Takanori Nakagome : Say what you want to do

I translated a talk that was told in Japanese into English. The speaker is the only man whoｍ I have met before and who stood on the TED stage in November 4, 2018.

Takanori Nakagome at TEDxKyoto
Say what you want to do

0:30
I do connect children in Japan, Africa, and the world through "Dance×the Internet". Until now, I've taught over 15,000 children, gone to 22 countries, and connected more than 3,000 children. I just think that you can’t imagine the situation and l want you to see pictures, first.

0:43

In this photo, l was in Uganda. In the next photo, these children are in Ethiopia. Japan and Uganda and Ethiopia, I connect dancing children of both countries by relay. I connected many children who live in Africa. I did Japan and Vietnam, Cambodia, and other Asian countries also. By dancing together, they can be good friends beyond the different languages and cultures. In the photos, they really look fun, right?

1:15

I, today, want to tell you the message is only one. It’s that “Say what you want to do”. You probably think that you are ashamed to say that, even you can say that, you can’t change anything and you can’t be changed by it. There will be such people. However, when I’ve said what I want to do, my life started changing dramatically. I want to talk about the story, today.

1:36

Those photos are my faces.

(Laughter)

You know, this face is when l was an elementary school student. Next face is when I was a junior high school student and the last one is when I was a college student. It’s changing, isn’t it? Right? Now, I fly around the world thus you think that I'm active, but I didn't take action from the beginning, I was a person who couldn't try challenging what I wanted to do, I didn't have confidence in myself, and I had a complex. In those photos, I had been a bashful boy. When I was a child, I always thought that I compared me with my old breather. My grades were lower than him, l couldn't pass a school where he could go, and I was not good at sports. The reason that I started dancing was that he started. I thought that he was cool when he was dancing thus I thought that I wanted to start it too. When I was in college, I danced too much almost every day.

2:40

However, I didn't have confidence in myself, I had something that I could be obsessed with dancing, though. I couldn't build a good relationship of trust with around me. In my high school, I experienced that I was bullied thus I couldn’t believe people around me at all. I was afraid of contacting with others, bud while l just danced every day at the same place, I became nice with others, and the feeling that I wanted to be nice more if I was deceived was growing. I was able to change little by little. And also, my senior in my university recommended that l taught children dance. It was really fun. Like that, l did nothing but dance in my college life.

3:24

I had a vague dream in my college life. I wanted to travel around the world, see the huge world, and do something that was big. I longed to travel around the world while thinking that, but l couldn't go there when I was in university because l was afraid of going. There were three reasons that I couldn't do. First, l thought that I was not good at speaking English. I was at the bottom at my university but I didn't’ speak it completely. I was afraid of using English. I thought that I couldn't communicate with other people when l go abroad. That’s impossible.

4:04

The second reason was that I get my stomach ache easily.

(Laughter)

It’s really true. I thought that I who get my stomach ache easily couldn't spend in severe environments of overseas. And the third one was that I was afraid of all foreign countries and going there. I thought about that. From the beginning, I who didn't challenge myself to new things. I felt scared about itself. I longed to travel around the world, though, I couldn't do. I longed to study abroad, though, I couldn’t do. Nothing special happened, I graduated from the University, found my work, and started working.

4:40

As a businessman, when I started working, I was asked by my students whom I taught dance in my college life and their parents often. They said, “They wanted me to teach dance again!” They told me like that.
“I wanted to do, though, I was busy thus I couldn't do.”
I refused by answering like that. However, saying that I was busy was just a poor excuse. My real intention was that I was afraid of doing that. I didn't experience that l voluntary did something, gathered people together and held a meeting. I didn’t have confidence and I was afraid of doing that. When four years passed after being a businessman, a turning point arrived in me. It’s an exchange meeting related to education that I unexpectedly took part in. Words unintentionally and carelessly escaped my lips at that time. “ I was thinking that I wanted to teach people dance, though,... I’ve said like that. There, there were many people related to education who have passion. My words had brightened at their eyes.
“You do try it! You can do it!” They said and gave me a push on my back.
“Why can’t you do it? You don’t have reasons that you cannot do, don’t you?” I was asked a lot.

5:41

“You can use some community center to teach dance for children, you must be able to make a little time on a weekend, and then children and their parents who want you to teach them dance must help you.” “Try it only once!” They gave me pushes strongly and powerfully.

5:57

And then, as a businessman, while working, I started to teach dance for children on weekend as a volunteer. Over 20 children gathering, the lesson was successful. I was really happy to have had such a great time.

