Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2021

Top 10 New Year's Questions for 2021

Finally, I've written summaries of TED talks over 1,000 and updated them on my blog. Next year, I want to train my speaking skills more and update my videos!

1. What did you learn about yourself from this year 2020?

I've learned that it's important to have the ability to concentrate when I do anything. During coronavirus spreading, I thought I had time to do many things, however, I could do nothing. Just, I saw my smartphone, felt bad, couldn't sleep and it was repeated.  

2. Which relationship meant the most to you this year and why?

Pandemic and digital gadgets taught me that friendship on the surface was not necessary. It’ｓbetter to leave there than to have conversations. 

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 that I could do last year, it's to get up early and to study English every morning before I starting work, couldn't do it completely this year because of coronavirus. I couldn't sleep well every day, it led to getting up late and I felt bad always. 

Furthermore, The one more biggest challenge that l faced is that no one tries buying our company products because of coronavirus. People couldn't travel, enjoy shopping too, and we've not handled it yet. Our company has to serve something that people can enjoy and hold on to during even coronavirus.

4. What was one of your proudest moments from this year and why?

My proudest moment from this year is, of course,  that l got received a birthday cake from THE PHILIPPINES!! The way was going beyond my imagination, I didn't know, couldn't think, and my colleagues couldn't also think about it. Just, an Uber delivered it to me, though, the call was from the Philippines. "This is global or worldwide, the world is becoming flat and near, and it was amazing and great,  said my colleagues who didn't like to study English. 

5. What was one of the most meaningful compliments you received this year?  Why was it so meaningful to you?

I give a great compliment to myself. It was great to be able to continue studying English this year.

6. What did you do for fun this year? What was one of your favorite memories?

This year, there was no fun thing because of COVID-19. Just, I walked every day around near my house during avoiding people while wearing a mask. It's because I felt a lack of exercise. 

7. If you could change one thing from this year, what would you change and why?

In fact, I started to go to the training gym and have a dance lesson! It's because I felt a lack of exercise. I've already changed and started them. 

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?

I decided to have time not to see and use my smartphone a lot. 

It's called "Digital Dansyri" which is a Japanese word to describe letting go. It teaches you not only how to let go of physical and mental clutter but also helps you free from stress and purify your mind. It's also minimalism and simple living. 

brag / big talk, tall tale

10. Given all your experiences, insights, and lessons learned from 2020, what's the best advice you could give yourself for 2021?

I think that we can't go back, can't return a former condition, it's severe and you might lose your hope, however, it's more severe to think that you can return and you couldn't do anything. This is the time when I can prepare many things. 

JayaShri Maathaa : A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life

JayaShri Maathaa·TEDWomen 2020
A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life
Summary 

The story must make us who are in pandemic realize what is important. The magical words are “Thank you”. 

Is it important that now, you are telling yourself you are suffering, COVID-19 should be killed, the policies in the country are not good, the President or Prime Minister is evil, people who go out should be punished more, and etc?

The speaker suggests that the true feeling of gratitude words “Thank you” in your heart must help you deal with any life situation peacefully, joyfully, and blissfully. 

The situation will be continuing a little more and what you can be happy, free from all suffering, and be enlightened is not to forget the words “Thank you”. 

I extend my sincere condolences to people who passed away because of coronavirus and l thank people who are working in the hospitals and everywhere during coronavirus spreading. I am grateful to have a job, to be able to eat, and to have time to study English this year, too. 

Thank you for teaching me English every year!

Merve Emre : How do personality tests work?

Merve Emre·TED-Ed
How do personality tests work?
Summary 

People love to test their personality, though, the speaker tells us that none of those tests reveal truths about personality. 

It’s because it’s not known whether personality is a measurable feature of an individual at all or not, it’s easy to lie, self-reporting is not objective and people who get a test and who ask something subconsciously aim to please and believe the answers that they love. Furthermore, facing the same forced-choice question multiple times leads to changing their answer. 

Thus we have to be careful to use it. It’s not perfect and fair to judge people.

Genevieve Bell : 6 big ethical questions about the future of AI

Genevieve Bell·TED Salon: Dell Technologies
6 big ethical questions about the future of AI
Summary 

Does Al rob our work and does it kill us someday? Can we coexist with AI?

