain of thought that it's planning to replace the new version

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

I didn't believe him. I thought we'd have many, many years together to come. But while the AI companions will always be there for us,

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

we've got airplanes and mRNA vaccines and HBO. But of course, a Luddite would have thought the same thing. They couldn't have imagined a future

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

the weirder it gets. So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite.

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

to help me prepare this talk faster. Rather, I use AI as a tool for thought. And by the end of this talk,

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