6:11

Saying what I want to do and there is the help that many people give me can create a space where people can become happy. The thought came to me and it was my first experience. It might be small for others, however, for me, it was the big event. I really knew that something that I wanted to do was that I could do it. Stopping to procrastinate what I want to do. I thought about that. After the lesson, in the train, I felt my heart beating that meant to be really happy. I thought that I could do what I wanted to do. And then, when I arrived at my home, l saw a paper in my room.
“I want to travel around the world”. It’s written when I was a student and it continued putting up on the wall for a long time. It’s from I was a student.

6:48

I thought that someday, it’ll be better to be able to travel around the world, though, I must be able to do it, right now. I hit upon this idea. I will never hesitate again. I quit my job that I worked for four years and I'd taken my departure to travel around the world. I decided to travel around the world while teaching dance. Teaching dance is my favorite thing.  There must be many things that l want to do by saying what I want to do before and after my trip. This was my first solo trip of overseas became my first journey around the world.

(Laughter)

7:21

Thus I didn’t know about trips completely. I was reckless. I was said often. Year! I just continued saying to all people who I meat that I wanted to teach dance and to travel around the world. I also wrote it on SNS and my blog. Thereafter, someone introduced me to a traveler and a person who related to education in overseas countries. In fact, I was really afraid of speaking English thus I went to the Philippines to study abroad in the first two months. It’s my language study abroad. What I learned at that time was, of course, words and grammars were important, though, moreover important things were my feelings that were what I wanted to tell and what I wanted to know about. Those feelings are more important was what I learned.

8:02

And also, when I thought that I would delay taking a step for something that I want to do, my Filipino teacher said to me, “All things come to you into appropriate timing, thus for you, now is the best timing”. She told me that. The words became precious to me.

8:25

I finally had my journey around the world and it really showed that. That time had been the best timing because there were many wonderful encounters. When I first went to the Philippines to study abroad, I always said that I wanted to teach dance. And then a staff of a kiosk in my school in the Philippines gathered children in the neighborhood for me. I was able to take a dance lesson with them. It’s really fun. In Malawi, in Africa, I told people that I wanted to teach dance. And then all the people in the village helped me. Amazingly, l was able to hold a big dance festival with 2,000 children. It’s great. It took ten hours by bus to go to the school of the village in the photo. The bus swayed a lot and my stomach hurt to go there.

(Laughter)

9:09

And then all the people in the village welcomed me heartily and everybody helped me. I have a film in Malawi. I want you to watch this.

(Film)

(Applause)

10:04

Thank you. It’s really fun and the children also looked very fun. Various people helped me and I was thanked by them also. This comes from what I wanted to do. Beyond the different countries and cultures, I was able to make friends around the world. I first thought that I was afraid of people, however, I was able to make friends around the world. It made my life really remarkable. My values and my view of the world were widely spread. Through dancing exchanges, I was able to have confidence in myself.

10:46

I became able to think that everyone has each their own values each other. A child of two, a grandpa and grandma danced smartly and sexily. I was able to feel that everyone looked cool, they genuinely recognized me, and they had their own values each other. I’ve come to think about that.

11:05

Like that, I was changing. From the beginning, the start was from saying what I wanted to teach dance. When I finished my travel around the world, I’ve come to think that I wanted various children to experience like my experiences. I want children to expand their world and potential and to be friends with children all over the world. I became to think about that so I opened my dance school after I came back to Japan and I fly around Japan and the world to connect children through “Dance×the internet” by relay. This is now my activity. For the future, I want to create a community where people of all ages can learn together. Dance and the internet are my tools for me. My purposes are expanding the world and potential of children and having confidence in them. Those are my purposes.

12:07

I want to give not only children but also various people a push on their back because they gave me a push on my back many times. By that, my life has dramatically changed. It’ll be better for you to have fear. I think that what you are afraid of something is what you really want to do. You can't escape from what you want to do. You will know how to do it after you start it. In my case, it’s saying what I want to do.  And then many people cooperated with me and I was able to create a happy space.

12:41

However, there might be people who are opposed to your opinions, though, you are the only one who can talk responsibility for your life. It isn't like anybody takes it then anyway so you have to make your own decision and go ahead are important. I think about that. In my case, it’s saying what I wanted to do and I was able to take a step.

13:05

 If you and everybody want to take a new step, say what you want to do, please. Doing that will lead your life to expanding widely. It must be your first step. I hope that our world will change for a more better place where everyone can do what they really like. I think about that. Thank you.

(Applause)

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2019

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2019.
1. What did you learn about yourself from this year 2018?
I've learned about Japan and  I'm Japanese strongly by reading books, studying English, and working hard from this year 2018.
It includes good things and bad things. Good things are that in Japan, I can be a businesswoman,  continue to work hard and continue to study English. Bad things are that problems of Japan are piling up every day and Japanese people have to think about political issues.

2. Which relationship meant the most to you this year and why?
I think that the relationship with books is very important for me because there are much fake news and individual comments on the internet and the media but it leads people astray.  We have to read many kinds of books to learn more than using the internet and the media because people who read books are now decreasing.