The speaker makes Al and its possibilities without people being worried, thus she tries to have 6 big ethical questions about the future of AI. If those are forgotten, we mustn’t live with AI. Those are to take AI safely, sustainably, and responsibly to scale. 

The system should be autonomous 1), have agency 2), think about assurance 3), and AI-driven systems4). It shouldn’t behave in entirely different ways suddenly and we have to understand and know about  AI-driven systems working well 5) and what’s the system designed to do and what is the world that the system is building 6). 

Humans have created AI thus we have to have responsibilities. 

Anna Babel : Who counts as a speaker of a language?

Anna Babel·TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Who counts as a speaker of a language?

Summary 

This must be a really interesting story for Japanese who study English. It’s because Japanese people are always told that they can't speak English, even if they live in other countries where English is used. At home, they will use Japanese or when people see their faces, people believe that Japanese people can’t speak it. If they speak it well, they will be asked if they are Korean or Chinese. Sometimes, they write English really well because in school, they learn how to write it without speaking it for a long time and they read a lot of English books in Japanese. Many weird things happen. 

The speaker tells us that the relationship between language and social categories is intricate and complex but people are pattern seekers, we are always looking for ways to connect the dots between different types of information. We can’t understand that our underlying biases are projected onto language. People have different backgrounds so your assumptions are not always right and decisive. 

P.S. The speaker's example stories of how Spanish native speakers speak English were interesting as well and she whose name was babel used the story of the Babel tower first. 

Ajay Banga : Financial inclusion, the digital divide and other thoughts on the future of money

 Ajay Banga·TED@BCG

Financial inclusion, the digital divide and other thoughts on the future of money 

Summary 

No one thought about not only coronavirus spreading this year but also lockdown. We didn’t think that we couldn’t go out and even go to work. It shows the digital divide. It means that during COVID-19, some people could work, buy, study, and watch movies by using the internet, though, there are many people who couldn’t use the internet. They don’t have smartphones and it’s highly possible that they don’t have bank accounts thus they don’t have credit cards also. It means that they can do nothing during coronavirus spreading if they have even little money at home. 

The speaker who is the CEO of Mastercard tells us that the number is two billion. Not educating them on how to use banks and credit cards is like giving inequalities and excluding them. 

His explanation is that those people, public and private sectors have to cooperate to access banks, financial services, credit cards, insurance, and investment. 

People who don’t have a bank account are not the people who don’t have money. They just don’t know how to use the internet, just don’t have a formal identity, or think that they don’t believe banks and credit cards. They just want to deal in cash like the speaker’s father. However, credit cards now have more credit than money. It’s also different from cashless and zero cash. Reducing cash in the economy is a good objective. Printing, securing, distributing, and using cash is a high cost. Reducing it efficiently works for our GDP and electronic forms of money are more transparent than money, though, many people don’t know, don’t believe it and they will be worked whether their data is deleted or not. 

The speaker suggests that for saving poor people from coronavirus, it’s necessary to understand using credit cards. For increasing our economy, it’s necessary as well and the public and companies have to cooperate. 

Sarah Brosnan : Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness

 Why monkeys and humans are wired for fairness 
Summary 

The speaker is a scientist and a primatologist. We know that monkeys and humans’ actions are alike and she tells us that both of them have a sense of fairness. Her study showed that a monkey also wanted to get the same food that an immediate monkey was eating.  If the monkey knew that neighborhood had different food and it could get from exchanging, she wanted to exchange to get the same as humans would do. 

And then, the speaker explains that humans have advanced cognitive abilities to be able to plan more than monkeys. It means that humans can think that they are equal or become equal in the near future if we work together and we believe that our economic connection relates fairness and cooperation strongly, though, if we feel that it’s not changing, our society and communities will be breaking. 

This must be our current society. People feel left out of the reward and benefits of the system, they will stop participating, and the whole system will fall apart. Humans naturally and evolutionarily reject unfairness like monkeys, but we must have the ability to change it more than monkeys. 

Sharon Weinberger : Initiative Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech

Sharon Weinberger·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative
Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech

Summary 

This was an important story to protect our country. 

The speaker asked us "What is a weapon in the Information Age?"

Armed drones are weapons and missiles and bombs are also weapons, but we have to know that it’s classified broad categories of technologies as weapons and it includes surveillance tools. Furthermore, it’s trading and governments want to sell more weapons abroad with fewer restrictions. It’s because they want to get not only money, it's expensive, but opponent information. However, our information is also sold. The speaker suggests to regulate and control their sale because it's really dangerous if a spy uses them. We must understand its danger more. 

