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But I learned that I could broadcast myself live on this website, doing whatever I wanted. So I could cook, or I could sing,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl so my parents who were on a waiting

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couldn't see the value in it I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how College was

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So this was when it really clicked for me, right? I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, but I wanted to do it at a much, much larger scale.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, but I wanted to do it at a much, much larger scale. Two years later, at 22 years old,

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

was the greatest thing he had ever known, and he wanted to share it. When I finally made it home to Nashville,

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

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

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for that answer to be: “Yes, that was it. I lived the life I wanted to live." Then write down the three things that it would take to do that

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

My first grade teacher had this brilliant idea. She wanted us to experience receiving gifts but also learning the virtue of complimenting each other.

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

It's because every time I had a new idea, every time I wanted to try something new, even at work --

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

even at work -- I wanted to make a proposal, I wanted to speak up in front of people in a group --

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

I wanted to make a proposal, I wanted to speak up in front of people in a group -- I felt there was this constant battle

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

between the 14-year-old and the six-year-old. One wanted to conquer the world -- make a difference --

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

And that rejection hurt me. It hurt me so bad that I wanted to quit right there. But then I thought,

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

But you know, fame and notoriety did not do anything to me. What I really wanted to do was learn, and to change myself.

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

into this research project. I wanted to see what I could learn. And then I learned a lot of things.

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

It was none of those. It was because what I offered did not fit what he wanted. And he trusted me enough to offer me a referral,

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

(Laughter) But I wanted to be an entrepreneur, so I didn't. But it has always been my dream to actually teach something.

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

I had been operating long that day but I still wanted to come and see him. He was a boy I had diagnosed with a bone cancer a few days before.

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

(Applause and cheers) I'm just a girl that wanted herself and her family out of poverty, and once we was out,

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

I really looked. I wanted to understand her worry. And I answered the worry.

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

I tried an experiment. I wanted to see what these new AI coding agents are all about. And I had what I can only describe as a "holy shit" moment.

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

And, you know, I was sold. I wanted to share this. I wanted to like, tell people on Twitter.

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

I wanted to share this. I wanted to like, tell people on Twitter. And nobody really got it.

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

Millions of people heard my story. Presidents and prime ministers all over the world wanted to meet me. I was finally in the rooms where decisions were made,

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

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. And her son told her,

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

She's also divorced and tried to find a new spouse because there was a hole she wanted to fill in her life. Then she read stories of people like Joe and John

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

turned me into a quasi self-help guru. And a few years into this trip, I decided that I wanted to get a sense of whether my inner work was having outer results, you know?

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

(Laughter) But I was in it to win it. I really wanted to be a nicer person. I kept getting tripped up though,

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

her name is Spring Washam, she kept insisting that if I wanted to be less of a jerk to other people, I needed to start by being less of a jerk to myself,

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

And he gave his kids a communication project. He wanted to teach them how to speak on a specific subject without using notes. And he said this: “I came to realize...”

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led them to their most successful venture. I wanted to know why. Perhaps if I could learn from it, I could understand it,

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

and I had all the respect in the world for them, and I wanted them to have every opportunity to succeed. But where did that leave me?

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

I was also curious about the way that people were interacting. I wanted to know if you needed to be in person, face-to-face, in order to have these deep, meaningful connections.

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

And so by the time I graduated, I was hungry for more. I wanted to see what my potential was. So I kept rowing, lots of rowing, lots of studying,

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

and repair and reconstruct joints. But I wanted to do something different with my career. I was more interested in physiology.

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

Now, we were scrappy, but we just wanted to get coaches, athletes, parents, other medical professionals, all together

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

If people knew better, they could do better. So we wanted to educate people. We wanted to get the network together.

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

So we wanted to educate people. We wanted to get the network together. We wanted to collaborate.

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

We wanted to get the network together. We wanted to collaborate. So there were international people coming together

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

and we were combining resources. And we wanted to inspire other people to do this work. Our first conference was at a small school outside of Boston.

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

(Applause and cheers) They wanted me to determine the research needs and develop treatment protocols for their athletes.

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

Not only was I getting access to the database, but they wanted transparency, and they wanted to work together to help solve the issues.

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

I don’t usually get these kind of cold calls. But they wanted me to work with five other individuals, leaders from other institutions,

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

to help design and launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance. They wanted us to work together to discover principles of peak performance,

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

resiliency and healthy, long life spans. And they wanted me to lead the female athlete component of that. OK, So that should be the end of my TED Talk,

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

I was earnest, I was goofy, and I was just discovering who I wanted to be. Now I had no idea that I'd go on to teach middle school.

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

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

But when those words began to be used online, they were quickly taken by people who wanted to capitalize on the perceived coolness or comedic value of Black and queer culture.

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

Ironically, this is also TikTok slang coming from African-American English, but I wanted to address it. Are we in fact cooked?