3. What was one of the biggest challenges you faced this year and how did you handle it?
Not giving up and continuing working are the biggest challenges for me who is not young and pretty. In Japan, women have faced many challenges because of only that. The way handling is to keep a low profile.

keep a low profile / do not stand out

4. What was one of your proudest moments from this year and why?
My proudest moments from this year is that people become happy with our company's products. It's because we have those products, however, in the world, more products, and stuff are said not to be needed.

5. What was one of the most meaningful compliments you received this year?  Why was it so meaningful to you?
Of course, customers compliment us is the most meaningful because it gives us the power to work.

6. What did you do for fun this year? What was one of your favorite memories?
Without thinking about anything, working, eating, and sleeping, reading TED talks and books is the sweetest thing for me. And then updating my blog is my favorite thing and this year too, I'm going to write 258 blog articles. It’s the same as last year, I've thought that l could write in an earlier time, though.


7. If you could change one thing from this year, what would you change and why?
I wanted to use English more for going out. I try it next year, in fact, l sometimes guided foreigners to a destination in English. I thought that I could ask them other things more than I thought thus I try talking with them more next year. I can do it!
By the way, the thing that I wanted to change last year has been the following and I could do it, I just saw it, though.

"I want to read Japanese books more. This year, I always read TED talks".

8. What was the most meaningful thing someone did for you this year?
A person said to me, "Existing a very small company and having a job are wonderful in Japan".  It's the most meaningful thing for me.

9. If you were to brag about one of your accomplishments from this year, which one would it be and why?
Although I don't have something to brag, continuing to work and study English would be deserved to be bragged about.
brag / big talk, tall tale

10. Given all your experiences, insights, and lessons learned from 2018, what's the best advice you could give yourself for 2019?
Existing and running my company is great. Don't worry, I can do it next year too.

Finn Lützow-Holm : How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad at TED Salon: Samsung (transcript)
How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
Summary
The problem of data is bigger recently because more people become users who have smartphones in their hands but they won’t be able to stop using it. Thus companies can take their data always without them knowing. And then cooperating with adds, it can deceive them. From now, more devices will be used and there is no rule to protect us.
The speaker who is Norwegian is working to protect consumers’ right in his country. He tells us that it’s not fair to put the burden of responsibility on the consumer and companies and government don’t deceive people but have to build trust with users by using data. Technology should only benefit society.

P.S.
I've heard that many Swedes are now put a microchip into their buddies to live usefully. Probably, American and Japanese must think that it’s dangerous to take data. In the beginning, Norwegian and Swedes seem to have confidence in technologies. Thus I think that the story would be told. We have to be careful more, governments will do nothing, and companies want to get more benefits. The reason will be the result of seeking always economic growth.

Words in this story
deceive /verb/ (of a person) cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage.
exclusive /adj/ excluding or not admitting other things.

Thomas Barnett : Let's rethink America's military strategy

Thomas Barnett at TED 2005  (transcript)
Let’s rethink America’s military strategy
Summary
I thought that this was the title that threatened Japanese people who lost in World War 2. However, the story was not about World War 2 but about the Cold War.
Cold War is said to start from the difference of ideology between capitalism and socialism after World War 2. Capitalism was the United State with its allies the Western regions and socialism was the Soviet Union with its satellite states the Eastern regions. The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides. It continued over 40 years, the summit, Bush and Gorbachev would declare an end to the Cold War and after that, the Soviet Union collapsed.

I think that America must have had wanted to win clearly. Losing, uncertainty, and unable to find the perpetrators of 9/11 won't be allowed.
In fact, each country searches the reason to attack others to stand the top to get territories, energies, and money. Even the lines are decided, countries wait a chance. Its line is called the anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical.

The countries know that it’s important to be at peace and not to kill people. However, for that, there are countries which try to fight and for that, there is a country which doesn't have weapons, soldiers and law to fight. It is Japan.
Now, over 10 years passed from the story was told. The world is always changing. North Korea and China started to have power.

For protecting own country and being at peace, it will be obvious what we have to do.
Japan has to think more about what to do. Military strategy means now to be at peace and protect own country and the world. The mission of Japan is to protect Asian. Japanese people have to think and study more about this. I felt it by reading the story.

Words in this story
overwhelming /adj/ very great in amount.

