Takanori Nakagome : 2019Better Together Challenge : Global Final

Takanori Nakagome : Dance knows no borders- Connect the world through dancing and live streaming
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Hello, guys!
I’m, Takanori Nakagome, a professional Hip-Hop dancer like this.
(Applause)
Today, I'd like to talk about how dance makes world peace. I run an education program that connects Asian children with children in other countries mainly in Africa through dancing and the internet live streaming. I started this project alone four years ago but now many people and the organizations have cooperated in this project and l have taught dance to more than 15000 children in 23 continues and have connected 3000 children. Yes, and they dance together and they teach dancing with each other and they perform dancing each other and finally, they dance together at the same time by using Skype, Google hangout and so on.
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It looks so fun, right?
1:21
Why l started the project is... it’s because of my experiences.
This is my childhood.
(Pictures, Laughter)
When l was a child, l was really shy and l didn’t have a lot of self-confidence. I was really shy, but after working for a while, l decided to pursue my dream which was to travel around the world to teach dancing and it changed my life because l build good relationships with many people in the world and we respected with each other, each other’s differences and l realized l also have a value as the person that l am and so I want children to have same experiences so that l started to connect children from around the world to teach, to dance and the internet live.
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Actually, yeah, like this and this project always moves me a lot, for example, this is during one mouth stay in Rwanda, l connect, "Rwanda, Japanese," Rwanda elemental school students and Japanese elemental school students for one month and they danced together and they, they made a dance video together.
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And there was a boy called Basil in 6th grade. He was like... he was like a leader, he was smart, he spoke English very well, and also he was a great dancer but he, he was a little bit of show off and seems like reluctant, but by interacting with Japanese children for one month, they became good friends and actually his birthday was just Christmas Eve and, and the final day of this workshop was also 24 this December, the Christmas Eve, and l and they danced together. Finally, the Japanese children surprised him by singing happy birthday and the usually nonchalant him, Basil, was severe. Like I'd never seen before and held back tears while listening to their singing become they danced together for one month and they became really great friends and in this ways, l think the world can change through having fun and becoming friends and learning each other, learning from each other. I would like you... l want to show you my activities videos.
(Video, Applause)
5:12
Thanks. In my opinion, people from all of the world are able to get along well with each other, the great rest of the country the culture and l believe “Dance has the power to bring world peace. I wanner make a peaceful world through connecting people from all over the world through dancing and becoming friends.
5:30
Thank you so much.

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2020

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2020
It is unfortunate that I couldn't write over 200 articles of my blog this year.
1. What did you learn about yourself from this year 2019?
I've learned about me. I work hard every day, though, something that l did was very small and unfortunately, there didn't seem to be piled up. Something that is left is only a lot of my homework. Hahaha

2. Which relationship meant the most to you this year and why?
In business, many customers bought our company’s products by using the internet this year, thus people going to real shops are really decreasing. We think that we have to create relationships with them more. It means that we have to think about how to attract customers to real shops.
relationship /noun/ connection, relatedness

3. What was one of the biggest challenges you faced this year and how did you handle it?
The biggest challenge l faced is to get up early and go to bed also early. I think l cloud get up earl because l like to take English lesson in the morning, though, it’s difficult to go to bed early. I’m really tired this year.

4. What was one of your proudest moments from this year and why?
My proudest moments from this year is that l have work and I create the position that l can create work forever! even robots will steal our jobs soon.

5. What was one of the most meaningful compliments you received this year?  Why was it so meaningful to you?
Of course, customers compliments to 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?
The most enjoyable time for me is when I am waiting for English lessons starting. I wonder whether l can answer well to teachers’ questions or not, l can use the same difficult words that l learned yesterday or not and so on.
However, after the lessons, I thought that l couldn't speak a lot today, too 💢　Tomorrow, l will do my best! Hahaha

7. If you could change one thing from this year, what would you change and why?
I wanted to go to the gym...I feel a lack of exercise.

