How native speakers pronounce “trying”

if she comes in, I get annoyed. I say, "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here." (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Maybe you were part of a team trying to do something big and difficult under time pressure,

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

and AI support and political dialogue infrastructures to help those who are trying to make peace hold. Because this is the challenge of our time.

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

drastically improved, without the pressure of trying to transition them into an entirely new household dynamic,

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

but as individuals. Instead of trying to change our partners, what if we instead embraced their differences,

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

with their protocols and checklists, trying to figure out how best to safely apply medicine. These are all good things.

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

Or because, and I mean this with all sincerity, he had way better hair than whatever I was trying to figure out here. (Laughter)

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

I have two young daughters, and like a lot of us, I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into. And what helped me make sense of it actually wasn't looking forward.

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

just an ultimatum. I wasn't trying to be exceptional. I was trying to be reliable.

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

I wasn't trying to be exceptional. I was trying to be reliable. I carried the load, not because I had to,

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

Some of the functions that saved you may be keeping you from the very you you were always trying to save. My parents survived inside of systems that never fully saw them.

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

in a long line of technological metaphors that we've reached for when trying to understand the deep complexity of the brain. One time, the brain was a system of plumbing.

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

(Laughter) Now we know Bob Ross was not trying to stimulate people’s ASMR or cause them to relax.

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

or cause them to relax. He was trying to teach you how to paint. But there are individuals today who are creating ASMR videos

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

and we don't want to make the same mistake again. This is one reason why even trying to build conscious AI is a very bad idea. But if conscious AI is just an illusion created by design,

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

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 truthfully, we all spend sort of a big part of our lives just trying not to be gross. When you really think about it,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

(Laughter) You know, we're desperately trying to avoid being gross all the time, so I think many of us take this kind of voyeuristic delight

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

we were sheltering from the shelling and the bombing and the people who were trying to come and kill us. And we had that little radio with batteries,

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

but we were sheltered in a church when, you know, the Milošević regime was trying to kill us. And just a few days ago,

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

for everything and everywhere, he's trying to get you to act in a way that will fulfill his vision of the future.

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

discreetly passing cassette tapes and books to each other and trying to keep studying in secret. It is far from the education that they deserve,

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

with about a half dozen other friends, about trying to buy property together. The kind of place where we could raise kids alongside one another,

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

probably injected into me by the culture, by my parents. And they were trying to help me. It was the organism trying to protect itself.

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

And they were trying to help me. It was the organism trying to protect itself. And when I stopped fighting them, they calmed down for a few seconds.

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

Thank you. So I guess what I'm trying to say here is there's a geopolitical case for you to get your shit together.

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

It can come across as by showing you're engaged, you listened. You know what the person's actually trying to do, you're aligned with their goals.

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

So I want to wish you all luck on your journey of trying to change culture of feedback, killing anxious niceness,

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

you're not integrating it into your entire personality. You're trying to push it away and suppress it and not make it who you are.

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

And we are able to sort of relinquish all of the energies that we spend trying to push this thing away. And so in that way,

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

So for me, if I want to connect with someone, it's not about me trying to impress them. It's about me trying to make them feel valued and, you know,

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

it's not about me trying to impress them. It's about me trying to make them feel valued and, you know, say hello to them and engage with them and tell them what I like about them

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

So I was both engaging with these people and I was trying to make them feel loved and tell them how great I thought they were

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

You know, this is the first time in the history of humankind where we are trying to experience sexuality in the long term not because we want 14 children,

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

helps signal that you are truly listening and trying to implement and act on their feedback. Creating polls and using your chat channels

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

You're now sitting there in this predicament of trying to figure out: How am I going to do it all?

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

Much like stepping into the TEDx lights for the first time, trying something new is awkward as hell. The approval mindset is blaring.

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

where they would get urinary incontinence if they tried to do the track workouts. So they were always trying to dodge the track workouts. They'd come up with excuses so they could skip those practices.

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

And we can collaborate and help let it grow. We've been trying to launch this vision, but we cannot just rely on Clara Wu and Joseph Tsai's generosity.

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

you get out of your car or you get off the bus, and your shoulders are trying to be your earrings, and you're grumpy and cranky

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

I wonder why that is," and instead of just trying to, like, tell yourself to relax, ask that feeling, "Why are you there? What do you need from me?

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

is that chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. And so I would say that's really the best way to make decisions,

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

And I rely on these tools myself, whether I'm trying to get my three young kids to bed, a live-action version of Whac-A-Mole,

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

allows boys to feel good about who they are rather than feeling uncomfortable for trying to be someone they're not. It’s different than simply being praised or rewarded for achievements

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

I was a 22-year-old poetry student trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. It was around this time that I had the opportunity

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

just like she had done in years past, trying to seek relief but still coming up short. Veronica came to our clinic,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

It comes from chronically rubbing one's nose up and down, trying to get rid of those allergy symptoms, and yet, here was Veronica, a grown woman,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

with those water leaks and that mold, trying to help you manage those conditions in your housing that I think are causing your symptoms, and if required, that specialist might refer you

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

controlled for a lot of factors, and found that when trying to adjust the risk of heart disease, one's exposure to green space was a powerful influence.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

of the tormented contemporary modern artist, trying to control and manage and dominate these sort of uncontrollable creative impulses

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

that "don't ask, don't tell" metric among clinicians. We're trying to make sure that clinicians, and therefore their systems that they work in

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

catching a wave and trying to pretend that I have caught a wave.