Ricardo Semler : How to run a company with (almost) no rules

Ricardo Semler at TEDGlobal 2014  (transcript)
How to run a company with (almost) no rule
Summary
I’ve read a book about our brains. It tells us that our brains always seek to do all things easily and unconsciously thus humans like rules unconsciously. It’s because in our world, following it means that you are protected from dangerous things that are traffic accidents, giving many things and scolding thus people hope that there are rules. And then it gives us better excuses. You can say that there is a rule thus you can’t do something or everyone follows it you have to do. The sameness relaxes you and you don’t need to think about many things that are complicating. The thoughts that you think that time is that if someone doesn’t follow rules, it will break your peace and comfort of mind. Thus people love rules to follow.
However, this is the thing that just only many people do. They definitely say that it’d be better to play and spend with their family when you know about your terminal days.
How about my explanation of the story?
I think that people more understand it than the speaker tells. About education, I think that it’s the same thing. If you learn many things that are the same around you or you can think that you are in a place where everyone is in, you and your parents can really relax.
However, the world where you can have a much wiser future must be beyond rules. It’s invisible, you need to have the courage, you have to think many things well, and complicating.
Nevertheless, you want to be in rules for your better future, don’t you? That’s all.

Words in this story
radical /adj/ revolutionary, progressive
bureaucracy /noun/ civil service, government
idleness /noun/ laziness

Sam Harris : Science can answer moral questions

Sam Harris at TED 2010  (transcript)
Scientist can answer moral questions
Summary
I was very surprised that the word "Science" was used to answer moral questions. No one think about that, however, what if the words “general public, many people and justice of modern” are included, it’d be understandable. The speaker seems to show those by the words "your values" and "your religion". It’s because morals mean righteousness, conforming to accepted standards and having integrity. It’s not reducible to a concern about conscious experience and its possible changes. You must know that science changes many things that we think that it’s right but we think that many people say right is right also.

Now, many people have their smartphones more than the year when the spreader told this story thus it often occurred, right? We know that common sense, normal intelligence, and moral are just what many people do. Thus a sense of value and religion is changing and it's different from person to person. We always want to decide what to be right, though, we have to know that there is something that can't persuade the others. It’s because it’s not science.

The title is not that science can answer that moral is right but by many people doing, something becomes right, common sense, and moral is not right.
With this in mind, we have to think about moral progress with richness for our well- being.

Words in this story
integrity /noun/ the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

Mike deGruy : Hooked by an octopus

Mike deGruy at Mission Blue Voyage  (transcript)
Hooked by an octopus
Summary
I didn’t think that the speaker who didn’t look romantic was fascinated with an octopus thus I thought that he hacked information from the Pentagon in Washington D.C. somehow. Why did I think that an octopus and the Pentagon were the same? Hahaha〜〜

Surely, an octopus that is a creature of invertebrate is strange. It’s soft-bodied and eight limbs. Many people would only look at it in a book, however, moving creatures are huge differences and many people wouldn't have the opportunity to see a swimming octopus in the deep ocean. The speaker is one of the people who has seen it there and its impression made him shoot films of octopus to be known by many people. And then it leads many people to knowing about deep oceans where creatures life and death cycle is repeating every 30 or 40 years, there is a lot of areas of death but there are areas having strong recovering powers so we have to know about happening now in what happens in deep oceans right now. We don’t think that the problem of oceans is so large, global, and overwhelming issues of the world but we have to look in our heart and our places where we live in and fix it.

Creating a healing zone, even it’ small, it will start growing. It changes our behavior and affects the environment. We have to fix our oceans healthily. We mustn't be said that it's neglected because we’ve never seen it. We have to feel our important deep oceans with him and creatures that live in there.

Words in this story
hang, hung, hung /hˈæŋ/verb/ suspend or be suspended from above with the lower part dangling free.
hack, hacked, hacked /hˈæk/verb/ cut with rough or heavy blows.
hook, hooked, hooked /hˈʊk/verb/ attach or fasten with a hook or hooks.
hock /hάk/noun/ the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backward.
invertebrate /noun/ an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

Japanese dance teacher connects Rwandan and Japanese children

The New times RWANDA'S LEADING DAILY November 29, 2018
Japanese dance teacher connects Rwandan and Japanese children  (article）
Comments
This is the first time for me to read the article of Rwanda and I've met this Japanese dance teacher before.
The purpose of his activity is to create the society where children in the world can meet, learn and become friends beyond the differences of countries, languages, and cultures and implement the world where everyone can challenge their favorite things with respecting differences and having confidence.
I hope that he will succeed as Japanese.
P.S.
I have something that I am a little worrying about. In his video, African children called him their Chinese teacher before. It's a very small thing, though, I want his activity not to be changed in the near future but to remain in history as one Japanese teacher. It's because similar things often occurred. 

Dana Kanze : The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding

Dana Kanze at TEDxPeachtree  (transcript)
The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding
Summary
For a long time, the business world and market should be equal between male and female, though, the speaker tells us that there is still the cycle of implicit gender bias in start-up funding. It's considered to be done insidiously thus people can’t directly see and hear.
She who studies impact gender bias in start-ups tells us more interesting. The reason that females get less funding is not only male VCs do but also female VCs do and the solution is not to change questions but to change answers. She said that female entrepreneurs have to recognize the prevention questions and answer to garner higher amounts of funding.
And then, in the last, the word “together ”that she said means not male and female, and not VCs and all entrepreneurs but she and only female entrepreneurs, she said that men and women fight a chance to grow and thrive, though. It’s not really fair.