8. What was the most meaningful thing someone did for you this year?
Although my English progress is very slow, many teachers teach me English

9. If you were to brag about one of your accomplishments from this year, which one would it be and why?
"Our company's products are great!"  It's because there are many products that haven't been thought in Japan.
brag / big talk, tall tale

10. Given all your experiences, insights, and lessons learned from 2019, what's the best advice you could give yourself for 2020?
Losing something is not fear, all things must have risks. I have no choice but to do it. Good luck.

Her dream is coming true.

At Shinagawa Station, I found a big picture of her. For the few years ago, I was really moved by her TED talk. Her dream is coming true.

Cara E. Yar Khan : The beautiful balance between courage and fear

Cara E. Yar Khan·TEDWomen 2019
The beautiful balance between courage and fear
Summary
I didn’t realize that the speaker used a wheelchair completely. She was diagnosed with a severe disease that leads to quadriplegia but that is no proved treatment or cure.
However, the most disheartening thing was not to be diagnosed but to listen to other people's advise. They told her to quit her international career, give up marriage, and there were limitations to have dreams and ambitions. However, the speaker ignored them. She thought that obstacles and fear don't necessarily immediately set thus she must have been able to have one way or another with courage.

All people’s lives are already scary. For our dreams coming true, we need to be brave. In facing our fears and finding the courage to push through them. Our courage has to outweigh our fear.

The speaker tells us a lesson of our life which is finding the balance between fear and courage is important and understanding what is and what isn't a good idea.

She doesn’t give up her career which is working around the world, climbing Grand Canyon, and swimming in the river. One after the other, she is done.

Words in this story
quadriplegia /kwädrəˈplēj(ē)ə/quad ri ple gi a

Rabiaa El Garani : Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS

Rabiaa El Garani·TEDMED 2018
Hope and justice for women who’ve survived ISIS
Summary
People always say that justice is about punishing the perpetrator or perpetrators might change their minds as humans. And then, committed crimes have been recorded and recognized by the rule of law. Where should victims be? Should they be quiet alone? No, they should, of course, reclaim their dignity and find closure with their trauma. This must be a credible justice process. They are brave survivors and they need to connect again to their own self-worth, to their families, and to their place in a society that values them. Not giving condemnation but giving compassion and bearing witness is an honor. Seeking their justice should be hope and healing.

In the past, people hide cruel things that ISIS did, though, survivors now have the right to be resilient. The speaker works for them but she is also a survivor.

Words in this story
resilient /adj/   resilience /noun/

Nick Bostrom : How civilization could destroy itself — and 4 ways we could prevent it

Nick Bostrom·TED2019
How civilization could destroy itself — and 4 ways we could prevent it
Summary
The speaker’s story is always and really difficult, so l remembered that the previous one was also difficult. It’s because l think that he knows about many things that we don’t know but he can’t tell us.

The speaker is a philosopher who comprehends the computer. This time, he seemed to release a new book “Simulation”. This will deserve the campaign.

On his assumption, the computer level seems to be the same as a human soon. The computer can learn and act like humans. And then, can humans continue controlling them at that time?  A lot of people died in the war. You can say that its computer doesn’t go to war definitely, can’t you? The computer is created by humans. This civilization is also created by humans, though, it could destroy itself.
Thus, the title is How civilization could destroy itself. Without noticing, we will set a button that no one knows where and when we would make a mistake.

The speaker suggests 4 ways that we could prevent it.
One is not to restrict technological development and it shouldn’t have strict rules but should democratize.
Second is to reduce the number of people who are incentivized to destroy the world, it’s thought that it won’t work well, though.
The third is to stop the danger in real time. The world requires ubiquitous surveillance and everybody would be monitored all the time.
The final is that the world has to correspond with the macro and global level problems.

I think that in the story when we could extract all the balls from the urn, we’d benefit greatly, it won’t be true. I'm gonna read the book.

