Judson Brewer : Asimole way to break a bad habit

                              

TED 2015

Judson Brewer : Asimole way to break a bad habit (transcript)

Summary

“Trigger,” “Behavior,” and “Reward”.
This is the reward-based learning process called positive and negative reinforcement and it's conserved back to the most basic nervous systems. Further, it can learn to repeat the process itself next time. Your bad habits are always created by the way of.

For example, 1) see food, eat food, feel good, and repeat. Next, feel sad or mad, eat food, and feel good. So emotional signal can be the trigger.

However, it's preventable. You can use it: the reward-based learning process again instead of fighting your brain or trying to force yourself. Not forcing, instead focused on being curious. You can use cognition to control your behavior, and you can create a better habit by the way of.

For example, 2) smoking tastes like shit, not smoke, feel good, and repeat. Next, thinking that smoking is bad, not smoke, and feel good.

However, when you get stressed or when you think that it's not going to be helpful, it doesn't work. It means to force yourself to hold back or to restrain yourself from behavior. You’re just less interested in doing something in the first place, but at this point, you have a curiosity deeply again. You can remember your endless and exhaustive habit loops and feel the joy of letting go.

For example, 3) notice the urge, get curious, feel the joy of letting go, and repeat.

Although there is no magical way but it takes a long time, you learn to see more and more clearly the results of your action. You let go of old habits and form new ones.

Words in this story

reinforcement / strengthening

conserve / protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction.

Lucy Kalanithi : What makes life worth living in the face of death

                             

TED 2016

Lucy Kalanithi : What makes life worth living in the face of death (transcript)

Summary

That is to know that death is a part of life.

Its reason is not that you die but because you can learn that living fully means accepting suffering. Being human doesn't happen despite suffering.

Engage in the full range of experience that means living and dying, and love and loss.

You can choose what fits with you, even after severe diagnosis.   

When people better understand the possible outcomes of an illness, they have less found anxiety, greater to plan and less trauma for their families. And then, the family also have to accept them. Don't fight fate, but help each other through suffering to live.

Words in this story
tangible / perceptible by touch. material, concrete
prognosis / the likely course of a disease or ailment. forecast, prediction
internist / a specialist in internal medicine. physician

Bill Gross 1 : A solar energy system that tracks the sun

                              

TED 2003

Bill Gross 1 : A solar energy system that tracks the sun (transcript)

Summary

The speaker said that he got interested in solar energy when he was 15 years old. He has known about an energy crisis and worked for it from over three decades ago. It led to solar systems.

And then, solar systems are, now, gradually becoming a fact. Converting solar energy was a very practical cost though it took a long time to store, it had to store more to use on cloudy days and another problem appeared.

That was about us. Even if new energy is invited, we can't save our earth from energy crisis if our habits are not changed. We have been indifferent to using all energy anytime and anywhere. Oil is also solar energy concentrate. It took a lot of time to make it though we consume it at incredible speed. We still have to create usage renewable energy at the same pace when we’re using the energy. We don't have time to make usual one yet.

P.S. This story leads to next his TED talk. He said that he had big detour though I didn't think so.

TED 2015 Bill Gross 2 : The single biggest reason why startups succeed (transcript) (my blog)
                       
                          

Words in this story

convert / cause to change in form, character, or function.  alter, vary, exchange

practical / of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.  effective, near

indifferent / having no particular interest or sympathy, unconcerned. neither good nor bad, mediocre.

Nathan Myhrvold : Could this Laser zap malaria?

                            

TED 2010

Nathan Myhrvold : Could this Laser zap malaria? (transcript)

Summary

I like the reasons of the speaker try to invent. He tells us two reasons: invention is fun and for receiving profit he does it, but it takes too long to continue if it's not fun. He and his team try to solve world problems by using their invention. The answer will be hidden where no one can think and it will be dramatic, crazy and out of the box solutions.

One of their inventions is the container to carry vaccines. It can isolate from heat in outside for six months with no power, and it can hold a vaccine out without arriving heat air to other vaccines. The idea came from Coke vending machine to them.

They created the system to be able to map where the hemozoin molecule and where the malaria parasites are inside blood cells by using pulses of light.

Next, a recent invention they showed us this time was the laser from using consumer electronics to be able to shoot a mosquito.

The mosquito kills many people in the world. Their invention continues to tackle to eradicate malaria effectively and cheap by using their supercomputer. He tells us avoiding killing all mosquito and nature also.

Their invention comes from around our ordinary life or a small thing, and it’ll help many people in the world.

Words in this story

DDT / Dynamic Data Exchange
insulation / the action of insulating something or someone. isolation
pulse /  heartbeat,  burst, blast
simulation /  pretending, pretense
stimulation / irritation, incentive

Damon Davis : Courage is contagious

               
TED 2017
Damon Davis : Courage is contagious (transcript)
Summary

In the past, a black man was killed because he was black.