Words in this story
insidious /adj/ proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
subtle /adj/ (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe.
implicit /noun/ implied though not plainly expressed.

Li Wei Tan : The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne

Li Wei Tan at TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany  (transcript)
The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne
Summary
The speaker must want to tell us that science is always close to us. When you wash your face in the morning and when you drink a carbonated drink, the bubbles are from doing science.
The bubble that children make while playing, penguins swim and release, ships produce, medicines are carried by and the flavor of champagne is carried by is science.
You can be more interested in it. There is science in microscopic things. Also, it’s hidden but it must be fun.

Words in this story
resistance /noun/ opposition
relentlessly /adv/ stickily

Nadjia Yousif : Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague

Nadjia Yousif at TED@BCG Toronto  (transcript)
Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
Summary
This has been an interesting story because the words that treat and ignore were used for our technologies, so we have to treat the tech that we use at work like a colleague.

It's because the speaker who is a technology advisor is often said that technology leads to the benefits fail despite huge investment is put into it. In fact, technology projects are sometimes canceled and there is technology that is never used and it’s wasted.

And then the reasons that it’s wasted are that the people on the front lie to use it are skeptical and even afraid. They don’t want to remember how to log into and use. In my opinion, they just don't want to lose their job but they will be in trouble if the tech does their work very fast.

Thus in your company, the tech that people think that it’s wasted can work more, owner have to teach them treating technology like a team member. The speaker suggests to use Org charts, look for people and posts are better for machines. It’s important to be able to work well together and have a tenuous relationship. It means a human and machines like colleagues.

Stop wasting technology, we must feel happier about working with technology. Embracing its idea must lead us to performing better and being happier.

Words in this story
flail /verb/ wave or swing wildly
induce /verb/ provoke, give rise, bring about
be in trouble / have difficulty, have trouble, get into trouble, be in difficulties, be troubled

Richard Dawkins : Militant atheism

Richard Dawkins at TED2002  (transcript)
Militant atheism
Summary
Again, l thought that the story was really difficult for me, though, when l knew about the speaker who was a writer who wrote a famous book that I've just read, l started feeling that l might love the story. Hahaha〜〜 (The title of the book has been The Selfish Gene. )

An Atheist is, you know, a person who believes that God does not exist and militant means to be aggressive or combative. The title can be explained that there is an aggressive person who is an atheist, the speaker, and not American.

Why is he militant?

In fact, he is an atheist but he is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. I think that he wants people to listen to him and want people to think about our world scientifically. They must depend on God too much and they always say God. It’s saying too much because people don’t know that religion teaches them to be satisfied with trivial, supernatural non-explanations, blinds them to the wonderful, real explanation that scientists found, and is massively financed by many foundations and institutions.
In America, the latest survey shows that Christianity that takes with nearly 160 million is the largest group, the third group is Jews with 2.8 million, however, the second largest group is non-religious or secular in fact. It’s strange because it’s cheated by politicians who want to win in an election thus something that is wrong with atheists who are lonely is not true.
Don’t be afraid of evolution and the scientific worldview must be so much more exciting, poetic, and filled with sheer wonder than the religious imagination.
The speaker tells us strongly that as a human, people have to understand the theory of evolution, atheists, and scientific arguments.

After writing this, the talk became interesting for me because many people are members of no religion in Japan, though, they are not atheists but not only Christianity but also religion, even Buddhism is not talked about. It’s a taboo. And then there is one more taboo story. Before World War 2, Japanese people believed that the Japanese emperor was our God. Thus Japan was a strong country which always won against other countries because people could strongly unite to protect our emperor who was God. When Japan lost World War 2, the Japanese emperor declared that the emperor was a human, people didn’t believe it, though.

Thus l think that this situation will be similar. People don’t think about well and they depend on God and emperor too much. The thought that God, emperor, and government help us should be stopped. We have to do by our hands.

Words in this story

trivial /adj/ unimportant, stupid, foolish

secular /adj/ worldly

sheer /adj/ pure

Kary Mullis : Play! Experiment! Discover!

Kary Mullis at TED2002  (transcript)
Play!Experiment!Discover!
Summary
I hadn't understood about the speaker completely after reading the story,  thus l read his Wikipedia, the same things were written, after all.

He is a famous American biochemist who had invented PCR ( the polymerase chain reaction) and who had received several prizes. And then I knew that the title: Play! Experiment! Discover! and little bits strange things that he told us showed him really.