Valorie Kondos : Why winning doesn't always equal success

Valorie Kondos Field·TEDWomen 2019
Why winning doesn't always equal success
Summary
Why winning doesn’t always equal success is that because your life is still continuing, just you couldn’t win only this event. The event might be an important exam, election and the last match, though, you must have practiced really hard. It means that you are a champion in your life and you are successful.

The world and a lot of people strongly believe that winning at all costs is successful, but it’s wrong and a crisis.

The speaker realized that there were beautiful lives for losers after winning of one person. Real success is developing champions in life for our world, winners, and losers. All challenges must lead you to fortifying as a whole human being and it’s important to produce and train champions in life in every single walk of life without compromising the human spirit. Everyone can have motivations to want to be great again by redefining success.

Lorna Davis : A guide to collaborative leadership

Lorna Davis·TED@BCG Mumbai
A guide to collaborative leadership
Summary
The story is a guide to collaborative leadership and why this will be needed.
Our world can’t work only to have one great hero now. Furthermore, people strongly believe that heroes help them and their boss should be a hero who must have better leadership.

However, only one person who has the answer is ludicrous and all people must be needed and expected.

Now, the world works by collaboration. It’s between companies and other industries, leaders and labors, communities and companies, and etc.

Not only getting benefits but we have to solve the most important problem. 1)
Before people have a plan, collaborators declare their goals. 2)
It can’t be achieved alone. 3)

A leader who must be a hero is an illusion. We have to have better collaborative power with our leaders.

Dan Reinstein : How does laser eye surgery work?

Dan Reinstein·TED-Ed
How does laser eye surgery work?
Summary
José Ignacio Barraquer Moner was a Spanish ophthalmologist and he was a pioneer of laser eye surgery. It can correct refractive errors: imperfections in the way the eye focuses incoming light. It’s called Keratomileusis and its surgery is known as LASIK. (laser in-situ keratomileusis) We feel scared of eye surgery, however, it’s accurate enough to etch words into a human hair and the technique is currently about as likely to damage your eyes as wearing daily disposable contact lenses for one year. It means, l don’t want to say, if you use contact lenses over one year, your eyes will get damaged more than surgery. The process takes less than 30 seconds for each eye. If its surgery operates your body, it’ll be too small to feel anything thus l think you won’t feel any pain. The technology can restore not only myopia (short-sightedness) and
hyperopia (far-sightedness) but also presbyopia (aging eyes). The problem seems to be only expensive, right?

Barraquer was fed up with glasses. It led to founding great surgery. However, l think that it’s important for people how to be looked more than how to look.

It’s because when pretty girls and good looking boys wear glasses, people rashly get glasses like being them and laser surgery will be used for faces more than eyes. People want to be beautiful more than they can look at something well. I think so too. I use glasses because it must cover wrinkles on my face and my face itself. People must see my glasses before they know my face. Hahaha

Cornelia Geppert : Brightline Initiative A video game that helps us understand loneliness

Cornelia Geppert·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative
A video game that helps us understand loneliness
Summary
This was a significant story of the game that the speaker created by her own experiences. I don’t play games, though, l think that the thoughts must help us really. The game title is “Sea of Solitaire” and it seems to be also sold in Japan. In the game, you battle the “monsters” of loneliness and self- doubt that everyone has. In fact, those emotions don’t completely vanish even in the game but joy is something that we cannot really embrace or touch. The key message is to not only chase for joy or happiness but to embrace all your emotions and bring them into balance, being OK with sometimes means not  to be OK. The way to overcome it seems only to share your stories or to balance. Everyone has an inner monster that is born out of negative emotions. We want to kill them, though, we seem to have to understand that humans are complex beings. If you barely feel, you can get stimulation or if you feel too much, you can move towards lowering those peaks. The wide range of emotions and struggles makes us what we are: humans.