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

>> Three. >> I swear this here is me trying my hardest. hardest. >> Four.

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

Simply ask yourself, "What am I trying to achieve and how can I achieve it in my way?"

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

those muscles contract, it's trying to warm you up. And also

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

strong and rambunctious and you're trying to wrestle that dance partner into cooperating with you.

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

both the beauty and the terror of trying. I did it.

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

People are funny. We're constantly trying to understand and interpret the world around us.

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

and that's exactly what they want. The craziest part is they're not even trying to hide this. TikTok's business platform

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

We certainly want to understand if the suspect is reliable or if they are trying to deceive us. Then another example comes to my mind,

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

to distinguish those who are really passionate about the role from those who are just trying to say the right things to get the job. And finally, we have social media.

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

And finally, we have social media. Scammers trying to deceive you or to steal your identity. All gone.

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

check into a hotel, or complete other daily tasks. What I was trying to share with you was a frustrating experience that my wife and I recently had.

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

You were often bullied if you were bald or big. Trying to look better is framed as a route to economic security and a matter of personal responsibility.

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

And oftentimes, those dozens of opportunities just sort of get lost. And so we're trying to uncover them, try to find, you know, what's really been falling through the cracks.

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

When I started a school lunch program, I was not trying to end world hunger. I was a 21-year-old university student

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

I was a 21-year-old university student trying to help kids in my community of Ruiru, a town that's outside of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

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

What advice do you give those who are trying to dig deep in this time, to step up and to find actionable hope?

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

what is a story humans have been trying to answer that question for millennia

Meaning

we get paralyzed by choice we get writer's block trying to write the story of Our Lives a big part of my

Meaning

the story of Our Lives a big part of my work has been trying to understand how people navigate this abundance of choice

Meaning

and the official data coming out of them was good. Now my team is trying to cover 146 solar markets, and some of the data is really bad.

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

So we're engineering value back into this waste stream, just like we're trying to engineer opportunity back into our communities. Bob has really been the leader that's helped Material Return get started.

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

then you're just perpetuating the circumstances that you're trying to fight. You can still do good business and do good by people,

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

If China were to deny access to them, that would be a big deal. We are trying to deny them access to the most advanced chips, which they are super annoyed about.

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

How do you view that trade-off? In trying to prevent dystopia, let's say preventing non-state actors

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

That's a pretty good goal. I'm aware of one nonprofit that's trying to identify, in the next two years,

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

From four soldiers tied up in a basement to a giraffe, trying on a turtleneck sweater. (Laughter)

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

so as to make sure the human will not shut it down. And it's trying to find a way to look dumb, for example. Then it produces an answer.

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

It's modeled after a selfless, ideal scientist who’s only trying to understand the world, without agency.

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

Both start-up founders, both single, trying to figure out our lives, our companies, this new city together.

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

So a final thought experiment. Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain

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

Imagine trying to explain your life right now to a Luddite. Better yet, just imagine trying to explain the life of some ordinary British working-class stiff

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

I mean, indoor plumbing is extremely awesome. But imagine trying to explain mass post-secondary education or the BBC.

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

(Laughter) They were just trying to make a profit. But we're the ones who profited the most.

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

And still, when I'm lying awake at night and wishing and maybe trying to figure out some way that I could stop this thing, or at least slow it down a little,

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

When we're writing a Gracenote, you're not trying to get published in a poetry anthology. You don't have to sound like Shakespeare.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

You don't have to sound like Shakespeare. My guess is you're probably not trying to get a job at Hallmark. Just want to sound like you.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

And on this unrepeatable night, I didn't have to worry about trying to find the words to tell him all that he'd meant to me

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

Now, this might have been helpful when we were cave people, trying to avoid predators, but now it's a terrible way to go through life.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

if only temporarily, instead of trying to avoid it. When you seek discomfort temporarily,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

Some goals, let's call them temptations, should take less room on your plate. However, instead of trying to push them out of mind, it might be wise to anticipate them in advance.

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

deeply challenged trying to hold on and believe in ourselves,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

like we are carrying the weight of the pandemic, trying to figure out all of this political division, fighting all of the mental, physical, social violence in our homes,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

So while you had adults who were out there arguing with one another, trying to suppress access to knowledge and history through book bans, young people were able to successfully stop book bans

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

or when you're in a new place and you're trying to figure out what the right thing to do is. Sometimes breaking the rules a little bit is where the action is.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

designed to create romantic love in the laboratory, and my own experience trying the study myself one night last summer.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

for Valentine's Day, which featured readers' experiences of trying the study themselves, with varying degrees of success.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron