Sisonke Msimang:If a story moves you, act on it

TEDWomen 2016
Sisonke Msimang:If a story moves you, act on it (script)
Summary
If you are moved by Storytellers, you can do many things that the world would be a better place.
However, if you think that stories can create an illusion of solidarity, or that opponents don't like you, or that you want to invest in only the personal narrative, stories don't necessarily make the world a better place.
It might mean that you don't look at the facts but Storytellers won't expect it.
You can look for social justice beyond the media, storytellers and what you feel.
Having more curiousty, joining, not getting away from the reality, and  Storytellers can help us to dream.
And then the world would be a better place.

Words in this story.
curiousty / noun/  curious / adj/
solidarity /  unanimity, unity, like-mindedness, agreement
catalyst / encouragement, incentive, inspiration, stimulus
orphanage /  nursery school
oppression /  pressure, tyranny, violence

Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

TED 2015
Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief (script)
Summary
Pain is not only a kind of alarm bell.
For a long time, it's been thought that pain is your body's way of signaling an injury. However, there are many cases that cannot be explained.
In fact, pain is the most complex human experience. It involves your past life, your current life, your interactions, and evern your family. The idaes can explain that people feel pain and live through it.
Bonica worked for other doctors because he wanted other docters to understand about people's pain neatly. He was also a doctor and he thought that the goal was not to make patients better but feel better.
(Bonica who was also a doctor worked so that other doctors could understand about people's pain neatly.)
He had felt the pain himself but he worked really hard to heal other people's pain. It was not his job but it was his own effective way to ease his pain.
People feel pain have fulfilling their lives.  Thus you feel pain.
When you notice it, your pain will be relieved.

Words in this story
anesthesiology / an・es・the・si・ol・o・gy /`ænəsθìːziάlədʒi/the branch of medicine concerned with anesthesia and anesthetics.
circus / circle / cycle / bicycle

Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

TEDWomen 2016
Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure (script)
Summary
Women and girls are often thought that they don't have courage and they don't do brave something.
It is because women continue to be told that staying calm but don't do something that is dangerous since they were kids. Then they must say the same things to their daughters again when they grew up.
However, girls are in trouble because they have to do the same things and job that boys do from now.  They can do that if they have a little bit more courage. They feel fear now, but it can change it to they can feel exhilaration if they practice it.
Adults try to stop saying  "don't do something that is dangerous".
The risky plays are, for example, to skateboard, climb trees and etc., are really important. It can teach hazard assessment, delayed gratification, resilience, confidence to all kids, even girls and they can learn valuable life lessons.
We, women also have to start practicing bravery. We cannot teach our girls until we teach ourselves. Even if we cannot protect girls or we won't be there to guide them, they can walk and adventure in their own ways if we can raise their bravery.

Words in this story
attributes / regard something as being caused by (someone or something).
helpless / incapable, powerless, impotent, weak
 caution / attention, alarm, warning, alert
exhilaration / rapture, great delight, joy, bliss
insists / demand, command, require
 assess /  evaluate, judge, gauge, rate, estimate

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about

TEDxManhattanBeach 2016
Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about (script)
Summary
Don't be satisfied that you tried your best or you spent a lot of time working hard.
We need to learn more how to efficiently get better at the things we care about.
In our thoughts that we do anything, there are the learning zones and the performance zones. The learning zone works to improve our goals. It forces into what we haven't mastered yet. We can learn many things from mistakes. The learning zone maximizes our growth and our future performance.
The performance zone maximizes our immediate performance. It forces into what we have already mastered and we try to minimize mistakes. It hinders our growth if we spend almost all of our time in it. So this is the reason that we work hard but not improve much.
The way to high performance is to alternate between the learning zone which purposefully builds our skills and the performance zone which can apply its skills.
Additionally, it is important to emulate by finding members with whom we exchange ideas, by sharing what we want to get better at, by asking questions about what we don't know. It takes much time though continuing and improving them, and you can get better what you want to do.

Words in this story
stagnation / delay
emulate /  compete with,  follow

Latif Nasser: You have no idea where camels really come from

TED 2016
Latif Nasser: You have no idea where camels really come from (script)
Summary
The trigger in this story was the rust-colored thing that is about the size of the palm of your hand lying on the surface.
Look at it carefully and try to scrutinize it. Try to ask someone about it. Try to nick the edge a little and detect the scent of it. People probably want to know something well that is important.
Try to build a hypothesis beyond the ordinary level.  Then you can see the perspective of the world anew.
No one would have an idea that the rust-colored thing was a Giant Arctic camel.

Words in this story
scrutinize /  examine, inspect, survey, study
detect / find out, discover

Brian Little: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality

TED 2016
Brian Little: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality  (script)
Summary
It is not necessary for you to be a certain type of person.
Our characters always present opposite side. For example, there is a person who is open to experience versus who are closed. A person is diligent versus languid, extrovert versus introvert, and agreeable versus neurotic. They influence your life. However, their communication way is only different or expression way is different.
Thus even if you see the same thing, you show it the different way. You are sometimes like some other person, but you are like no other person.
It is important that you are you more than how to use your characters.
Your own way maks people understand you and love you.
Overdoing is not necessary. Who are you? You are you.

Words in this story
assertive /
agreeable / enjoyable and pleasurable; pleasant.
diligent / industrious, hard-working
languid /  slow and relaxed,dull, sluggish
extrovert/ an outgoing, overtly expressive person.
introvert / a shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person.

Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

TED 2015
Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed (script)
Summary
Our brain releases cortisol which is toxic when it performs under stress. However, it cannot be stopped. It raises our heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds our thinking. Additionally, we all are going to fail sometimes. We have to recognize that all of us are flawed.
Thus we need to train ourselves to think ahead to these kinds of situations. It's called pre-mortem which you look ahead and you try to figure out what you can do to prevent wrong things from happening or to minimize the damage.
If you prepare something or you think ahead of time to the questions that you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forward, you can avoid the worst situations.
You are probably busy every day. It means that you are in stress. Pre-mortem keeps you calm.

Lynda Gratton: How to be ready for your future, now

TEDxLondonBusinessSchool 2012
Lynda Gratton: How to be ready for your future, now (script)
Summary
The speaker said that from now on, your generation will have more surprising experiences than that of the Masai warrior haveing a mobile phone. It's because many things are changing beyond imagination. The transformation is bigger than industrial revolution. It's the biggest one ever. There's no question that we will face some tough things in the near future. You can keep going to your future without predictive. It means that you can't really find the time within your life that allows you to be reflective and to be thoughtful. Technology might interrupt you. It will lead to isolation, even if you try to solve some problems. However, you can think of what will happen in your lives over the next couple of years, and you can shift and change your thoughts, your ways, and your action. The speaker suggests three shifts to us. First, it is to build mastery in the field that you love. It'll be needed more than that of a generalist. Second, it is necessary not only to compete but also to cooperate and collaborate in building value. And finally, you have to find the meaning to work without making money. In the future, work itself has to be a place where you can use your creativity and possibilities, and where it is meaningful for you.  And then she also said in anther book I've read. Next generation, you will live longer for 100 years. It means that you have a lot of time if you prepare for it. You can get it as gift.
Why you can't be excited it? This is why there are three shifts that she suggests. Especially, Japanese people say that they don't want to live longer and don't want to work anymore though you can use three shifts and you can find new and diverse ways to live.
Words in this story
ritual / a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.
implication / inclusion
inquisitive  / curious
transformation /  change, alteration, mutation

Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection

TED2016
Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection (script)

Summary

All girls must have experienced that they're afraid to raise their hand during the class, and they're afraid to ask questions. It is because they didn't want to be the only one who didn't understand or the only one who was struggling. They show nothing that they did if they felt that it wasn't perfect or if it's a little difference. They don't have mistakes and they're not wrong. This is the result of what most girls are taught in avoiding risk and failure. Then they quickly give up in doing something. They can't have a little courage. If girls and women have even a little courage, and if they can believe that it's okay to be with imperfections then they can build awesome things. In building a better world, it's necessary to teach them to be comfortable with imperfection and we have to help in doing it.
This time, I knew that it's good to accept with imperfections. With courage, I want to try what I want to do.
Words in this story
adj-ing, ous, ed
noun-tion, plural form
college, colleague, courage

Laura Boushnak: The deadly legacy of cluster bombs

TED 2016
Laura Boushnak: The deadly legacy of cluster bombs (script)
Summary
A cluster bomb is a large canister filled with bomblets. When it's dropped from the air, it opens up midair to release hundreds of bomblets. They scatter around wide areas but unexplored ones are just like landmines. If someone steps on them by accident, or picks  them up, or children mistakenly touch as toys, they can explode.
It's indiscriminately killing or hurting even when wars already ended. There are no differences between military targets or children. Nowadays, in the world, many children lost their hands or legs, and they are suffering. They can't go to school, can't find a job but can't afford prosthetic legs.  The suffering continues in their lifetime. In fact, we didn't know that this munition was dropped over without battlegrounds because it's dangerous to land with loaded planes. And then, there's an international treaty banning cluster bombs though the United States, Russia and China didn't join the treaty. They continue to produce cluster bombs. The speaker is a photographer. She shares her photos of people suffering from  cluster bomb and says that we have to stop having this weapon.
Words in this story
scatter / throw in various random directions. fly around.
munition / military stores
indiscriminately /  recklessly, without authority

Julian Treasure:How to speak so that people want to listen

TED 2014
Julian Treasure:How to speak so that people want to listen (script)
Summary
If you are speaking powerfully in good environments which are fit for purpose, people who aren't listening to you are the one that they want to listen to you. It leads our world to doing sound beautifully and easily understanding each other.
You have to avoid these seven habits that you often fall into. Don't speak ill. 1) Don't judge. 2) Don't stay with negative. 3) Don't say excuses but complaining. 4) Don't take responsibility for someone. 5) Don't have an exaggeration. 6) Don't confuse facts with your opinions. 7)
Positive ways to speak is that you have to be whit honesty, authenticity, integrity and love.
Then you can use your amazing toolbox called throat. It can change the tone of voice, vocal range, prosody, pace, pitch and volume. The speaker tells us how to use it also.
This is how to speak so that people want to listen.

Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index

TEDGlobal 2010
Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index (script)
Summary
In the modern world, only a financial and economic progress are thought that it leads us to being better. Production, producing and national income are used to be a nation's welfare but they use scarce resource a lot.
Is disappearing our resource our happiness?
We need to think about our energy efficiency and making our life worthwhile more. We all naturally think that we want to be happy and healthy for ourselves, for our families, our children, and our communities. We must know that money is not nearly important as happiness, health, and love. We all need to love and to be loved in life. Then the speaker tells us five positive actions that lead to improving well being in our life.
To invest the time with our loved ones.1) To be active to be great for our positive mood.2) To take notice around you. 3) To keep learning. 4) And then, to give something that means to spend something whit other people. 5)
If you use those five ways, the happiness will come to you but they don't have to cost the earth. You can use them as the Happy Planet Index.
Words in this story
apocalyptic / a po ca lyp tic / describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.