The word "Play" shows that he loves to go surfing and he hit upon the idea that he won the prize when he was driving to go surfing with his girlfriend.

"Experiment" is like the play for him. He said in the story that he realized that he had always been like a little scientist because he had done things that are like experiments that had been invented 350 years ago and he thought that he was a boy who had a brain that could think about what science was naturally from birth.

Doing experiments about you think about what, why and how it is, writing down and making observations, it leads to building up a theory of how this stuff works and to discovering all the rules. 　

A process is what you think of as science and you can start with some ideas. This is his discovery.

Some strange things are that he has scientific thoughts that are AIDS denial and climate change denial.

He is a man who really enjoys his life and the talk was told over 15 years ago, however, he must still be like a boy who celebrates the curiosity, inspiration, and rigor of good science. He will continue to play, experiment and discover forever.

Science is done for your little reasons and curiosity that are your little idea to get true information and not to be worried by unnecessary things.
Do science!

Words in this story
rigor /noun/ the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate.

Carla Harris : How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work

Carla Harris at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work
Summary
An evaluation is an assessment and it’s difficult that a person makes of judgment about another person because it makes it subjective. When there is a human element, people cannot have a 100 percent meritocratic environment. We have to know very well that this thing always happens, even our world is said to be meritocratic and equal.
Thus the speaker suggests that we need a sponsor who has a measure of subjectivity. It’s irony. It doesn’t show that you don’t waste your power but you can use the power that you can ascend in any organization. This is the thing to be the same table.

Words in this story
meritocracy /noun/ a thought is that your skill is more excellent than anything
subjective /adj/ existing in the mind; personal

Katharine Hayhoe : The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it

Katharine Hayhoe at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
Summary
I don’t hate a man who is a president in the United State, however, I'm disappointed about what he said,
“It’s cold outside. Where is global warming now?”
For him, around him, and the U.S., the most important thing is the growth of economies and not losing people’s job.
Now, with helping media, SNS, and political division, it’s not talked about and there are many people who don’t believe in climate change.
However, we’re already being affected by a changing climate but it’s really obvious. In India, people try to use LED bulbs to save energy and even in China, the coal plants are shut down to clean air.

Climate change is the problem for everybody on our Earth and it should be fixed immediately. We should work together more. It starts talking about it beyond divisions of economics, politics, religion, and communities.

Words in this story
incandescent /adj/ glowing white with heat
increment /noun/ increase, addition, growth, gain, profit

Ashley Judd ; How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control

Ashley Judd at TEDWomen 2016  (transcript)
How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
Summary
I have a question that the problems about sexual harassment and patriarchy are always discussed at TED women, though, I think that men really take part in this incident. Eventually, men must want to stand above women. In Japan, the story is taboo, even women stand in the grate women way. Bullying is sly and lasts forever.
Humans face always with the problem of discrimination between men and women, white and black, and … next is online abuse that may be also discrimination because it includes hate speech.

The speaker seems to be a famous actress who found cyberbullying and violence by her experiences, however, she continues seeking legal action and lending her voice to growing demands for a safe internet free from abuse. She works for legislators recognizing it.

Words in this story
patriarchy /noun/ rule or domination by men, social organization in which the father is the highest authority

Amy Herman : A lesson on looking

Amy Herman at TED@BCG  (transcript)
A lesson on looking
Summary
Somehow, I love this kind of story that to be able to train my skill that is this time, visual intelligence.
Simply, it’s to learn about seeing and converting observable details into actionable knowledge with the insightful talk. It can save a life, change your company, and help understanding many things. It’s also able to enhance perception, look for what isn’t there. It means that you can have the ability to find visual connections where something may not be apparent, you can understand the new consequence.

The speaker tells us its four points are assessing, analyzing, articulating, and acting. If you look at something with a critical eye a little bit, you must know that things go wrong. It demands our daily attention. Good luck!

Words in this story
perception /noun/ sense, feeling, intuition
perspective /noun/ viewpoint, outlook; vista, view

Graham Allison : Is war between China and the US inevitable?

Graham Allison at We the Future  (transcript)
Is war between China and the US inevitable?
Summary
I’m very surprised that there are people who want to have a war between the U.S. and China and the reason is rising China.

I’d thought that one country which was bigger could contribute to other countries, though, it’s wrong.

The speaker shows that 2500 years ago, the reason of the war in Greece had been the rise of one and the reaction of the other one. Not only pride and arrogance but also, even, provocation of a third person leads to wars, history repeats itself always, and this time also, nobody has a feasible plan for escaping history as usual.

We people must learn history, must have an order for peace and prosperity, however, we must condemn people who refuse to study history.

This is the plan that war between China and the U.S. is inevitable.

