Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest

TED 2009
Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest (script)
Barry Schwartz introduced this TED Talk also in his Talk: Our loss of wisdom.
This is the best talk I recently read.
Summary
There is a problem which is the deforestation in our world. I ashamedly thought that the solution was only stopping to cut trees and waiting to restore there. The true solution is that people who are cutting trees to exploit forests can get again benefits. It is because benefits they got  is to already turn to break there, increase victims but they are also victims.
The deforestation took all away. There's only yellow terrain where was no agricultural productivity. All wildlife disappeared. There, half of people can't have jobs but no drinking water and don't have money to buy it. It only extents poor areas. From there, the project the speaker built started.
The project created jobs for them and planed enough to changed the climate of those area. There's no flooding and no fires there and you can see a huge development of biodiversity there. The first step for this project was to buy that land for them to legally get income. By selling their land, they get income but they get jobs that are the construction, the reforestation, taking care of animals or making handicraft. They also get free land in between the tree and can grow their crops. They can sell it to the project. They get building material, because trees grow there. The sugar palms that were planted to protect from the fire and flood are used for trad. Thus, the project can produce huge amounts of energy there.
Although, there were many things the project did, he talked many times that it is important to make a plan that the local people are able to get benefits to protect people who live in there. The situation that is hopeless can be changed by integrating the various technologies and local people their cooperation, efforts and education. The real key is integration.
Words in this story
restore / return. bring back (a previous right, practice, custom, or situation); reinstate.
integrate / combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.

Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability

TED 2009
Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability  (script)
Barry Schwartz introduced this TED Talk  in his Talk: Our loss of wisdom.
He was particularly inspired by this.
Summary
We who live on the earth are faced with a large climate problem. The current situation is even declining of the biosphere. We continue to use  a lot of oil, take anything and harm the biosphere. Our industrial system of the take-make-waste must be changed. Its impact is generated by people. We become plunders of the earth.
The solution is not only stopping them but it should be shifted to new systems. Extractive must be replaced by renewable, linear by cyclical, fossil fuel energy by renewable energy, wasteful by waste-free, abusive by benign and labor productivity by resource productivity. It leads to reduce the impact to zero.
Cost was down also. You don't need the choice between the environment and the economy. This is exactly a better business model for sustainability that the speaker was looking for. It's called this Mission Zero that incredibly generated bigger profits and goodwill than any other advertisements and marketing campaigns. First of all, people can have confidence that their company can work for prototypical sustainable and zero-footprint. After all, doing the right thing is that people are happy. This becomes a power that a better business model is created.
We have to fulfill our responsibilities that are  resulting to decline the biosphere,
the decline of the biosphere and only our institution can lead humankind out of this mess. This is the business logic of sustainability which we should do for "Tomorrow's Child."
Word in this story
biosphere /ˈbīəˌsfi(ə)r/ the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
extractive / of or involving extraction, especially the extensive extraction of natural resources without provision for their renewal.
renewable / capable of being renewed.
linear / arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line
abusive /a・bu・sive /əbjúːsɪv, ‐zɪv// extremely offensive and insulting.
plunders / steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder.
sustainable / able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.

Sal Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

TED 2011
Sal Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education (script)
Summary
In fact, using YouTube videos is better to review a lesson, because You can pause and repeat, when you want to do without feeling like your teacher is wasting her time. You'll be embarrassed to ask her teach you something old. If you're bored when you watch it, you can go ahead and you can watch at own time and pace. The speaker said that probably for students or you, "Do you understand this" will be the last thing they hear.
He put the YouTube video in which he was teaching math up as just kind of something extra and a supplement to review for his cousins.
However, he was heard that his videos are used in the classroom in some schools somehow. It sounds strange. Why the teachers don't use it in the classroom but they let students watch it at home.
It turned out that the students can study with self paced and by removing the usual lecture from the classroom, the teachers and students are able to have time to discuss and interact in the classroom. Additionally, the students can teach each other, someone who can't go to school can study at their home when they can do.
The speaker believes that by using technology, the classroom can be changed humanize. It should be used by more people in the world to reinvent education.

Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me

TEDGlobal 2012
Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me (script)

Summary

The speaker has a favor to ask of you who are scientists and engineers, please, talk nerdy to her and to many people. It is because they are tackling the world's grandest challenges which are energy, environment, health care and, etc. Then they, scientists  engineers and people,non-scientists have to communicate successfully to solve those problems.
Their science and engineering are great, sexy, and engaging though people probably don't understand them. It is because people are scared of them who look like they really has a good brain, big books and always  use unfamiliar words always. If they answer questions that is "so what?" more. If they don't use many technical terms, it means making everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. If they  provide more visuals to show something.
It leads to equal incredible interactions. Everyone wants to know and understand their passionate stories.
Words in this story
nerd / a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious.

Nicole Avena: How Sugar Affects The Brain

TED
Nicole Avena: How Sugar Affects The Brain (script)
Summary
Sugar is a very sweet substance used to give flavor to food and drinks.The white sugar that we always consider as sugar is not the only form of sugar. The labels we check  when we buy something show sugar written in other forms: glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, dextrose, and starch also. Syrup, fruit juice, honey and tomato sauce also contain sugar. So sugar is everywhere.
Thus, we have to pay careful attention to food with high level of sugar. It is because your body produces more insulin to deal with the extra sugar we are eating to protect our bodies.  If it often has to, it makes our bodies tired and its system doesn't work well. Sugar causes dopamine to be released. We tend to seek  sugar only, so we can't eat varied kind of foods. There is a possibility that sugar could become an addiction..
We have to remember that eating sugar makes our brains hard to resist it but eating even a little bit of sugar makes us crave more.
We don't have functions to refuse eating too much sugar. I don't know whether sugar has strong effect or human wants are strong.
The English title is "How Sugar Affects The Brain"  Is this the reason?  why the Japanese title is "why we feel happy, when eat sugary food."

Words and sentences in this story
hook / a piece of metal or other material, curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on.
and ～also.  and also～. ～as well
sugar makes our brains hard to resist it = the brain that makes sugary foods so hard to resist
We become to seek only sugar, we can't eat variety foods.= We tend to seek sugar only, so we can't eat varied kinds of food=so we can't eat food of different variety .

My Grandma the Poisoner

VICE.com
My Grandma the Poisoner (article)
Summary
Grandma's finale event might be going to do for me, the author thinks even now.
He wrote about his grandmother called Grandma in this story. People were always dying around Grandma. Her children except his mother died, her husbands, her boyfriend also died. His wife had a miscarriage. Her house backyard in which there was a big black garbage bag full of dead animals. The causes of their death were strange but weird.
The dishes she cooked were also always weird, it wasn't felt human could eat. It had something enough to think that Grandma would be a poisoner. Just his mother could refuse to eat it. When he ate it when he was a child, after 24 or even 72 hours later, he had to rush to the hospital in the middle of the night, because he was having trouble breathing.
He thought that Grandma was involved.
However, he wrote in this story that he purge his past, and forgive her. He feels like he's supposed to care. I didn't know whether he thought that after writing or he thought before, then he started to write this, whether he really wanted to expose her or not.
He said "That wasn't accurate" though he just would still be concerned where she was now, because she has the chance that she can do it to him forever.
Words in this story
finale /fi・na・le/fənˈæli/ climax, culmination, end.
final /fi・nal/fάɪnl/  last, closing.
purge / an abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place.  removal, expulsion, ejection.

Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career

TEDxUW 2011
Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career (script)
Summary
The speaker Larry Smith seriously talks to us why we'll fail to have a great career.
You're probably told many times that you have to pursue your passion if you want a great career. However, you unconsciously decide not to do it somehow. You'll think it's too lazy or hard. You're afraid not to be able to find your passion if you look for it. You'll feel like you're an idiot.  You always make excuses not to look for your passion. There are many excuses there. It's just a matter of luck. You think that you're not a genius. People who pursue their passion are somewhat obsessive and weird. It's even worse to have just an  interest. Passion and interest are not the same. You must settle for "interesting," thus you can't find your passion. You think there are alternatives everywhere and finding your passion could mean sacrificing human relationships. Such person will be you. You didn't do it, so your kids also don't do it.  This is why you'll fail to have a great career.
In the last, what he wants to say regarding  "unless"  is that unless you could find a passion, you'll fail to have a great career, isn't it?
Words in this story
regarding / with respect to, concerning.
practicality /noun/  practically /adv/

Sheena Iyengar 2: How to make choosing easier

TEDSalon NY2011
Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier (script)
I love her story, especially her previous TED talk: The art of choosing. It is because she talks steady, precisely and strictly. However, this time, it's softer and easier
Summary
Although this survey was done by Americans, it won't have some differences about other countries. We have about 70 making decisions in a typical day. Making one decision has so many choices. It is said an overload.
And then, she introduces the ways that among so many choices, customers choose what you want to choose. The first is to cut. It means to get rid of the extraneous redundant opinions. Customers always freeze up in front of them. The second is to explian something concretely. You make them real more. The third is to be categorized. It'll be better to handle less choices, more categories. The last is to accustom condition for complexity. It leads from low choice to high chance. You must be sure that it's easier to choose. This is a small art of choosing.
Word in this story
concretely /adv/  concretization /noun/  concretize /verb/

Sheena Iyengar 1: The art of choosing

TED Global 2010
Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing (script)

Summary

This is the story that I don't want to hear the least, because I already know that the choices of Japanese people are different from other countries and I often feel that. This time, I think that I want to summarize what the choices are for Japanese people, why we who are Japanese people choose that and how we have to choose. However, this is the best article for me among I recently read, if a man didn't ask the speaker a funny question. I wondered that he listened to her story.
The speaker said that the Japanese perspective of choices, it's their duty to protect someone who doesn't know any better.
The American perspective of choices, it's the right which costomers get requests that they make a reasonable request based on their preferences. Happiness is in their choice. Americans believe that they have the best choices always. They think that all humans innately want to choose anything.
However, she said that their beliefs are on assumptions that don't always hold as true in many countries and cultures but they don't sometimes hold as true even as Americans.
It's because 1) all individuals can't get benefits like American's assumptions: the better choice is the individuals. People must choose for themselves.
2) There are too many choices, gives confusing and puts pressure on all people. 
3) There is a choice to contemplate giving up the choice though American's assumptions is that they must never say no to choice.
World people have different ideas and choices fundamentally. Although Americans train their whole lives from an early age to see the different perspective and choose anything, we don't see the choice in the same places or to the same extent. We all have limitation to choose and it's impossible for us to choose anything.
At last, this is not the difference of choices between American to Japanese. Like all people live in their each life, there are different choices in the world, that we didn't know and we didn't want to understand. Japanese choice is just to protect someone who doesn't know any better. We have to learn that it's important to speak to another, to know the choices have great possibilities, meaning and responsibility. It'll be strange, complex but it has compelling beauty. We have to open ourselves up to better choices. 
Words in this story
democratic / following or supporting the political system of democracy.
capitalistic / an economic, political and social system in which property, business  and industry are owned privately.
compromise / an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.
preference / a greater liking for one alternative over another or others. priority.

Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up.