Mitchell Katz : What the US health care system assumes about you

Mitchell Katz·TEDMED 2018
What the US health care system assumes about you
Summary
There are many challenges low- income patients face. They work even on Sunday to pay the rent, don't have enough money to use Uber, don't have friends to call doctors, and sometimes can't use English. Health care is built on a middle-class model thus it doesn't meet the needs of low-income patients. And then, by everyone hoping economic development,  it becomes difficult to close the disparity in health care. 

The speaker is Mitchell Katz who is the CEO of the largest public health care system in the US which is working on those.

It's the health care system, though, the important thing is not that you are a doctor. The needs of low-income patients are to listen to their languages, to explain their diagnoses verbally because some people can't read papers, even speak. They need inexpensive cell phones to call doctors. Sending letters many times, giving a steady supply of food, enabling to use refrigerator, bathroom and a bed where they can sleep without worrying about violence while they are resting, and so on, those are what low-income and homeless patients need. The right prescription for a homeless patient is housing, only providing them with health insurance is not working well. It must reduce costs more than they go to doctors after being a serious illness and they can be helped without noticing, some of the patients die.

This is what the US health care system assumes.

Kelsey Leonard : Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans

Kelsey Leonard·TEDWomen 2019
Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
Summary
When we hear about rights, we think about human rights and we think that humans are equal and great because we do a lot, for example, we can understand each other, can create many things, can learn, and so on. However, having rights means to restore to a normal or upright position, and a right in the first place shows morally correct, just, or honorable. Humans in the past didn't have the same rights, some humans were sacrificed but water is now sacrificed for us. We pollute lakes, rivers, and seas but we forget that we can't live if there is no water. Just water has to be restored to a normal or upright position and it must mean that lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans.
Water is essential to life, only healthy water can create better ecosystems, it leads to thriving and creating connections not only for humans but also humans, animals. plans and so on. It's all and water is life.
The speaker said that Indigenous peoples like herself were not citizens under the law, but they gather on today. Water is the same. We can regain clean water with the same rights as humans like creating beautiful communities.

Kara Logan Berlin : 3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser

Kara Logan Berlin·TEDxSantaClaraUniversity
3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser
Summary
Money definitely is needed when we have something that we want to do, however, it's thought that money is a burden on us because we don't learn about money well that there is much different thought about money. Even collecting money for helping people, we think that it's an embarrassing and ugly thing. The speaker said that it's baggage.

The speaker is a fundraiser who corrects money and how to overcome feeling embarrassing. The most important thing is to change your feelings that is about wealth and money, 1) the importance of building relationships, 2) and how to ask for what you want. 3)

A fundraiser has to work for a donor who comfortably offers money to someone who has something that he/she wants to do, someone who uses its money, and, of course, herself.
Everyone has different thoughts about money, though, money makes the world go round with your idea.

P.S.
Her company seems to be “Harvest,” l think, it’s really a good name because the meaning is harvesting your dream, right?
And then, I first didn't know why she said many times, "baggage!".
However, I remembered that even in Japanese, something that we think which is a burden is baggage. It might mean that thinking money is not my baggage but my baggage is now piled much homework! In the first place, I don't have money for thinking about it. hahaha

Kelsey Johnson : The problem of light pollution — and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it

Kelsey Johnson·TED@NAS
The problem of light pollution — and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it
Summary
In December, people are excited about coming Christmas and in the cities, illuminations are really beautiful. However, always lightening cities is light pollution that I don’t know.

The speaker is an astronomer thus she could see real satellite pictures from space that are very beautiful illuminations, though, she tells us that at night, we can't see a truly dark night sky which is a big problem. It'll break a biological clock for not only us but also animals and plants. It's relating to our diseases, for example, cancer and so on, and small creatures are eaten because of brighter light, they are caught. The ecosystem will be breaking. Illuminations cost is high and it uses much energy.

It will be better for us to have to do something that is even small.
The speaker suggests 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it. It's funny because it seems to be ridiculous.