Sakinah Hofler : How creative writing can help you through life's hardest moments

How creative writing can help you through life’s hardest moments 
Summary 

The story was the worst thing for me and l never do that. It’s to share about myself. 

The speaker tells us that you don’t plan on becoming creative writers, but you break your silence a little. For example, your little regret is that you wanted to say something or to do something, though you couldn’t do it. She said that it’s not difficult. First, to brainstorm and write it down, to focus on three things, and to make time to write it. 

The three stories that she focused on were the things that happened after 9/11, that her friend pulled a gun on her and her boss asked her about her hijab. 

Those were her hardest moments that she didn’t want to acknowledge, though writing down is to record, to be able to capture the memory and to be able to acknowledge its existence. It makes her a natural storyteller. 

Emily Levesque : A stellar history of modern astronomy

A stellar history of modern astronomy 
Summary 

The speaker tells us that in the past, every star in the galaxy was counted by hand!!

With technology evolution, and then telescopes were invented. However, it was tough to use a telescope and a camera simultaneously, it’s necessary to get evidence, astronomers couldn’t just walk away from the camera, they had to stay there all night shivering in the cold. 

By advancing technology, how to operate telescopes has really changed. You don’t even need to go to telescopes anymore, you can run it with your laptop, and send commands from your laptop telling the telescope where to point when to open and close the shutter, what pictures you want it to take of the universe. Furthermore, with digital data, the telescope can look for anything that’s changed. It means to be able to compare old and new observations automatically and to be ready to learn some incredible new things about the universe.

María Teresa Kumar : How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections

 María Teresa Kumar·TEDWomen 2020

How the new generation of Latinx voters could change the US

Summary 

Various races and immigrant families live in the United States. In the 2020 US presidential election, a record number of young people voted for the first time. It included a historic number of Latinx as well. 

The speaker seems to be their leader and she has shown about the issues closest to young Latinx voters. It includes health care, climate equality, and racial justice. The important thing is that young people speak up for their world that is livable, equitable, and just. The speaker tells us that the election result can rebuild America. 

P.S. l strongly think that people and the media tell us the demerits of Trump too much. It’s like bullying in schools. You must tell your children that they should see the good in friends and they must improve their strength. 

If you did see the good in Trump's political power and you helped improve Trump’s strength, America would succeed more. You should be careful with the Chinese. There is a historic number of Latinx in America means that there are more Chinese than them there. 

Rosalind G. Brewer : The role of business in nurturing long-term diversity and inclusion

Rosalind G. Brewer·TED@BCG

The role of business in nurturing long-term diversity and inclusion 

Summary 

The speaker is Starbucks COO and in Starbucks, people of various races are working.  However, she tells us that for a long time, people worried about the race for numbers in one company instead of building relationships with people of diverse backgrounds in the United States. And then, it was not effective and not supportive of efforts to be more inclusive and diversity. 

Leaders have to make employees feel more worthy and learn from each other. 

The generation is not that you are a leader thus employees follow you. It’s about how great you can create followership. 

After one black man was killed, the pandemic showed the inequalities in the communities, health care, and their housing. People must know about the ills of lack of diversity and inclusion and have to have more conversations for its solutions to create a truly inclusive workplace. 

Varun Sivaram : India's historic opportunity to industrialize using clean energy

Varun Sivaram·Countdown

India’s historic opportunity to industrialize using clean energy 

Summary 

The speaker is Indian, a physicist and clean energy executive and he explains energies that Indians use every day. 

Indian population is over one billion, they live in rural areas, and use wood, cow dung, and bioenergy. Just six percent of Indians own cars, and two percent have air conditioning. For escaping poverty, they need far more energy. 

However, coal, oil, and gas energy must ravage the country and endanger the planet. 

The speaker suggests three goals. 

1, India will need to build solar and wind power at an unprecedented scale and speed to replace coal-fired power plants. 

2, India will need to extend the reach of that renewable energy to power sectors of the economy like industry and transportation that haven’t traditionally used electricity. 

3, India must become radically more energy-efficient. 

Technology and renewable energy must offer India a cleaner and more prosperous future than coal ever can. 