TED 2013
Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up. (script)
Summary
The speaker Diana Nyad who is 64 years old persevered with the 100 mile swim from Cuba to Florida. When she thought what she can do while the rest of her life and what lead her to no regrets, she can't help but finding her way.
There might be many failures or hard things, but you can grow up more in the process. All people have obstacles in front of them, but perseverance is a great human quality and you can get back up again if you were knocked down.
She practiced to swim as hard as she could. She said that she couldn't care less about 15-hour swimming. She had a good team also.
She left us three things to go toward our ways. Three things will really have an effect on us. That is because she is the person who did them: Never, ever give up, You are never old and team is important. I heard her say something that your every day is epic, you can confront anything with bold character.
Words in this story
predator / an animal that naturally preys on others.
plunderer / a person who steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder.
bold / brave, courageous

Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome

TEDxToronto 2010
Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome (script)

Summary

Firstly, we have to be grateful to be born here. And then, we have to appreciate our parents, people around us, stuff and things.
Although there's something painful or difficult, we have to choose to move forward and shift our emotion. You don't need to sadly take a drooped attitude forever. So time flies and the moments are counting down. We don't have time to immerse to have an awesome life. Embrace your positive attitude. Have a sense of awareness. You can find something new or good which might be even smaller, but it'll give you a feeling that you saw the world for the first time when you were a child. Follow your inner voice and be authentic to yourself. Those three words "attitude" "awareness" "authenticity" that will make your life really awesome.
Words in this story
shady / dark, illegal, situated in or full of shade.
granted / give, inflict.
embrace / hold (someone) closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection.
engage / occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).
awareness /noun/  aware /adj/ attitude /noun/ authenticity /noun/ authentic /adj/

Barry Schwartz: The way we think about work is broken

TED 2014
Barry Schwartz: The way we think about work is broken  (script)

"Why do you drag yourselves out of the bed every morning ?"
"It's my goal. I set a goal that makes me want to jump out off the bed in the morning. Thus, I'm able to do my favorite things."
Summary
The speaker defines that the way we think about work is broken. It is because our current  workplaces create people who are fitted to the demands of that institution. They deprive people of the opportunity to drive the kind of satisfactions from their work that we take for granted.  The backgrounds of this idea are that society needed mass production,  division of labor and people are naturally lazy.  And then, the simple technology is disappearing. However, the ideas are not taken away.  Even if they are bad ideas,  there are people who believe that they are true, they create ways of living and institutions that are consistent with these very false ideas.
However, human nature is a special product in space .  Lucky the human nature is  created more than it is discovered.  So you're able to design your human nature again by designing  the institutions wherein you live and work, if you think that the way you think about work is broken.
Words in this story
inadequacy /inadequacy/in-ad-i-kwuh-see/ insufficiency.
engaging / charming and attractive.
engage / occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention)
theories /thee-uh-reee/   scenario /si-nair-ee-oh

Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom

TEDSalon NY 2011
Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom (script)
Summary
Nowadays, a lot of research is being done. In psychology, it is said that love and work are what makes people happy.  Love means to  build a good relationship with other people. work means to engage in activities that are meaningful and satisfying. To love well and to work well, that needs wisdom. You have to train it in practice. It doesn't require special acts. Just not you follow rules and not pursue  incentives but use your virtue.  All people surely have the moral will and skills to do right thing. This is practical wisdom. You have to use it.
Words in this story
mandatory / required by law or rules; compulsory.
virtuous / having or showing high moral standards.
virtue /vir・tue/vˈɚːtʃuː/ behavior showing high moral standards.

Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom

TED 2009
Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom (script)
Summary
There are rules that protect us against the worst situation and incentives thaat are thought of important to move people. In fact, the rules and incentives just temporarily make things better. In the long run, they create a downward spiral. Relying on them excessively that unconsciously deprives us the opportunity to learn from improvisation and even our wisdom to fight or think.
Additionally, the situation that we follow the rules makes us ordinary. It loses our gifts but incentives also lead us to worse. It changes our thought that we have the moral skill to do the right thing and we think that we have responsibilities to do our work. We are changed and we try getting more only incentives.
We should know these situations and get the moral skill again. We have to learn more practical wisdom. A wise person already knows that it's necessary for our life to make the exception to every rule and to have to learn how to care for people from lots of experiences. Although there will be  failure, it's also important to learn from our failures. Celebrate moral exemplars and moral heroes. Be proud that you have the moral skills. And then, celebrate someone who teaches you knowledge also. All of us need to learn to respect others and ourselves. This is the principal objective that it's most important for us to respect learning.
Words in this story
incentive / motive, cause, purpose
excessively / ex・cés・sive・ly/ɪksɛ́sɪvli/ to a greater degree or in greater amounts than is necessary, normal, or desirable; inordinately.
improvisation /im・prov・i・sa・tion/ɪmprὰvəzéɪʃən/ the action of improvising.
deprives /de・prive/dɪprάɪv/ pick up, take up
practical /prac・ti・cal/prˈæktɪk(ə)l/ of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.
exception /ex・cep・tion /eksépʃən/ anomaly, irregularity, a person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule
exemplars /ex・em・plar/ɪgzémplɑɚ/ a person or thing serving as a typical example or excellent model.