Words in this story
dominant /adj/  presiding, ruling, governing, controlling, commanding
collision /noun/  crash, accident, impact, smash, bump, hit
arrogance /noun/ haughtiness
provocation /noun/ action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately.

Franklin Leonard : How I accidentally changed the way movies get made

Franklin Leonard at TEDxVeniceBeach  (transcript)
How I accidentally changed the way movies get made?
Summary
I think that the speaker’s idea is unfortunately not a way to create better movies in the present age.
It’s because people now have smartphones in their hands thus they know about many amusements that are TV, YouTube, Instagram, Camera, role-playing games, and so on. The important thing is that they can be main characters, leading parts, producers, supervisors, cameramen, and models soon by using their smartphones and a lot of moving images are updated every day. People live their own lives hard with passion. This must be the best move.

Even the speaker change the way movies get made, even he writes better scripts a lot that no one uses for movies, and even those are nominated, l want to give him the same words that he said in this speech, no one wants to see his.

What he said that no one wants to see movies about women over 40 means that he doesn't understand that all people live their lives with passion and spirits hard and what he can’t create not only their movies but also all his movies doesn’t have humans heart.

Movies aren’t made to sell. Movies are made for people who have something that they want to tell or have to tell with passion. When it can be shown, the movie must be watched by many people naturally.

Words in this story
connotation /noun/ comprehension

Chad Frischmann ：100 solutions to reverse global warming

Chad Frischmann　TED　2018　　（transcript)
100 solutions to reverse global warming
Summary
We must know that global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system. It’s provoked by the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases caused by human activity.

We think that we have to do something immediately.

This time, the speaker’s idea is really interesting. He suggests to reverse it and to know about the word Drawdown.
To reverse is moving backward and overturning. Drawdown is a new way thinking about and acting on global warming and the point is in time when atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases begin to decline on a year-to-year basis. It means to take out more than putting into.

Furthermore, he suggests 100 solutions to reverse global warming and surprisingly, our food system has been that eight of the top 20. It means that changing decisions we make every day about the food we produce, purchase and consume is one of the most important to reverse global warming. Why can’t we change it?

Producing food too much and wasted food are always emitting astounding greenhouse gases.
From the beginning, preventing food waste leads to solving lacking food problem, cutting down forests, infertile lands, and emitting gases.
If it’s with reducing the estimated global population, it leads to reducing demand for electricity and saving the cost.

We have to think Drawdown beyond sustainability towards regeneration.

Words in this story
provoke /verb/ anger, irritate, annoy, incite, instigate; stimulate, arouse
cascading cascade /verb/ flowing out

Rachel Wurzman : How isolation fuels opioid addiction

Rachel Wurzman at TEDxMidAtlantic  (transcript)
How isolation fuels opioid addiction
Summary
I thought that I often heard stories about opioids this year thus I checked why.
According to my research, a science magazine in the U.S. seemed to have said that people's lasting pains must be taken away by medicines of opioids. After that, the number of opioids’ fatalities was dramatically increasing in 2016 more than the number of traffic and suicide fatalities. Although some doctors knew that, patients who used opioids have become opioid addiction.
And then the speaker found that not having opioid-receptor linked with terrible loneliness by herself experiences.
Taking many opioids fills in opioid-receptor in your body, it makes social interactions difficult to feel rewards, and isolation births more feeling lonelinesses that the situations are social disconnections, addictive drugs, abnormal neurotransmission on involuntary movement and compulsive behaviors. It converges in the striatum that places in your brain. Like that, isolation fuels opioid addiction. This is the opioid crisis.

Words in this story
syndrome /noun/ condition, illness, complex
striatum /noun/ cortex of the brain.
reciprocal /adj/ mutual
fuel /verb/ supply or power (an industrial plant, vehicle, or machine) with fuel. cause (a fire) to burn more intensely.
converge /verb/ (of several people or things) come together from different directions so as eventually to meet.
neurotransmission /noun/ nerves spreading and communication

Tarana Burke : Me Too is a movement, not a moment

Tarana Burke at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
Me Too is a movement, not a moment
Summary
Our world has many problems. I understood this time that the problem that we don't know is not solved definitely.

The Me Too movement is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. Many people and I thought that it started from October 2017 when a famous actress was frank sexual harassment on Tweeter and other actresses used "#MeToo".
People knew that in not only the American movie industry but also common industries, there was a lot of sexual harassment. Authority, power, privilege, and money could be building blocks of sexual violence and continue hiding it. it made victims numb for a long time. Finally, the problem could be known by people in the world as an important problem with helping SNS.

However, in fact, from over one decade, #MeToo was used by the speaker. It's been in 2006. The speaker is a black woman and in a black community where it occurred usually. No one thought it's the problem and people were numb.

All human rights are important more than authority, power, privilege, and money,  so those are an the problem that have to be dismantled.

