How native speakers pronounce “whole”

when I was young there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog which was one of the Bibles of

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Notions Stewart and his team put out several issues of the whole earth catalog and then when it had run its

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

It's been great, hasn't it? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I know that that's true. No one makes it through their whole life intact. If you talked to every pillow I've had in my life,

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

And she's exceptional, but I think she's not, so to speak, exceptional in the whole of childhood. What you have there is a person of extraordinary dedication

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

who gets all the brownie points, who are the winners -- I think you'd have to conclude the whole purpose of public education throughout the world

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Benign advice -- now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

It's a process of academic inflation. And it indicates the whole structure of education is shifting beneath our feet. We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and one of the things that happens at that moment is a whole bunch on systems shut down. There's an evolutionary reason for this.

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

or go faster to a place before people get there. And that's this whole idea about drone as first responder and drone as like, essentially infrastructure monitoring.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

wildlife migration routes, land-based information, to better understand the problems in the context of the whole world. Now we know.

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

and the threat of annexation in the West Bank. And the whole Middle East is at a crossroads. It either stays locked in a perpetual state of confrontation

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

of new political security and cooperation framework. And stops exporting this whole instability to the rest, to all of us, to the rest of us and all of us.

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

He's like, "Yeah, it's really weird, man." But as soon as he said that, his whole demeanor changed. It's as if he's putting all the doubt on the floor.

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

was my boogeyman. It has bothered me my whole life because I was running away from it. Then I started embracing it.

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

You keep those as souvenirs, actually. Please don’t throw them back the whole time. A lot of people look at that and be like,

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

I should point out, by the way, this whole video was sort of a modern-day homage to the greatest film of a generation.

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

And you're probably right. Sarcoma may not matter a whole lot in your life. But where the blanks are in medicine

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

and we'll finish the rest over the next four years, because I know this will be the most important thing I do my whole life. And even though this is going to cost us $60 million to make,

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

In certain markets, it’s absolutely regulation. I think when you think about the evolution of this technology as a whole, it's been making sure that we could have the safety outcomes that we want.

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

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

Biologists call these moments major transitions when separate entities stop competing and start building a new whole. Like how molecules became cells,

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

And notice how we keep pulling these tools closer to us. The mainframe was in a whole other building. We put the PC on our desk, the smartphone in our pocket,

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

You click, you scroll, you drag. Sending a file to a colleague takes a whole minute. Two of those seconds were the decision.

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

and anything starting to form. And you've lived your whole life inside that gap. Close it and the answer arrives instantly,

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

Your cells grow so you can grow. But sometimes a cell forgets that it belongs to a whole. It starts growing without limit.

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

which kills the cancer. A part forgets the whole, and the whole dies, which kills the part.

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

A part forgets the whole, and the whole dies, which kills the part. This pattern repeats at every scale.

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

and in that urgency, I learned that protecting the whole sometimes meant shrinking parts of ourselves.

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

Andre Agassi, Olympians and the like. His whole thing is about “game day.” That moment when everything you’ve been preparing for either shows up,

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

but I didn't have it installed. But then it found an OpenAI key, it sent the whole thing to the server, it got it back, and then it replied.

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

(Laughter) And I was looking at it the whole night. People were talking with it,

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

sent me a trademark claim. I had to rename the whole thing while it was taking off. You know, they even tried to push me away from the lobster.

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

then the model. I was that close to just deleting the whole thing. But then I learned what people are building with it.

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

sent it one prompt, and the agent did the whole 90-minute brew: temperature ramps, hop additions, everything.

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

And as I was nursing a broken heart after one of my near misses, it hit me. I'm not half waiting for a whole. I'm wholehearted.

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

What if I told you that's because we've been given the wrong advice our whole lives? What if I told you there's another way,

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

you would grin through gritted teeth like this and you would do it even though you secretly hated me the whole time? A few of you.

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

I layered on an avalanche of self-criticism. I told myself a whole story about how I was an incurably self-obsessed, cranky monster

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

and up you go. And that is the whole point here. Self-love, properly understood, not as narcissism,

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

It's actually a family of skills. After my 360, I learned a whole bunch of practices for upping my love game, and I'm going to share two with you right now

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

Well, our bodies have always known that we need an entire community to feel whole. And just being around a spouse, for example,

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

And this research on loneliness really suggests that, just like I said, we really do need an entire community to feel whole. Because if we just focus on being very nuclear, you know,

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

and not make it who you are. And the shame can really take over your whole personality because you're pushing away this part of who you are that you think is shameful.

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

we're like highest in shame than throughout our whole lifespan, right? That our friends are there at that time when we're so high in shame,

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

By the time I was laid off, I had already formed my LLC. I had a whole invoicing system, I had at least one client on retainer,

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

We were already doing all this international work, and this gave us more energy and sped up the whole process. We were already working on sex and menstrual cycle effects

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

that if it was true that I didn't just have those feelings onstage -- I had them all the time, my whole life -- and if that was true, wow, that was a lot of feelings.