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

TEDGlobal 2005
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice (script)
Summary
For us, the secret to be able to feel happy is to have low expectations.
It'll surprise us. We have an illusion that for people, having more choice is more freedom and it leads to more welfare. It is deeply embedded in our lives but people are not doubtful of believing it. However, we have passed the point where options improve our welfare but a lot of choice or too many it gives us confusion, the burden and the responsibility. It also produces paralysis like giving up choices. Even if you can make a choice, you'll only get lesser satisfaction than you have fewer options. It is because unselected things induce you to regret the decision you made, despite the choice being perfect or not.
Additionally, a lot of choices increases the expectations that you have about how good those options are. It makes you disappointed.
It occurs not only buying things but also various aspects of our lives. You might not be able to believe that in the current generation, having low expectations, compromise and the limits are not bad. It helps you more than having too many choices. It won't hurt you and it won't make you worse.
Words in this story
burden / a load, especially a heavy one.
illusion / a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.

Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit

TED 2016
Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit (video, script)
There's a place there where you are. You have the ability to reinvent yourslve endlessly.
Summary
The speaker called herself a misfit. The word "misfit " means a person who sort of missed fitting or who fits in badly or a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and environments. Then Misfit people like her don't always know how to hope, how to say yes, how to choose the big thing. Even if they're in front of them, they feel ashamed to want to be happy but be in there with the people they admire.
However, she notices that the radiance falls on all of even them who were misfits, all people are needed with each other. There's a place there where they are. They can say what they want thing, and want to be happy. They might be a failure for their choices. However, even at the moment of it, right then, they are beautiful. They can reinvent themselves again and again. They don't know it yet, but they have the ability to reinvent themselves endlessly. There's something that only them can do. They are the only one in there and all people have their stories.
Words in this story
radiance / glory, brilliance.
swanky / very expensive and fashionable, in a way that is intended to attract people's attention and admiration.
chronology / the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

Jeffrey Brown: How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent

TED 2015
Jeffrey Brown: How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent (script)
Summary
In most metro of the United States, there were cities where young people were killing each other for small reasons. There were severe violations there, drug and using guns were also common. And then, in those communities, reducing violence did not seem to be more cops and more suppression of dangerous areas. Those cities needed leaders and community members who really think that they have to collaborate and create a strong community system and it has to be valued. In fact, in those communities, young criminals were not cold and bold in their violence. They just clumsily live in to survive. They seek adults who don't look through colored spectacles, who don't exploit them and who are consistent in their behavior. If you are a pastor, you have to listen to their stories, not preach. You reach out, embrace them and ask them "how do you see this institution helping this situation?"  The conversation with them makes them your partners.  You can perform a miracle with them to cut youth violence.
Words in this story
violation /noun/ the action of violating someone or something.
violate /verb/  violent /adj/  violence /noun/
suppression / the action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication. control, governing, checking
clumsily / awkward in movement or action. without skill or grace.
spectacle / a visually striking performance or display. scene.
consistent / (of a person, behavior, or process) unchanging in achievement or effect over a period of time. similar, uniform.

Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve

TEDxNorrkoping 2014
Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve  (script)
Summary
You don't need to feel that You're nothing or You're nowhere, if you get a failing grade or you can't do something. Feeling tragic and catastrophic create the fixed mindset. It leads you to failed arias. There's hardly any activity. You'll run for error. However, if you have the growth mindset: thinking that you can't do something yet though you're on learning curve, it leads you a path into the future. This is the idea that ability can be developed. You can deeply engage something that is "yet. " You can learn from errors and you correct it. The ability is created by praising wisely. It isn't praising intelligence or talent but it's praising the process: your effort, strategies, perseverance and improvement. It gives you great confidence. Even if you have to challenge difficulty, you do something yet, you can improve. Believe your power.
Words in this story
catastrophic / involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
praising / express warm approval or admiration of.
perseverance /patience, endurance, tolerance. steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

TEDGlobal 2009
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology (script)
Summary
Sixth sense is an ability that without using the five senses of sight, hearing, touch,smell or taste.
This is year 2016. From 16 years ago, the speaker already tried making a small device which is a gesture-interface. You can use computers by everyday objects and gestures.
His goal was to connect two worlds which the physical world and the digital world seamlessly. He thought how wonderful it is to bring intuitiveness in our real life to the digital world. It'll lead to computing interfaces more intuitively.
And then, a digital part becomes pretty small. You can carry the digital world with you wherever you go. It gives you an output which is more intuitive to use. You don't need to sit in front of your computer and take your camera with you. Like the device became a part your body. The moment you want to do something you can start doing it, so you can more connect to your physical world.
Words in this story
potential / having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.
interface / a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact.

Elizabeth Gilbert 2: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

TED 2014
Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating (script)
The speaker is an author of 'Eat, Pray, Love.' This is a famous book in the world.
Summary
It is important for you not to forget where you are supposed to live. You should  have something that you love more than you love yourself. There's your favorite thing, it's worth. You don't move from there. Even if you are pushed out of there, you have to fight with diligence to return to your home where you are supposed to be. You just do and keep doing that again and again and again. If so, you won't be deceived  by disorienting success or failure. You dedicate all your energies. Even if the results become inconsequential for you, that's where are you are supposed to be and you can continue to do what you should do.
Words in this story
deceive / swindle, defraud, cheat, trick
disorienting /dɪsɔ́riɛ̀ntɪŋ/ make (someone) lose their sense of direction.
dedicate / devote (time, effort, or oneself) to a particular task or purpose.
inconsequential / not important or significant.
consequence / result, upshot, outcome

Elizabeth Gilbert 1: Your elusive creative genius

TED 2009
Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius (script)
The speaker is an author of 'Eat, Pray, Love.' This is a famous book in the world.
Summary
For the last 500 years, the pressure and great expectations have been killing off artists and geniuses. Especially, after one big success, people's expectations are too big. Creativity and suffering are inherent in artists. The artistry will always ultimately lead to anguish, because in the first place, only an artist was a genius.
However, a person is not a genius, but all people "have" a genius. Creativity came from human beings. It seems to be a divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant unknowable source. So disembodied genius helps you and you are protected. You can think that you are on loan to you from some unimaginable source.
Thus, if your work was brilliant, you couldn't take all the credit for it. If you failed, your genius was kind of lame.
Those thoughts will ease your pressure.
And then, it's simple, you change how to use your genius a little bit, when the idea which is your genius come to you from nowhere. You forget the trouble that is between you want ideas, and you think that you have to get it really now.
You don't have to be this internalized. You should have conversations between ideas and you. Although it is a little bit strange, don't be afraid and daunted. Just do your job.
Our creative genius will be elusive, but it is important for us to be able to continue having our passion what we want to do.
Words in this story
divine /di·-vine/dɪˈvaɪn/ relating to a god,
disembody /dis·-em·-bod·-y/ˌdɪs ɛmˈbɒd i/ to divest (a soul, spirit, etc.) of a body.
bombed /bɒmd/ completely intoxicated, drunk.
daunted /dɔnt, dɑnt/ to overcome with fear,intimidate.
elusive /e·-lu·-sive/ɪˈlu sɪv/ difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
lame /leɪm/  (of a person or animal) unable to walk normally because of an injury or illness affecting the leg or foot.
doom / something very bad that is going to happen, or the fact that it is going to happen
distant / far away in space or time.
distance /noun/ the amount of space between two places or things.