Beginning, I didn't understand why the words numb and dismantle were used many times in the story, but now I understood.

Still, in Japan, people are numb. Authority, power, privilege, and money are strong. Although it's said that utilizing females workforce is important, it's thought that positions are important. This piled up situations must be dismantled, though, it's difficult. The hero who tries to break this, even who is a man will be hidden by authority, power, privilege, and money. It's out of date.

The speaker hopes that for future generations, the world has to be dismantled. The Me Too movement must not be stopped for a moment.

Words in this story
owe /verb/ have an obligation to pay or repay (something, especially money) in return for something received.
utilizing utilize  /verb/  make practical and effective use of

Jared Diamond : How societies can grow old better

Jared Diamond at TED2013  (transcript)
How societies can grow old better
Summary
This, my summary must be the biggest summary in this year because I've just thought about this problem. In fact, Japanese society is too good for elderly people and it has to be urgently started solving because the Japanese population is aging really rapidly.
I am very surprised about the big differences between the U.S. and Japan in this situation.
First, l will summarize this article. It'll be better to be divided into traditional societies 1) and modern societies. 2) And then we will understand the speaker’s suggestions. 3)
Next, l want to write current Japanese circumstances 4) and last, my opinions but I want it to be how societies can grow younger better and elderly better. 5)

1)
First, the speaker talks about growing older in traditional societies.
By the way, the speaker lives in a large and modern society which is America.
In the story, traditional societies are traditional, small, and tribal societies where surprisingly seemed to be more diverse than our modern, recent, and big societies. It means that there are big differences among traditional societies about the treatment of the elderly. There had been much worse and much better also.
The worst example of traditional societies is that elderly people are rid of by neglecting, not feeding, not caring until dying, and killing them.
The reasons are helpless but elderly people had to do their own parents and they know that it happens to them.
It's because nomadic, Arctic and deserts areas are unsteady, younger people who can shift camp have to be survived and food that is always not enough there has to be provided only to them.

However,  there are traditional societies where elderly people are cared for, fed, and they remain valuable. It's areas which are farming societies, sedentary, and need elderly people's knowledge, experiences, and culture about politics, medicine, religion, songs, making and producing. The reasons might be not to have letters, but those were important.

2)
What about next that is about modern societies where the speaker lives in?
We see that America is a big country and has dreams, however, he tells us that elderly Americans are in a low status and at a big disadvantage in job applications and in hospitals but they end up living separately from their children, relatives, and friends. And then some of them live in separate retirement homes.
The reasons for the low status of the elderly in the U.S. are placing a high value on work, 1) emphasizing on the virtues of self-reliance and independence, 2) and worshiping of youth.3)

This difference between traditional societies and modern societies must come from becoming remarkable longer lives and better health in old age. The changes were better, though, there has been a big burden for young people.

By living alone, by retiring from the workforce, and by changing rapidly technology, elderly people lose social ties, they don’t have anything to do, and then they are put in the low status.

3)
The speaker’s suggestions for improving the value of elderly people are that entrusting caring for children because mothers have their work, creating more opportunities to listen to elderly people to avoid risks because they must have a lot of experiences, and understanding human relationships from elderly people must be huge values.

The most important thing is to learn with respect. Tribal or modern societies shouldn't be scorned, however, shouldn’t be romanticized. Just, miserable modern societies of elderly people must be changed and he is a writer who writes about this problem.

4)
The story really surprised me because my father told me in the past, that Japan was the country where elderly people felt small to live but in America and other countries, elderly people enjoyed their lives with hobbies. Japan had to become like that, however, Japanese circumstances are now big improving for elderly people. They receive a high pension, create their positions in the workforce but they don’t do the work, control politics and education not to make Japan better but to build waste organizations not to lose their positions but it’s used our taxes. The cost of those, pension and hospital are obviously lacking and the Japanese debt is bigger, though, no one does anything.

5)
Why has those world appeared?
My opinion is that human thoughts are out of date. It’s both countries which are Japan and America also.
The speaker also tells us that 60 years later, what elderly people learned when they were children is no longer useful because technology is rapidly changing today. Thus all people have to continue learning to live better always.  Even children will face that what they learned is unnecessity soon. It's faster than we face because of technology growing but it can't be stopped. We have to change our thoughts by learning.

The thoughts that younger people have to care about elderly people and money and high positions make elderly people happy and jobs give people enough money must be nonsense.
We have to learn that from learning, graduating is no longer.
Learning must teach us that it'll be better that 90 years elderly people care about 70 years because they are healthy. There are many happy people who don't have enough money and high positions, robots take away our jobs definitely and how societies can grow not only old better but also all better.

Words in this story
vary /verb/ be different
fluctuate /verb/ change differ shift alter
allocation /noun/ assignment, allotment, quota