How native speakers pronounce “work”

It was really awesome. So then one night after work, I met some friends online

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

life so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay it was pretty scary at the time but looking

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I had turned this zoo outreach job that I had into a work-from-home situation, right? Which is awesome.

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

it can be really hard to see ourselves in such legends. It leaves us feeling like that work is just a far-off dream that only other people achieve.

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

loved what I did you've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers your work is going

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

you love and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers your work is going to fill a large part of your life and

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do if you haven't found it yet

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

I find this very interesting. If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) If you work in education, you're not asked. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

you know, they say, "What do you do?" and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And it's the combination of all the things we've talked about: technology and its transformational effect on work, and demography and the huge explosion in population.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Have you heard of her? Some have. She's a choreographer, and everybody knows her work. She did "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

average Museum visitor spends looking at a work of art the Mona Lisa

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think about that for a moment 30 seconds for a work of art that transcends the ages

Running

all of a sudden 30 seconds per work starts to seem well a little slow and not in a good way it's

Running

So suppose you go to your doctor and the doctor says, "I just got your lab work back, your cholesterol's a little high." Now, you all know that high cholesterol

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

if it's not going to help. But actually, medical practice doesn't work that way. And it's not the doctor's fault,

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

But GlaxoSmithKline estimates that 90 percent of the drugs work in only 30 to 50 percent of the people. So the number needed to treat for the most widely prescribed statin,

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

Remember under stress you're not thinking clearly. So think about how you're going to work through this ahead of time, so you don't have to manufacture the chain of reasoning on the spot.

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

your thinking and set yourself up to do deeper richer work

Slow Thinking

(Laughter) So there is a mountain of technology under the hood that makes this stuff work. Drones are deceptively small, but they're actually on par

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

with self-driving cars and rocket ships in terms of the technical complexity it takes to make them work. There's vibration and thermals and aerodynamics,

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

There's vibration and thermals and aerodynamics, and the hardest part is making all this stuff work reliably when and where you need it.

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

where these things can be running autonomously, continuously in the background and doing useful work on our behalf. So what did we actually accomplish with this mission?

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

they’re intelligent, and they can run in the background, doing useful work for us constantly, 24/7. This is a future that we're incredibly excited to build at Skydio.

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

even want to slow down fast but it doesn't work like that slowing down takes time

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and as far as I could tell, she was right. Work happened later, marriage happened later, kids happened later, even death happened later.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

"Not yet, but she might marry the next one. Besides, the best time to work on Alex's marriage is before she has one."

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Oh, yay! You are all awesome. If you work with twentysomethings, you love a twentysomething, you're losing sleep over twentysomethings, I want to see —

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

yet most transformative, things you can do for work, for love, for your happiness, maybe even for the world.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

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

I didn't know the future of Emma's career, and no one knows the future of work, but I do know this:

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

That's procrastination. I told Emma to explore work and make it count. Second, I told Emma that the urban tribe is overrated.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

what they know, how they think, how they speak, and where they work. That new piece of capital, that new person to date

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

is not progress. The best time to work on your marriage is before you have one, and that means being as intentional with love

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

and that means being as intentional with love as you are with work. Picking your family is about consciously choosing

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

who and what you want rather than just making it work or killing time with whoever happens to be choosing you.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

loved to hang out together. Or maybe it was at work. Maybe you were

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

Or if they used a word I’d never heard in Oshkosh, I wrote it down on a piece of paper, and I would work it into my vocabulary. If they were fitter than I were, I'd try to copy their habits.

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

That's where we have to That's data, that's where we're doing the most work. But I now believe that an even larger

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

away, and that undermines the ability to do difficult or sustained cognitive work like reading a book.

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

I think about relationships a lot, and something that comes up a lot in my work is this belief that relationships are hard.

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

write reports and repeat. And don’t get me wrong, this work is important. But too often we mistake process for progress.

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

is the key to actually having one. I work with couples every day, and I help them through relational crises. I remember I was working with an engaged couple for about a year,

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

It turns out that five percent was more like 75 percent and increasing. They were struggling to make a blended family work. One partner had kids,

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

And to be honest, for a majority of my clients, this solution would not work. And that is the point.

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

And they had a circumstance that supported the option to live apart. One conflict that comes up a lot in my work is the difference in values between arriving on time

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

Then October 7 happened, and the war in Gaza expanded. And I realized, if I truly believe in my work, I have to bring in Israelis and Palestinians

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

like our own personal trauma histories or work stress? If it really is your relationship,

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

And I introduced a sequence that almost looks too simple until you watch it work. Self-interest, transaction, recognition and then humanity.

