Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness

TED2004
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness (script)
Summary
In the world, there are people who are happy, even if they don't have money. So when they're doing something, they probably feel their life meaningful and worth doing, even if they don't expect either fame or fortune at the moment. The speaker says that this is a ecstatic state.
A moment of ecstasy is there that it happens in the completely concentrating process automatically and spontaneously. It can only happen  to someone who is very well trained and who has developed techniques. It doesn't make that person feel himself/herself existence like his hand that seems to be moving itself or something that you want to do just flows out naturally. It happens in different realms.
The speaker calls this type of experience "the flow experience" and says that for everyone has flow channel. The moment is that 1) you know that exactly what you want to do, 2) you get immediate feedback. 3) You know that what you need to do is possible, even though 4) it might be difficult. 5) Your sense of time disappears, 6) you forget yourself and 7) you feel part of something larger.
You begin to feel that your life meaningful and worth doing. It'll make you happy.

Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed

I love this TED Talk, because I love Flags. I want to see you, give you my company products and talk about flags with you.
TED 2015
Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed (script)
Summary
The definition of design is to make life better and provide joy. All around us has the design. If you pay attention more and seriously think about all forms of design the world will be turned beautiful by magic.
The speaker talked to us about the design while giving flag examples. It's because you can understand the design of almost anything, if you understand the design of flags, what makes a good or bad flag at once. The flags are close to us and work on our emotions.

There are the great country flags in the world. Those have important principles which are simple, deep meaning, having few colors, no lettering and distinctive. They'll obey it because they're on the international and the stakes are high.
However, city, state and regional flags seem different somehow. Every great city needs a great flag, doesn't it? It'll lead to creating the good relationship of good design and civic pride. If you had a great city flag, you would have a banner for people to rally under to face those more important things.



Words in this story
Vexillology / the study of flags
crude /adj/ rough
hats off to sb / said to praise and thank someone for doing something helpful.
distinctive / Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from other things
feasibility / the state or degree of being easily or conveniently done
seriously / se・ri・ous・ly/sí(ə)riəsli
valuable /val・u・a・ble /vˈæljuəbl
entry. entries. entirety. enter.

Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done

TED 2014
Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done (script)
Summary

So many people don't notice that there's been inequality problems still in our world. You are in an unbelievable situation just to be there and to have a great education. You have a responsibility to give back to the world.

When Bill and Melinda Gates noticed that, they built their foundation. The world they saw was many diseases that killed so many kids. However, you just go down to the drug store in other contries.
Their mother could not receive a good education. In developing countries, there are people who wanted to use contraceptives but they were struggling. It was not on the global stage. Melinda Gates finally realized that she just had to do it.
When new vaccines are invented and it's delivered rightly, it leads to a miracle. They can face and fight against the would's unequal problems, it makes them excited. The philanthropy is going to grow, to shine some light and to lead to in the right direction, even if the government has something that is not just good at working. If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out and that's just.
Words in this story
philanthropy / charity,  benevolence, humanity.
philosophy / thinking, thought, reasoning, beliefs, credo, convictions, ideology

Melinda Gates 2, Let's put birth control back on the agenda

TEDxChange 2014
Melinda Gates 2, Let's put birth control back on the agenda (script)
Summary
Progressing of the issue starts from you talk  to other people about it. You can learn by talking to other people, by  doing, by trying and by mistakes.  Today's topic is about contraception and birth control. This is the agenda  that has to be discussed more. In our world, men and women should be free to decide whether they want to conceive a child or not.
However, our minds will be controlled by the thought that  1) talking about sex is uncomfortable. 2) Contraception is the same as abortion but 3) it increases the likelihood that lots of sex happens outside marriage. 4) Controlled populations  shouldn't be planted.
What the speaker wants to say is completely different. What she wants to talk about is giving women the power to save their lives and  their children's lives, and to give their families the best possible future. They can avoid pregnancy  that they don't want and  control over how many children they have. They can also think about their business that they might not think about it if they have many children and they will be able to afford to give their children good education.
This is a very powerful idea. It means that parents have the ability not to just accept the future as it is but to affect it. You can get to make choices about your lives. This is  the agenda that the world has to  discuss.
Words in this story
pregnancy /noun/  pregnant /adj/
contraceptive /noun/ a device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
contraception /noun/ the deliberate prevention of conception or impregnation by any of various drugs, techniques, or devices; birth control.
controversy /noun/ controversial /adj/ giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement.

Melinda Gates 1, What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola

TEDxChange 2010
Melinda Gates 1, What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola (script)
Summary
This was a mistake that is an assumption that if people need something, it makes them want that. You really have to work with the community. And then, people  start to understand what they really want. It changes communities and it leads to changing whole nations. It's like Coca-Cola ubiquitous. Coca-Cola is everywhere where you don't expect.
It's because many real time data is gathered and feed  it back immediately. Even if it's remote village, entrepreneurs are hired and incredible marketing is done. If this global network is used for the world health care, vaccinations and sanitation. It'll make people, especially children and mothers be healthy and have a successful life.
The speaker asks us one more. If there is  no lack of money, polio can be eradicated.
Coca-Cola marketing can be said of  the state that happiness is ubiquitous.
Words in this story
Smallpox is one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated, the other being rinderpest, which was declared eradicated in 2011.
polio / infantile paralysis. A serious infectious disease that can cause permanent paralysis.
defecation / the discharge of feces from the body
transmission /  spread, transferral, communication

paralysis / the loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) 

Bill Gates 5, The next outbreak? We’re not ready

TED 2015
Bill Gates 5, The next outbreak? We’re not ready (script)
Summary
In 2014, ebola was outbrakeing and people died. However, there were  many doctors and health workers who work there. Fortunately, ebola did not spread through the air. It didn't get into many urban areas that time. Thus, we need to think that this is the warning to prepare something that is the next epidemic. Now, science and technology help us to prepare them. We have to make the world safer. It's to protect us from serious diseases.
Words in this story
progression / development
proficiency /  skill, expertise, experience

Bill Gates 4, Teachers need real feedback

TED Talks Education 2013
Bill Gates 4, Teachers need real feedback (script)
Summary
If the students get more great education, it would make the world more successful. In order for this, the system that teachers can get real feedback more have to be set. People who teach something to someone have one of the most important jobs in the world, but they get little useful feedback. They deserve better and the system should help them improve. Teaching should be the job that teachers can find careers that's fulfilling and rewarding have a chance to live out their dreams. Now, the speaker Bill Gates foundation processes a project called Measures of Effective Teaching. It created the system that you can observe through watching videos of teachers in the classroom and rate how they did on a range of practices. Teachers can learn how to teach better and what good teachers are doing.  Watching a video of the best teachers  in the world, leads to creating a better teacher. Teachers' evaluation should be changed.
Words in this story
feedback /  response, reaction, comments.
peer / noble
exemplify /verb/  typify, epitomize
intrinsic /  inherent