Don't use lights brighter than you need to. 1) Don't use lights when you don't need them. 2) Those lights you're using, make sure they're shielded down, so they're not shining up into the sky. 3) Use LED lights. If you have a choice, don't buy the blue ones. 4)  Advocate for this. 5)

Today, we know that in our world, there is a problem of light pollution and there are 5 things that we can do to fix it.

Deepa Narayan : Nayi Baat 7 beliefs that can silence women — and how to unlearn them

Deepa Narayan·TED Talks India: Nayi Baat
7 beliefs that can silence women-and how to unlearn them
Summary
I wondered how to unlearn.

7 beliefs that in the article, were explained by the speaker are that you, especially a girl, shouldn’t think about your body, 1) you should be always quiet, 2) you have to be a people pleaser focally, 3) you have no sexuality, 4) don’t trust women, 5) you should think your desire is duty, 6) be totally dependent on men. 6)
It's thought that those seven habits are good, moral snatch life away from girls, and positioning men to abuse. A habit is just a habit but every habitat is a learned habit. When it must be changing, people can unlearn them and personal change is extremely important. Still, there are such kinds of some areas where not only the speaker lives in but other people live in surprisingly.

Those are the reasons why women and men are not equal. Even women have been educated, employed and they earn income, it won’t be changing easily. The system of every social foundation has to be changing. The speaker tells us that it’ll take two more centuries, though, it should start and it should stop learning those habits. This is unlearning. I think that the TED stage that is not TED women is really better. Only just women can’t change this. “Men adjust”, the speaker said.

Cathy Mulzer： The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone

Cathy Mulzer·TED@DuPont
The incredible chemistry powering smartphone
Summary
It started in December from today and this month must be loved by many people, especially children because it includes Christmas Day. The speaker also said that a device that people are now addicted to is coming to you on the day as Christmas presents. However, we don’t think a lot about when the device was made and the speaker suggests that we have to know about it more because it must become your cool sidekick and the best friend. It’s not just code and battery making software engineers but this is a great gift from the chemistry.

The display of our smartphone is embedded within organic polymers, l thought that it’s liquid crystal. It can take electricity and turn it into the blue, red, and green that we enjoy in our pictures. The great adhesive that of course thanks to chemistry bind electrodes in the small area of smartphone. For the brain and some circuits board of our smartphone, chemistry seems to enable all of those layers. And then our devices will be more powerful, faster and miniaturized. For 5G, chemistry must work more. We always say that technology developing is now really great but chemistry really helps it, we really don’t know about it, though. We have to thank chemistry and I hope that the divide is not a product that makes people only addicted.

Mike Cannon-Brookes : How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit

Mike Cannon-Brookes·TEDxSydney

How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit 

Summary 

Somehow, l struggled to understand what the story told us this time.
What is “impostor syndrome”?
An impostor is a liar and in the article, “Begin it now” and why is it used for your benefit?

The speaker is an entrepreneur who is successful. He had about 70 employees, his company was about four years old when he got a prize. I wondered why he was an impostor. That time, the speaker met a big person who had been running his business for 40 years and he had 30,000 employees. He was a really big entrepreneur, however, he had been continuing his business with feeling the same way that was impostor syndrome. One idea hit me, l understood it, and l also have done always.

I use words: you become an actor or actress as you are being “impostor syndrome”. It means to act, perform, play to the end. In the story, a clipboard was used also.

“Begin it now” and “be a knock on the door” means that l call those “be switched on”, so turn on your switch, start acting your life, and you control it. The speaker uses a word that is “Harness”.

“Impostor syndrome” must mean that “Fake it till you become it?(you make it)” and pretend what you want to be, another similar article said.  For the speaker's marriage, it seemed to be successful. His wife might do but it's successful.

Successful people don't feel like frauds seem to be wrong. They have done more on the stage or have taken the stage a lot.

This time, I couldn't pretend to be a person who speaks English well, unfortunately. hahaha

This is the similar article that my teacher love, thus she used it three times in our class, though, I forgot completely

Amy Cuddy·TEDGlobal 2012 Your body language may shape who you are