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The problem with being too nice at work | Tessa West | TEDxColumbiaUniversity
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Why do you like your favorite songs? | Scarlet Keys | TEDxPortsmouth
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Why we need to understand cults better | Sarah Edmondson | TEDxPortland
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What Nobody Tells You About Your Twenties | Livi Redden | TEDxBayonne
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How not to lose the billion dollars you didn’t know you had | Sissi Goh | TEDxTanglin Road
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• enSissi Goh challenges our understanding of the relationship between money and happiness, through a thought-provoking personal story. Sissi Goh is the award-winning author of the book ‘Wealth Manageme
Fast food? The true value of Chinese cooking | Vincent Yeow Lim | TEDxSydney
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• enVincent Yeow Lim was the kid doing his homework at one of the tables in his dad's Chinese restaurant. Now a restaurant owner himself, he asks why Chinese food is considered cheap, fast food, despite t
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 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
Selling your trauma to buy an education | Tina Yong | TEDxUBCStudio
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The magic of a creative career | Michael Sheen | TEDxSoho
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• enIn this moving and important talk, Michael Sheen talks about the need for a truly representative Media and of his work establishing pathways to bring working-class and minority voices into the nationa
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
Behind the Mask: Autism for Women and Girls | Kate Kahle | TEDxAustinCollege
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• enAs a woman with autism, Kate will talk about the gender discrepancy in autism diagnoses. Women and girls often display completely different behaviors than what neurotypical people have been taught to
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
Four ways to live a better and happier life | Dominic Price | TEDxSydney
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• enWe all strive to be a better person. We want people to think well of us, and we’re constantly weighing up whether our actions are the right thing to do. Most of all, we want to be happy, yet often it
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
How to tame your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TEDxUniversityofNevada
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• enYou know your Advice Monster! Someone starts to talk … and it looms up out of the shadows wanting to “add value”. In this funny and provocative talk, Bungay Stanier explains how advice-giving goes bad
How not to take things personally? | Frederik Imbo | TEDxMechelen
21,105,764 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
Fish sex -- it's weirder than you think | Marah J. Hardt | TEDxMileHigh
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• enDid you ever wonder how fish have sex? Buckle up for a wild journey through the sex lives of everything from lobsters to anglerfish. In this hilarious talk, marine biologist Marah J. Hardt explains wh
What crows can teach us about death | Dr. Kaeli Swift | TEDxSalem
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• enHumans have paid attention to the behaviors of animals around their dead for centuries, but science has only recently given it more serious study. This talk explores what animals, particularly crows,
An ER doctor on how to triage your busy life | Darria Long | TEDxNaperville
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• enER doctor Darria Long explains key lessons from hospital emergency rooms on handling stress, chaos, and life. Dr. Darria Long Gillespie is a Yale- and Harvard-trained emergency physician, author of na
How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust | Werner Reich | TEDxMidAtlantic
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• enWerner Reich shares a powerfully personal tale about his time in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. He describes how the kindness of one man who dared to do something unexpected — teach him a
The three secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone | TEDxChristchurch
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• enDr Lucy Hone is a resilience expert who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take he
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
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