Police used force to impose fear of militarized police, imprisonment and fines to the community, even the media tried to scard community by the way they spun the story.

However, it was different this time.

The community wasn't silent and it started to hold protests naturally.

There was anger there but there was beautiful love also.

Then the speaker took pictures of the hands of protesters and put them on buildings and shops in the community to raise awareness and the morale through them as an artist.

The pictures tied the normal folks and the people that use their power to spread fear and hate.

Fear changed to courage and it's contagious.

Words in this story
subsequent /adj/ following, ensuing, succeeding, later
courage /noun/  courageous /adj/
cripple / cause (someone) to become unable to move or walk properly.

Greg Gage : How to control someone else's arm with your brain

                      
TED 2015
Greg Gage : How to control someone else's arm with your brain (transcript)
Summary
The speaker is a neuroscientist. He wants young students to study neuroscience, first, because the brain is an amazing organ. Secondly, schools don't have a class to teach it, and lastly, there is no medical treatment of neurological disorders in spite of many patients. One of the reasons is that the equipment is so complex and so expensive, thus he makes it simple enough and affordable enough for young students and amateurs to study the brain.
In this TED talk, he showed us one experiment with DIY neuroscience equipment.
It can record your brain movement through putting electrodes on your arm. Your brain sends electrical and chemical messages, and when it goes to your muscles your arm moves. The equipment can pick up its electrical messages through putting electrodes on the arm of one volunteer and can tell it to another volunteer who put electrodes on his/her arm.
It means you can control someone else's arm with your brain through putting electrodes on your arm.

Words in this story
record /verb/rɪkˈɔɚd/      record /noun/rékɚd/
discharge /  leak, leakage, emission, release, flow
plug / insert, put in

Tristan Harris : How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day

                                

TED 2017

Tristan Harris : How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day (transcript)

(The manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture your attention (previous title))

Summary

I didn't think that in this TED talk, the explanation of the speaker and Chris Anderson is easy to understand.

It's because they couldn't tell us that it'd be too late to restore our situation.

The speaker is the side to control us and Chris thinks that he can be in the area where he isn't controlled.

We, commoners, can't know the problem or even we can know it, our thoughts we ethically steer is steered.

Furthermore, how it has an influence on others is studied.

It means that tech companies, today, study how the handful of people working at a handful of technology companies through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking.

It already collects your data every day by scheduling you. You think that you decide your schedule yourself though when you swipe over notification, it schedules you into spending a little bit time getting sucked into something that maybe you didn't intend to get sucked into.

If you stop to use your phone, you turn to the side that receives an influence.

The speaker tells us how we fix it. We have to need to make three changes to technology and to our society. They are to see ourselves fundamentally in a new way, 1) to question big things 2) and to design renaissance. 3)
l think that they mean to think about the true connection. To be able to connect each other easily through our phones or some applications are not the true one. To have canceled dinner and to avoid feeling a little bit lonely don't have the true one also.

Stop relying too much on various superficial relationships.

I believe that the true connection must let the manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture our attention.

Words in this story

handful / a quantity that fills the hand.

renaissance / reconstruction

steer /  guide, direct, maneuver, drive, pilot, navigate, (of a person) guide or control the movement of (a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft), for example by turning a wheel or operating a rudder.

Jamila Lyiscott : 3 ways to speak English

                           

TED2014

Jamila Lyiscott : 3 ways to speak English (transcript)

Summary

The speaker is a poet and this is her spoken word essay.

The title is "Broken English ".

She says in the poem that she speaks three tongues. It means three accents in English: one is articulate English in school, another accent English is used when she talks with her family and another one is used when she talks with her friends. It's because this is her communication way with them and her answer never goes amiss.

She is a black woman. Her hair, skin, race, and history are always called bad but her language was stolen.

Inequality should be ended.

We speak the same language that is English.

Words in this story
articulate / definite, decided
nonsensical / unreasonable, irrational, absurd

Richard Ledgett : The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED talk

                        

TED 2014

Richard Ledgett : The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED talk (transcript)

Summary

I think that our World has no area which is guaranteed 100 percent safe.

The last talk, the speaker was Edward Snowden. He can't be in America because he gave all his information back to the American people. We’re known that we didn't completely know and we didn't believe. The government side has gotten enormous profits but our privacy was leaking. We were full of cheating feeling.

However, the excuses the NSA told us was that Snowden was a whistleblower who hurt legitimate whistleblowing activities.

The NAS and the government ignored what they did, they didn't agree anything and they said that there were people who thought very differently about the Internet but there was the room for discussion.

I think that what they said means that there is still no room for discussion.

Moreover, this can't be proved that there hasn't been a major attack in the United States since 9/11 is not an accident but thanks to their system.

Are there solutions that we can use the Internet safely and freely, the government can protect our privacy, terror can be completely stopped and Snowden can be freed?

                                   

                          
Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet (transcript) (my blog)

                                            

Words in this story

NSA / National Security Agency.

kernels / core, nucleus

disclosure / revelation, exposure, the action of making new or secret information known.
transparency /noun/ clearness, clarity; openness

Joachim de Posada : Don't eat the marshmallow!

                               

TED 2009

Joachim de Posada : Don't eat the marshmallow! (transcript)

Summary

The ability to delay gratification is self-discipline that is the most important factor for success. You can test your ability from one experiment when you are four years old.

This experiment is done to test whether you can wait to eat a marshmallow for 15 minutes or not.

All kids who could wait for it were successful after 14 or 15 years later.

The kids who ate the marshmallow were in trouble. A few had good grades.  

You can understand it clearly. Why don't you teach it to your kids?

I think that I was a kid who had eaten the inside of the marshmallow! That kid will be successful though she should not go into banking or not work at a cash register.

I'm not working there and I'll walk forward to my success.

Words in this story
discipline / the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.

debt / something, typically money, that is owed or due.

Trevor Timm : How free is our freedom of the press?

                          

TED 2016

Trevor Timm : How free is our freedom of the press? (transcript)

Summary

In the United States, under the First Amendment, the press has the right to publish secret information in the public interest.

However, the press is unable to do this job that the First Amendment is supposed to protect because of the government’s expanded ability to spy on everyone. It's difficult to protect the identities of the brave men and women who get the news to the press.

That's why the speaker at Freedom of the Press Foundation is now developing an open-source whistleblower submission system. When you send information by using it, it'll be encrypted and stored on a server that only the news organization has access to. The government wouldn't be able to have any access to it.

If you are not the tech savvy whistleblowers, you can expose wrongdoing. The tools can help the brave men and women who expose crimes and for the press. All their right can be protected under the Constitution.

However, governments all over the world are constantly developing new spying techniques.

The tools are required to be more developed.  

Words in this story
encrypted / convert (information or data) into a cipher or code, especially to prevent unauthorized access.
whistleblower / a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity.

eL Seed 2: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings

  (Manshiyat Naser in Egypt)

TED 2016

eL Seed 2: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings (transcript)

Summary

I would never forget the last scene in this TED talk where

the 50 buildings with Arabic characters written on them were shown one after another, they became one figure and the complete art appeared. You can watch how 50 buildings have been changed by being painted, and how the dispersed arts become the one art.

Moreover, what was changed was not only buildings and people in the community but also the speaker’s perception.

First, he had the humanist intentions that are beautifying a poor and neglected neighborhood by bringing art to them and hopefully shining light on this isolated community. He just wanted to challenge himself artistically by painting over several buildings and having only fully visible from one point on the mountain.

However, he noticed that it was wrong that the community was poor, neglected and dirty. They were the ideal context and there were the only differences between the community and him. Others just thought that the place was decidedly dirty because of association with the trash. The true purpose was about switching perception and opening a dialogue on the connection with the community that people don't know.

The project and the work with people in the community taught these things to him and us.

His art became the project of peace and unity that brought people together.

Words in this story
anamorphosis / a gradual, ascending progression or change of form to a higher type.

eL Seed : Street art with a message of hope and peace

                          

TED 2015
eL Seed 1: Street art with a message of hope and peace (transcript)

Summary

What is written on the wall?

The picture attracted me. I think that many people would be attracted by it.

This is the messages of the speaker using quotes or poetry in Arabic. It's his new style of calligraffiti which is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti. He tells us that the beauty of Arabic speaks to anyone and its script touches your soul before it reaches your eyes.

The messages are relevant to the place where he paints. When people get the meaning, they started reacting, and the picture connected to not only local people and to the people in the rest of the world but also local people to the world through the media.

However, even a lot of people can be proud of it, a few people cannot agree and break it.

I don't know whether this is the better way or not, not to write it, I think what we can do is to continue to remember it, though.

Words in this story

decipher / convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language. judge, decide, guess, solve

intrigue / arouse the curiosity or interest of; fascinate.

John Legend : True Colors

                           
TED 2013
John Legend : True Colors
Wow! I didn't know that he sang this song at the TED stage!

In a heart-melting moment, TED Talks Education host John Legend sits at the piano to sing "True Colors," giving the lyrics a special meaning for kids and teachers. 

"So don't be afraid to let them show your true colors are beautiful, like a rainbow."