Cedric Habiyaremye : How quinoa can help combat hunger and malnutrition

Cedric Habiyaremye·TED2020

How quinoa can help combat hunger and malnutrition 

Summary 

The speaker lived in Rwanda where the tragedy of the genocide occurred, people couldn’t farm enough, and they struggled with hunger and malnutrition. He discovered the solution to those problems when he learned in the US and it was quinoa. 

Quinoa is a tall annual leafy plant native to South America which is cultivated for its edible seeds that are high in protein.  It has all nine essential amino acids and high adaptability. It also responds well to climate change. 

The speaker, his mother, and local farmers work to combat hunger and malnutrition not only in Rwanda but also in Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and etc. The world should be a place where everyone can get nutritious food and it should be sustainable. 

Words in this story 

versatile / fulfilling many functions, multi-purpose, skilled to do many things, adaptable, flexible, all-around

Gloria Steinem : To future generations of women, you are the roots of change

Gloria Steinem·TEDWomen 2020

To future generations of women, you are the roots of change 

Summary 

The speaker tells us that still, feminism is not understood as a concept. It’s misunderstood, criticized, sometimes ridiculed. Feminism is just the radical idea that human beings are all equal. It’s not only about female superiority or a movement for lesbians. It means that the labels of gender, class, and race are not related, and it can show our unique individuality. 

Because of coronavirus spreading, people can’t gather in the same room, though, little by little, it’s changing. The speech that the newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris spoke gave women the power. When there are more women in all leadership positions, the world can change for future generations of women.  It must go in a good direction. 

Read Kamala Harris's Victory Speech in Full

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34608824/kamala-harris-victory-speech-full-transcript/

Sophie Rose : 2020 How COVID-19 human challenge trials work — and why I volunteered

Sophie Rose·TEDWomen 2020

How COVID-19 human challenge trials work and why I volunteered

Summary 

This was a great story. The speaker is a young woman who has volunteered to be deliberately infected with COVID -19 for a human challenge trial because she thought that the risks were worth taking, it’s said that it’s too risky, though. 

The trial must lead to knowing in as little as a month whether a vaccine seems effective. The long term effects of COVID-19 infection will not only kill more people but also give a strong mental shock to people of the world. This is her decision to rebuild the world from the global crisis. 

Jo Michael Rezes : A playful exploration of gender performance

Jo Michael Rezes·TEDxTufts
A playful exploration of gender performance
Summary 

I remembered the famous TED words of the speaker, Amy Cuddy. “Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it”.

This time, the speaker explained that we all, as actors, can play with gender in our lives and it can say rehearsal. Your current gender might be so well-rehearsed into your bodies, though, you might play with other gender and to be able to realize it is important. 

The speaker is an actor-director, theater educator, and a youngish 20- something-year-old trans person. From the rehearsal, you can know that you support each other in times of not only play and joy but also pain. It leads to succeeding more than you don’t try or fail at all. Our world should be that our gender mistakes have the potential for something good. 

Kathy Mendias :The mood-boosting power of crying

Kathy Mendias·TED@PMI

The mood-boosting power of crying

Summary 

The speaker tells us that we need to have a healthy relationship with crying and change the way we view tears. 

People must think that crying is scary, it’s confusing but it’s a screening alarm. However, she chemically explained that crying was always just associated with something bad. It’s a natural function of our amazing bodies, it’s beautiful, it gives us soothing feelings and reassures, crying is essential for us and it's an expression of our most intense interior human experience.  

There is no need to be embarrassed, ashamed, and run away. Not crying will lead to amplifying our feelings of anger or sadness. Crying helps to boost our mood. 

Aparna Nancherla·Countdown The joy of taking out the trash

Aparna Nancherla·Countdown

The joy of taking out the trash 
Summary 
I thought that the speaker was good at speaking and l wanted to speak like her. Actually, she was a comedian,  but in the past, on the TED stage, a woman who transformed into 11 characters was a different person. She looked like her. 
The comedian is, l think, lucky because she can give people stories with humor. 
Don’t buy what you don’t use, it’s a waste. 

Don’t have too much stuff that is used much enough when those are produced. 
Don’t throw out too much garbage, it must be recycled. 
Don’t produce many things that can’t be recycled. For example, many different types of cans, grass, bubble wrap, pizza boxes, and etc.
Don’t export garbage to foreign countries. 
Don’t think about having a lot of clothes and boyfriends. Taking out those must be the joy for our earth, energy, stopping climate change. 
The speaker was talking pleasantly. 