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

Burnout is where you can show up for work, but you spend your whole day fantasizing about being at a different job. AN: It's important to know that "burnout" is not a medical diagnosis,

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

I mean, I grew up in a household where feelings were, like, not allowed and we were not close our whole lives. And then we started reading the research

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

You have to go to bed earlier, and that means your whole family has to give you permission to go to bed earlier.

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

Let me start with the study that made me rethink my whole approach to stress. This study tracked 30,000 adults in the United States for eight years,

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

district leaders to imagine school that truly centered the whole child. Nurturing mind, body and relationships

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

Now I wouldn't necessarily ask for more stressful experiences in my life, but this science has given me a whole new appreciation for stress. Stress gives us access to our hearts.

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

it's not the same thing. Face-to-face contact releases a whole cascade of neurotransmitters, and like a vaccine, they protect you now in the present

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

in my life and in my career, which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work. And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

"Aren't you afraid you're never going to be able to top that? Aren't you afraid you're going to keep writing for your whole life and you're never again going to create a book

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

and she would be getting chased by this poem, and the whole deal was that she had to get to a piece of paper and a pencil fast enough so that when it thundered through her, she could collect it

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And instead of panicking, he just stopped. He just stopped that whole mental process and he did something completely novel. He just looked up at the sky, and he said,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

Go bother Leonard Cohen." And his whole work process changed after that. Not the work, the work was still oftentimes as dark as ever.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And if this was animated, you'd even see fine details in motion. But this is not the whole story, because only fairly recently, only in the early 2000s, another type of cell has been discovered,

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

personal is something that involves Only You Collective happens to the whole Community until War a natural disaster

Lifequakes

But this is limited to one narrative per group of actors and shared across the whole audience. We can now have artists and producers create a stage for a story.

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

The face looking back at me was a face, but not exactly my face. A whole array of beauty filters had automatically worked me over, and I could not turn them off.

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

and it gave me a thinner, softer jawline. This was a whole lot of nonconsensual filtering or what someone joked was forced catfishing.

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

to ignore the devastating damage predicted to the global economy. Whole regions of the world are becoming uninsurable. We see this in my country where people are having their insurance canceled.

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

if a transition is the process of making ourselves whole again repairing our life story is the crown

Tell

We called it the Carolina Textile District with this whole idea of being big by being small together. So we were going to band together in order to build scale.

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

the whole world slowed down at first many people chafed against the

Slow

and engineer took this obsession with saving time in the workplace to a whole new level

Timekeeping

I know this sounds nerdy. There's a whole industry there that goes away because you have all this flexibility now.

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

reaching for their device pays the bill for the whole table the best thing about stacking is that it

Connect

You're asking to shove it back in and close it again. And the whole point of the allegory is that such cannot be done. And so that's the way that I look at it.

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

those are the things that people focus on when they look at IVAS. But there’s a whole other layer, which is that we need to be able to see the world the same way that robots do

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

like it yes I know there's a whole world of speed puzzling out there

Family

each has its own unique flavor that's the whole point but all have a calming effect on me

Slow Spaces

and your college education. A whole suit of clothes and thousands of kids just died of preventable disease.

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

in any city of any size but you'll find it a whole lot easier if the city itself is also embracing slowness

Slow Spaces

their day the slower Pace can open up a whole new world of detail nuance and otherwise

Leisure

Mm mm mm. And my whole career flashed right there in front of me. Starting with 19-year-old Sheryl Lee in her first movie

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

And with the spark that that ignited, it spread throughout the whole United States and then throughout the entire world.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

With a stranger, we have to start from scratch. We tell the whole story, we explain who the people are, how we feel about them;

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

people ask me, "What does your dad do?" or, "Where does he live?" And sometimes I tell them the whole truth, which is that he died when I was a kid.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

how, exactly, your dollars are going to make a difference. Of course, the Group of Five program takes this idea to a whole new level. When we first took on this project,

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

And if we could shift to the other one, to the second one, I think that really changes how much humanity as a whole embraces all this. SA: Well, again, I would say some creative people are very upset.

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

You could calculate some kind of revenue share, no? SA: If you're a musician and you spend your whole life, your whole childhood, listening to music,

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

And I think as we move into these agentic systems, there's a whole big category of new things we have to learn to address. CA: So let's talk about agentic systems and the relationship between that and AGI.

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

we'll definitely make more in the future. On the whole, I think we have, over the last almost decade, it’s been a long time now,

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

to just slow things down a bit, have society as a whole weigh in a bit and say, no, you know, we don't want this to happen quite as fast.

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

SA: Of course, but I'm much more interested in what our hundreds of millions of users want as a whole. I think a lot of the room has historically been decided

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

Because I'm here to offer you a blueprint that is evidence-informed and is going to introduce you to a whole new model of love so that you can develop the loving relationships you desire

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

but also, surprisingly, we found out about a whole new model of love that I call “emergent love,”

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

agriculture, land use, and the food system as a whole contribute about 22% of global emissions.

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

And you can never put it back. I mean, that's one of the whole things. Once you've got the data,

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

and responding and listening to those we work with to make sure that we're really achieving this whole vision of ecosystems and systems change.

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

It is said that alcoholism is not a spectator sport. Eventually, the whole family has to play. And the damage from a parental relationship breakdown

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

happened. And my whole point is that psychologists believe a that

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