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met with David Packard and Bob noise and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly I was a very public failure and I

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lying on the dining room table where I had left them. So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows, and they were locked tight.

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And in those dark times and in now, some very good times, I really tried to become a student of what does it take to be successful and what makes great people great?

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who just knew a lot more than me, who were healthier than me. And then I tried to copy them. If they read a book I hadn’t read, I read it.

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or if they turned to the person who sat next to them that morning and tried to have a conversation, tried to connect. The results here were crystal clear:

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(Laughter) If you tried to answer that, you felt something. You felt a gap, a pause between the question arriving

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If you've tried cannabis ... (Laughter)

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And then in early 2025, I tried an experiment. I wanted to see what these new AI coding agents are all about.

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People were talking with it, people were having fun with it, people tried to hack it. And when my eyes were like, falling off almost,

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I had to rename the whole thing while it was taking off. You know, they even tried to push me away from the lobster. (Laughter)

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Simply for the crime of speaking out, the Taliban tried to kill me, shooting me in the face at point-blank range.

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did not begin in 2021. They tried to silence me a decade earlier in Pakistan, and before I was even born,

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But today, not everybody recognizes that. I spoke to a mother who really tried to get her son to make dating a priority because she wanted him to find emotional wholeness.

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that she was given car seats for them. She's also divorced and tried to find a new spouse because there was a hole she wanted to fill in her life.

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was realizing that the aspects of my personality that I was most ashamed of and had really tried to hide were in fact on full display for everybody.

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but to maintain a healthy weight long-term is hard. Ask anyone who has ever tried. So let's consider my mom, for instance.

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I was too slow at the 50-yard dash. Poor Mrs. Leonard, she really tried with me. So no one was more surprised than I was

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You know, even the open-weight women had issues where they would get urinary incontinence if they tried to do the track workouts. So they were always trying to dodge the track workouts.

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because we're most responsive to everything around us. And after I tried this medicine of just sitting quietly a few times, I noticed something strange.

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Elizabeth Redcay, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, tried to map the difference between what goes on in our brains when we interact in person

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Veronica was still sick. When she came to our clinic, though, we tried a different approach. Our approach started with our medical assistant,

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Veronica's home was better too. What was it about this different approach we tried that led to better care,

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of the creative process. A process which, as anybody who has ever tried to make something -- which is to say basically everyone here ---

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But then I remembered Tom talking to the open air and I tried it. So I just lifted my face up from the manuscript

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I went to the park for short walks. And last, every meal I had, I tried to take on the little balcony. Did it work?

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then I had financial troubles then my father who had Parkinson's tried to take his own life

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(Laughter) But this is what we tried to do in a recent study that I did together with my brilliant colleagues

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Like, this earlier version of a now-famous AI chatbot that tried really hard to convince a “New York Times” reporter to break up with his wife.

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This paper I was involved in tried to look at compared to smart humans, what would the best AIs do on three tasks?

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and I was dying for the first time. My doctors came in the room and told me, "David, we've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

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after he retired from four decades as a surgeon and tried to make amends with the family he long ignored

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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

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and like Mason's parents did, and heard the words "We've tried everything. There's nothing more we can do."

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

There's nothing more we can do." What if we haven't tried everything? What if there's a solution out there for them,

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

when there's a life-saving cure sitting on the pharmacy shelf. And instead of hearing "we've tried everything," they can hear "we have something."

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

And I had no idea. You know, I tried to kind of play along, but he said, "No, what are you doing?"

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Early on, it was really about individual donors and grants. And then over the years, we've tried to continue to figure out how to diversify the revenue so that we can be sustainable.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

There were so many people early on that tried to guide us into taking donated food, into using volunteer hours and trading board seats for money.

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Cause you noticed that her butt was stuffed My homeboys tried to warn me Me so horny!

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My research team and I went to West Point Military Academy. We tried to predict which cadets would stay in military training and which would drop out.

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We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition. We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods,

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there's a real command and control to how they show up. So I tried to apply that blueprint to my first job at Procter and Gamble, and I was surprised by the results.

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and every day of the week, some member of our group tried to be there to cheer for them. I happened to be there

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The original version of the story, the one that I tried last summer, that pairs the personal questions with four minutes of eye contact,

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and he said, kind of shyly, "So, I tried your study, and it didn't work." He seemed a little mystified by this.

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you've got a thing called Operator which starts to do this. And I tried it out. You know, I wanted to book a restaurant,

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And we'll update that over time. But we’ve tried to outline where we think the most important danger moments are, or what the categories are, how we measure that,

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with a horrible, rare cancer called POEMS syndrome, and his doctors had tried everything the doctors knew to try for this rare cancer.

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because there's 4,000 drugs and there's 18,000 diseases. So if you tried every drug for every disease, it would be 75 million possibilities.

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things you're ready to do that you haven't tried yet. And then the kid

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to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried. "And, baby," I'll tell her,

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Every step sent lightning through my leg. The test results revealed what I had tried to will away. Six stress fractures in my tibia.

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she'll see that her student wrote code and then deleted it. She tried, she came close, but she didn't get it exactly right.

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but tests of spelling and maths as well. This study tried to control for all the confounding factors, so it looked at children who were equally intelligent

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she owes to spaghetti. I tried it and gained 10 pounds in the wrong places.

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well, she says it in another way — and she has tried them all. (Laughter)

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the communities that have built us, the obstacles that have tried to stop us, the mistakes that haunt us.

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All the models learned how to do the task in the summer. Then we tried to use the models on drones in the fall. The traditional AI solution gets confused by the background.

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So it's a challenge. And people have tried to put robots into warehouses to do this work.

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Where's the logic in that? Despite all that, I tried to understand him. I didn't want to judge him with the same cruelty that he judged me.

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She said to me, "He listens to Fairuz with me, and one night, I tried to translate for him so he can feel what I feel when I listen to Fairuz."

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so he can feel what I feel when I listen to Fairuz." The poor woman tried to translate this for him: "From them I extended my hands and stole you --"

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I was like, "Let me think about this for a second." I tried to call deep on my courage. And I thought, you know, I am a storyteller.

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Now, since that time, scientists have tried for decades to figure out how to create a blight-resistant chestnut tree.

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As one billion animals were incinerated by the inferno. As friends tried to rescue their homes, poised on tin roofs,

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The surviving bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Chechnya, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Now, when a jury has to make the decision

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Over all these years, I've tried to reconnect with Sonny Boy. Sadly, I've been unable to.

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and I painted and I wrote in my journal, and I tried to study the environment by reading books. And I decided that I was going to go to school. So I did.

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I've sense-checked sources, I've looked for inconsistencies, and I've tried to explain as much as I can. In this changing world,

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