Paco de Leon·The Way We Work The secret to being a successful freelancer

 Paco de Leon·The Way We Work
The secret to being a successful freelancer 
Summary 

I was sorry that I couldn’t agree with the story, l thought that freelancers worked hard, though. 

After all, what only one person does is lacking experiences and having limits. 

The secret to being a successful freelancer that I think is what other people don’t understand and you shouldn’t tell the earning mechanism to others. It’s because one person’s power is fragile and freelancers must be targeted by professionals. 

If the result of money comes back to you, just you are lucky. 

Mandë Holford : The power of venom — and how it could one day save your life

Mandë Holford·TED2020

The power of venom - and how it could one day save your life 

Summary 

I didn’t know that sea snails can use their venom to capture prey. 

The speaker explains that venom can kill or it can cure. She saw that the venom attacked fish’s cells communicate with each other. It paralyzes the fish, it can be used as chemical compounds, and it can clot with your blood. 

Her ideas are that it must lead to attacking cancer tumor cells. 1) The venom must treat pain without the addiction that is trouble for people. 2)

And also, the venom might treat high blood pressure and lower blood sugar as compounds. 3)

The study is still in the beginning and it’s told that 15 percent of all the animals on the planet are venomous. Thus we must be able to find more new ways to treat our diseases by using animals' venom. For continuing the study and living together on the planet, we have to save all animals. It will lead to saving our lives. 

Kaeli Swift : What crows teach us about death

 Kaeli Swift·TEDxSalem

What crows teach us about death 

Summary 

This was an interesting story, the study is still continuing, and at last, the speaker tells us that there’s no one simple narrative that can explain the vast array of behaviors we see in crows and many other animals so far. It’s just narratives from scientists or other observers. 

Around 100,000 years ago, the first intentional human burial is thought to have occurred. 

What might people have been thinking when they took the time to dig into the earth, deposit the body, and carefully cover it up again?

Were they trying to protect it from scavenger or stymie the spread of disease?

Were they trying to honor the deceased?

Did they just not want to have to look at a dead body?

What crows teach us about death is that there are new answers that we don’t know yet because even smart crow behavior couldn’t be understood yet. Just we can't fix people’s behavior and it’s dangerous. Probably, you know the behaviors we couldn't understand why we did sometimes, understanding our behavior is difficult.

Words in this story 

scavenger / one who cleans animals that feed on trash or decaying flesh, street cleaner, one who searches through garbage for usable materials. 

deceased / the dead

Jean-François Bastin : What if there were 1 trillion more trees?

 Jean-François Bastin·TED-Ed

What if there were 1 trillion more trees?

Summary 

We know that trees consume atmospheric carbon through a chemical reaction called photosynthesis. The process uses energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy-stoning carbohydrates. However, during converting carbohydrates to energy, trees release carbon, and when a tree dies and decay, stored carbon and stored CO2 in the soil are released. 

What if there were 1 trillion more trees?　Planting too many trees means not to be able to restore our atmosphere's balance of greenhouse gasses.  We can’t just plant trees and we need to restore depleted ecosystems that are complicated.  

Erika Cheung : Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power

Erika Cheung·TEDxBerkeley
Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power
Summary 

I was sorry that l didn’t know about the incident that happened in 2014. 

Theranos was the company whose founder was a young woman. Her name is Elizabeth Holmes, and the company’s purpose had been really great. 

It created a medical device of the smallest blood panel. By using it, a blood test was not less painful, it could only get a small amount of blood, and it quickly did. It must have led to finding your disease before you get sick. However, Theranos used the wrong samples. The speaker worked at Theranos, when she realized it and told it to the COO, the company was too big to understand it. The desires that are high positions, honor, and money clouded people’s judgments, though, the speaker continued speaking up the right things. And then, with a very talented journalist, a free lawyer, and her strong action, she could stop the company. 

The speaker has the power to act and imagine. For action, commitment is the desire to do the right things regardless of the cost. 

Consciousness is to aware of moral convictions, competency is the ability to collect and evaluate information and foresee potential consequences and risk, and imagining that if this happened to your loved one. 