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

What's very special about this coalition is that we work together -- even in the midst of the war -- to push for a political solution.

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

commuting into my office at the University of Chicago, where I work as a professor of behavioral science. That morning on the train began like every other I'd been on

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

sat down next to me, dressed professionally for work and wearing just this fabulous, killer, stylish red hat.

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

found things that we had in common, we talked about our families, our work, our hope for the future. 30-minute train ride just went like that.

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

every time I wanted to try something new, even at work -- I wanted to make a proposal,

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

we went back to a train station on the line that I ride into work every day, and we recruited a group of commuters,

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

Even just walking around town is more pleasant for me, whether I’m on campus or work or in a grocery store, because I’ve made a habit of walking around with my head up

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

bravado, brimmingly confident conversations. But when things don't work well, sometimes we want something different.

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

and be 100 percent free for all teachers forever, as we work to ignite those brain fires of curiosity in the next generation of big problem solvers.

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

This is what I'm going to watch for. And we're going to work together to find out if this surgery will work to get rid of your cancer."

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

And we're at this point where the technology has moved from, “Will it work?” and “Can we produce the kind of safety outcomes that we care about?”

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

Now we have markets that are closed, markets that are open, and we have to do all of the work with the cities, with the regulators, first responders, everyone,

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

you know, space right now where cars are just sitting all day, people are at work, the cars are just sitting. Most of those parking lots

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

that skyrocket during adolescence. In our work with teens from LA Unified School District, we found that teens with sleep problems were 55% more likely

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Care before or after school. But these are problems we have to work through. They are not valid excuses for failing to do the right thing for our children,

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

It just requires more of the same technology. Someone you work with will get it first, and you'll hold out for a while,

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

I could be “True Jackson, VP,” “Working at a grown-up job never really knew I could work this hard.” (Cheers)

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

By every external measure, I made the system work for me. And then I had a son.

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

When we got home, I still had work to do, but I had one hour free. So I laid down, closed my eyes,

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

we know the concentrations of each of the cannabinoids, so we can work out exactly how much of each cannabinoid you're having. But even though we might know

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

(Laughter) Well, it could be that those clips aren’t the ones that work for you. If you've never felt this experience,

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

from your childhood to the right to go to school, to your parents' right to go to work, at that time, just, you know,

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

And you know what? He won a Nobel Prize for his work. So go out there and pick up beetles and play in dirt and ask questions.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Excitement about a big trip? Or is it stress about unfinished work, an upcoming test,

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

is that predictions can be weapons of power. But they only work if we believe them. If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father

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

Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done. Instead, it's a critical function,

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

such as the finger movements you need to master for that recital. Milner's findings, along with work by Eric Kandel in the 90's, have given us our current model of how this consolidation process works.

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Now if you install OpenClaw on your work machine, at least with the default settings,

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

we're not just going to have one agent. You might have your work agent, your personal Claw, maybe one for health,

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

maybe one for relationship. And they all should work together in a secure way. Because how did humanity level up?

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

Peter Steinberger: I wouldn't say so. I see my work as a ... (Laughter)

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

(Applause) Because the artists and athletes that I work with help connect the world to the women and girls who are living through this crisis

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

I'm healthy, I'm financially stable, I do meaningful work, I have a wide and deep connected group of friends.

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

But if we start with something, work together and stay ambitious, hope stops being a thing we wait to feel

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

Here's another one. Instead of "I want to work less," you could use the formula to say something like,

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

but in order to do that, I need to work the hours when I'm most productive, which is typically earlier in the day.

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

which is typically earlier in the day. How can we make this work?" That woman no longer works late into the evenings.

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

our working title for the place is “The Village.” I don't know if this will work out. I can keep you posted about it, but if it does,

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

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? Was meditation making me a nicer person?

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

At times, it can really feel like our social fabric is unraveling. So after my 360, I decided to do some work on myself and to see if I could also learn some things

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

telling people what they do well in a very general, non-specific way. But a lot of my work actually looks at what's it like to be on the receiving end

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

"They're are real team player." "They have great energy at work." Generic things.

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

There's a bit of a plural ignorance that goes on when we think about how nice we are to people at work. What I've found is that for every one person

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

That just feels a lot more comfortable for me." What I learned in my work is that this process I've been talking about,

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

It could mean that you're on time for meetings, it could mean that you turn your work in on time, it could mean it in a very global way of,

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

And what we find is that when people take these baby steps to work up to this type of feedback, they are much less anxious in the delivery.

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

that isn't going to sting. And I think as you work through this, I don't want to be a proponent of killing niceness entirely.

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

don't start talking about the time you lost a family member. If they're talking about the trouble they're having at work, don't tell them about how much you hate your job.

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