7 Behaviors Most People Think Are Negative That Are Actually Healthy

7 Behaviors Most People Think Are Negative That Are Actually Healthy (article)
This is the reason I'm healthy?
Summary
In our minds, there are many imaginations. Even if those are called negative, it might sometimes help you unconsciously and it'll lead you to being healthy. You need to listen to those. 1) Always controlling your anger is not healthy. It'll be better to use a way that the power of your anger changes a positive thing. 2) Even if you feel losing something, it won't continue for a long time. It'll be a good opportunity for you to find new things. 3) Crying and anger are similarly healthy human emotional responses. You can attend to other people and yourself kindly. 4) In some situations, it's important for your health to be alone. You'll just create your sense of creativity. 5) It's also good for you to have time not to listen to what other people said. You can follow your intuition. 6) Don't be afraid to break the rules. You can challenge and change old rules. 7) You don't need to fit something or someone forcibly. So you need to listen to your inner voice honestly, even if it is thought of negative. Being honest for yourself will lead your mind and body to being healthy.
Words in this story
consciousness /noun/  conscious /adj/
intuition / the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. instinct, intuitiveness, sixth sense.

William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind

TEDGlobal 2009
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind  (script)
Summary
The speaker grew up in Malawi, which is in poor and  experienced famine. He was forced to drop out of school because of hunger. However, he wanted to go to school and  help his family. He thought of building a windmill and pump water for irrigation to help them. Although he used scrap materials, the machine he made was heard to generate electricity so people lined up to charge their mobile phones. It led to the previous TED talk. It led him to having the second TED talk and he gave us confidence.

This is the second time for him to stand on TED talk. I watched first one and I was moved that for two years, his English pretty improved. first talk ↓

TEDGlobal 2007 William Kamkwamba:
How I built a windmill (script)

Words in this story

harness /  tack, tackle, equipment. control and make use of (natural resources), especially to produce energy.

Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya

TED Global 2007
Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya (script)
I think that in this story, what he wanted to do leads to my favorite proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Summary
If you received a good education and a full scholarship in other places, it'll be difficult to return to your home town where there is no clean drinking water and no one goes to school. Even though there is a place you were born.
However, the speaker was always thinking about what he can do to help his countryman. He got a chance and became a Member of Parliament in the home town. He now works to help his countrymen with his plans: every nomad will have clean drinking water, to build dispensaries and to improve infrastructure. He knows his country's issues. People from outside can come and help his country, but if people in his country don't help themselves, there's nothing to do. He tries to solve this problem and hopes that his home town becomes a model to help others develop.
Words in this story
parable /  allegory, moral story/tale
scholarship / a grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.
dispensaries /disˈpensərē/ clinic, surgery, medical office
constituency /kənˈstiCHo͞oənsē/ disˈpensərē
infrastructure /ˈinfrəˌstrəkCHə/
comprehensive /kämpriˈhensiv/ complete, including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
Parliament /Par-lya-ment/ congress, diet, senate
botany /ˈbätn-ē/ the scientific study of plants, including their physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, classification, and economic importance.

Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers

TED 2016
Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers (script)
Summary
In fact, original thinkers around us don't have surprising habits. Originals meaning are nonconformists. They not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They stand out, speak up and can drive creativity. In reality, such people are not different from the rest of us, because they also feel fear, have bad ideas and procrastinate. Thus, they are like you, aren't they?
However, they're afraid that their business doesn't succeed but it can't start. Bad ideas are not obstacles. It helps and leads to success. Even finishing slowly boosts their creativity.
Don't give up. You have a possibility to be originals with creativity and you can work for your world to improve.
Words in this story
original / present or existing from the beginning, first or earliest. different others.
procrastination / the action of delaying or postponing something.
diligently / as much as possible.
stumble /  trip (over/up), lose one's balance.
energizing / give vitality and enthusiasm to.
engage / ask, beg, request, rely
embrace / an act of holding someone closely in one's arms.