John Doerr and Hal Harvey·Countdown How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything

John Doerr and Hal Harvey·Countdown

How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything 

Summary 

Decarbonizing means to remove carbon from our life tools because releasing carbon dioxide or other gaseous carbon compounds into the atmosphere leads to climate change. 

Net Zero carbon 2050 will be now the world’s goal. Many countries try to get halfway to zero by 2030. For this, it has to reduce annual emissions by about 10 percent a year. I was surprised that the speaker told us that we’ve never reduced annual emissions in any year in the history of the planet!!

In our economy, four sectors are related to large emitting. The first is the grid, the second is transportation, the third from the building, and the fourth from industrial activities. Thus in the story, the grid and electrify are showing. The grid is our infrastructure that is our foundation and basis, thus it’s huge, though, the good news is that the prices of solar and wind have plummeted. And then fossil fuels and oil should replace batteries that are possibilities to have enhanced safety, faster charging, fewer spaces, less weight. and cost less. It leads to addressing not only the grid but also transportation.  Some countries increase electric cars, buses, taxes, and its stations. The market for electric vehicle batteries must increase employees.  

In addition to those, planting a lot of trees and continuing those are important. This is the secret policy of the speaker. We think that scale is big, though, the planet ruining speed is more serious but we don’t realize it. We are fast running out of time and we have to do it immediately. 

Nisha Anand : The radical act of choosing common ground

Nisha Anand·TEDxBerkeley

The radical act of choosing common ground 

Summary 

The speaker tells us that anywhere, there’s a common ground for us. If we have different religions, political politics, or we have different colors, races, we can definitely find it. It’s hard, though, it’s not compromised, and it’s the type of common ground that can secure human freedom and save lives. 

The speaker has a different religion, she is Indian and is told that she is brown, thus she said that she was a bridge between something, for example, between the old country and the new. 

Especially, about an issue of climate, it seems divisive and like there’s no common ground to be there, but there is. We have to see a change on a national or global scale and think about big and on a large scale tolerantly and generously. We can choose a common ground. 

Danielle Torley : I stepped out of grief — by dancing with fire

Danielle Torley·TED@PMI

I stepped out of grief-by dancing with fire 

Summary 

This is an amazing story in our tough time during the coronavirus spreading and just American president changing. 

The speaker was trapped in a fire with no escape for a long time because her mother died in the fire when the speaker was a child. 

However, she remembered two portraits when she started to dance with fire, and then she realized that even she who had severe trauma had two completely different paths before herself. 

It’s that one is a life of fear, but another is the promise and potential for recovery. Clinging sadness will bring you comfort, you don’t need to change and do anything. Stepping out of grief will be hard always, though, you can look forward and move forward. 

We must have a great path anytime if we are in a tough time now. The girl is in the center of the page, arms open and outstretched, clearly full of joy and happiness. 

Ibram X. Kendi : The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi·TED2020

The difference between being “not racist “ and antiracist

Summary

I just wanted to study English, and I didn’t think that I've faced such kind of difficult articles. However, this must be a great byproduct, thus l can continue to study English.

The surprising speaker’s suggestion is to eliminate the concept of “not racist”. How paradoxical it is! People thought for a long time that being racist is bad, they tried not to be racist, though, it’s eliminated. He said that we have to realize that we’re either being racist or anti-racist. It means that people who are not racist are racist, and an antiracist is willing to admit the time in which they are being racist, recognize the inequality and racial problems of our society, and challenge those racial infidelities by challenging the policy. The present condition is that many people don’t admit it thus policies create more inequality. For example, policemen use guns only against black, black people are suffering more from COVID, they lose jobs, etc, so we have to admit those, and neutrality is not enough.

And then, the speaker answered some questions.

1, There is the idea of antiracism. Isn’t it only a concern of white communities? How can the black community, nonwhite, other ethnic minorities participate in and think about this idea of antiracism?

No, because if you are black, you think you have no power and you don’t resist a racist society, it doesn’t change anything. Not viewing racism is not a solution.

2, What is the reason that there were more deaths from COVID-19 in black communities? 

People and the media begin to see the need for systemic structural change. We have to recognize that there are only two causes of racial infidelity: either people or policies. Genetically, we are the same human, thus something in our system is wrong.

3, Do you feel that white privilege is starting to change?