Seth Godin : This is broken

Gel conference 2006

Seth Godin : This is broken (transcript)

Summary

This story is broken, isn't it?

The speaker is broken.

So am l, I might be broken. Many people around me always said to me that studying English for Japanese people is not required though I study it hard. So l’m broken.

I have work on Saturday. People call the situation that the company is broken though our company sells pretty rare products. This situation also shows that this is broken in Japan. It means to serve the best goods like no one can create, but they exist, a person or company that can create it is quite great and strange and it's called “It's broken”.

In the world, strange things started happening somehow but people don't know them, the meaning of the word will be changing, then.

In the article, Cond Mark started to call “This is broken” though I don't know whether this is the reason or not that the words were spread in Japan.

The spread is strange. People don’t know who started it, when it started and from where it came though the words are only transmitted and spreading. This is broken.

This is really true that it doesn't matter if no one thinks that it's broken and if you think that it's’ broken, it's broken.

It's okay that there are funny, strange and odd things or people. After all, challenges for you are important like you’re broke.

This is broken.

Words in this story

craigslist / It's an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

Shimpei Takahashi : Play this word game to come up with original ideas

  (In Japanese with English subtitles)

TED 2013

Shimpei Takahashi : Play this word game to come up with original ideas (transcript)

Summary

I was sorry to hear that the speaker didn’t speak English in the TED talk because the story was really funny and I thought that I wanted to tell you the toy: Mugen Pop Pop one day because it was a really big hit.

Mugen means infinity and Mugen Pop Pop means that you can infinitely pop with this game. I don't know that whether people in your country like to pop the bubbles or not, somehow Japanese people like it excluding me. If in some luggage will uses a bubble wrap, people will start popping immediately though I don't have time to kill for it.

However, I agree that ideas don't come out while you stare at the data. Gathering words at random, and coming up with useless ideas are very important. When they are unconsciously connected, a big idea will come to you from where you don't expect. We can create our exciting future that we couldn't even imagine.

Words in this story

somersault / an acrobatic movement in which a person turns head over heels in the air or on the ground and lands or finishes on their feet.

excluding / not taking someone or something into account; apart from, except, remove

Tricia Wang : The human insights missing from big data

                                 

TED 2016

Tricia Wang : The human insights missing from big data (transcript)

Summary

I heard the words that are a thick data for the first time and I thought that it'd come from a thick description. It means in the fields of some study, descriptions should explain about a human behavior by not only its action but its context, because the behavior becomes meaningful to an outsider.

Even nowadays, it is difficult to predict something about human behavior because conditions are constantly changing and new factors emerge one after another. The actions of people are unquantifiable insights though there are precious.  

However, its data started to be collected by helping algorithm. It's called the thick data.

Big data is a famous term. Many companies use it for spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on. This is something they can't do without, but they might depend too much on it. They make bad decisions, even with access to understand amounts of data.  

The speaker tells us that integrating the big data and the thick data to make better outputs and better decisions. "This is how we'll avoid missing something, " she said, I think that we have to change our thought.

All data is not perfect and human action is not focused like the statistics of rolling dice. It's because we are more multifaceted and our behavior conditions are constantly changing.

Words in this story

quantifiable /adjective/ capable of being measured or described as a quantity

quantifiably /adverb/   quantification /noun/

integrate / combine (one thing) with another so that they become a whole.  combine, amalgamate, merge, unite

multifaceted / having many facets.

emerge /  come out, appear, move out of or away from something and come into view.

insight /  the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.

Seth Godin 1: How to get your ideas to spread

                             

TED 2003

Seth Godin 1: How to get your ideas to spread (transcript)

Summary

In Japan, nowadays, it's difficult for companies to aim for doubling sales of all things. It's because of problems that are the population declines, and excessive products and services by overspending methods since over ten years ago.

In the past, people had noticed that doubling sales were to spread what they want to sell.

People didn't just know it though TV helped it. While products that were better or not but people who want it or not, weren't related, advertising was repeated until products were bought. 1)

People started to ignore ads because they have too many choices than before and too little time to choose.  Then people focused only on things that are new, fresh and different. 2) However, this was a way to sell average products for average people who lost interest soon.

Lastly, the internet helps to look for only people who have an interest what you want to sell and the successful way is not to sell only products but you have to sell them remarkable products with its meaning, story and future.  3)

Selling means to spread ideas. We are living in century of idea diffusion and the people who can spread ideas win.

Words in this story

surplus /noun/ more than what is needed or use, extra, excess

diffusion / the spreading of something more widely. spread, dissemination

parable / a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. allegory, moral story/tale, fable

fringe / not part of the mainstream; unconventional, peripheral, or extreme.  edging, edge, border