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

Earlier this year, I was in Taipei, Taiwan, where I decided I wanted to make a TikTok about Cup Noodle. Only this brilliant TikTok never happened

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

But in that moment, I realized that hope alone is not enough. If I wanted any chance of survival, I would need to turn my hope into action,

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

people tended to do what their parents wanted them to do believe what their parents wanted them to believe love who

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wanted them to do believe what their parents wanted them to believe love who their parents wanted them to love

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parents wanted them to believe love who their parents wanted them to love today the dynamic has shifted

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A friend of mine in Tennessee said, "If God wanted us to have unlimited free energy, he'd have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky."

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

And it was clear to me: I wanted to make a career out of finding solutions to pollution. I studied chemical engineering in Mexico

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

not just for me and my family but for my friends and neighbors. There were several things that I wanted to be different from what I had seen coming down around me.

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

from what I had seen coming down around me. I wanted this to be a profitable enterprise. I wanted it to be about people.

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

I wanted this to be a profitable enterprise. I wanted it to be about people. And I wanted to be sure that we were making things

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

I wanted it to be about people. And I wanted to be sure that we were making things that weren't hurting the environment.

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

you can't do that with expiring food. One of the things that we wanted to do a little different is make sure that we're talking to people.

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

or build something that actually mattered. I wanted to solve a problem that was being ignored, one that would shape the future of this country and the world.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

and he was playing with these blocks with letters. I wanted him to learn to read eventually, and one day he said,

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

I decided to stay in academia. I wanted AI to be developed for good. I worked on applications in medicine, for medical diagnostics,

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

Is that something I would put my name on? Or what if I wanted to use different voices like a guitarist can use different guitars?

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

And as heart-wrenching as it was to admit, she said sometimes she wanted her to die. Sandy and I happened to go for a walk not long after my dad passed,

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

Your journey starts with setting a goal. My friend wanted to be motivated at work, so she identified a project she wanted to complete.

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

My friend wanted to be motivated at work, so she identified a project she wanted to complete. That was a goal and it's a good motivation strategy.

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

(Applause) The couple had two daughters and they wanted them to excel. Their oldest, Irene, won a Nobel Prize with her husband,

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

but also because I'm her friend, and as such, I wanted her to be successful. You may wonder what happened to her.

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

What if I wake up in 50 years and I discover I have not become the man I wanted to be. I'm guessing some of you have similar thoughts,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

I dealt with his death by doubling down on the things he wanted for me. I chased academic honors like a drug.

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

I needed to find a new way to be. I wanted to find a new way to be. So I did a bunch of stuff.

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

were everywhere. I really wanted to help, so I pulled out my credit card.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

She was really, really struggling. And all she wanted to do was write her romance novels. But she felt so guilty

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

people didn't just want to know if the study worked, they wanted to know if it really worked: that is, if it was capable of producing love that would last,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and here, the researcher's goal was not to produce romantic love. Instead, they wanted to foster interpersonal closeness among college students,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

that people were really asking about when they wanted to know if we were still together. So the story that the media told about the 36 questions

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

And I tried it out. You know, I wanted to book a restaurant, and it's kind of incredible.

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and there were all sorts of problems, either the product didn’t work as people wanted it to or there were real safety issues or other things there.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

because the elites in the room had a different opinion about what people wanted for the guardrails on image-gen than what people actually wanted,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

about what people wanted for the guardrails on image-gen than what people actually wanted, and we couldn't point to real-world harm, so we made that change.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

to arrest him you know to to throw him in jail uh as they want wanted to um he's now going to take that and and use

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

the Israelis have accomplished most uh of what they have wanted to accomplish in them and they're the ones that are

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

safety Summit that's how they really wanted to make sure that everyone was paying attention to the UK they just

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

For example, if you walked into a messy kitchen and you wanted to be critical, you would say, "Oh my God, this place is such a mess.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

against years of sort of progressive culture that they didn’t like. You know, that got in the way of building the stuff that they wanted to build. And a belief

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

And to go back to the point of what you were saying before, which is that, you know, one of the key things I wanted to get across in the talk is that technology is politics now, and politics is technology.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

And he always has opinions. You know, he definitely wanted me to have, he had recommendations for who should do my inspection

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

And I don't think that relationship works. I wanted to follow a couple that does this. And of course, the disaster strikes

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

or the necessary understanding of the impacts of stress and trauma. So we wanted to figure out how we could provide, you know, that knowledge, those skills,

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

And Lisa looks at her life and she looks at Andy and she thinks, "This is not the bargain I wanted to make." A couple of years go by,

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

I didn't have a billion and 15 years to create a brand new drug. If I wanted to survive, I would have to find something that existed. So it was the constraints of the system.

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

And when we were looking at what the ecosystem was that we wanted to convert into something more trauma-informed, we wanted to include law enforcement

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

that we wanted to convert into something more trauma-informed, we wanted to include law enforcement because we knew young people interact with police

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

When that book came out recently, what everybody wanted to talk about, media and readers alike,

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

It was just he wanted to take the subway by himself and we let him.

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