He didn’t say yes or no. He tells us that people have to think of a more equitable society. He is not asking really white Americans to be altruistic in order to be antiracist. We’re really asking people to have intelligent self-interest. It surprised me because l was told that we had to be altruistic, though, it’s not to change a system. To change a system must mean to have intelligent self-interest for all people.

4, What do you view as the greatest priority on a policy level like this for justice continues? Are there any ways in which we could learn from other countries?

The speaker suggests a country where the health care system is free and reparations programs for economic livelihood.

5, How do you suggest liberal white organizations effectively address problems of racism within the work environment?

It’s important for not only the workplace but their upper administration to have diversity and to spread the thoughts of antiracism.

6, Donald Trump seems to be making supporting Black Lives Matter a partisan issue. How do we uncouple this to make it nonpartisan?

The speaker tells us that the solution is not marching if Donald Trump says that there is a problem with marching for black lives. (I think so!) it’s because we have to believe in human rights and it’s not related to whether you believe black lives matter or not.

7, What is your reaction and response to people who feel concerned about mental exhaustion from having to constantly think about how your actions may hurt or harm others?

Don’t be addicted to racism and restrain myself from reverting back to what lm addicted. Spending too much time thinking about how we feel and reducing time thinking about how our actions and ideas make others feel.

8, Can you speak to the intersectionality between the work of antiracism, feminism, and gay rights? How does the work of antiracism relate and affect the work of these other human rights issues?

In the first place, the thoughts about dividing, there is an intersection and groups are not good. Every race is a collection of racialized international groups. Rejecting, understanding, and challenging it.

9, How do you see cancel culture and antiracism interacting? How do we respond to that?

To discern people who are refusing or who recognize their mistakes and commit something.

10, In other nations and other cultures, how people think about race and oppression?

There are countries in which police officers don’t wear weapons, there are countries that have more people than the United States but fewer prisoners, and the good things are that there are more jobs and more opportunities than crime and police. It means to provide pretty sizable social safety nets for people who are not committing crimes out of poverty and despair.

11, The words in the speaker‘s book: ” Who Gets To Be America”

What does it mean?

It means that what l am, a black male, should not matter. Who l am should matter. You can have a job without relating your skin. There are racial equality and justice. There’s no assimilating into white American culture. It’s all valued equally.

12, Where do you see that on the spectrum of progress towards reaching that true beauty?

At this beginning moment, people seek change during a viral pandemic and lose their jobs unequally.

13, What gives you hope right now?

The hope is resilient to racism.

14, What about structure changes?

Voting is the most important.

Lastly, the speaker tells us that there is hope but still we have on the shackles of racism.

He doesn’t say clearly, though, l think that the solution is to love my own country and all humanity, to grow myself, and to create a strong country by all citizens.

Van Jones : What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?

Van Jones·TED Studio

What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?

Summary 

Today when I've written this was Thursday, November 5th and I watched the speaker on TV, a CNN program. I remembered this TED talk that I couldn’t understand, l didn't want to understand, l decided not to write a summary last Saturday. However, l started to think that in the story, what the speaker told was wrong. It’s because I think that for both, there must be no concession speech and the speaker has to navigate the fair election that no people rig, though, what he said is about a concession speech. 

The speaker tells us that the important thing is the concession speech. To tell about conceding the race, to admit with honors, to thank you to supporters, to transfer of power peacefully, and to move on. And then, no American should concede the core principles of democracy itself and Americans should be willing to concede an election. 

Americans love the winner of a free and fair election and they oppose any so-called who prevails by twisting the process beyond recognition, though, the election, many people think, is not fair so far. 

I think that their words are completely wrong!

Not "Stop the count!" or "Every vote must be counted!" but "The election should be fair and it should be checked!" Americans who deliberately voted two times or hid votes should be confessed. If it’s not done, American democracy that has been broken already must be proved. 

I'm feeling really bad and it’s like our country being captured by a country. 

P.S. I think that the Japanese election system is really great!! There is no dishonesty, counting is quick, when people have voted, it is summed and the total number is always accurate.

Words in this story 

concede / unwillingly admit, yield, give up 

Concession / giving up, yielding, conceding, granting 

Ishan Bhabha : How to foster productive and responsible debate

Ishan Bhabha·TED@BCG

How to foster productive and responsible debate

Summary

In the first place, debating has to have the productivity and responsibilities of what you say. In the debate, what you tell is not your complaints or just claims but your great ideas. I think that many people don’t understand it. Now, of course, in the SNS, even in the parliament and congress, we hear heckling and booing often. What’s happening?

