Videos tagged with #TEDxTalks
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How to do laundry when you're depressed | KC Davis | TEDxMileHigh
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• enWhen you're burned out, taking care of yourself (or your family) can feel nearly impossible. Therapist KC Davis gets it, and she's got a message for anyone struggling with daily tasks: you're not lazy
Why Most Parenting Advice is Wrong | Yuko Munakata | TEDxCU
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• enParenting books promise to show people how to raise happy, successful children, and in the process to reveal why each of us turned out the way we did. But the science of child development tells a diff
GDP measures the wrong things. Here's something better. | Marilyn Waring | TEDxChristchurch
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• enIn 1953, a group of economists got together to create the Gross Domestic Product: a way to measure everything that involves a market transaction. But GDP doesn't measure the single biggest contributor
Selling your trauma to buy an education | Tina Yong | TEDxUBCStudio
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• enThe process of applying to universities is stressful enough, but today’s young applicants face the added pressure to discuss their deepest traumas in their admissions essays. Why is this the case and
How to Get Over The End of a Relationship | Antonio Pascual-Leone | TEDxUniversityofWindsor
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• enHave you had an important relationship end and felt a bit stuck on how to move on? Clinical psychologist Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone calls this “emotional baggage” or “unfinished business” and speaks ab
The problem with being too nice at work | Tessa West | TEDxColumbiaUniversity
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• enWhy is it that when we feel the most uncomfortable during social interactions, we are also the nicest and most generic version of ourselves? In this talk, social psychologist Tessa West breaks down th
Don't strive to be famous, strive to be talented | Maisie Williams | TEDxManchester
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• enMaisie is an actress, an entrepreneur, and an activist. Yet to this day, she has no formal qualifications to her name. Her career has been built upon a symphony of seemingly normal opportunities that
How I faked being a billionaire so you could see NYC’s best views | Andi Schmied | TEDxVienna
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• enAll of us want to see Manhattan from above, but very few can do it from their own living room. While posing as an apartment-hunting Hungarian billionaire, Andi Schmied accessed and documented Manhatta
What a sex worker can teach us about human connection | Nicole Emma | TEDxSaltLakeCity
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• en"In a society that values strong, stoic alpha males, where can a man find space to be vulnerable? Nicole Emma, a sex worker with 18 years of experience, gives a unique perspective on men's need for co
The secret to getting better sleep tonight | James Leinhardt | TEDxManchester
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• enThere’s a seemingly endless series of articles all telling us to get more sleep and yet very few that give any direction on how to improve the quality of our sleep. James Leinhardt joined us to discus
How to Deal with Difficult People | Jay Johnson | TEDxLivoniaCCLibrary
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• enFrom co-workers and colleagues to friends and family, we are faced with challenging relationships daily. Unfortunately, we often go about managing them the wrong way. Only by elevating our understandi
Kiss your brain: The science of gratitude | Christina Costa | TEDxUofM
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• enPsychology instructor and researcher Christina Costa was working on her PhD when she was referred to get an MRI and discovered a large brain tumor in her right temporal lobe that was later diagnosed a
The Upside of Anger | Ryan Martin | TEDxFondduLac
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• enDr. Ryan Martin is the chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a nationally known anger researcher. His work focuses on healthy and unhealthy expressions of an
Why we need to understand cults better | Sarah Edmondson | TEDxPortland
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• enSarah Edmondson is a survivor and a fearless advocate with cult awareness. She courageously shares her idea of how to “seek safely” when deciding to join a group and why cult literacy matters. Sarah
Mathematics is the sense you never knew you had | Eddie Woo | TEDxSydney
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• enIn this illuminating talk, high school mathematics teacher and YouTube star Eddie Woo shares his passion for mathematics, declaring that "mathematics is a sense, just like sight and touch" and one we
Speaking Truth to Power | Erika Cheung | TEDxBerkeley
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• enErika Cheung (UC Berkeley Class of 2013) was one of the key whistleblowers in the Theranos scandal that stopped the company from processing thousands of patients samples with faulty technology. The st
I Was Almost A School Shooter | Aaron Stark | TEDxBoulder
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• enAfter growing up in painful, abusive conditions, Aaron Stark was on his way to an atrocity, until simple acts of kindness changed his life forever. What is causing the rise of violence and are our cur
How to ask for more—and get it | Alex Carter | TEDxReno
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• enWhat do the top 7% of negotiators have in common? How do they simultaneously ask for more – and get it – while actually strengthening their relationships? In a time when more than half of us avoided n
How not to take things personally? | Frederik Imbo | TEDxMechelen
21,105,695 views
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• enFrederik Imbo studied theatre at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and has acted in lots of television series. He founded Imboorling and now has over 15 years' experience in stimulating and supporting p
5 reasons you look bad in photos | Teri Hofford | TEDxWinnipeg
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• enTeri is ready to offer a more critical understanding of what happens when they see themselves in photographs. A photographer for the past 10 years, she has photographed more than 1,500 people, and the
Is the cure for loneliness hiding in your closet? | Mollie Kaye | TEDxSurrey
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• enIn this engaging talk, Mollie Kaye, with a charming vintage flair, shares a transformative initiative - dressing up every Tuesday to connect with strangers. Exploring the profound impact of small inte
Make your cat happier in 3 minutes | Nicky Trevorrow | TEDxCardiff
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• enIn this talk, cat behaviourist Nicky Trevorrow explains the huge impact that one simple change can have on your cat's life: playing smarter. Nicky is passionate about cats and is Cats Protection’s Beh
Why doesn’t success bring happiness? | Laura Gassner Otting | TEDxReno
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• enEach time we achieve success, we also envision and hunger for a potential that we never knew existed. It’s amazing, it’s exciting, it’s energizing; it’s wonderful. But it’s also anxiety-provoking, ide
Waking up as a meme-hero | Andras Arato | TEDxKyiv
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• enWhat would you feel if one day you wake up and realize that you have become a meme? Andras Arato tells a story of how he became a world known meme “Hide The Pain Harold.” Andras Arato is a 73-year ol