Liza Donnelly: Drawing on humor for change

TED 2010
Liza Donnelly: Drawing on humor for change (script)
Summary
Humor means the ability to laugh and know that something is funny. It'll help you when you want to change something.
The speaker was afraid of womanhood. Women are imprinted at birth with things that they have to be like ladies, and pass the tradition from generation to generation. It's expected of them. She wanted to change these rules. She found the way to change them and to help it. This is humor. Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It makes rules unexpected with laughter.
She is a cartoonist. She draws her cartoons and entrusts changes to humor.
Words in this story
entrust / assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone). devote.
perspective / outlook, view, viewpoint,
perception / sensation
tenuous / very weak or slight.

Cohen: Alzheimer’s is not normal aging — and we can cure it

TED 2015
Cohen: Alzheimer’s is not normal aging — and we can cure it  (script)
Summary
In 1906, Dr, Alois Alzheimer found strange plagues and tangles in the brain of the patient by an autopsy. Although 114 years passed after the discovery, treating Alzheimer's diseases don't progress.
Today, Alzheimer's disease is included in the top 10 causes of death worldwide. The patients of Alzheimer's disease are over 40 million. By 2050, it will be 150 million
Alzhemer's is not a genetic disease. It is a disease can be treated like other diseases such as cancer, HIV and etc.
However, they are not recognized and resources are also lacking. Everyone has this risk. We have to help in this problem to progress.
(In Japan, the patients of Alzheimer's disease are over 4,620,000. Over 65 years old, one seven is Alzheimer's disease.)
Words in this story
Alzheimer’s  /ǽlzhàɪmɚz/ a disease of the brain that mainly affects old people and results in the gradual loss of memory, speech, movement, and the ability to think clearly.
dementia / a disease or condition that exists esp. among older people, and that results in the gradual loss of mental abilities, such as the ability to think, reason, and remember things

Dan Ariely 5: How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised

TED 2015
Dan Ariely 5: How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised (script)
Summary
Are you objective? In fact, it is difficult for us, because we take a subjective to all things and we have views which are our preconceived notions and our expectations also. And then, it's shown that we don't like inequality though nobody wants fully equality.  There is a gap between what we have and what we think we have but there is a big gap between what we think is right and what we think we have also. Thus, our problems won't be corrected.
Words in this story
objective /adj/ (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. unbiased, fair, just.
objective /noun/ purpose, objective, aim, goal.
preconceived / prejudged, prejudiced, biased
prescription /  method, measure, recommendation, suggestion
implement /  execute, apply, put into effect
prejudice / preconceived idea

Dan Ariely 4: What makes us feel good about our work?

TEDxRiodelaPlata 2012
Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? (script)
Summary
We have a view that people only care about money, when we think how people work. Giving them it can make them work. However, you can see something that cannot be explaind. There's all kinds of strange behaviors in the world.
In fact, there's all kinds of other things that raise or down motivations for us without giving money to work or or behave in all kinds of ways.
Whether the action you do is worth or not and is checked or not. Whether it is your favorite or not. They are important. Doing a same work many times over and over, it downs motivation. There is not enough effort involves, it means so easy, it doesn't give people happiness.
And then, we think that something we create is the best. However, other people also think that each other. Thus we can't see things their way, but we don't notice that.
In the past, in the Industrial Revolution, efficiency was more important. However, our situation is changed. We know that motivation and payment are not the same things. We can use how to create our own meaning, pride and motivation from now. It leads us to being more productive and happier.
Words in this story
motivation
productive
perspective /noun/ view, viewpoint,
perception /noun/ sense
precise /adj/ exact, accurate, correct,
prosper /verb/ thrive