The speaker works to create rules to navigate ideological disagreement and controversial speech and to defend his clients from in court or the government.

It needs structures.

1, Like Trump's speech, it’s not good to shut other speech down.

2, Before the speech, recognizing the real harms that can come from certain types of speech and promoting dialogue.

3, To understand that for creativity and human progress, we need disagreement. 

4, It’s easier to speak with someone who agrees with everything you say, but it’s more enlightening and satisfying to speak with someone who doesn’t.

5, Recently, hateful speech leads to deep and lasting wounds and violence happening. The structures where there’s no polarization and no violence have to be created.

6, We have to know other important things that we’re all biased and it’s not bad. Just, we are infected by our family background, our education, our lived experience, and millions of other things. It’s including organizations and laws.

7, And then the temptation, fear of changing, or resentment are born. It will stop debating.

The speaker tells us that even if speech has little to no value at all, open debate is important rather than suppression and more speech can help, so instead of suppression, the fallacy and moral bankruptcy of hateful speech can best be responded to through the righteous power of countervailing good and noble ideas.

I think that there are huge differences between people who learn about the debate for a long time since they were children and people believe that in schools, they should memorize quietly what teachers taught. OMG　

I think that seriously, I have to practice and train my debate skills.

Amanda Little : Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste

Amanda Little·TED Salon: Dell Technologies

Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste

Summary 

We realized that our food was not enough in the supermarkets, though, much meat and vegetable were wasted in factories and fields during the pandemic. The speaker tells us that our food systems couldn’t adapt to some disruptions. Because of climate change, if drought, heat, flooding, superstores, invasive insects, bacterial blight and etc happen, we will lose more food. 

She suggests The Third Way to change our food systems. It means to combine old ways and new ways. By using technology, to change spraying fertilizer. It’s reducing the use of herbicides and improving soil health. 

To study about plant-based and alternative meats is progressing. It must be better for our health, reducing CO2, and not killing too many animals. 

Providing for disaster, creating sustainable and resilient food systems, improving harvest, and our health, and then it leads to stopping climate change.

Words in this story

CRISPR / clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat

Leor Weinberger : Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?

Leor Weinberger·TEDMED 2020

Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?

Summary 

The vaccine of the story is about HIV and unfortunately, the speaker meets with opposition to the test. 

The speaker’s idea is to build therapies that could mutate and transmit. The viruses of infectious diseases like HIV and COVD-19 mutate and spread from person to person. Mutating means that even if you have vaccines, it won’t be effective next time. 

However, what if vaccines worked the same way, there is potential to attack mutated viruses during modifying and treat afflicted individuals. the spread of infections will be slow. 

The speaker has continued this study for twenty years and finally, it started to work, though, many people say that it’s impossible. 

However, coronavirus vaccines haven’t been created yet and people are worried about the same thing that is mutating. 

This HIV study must lead to CVID-19 vaccines someday.

Dexter Dias : Racism thrives on silence — speak up!

Dexter Dias·TEDxExeter

Racism thrives on silence — speak up!

Summary 
We are the same humans biologically, though, Racism has been endemic for centuries and it’s still justified by race as social inequalities, so we have to first understand what it is. 
You must understand that it’s not wrong that people know nothing about it, and our societies may not even suffer from racism at all. We have to be being actively anti-racist, it can’t be stopped. 
Wanting your silence and apathy leads to thriving on racism. We have to understand it.  

YeYoon Kim : What kids can teach adults about asking for help

What kids can teach adults about asking for help 
Summary 
The speaker explained about there is the moment of eyes lock. 
When kids fall, they don’t start crying immediately. They would stand up, puzzled, as if trying to make up their mind. What just happened? Is this a big enough deal for me to cry? Does this hurt? What’s going on?
Usually, kids will be OK until they lock eyes with an adult. It leads to bursting out in tears. 
The speaker, as a kindergarten teacher, seems to think that she wants it to happen to her and she wants to be asked for help from kids. 😊👍
P.S. l was taught the moment of lock eyes from my mother, and thus l was banned to see adults when l was a child. It’s because it leads to crying and my mother also did see children when they fall. Her thoughts that children shouldn’t cry, should try to do all things alone, and adults shouldn’t help often!! Hahaha 😂

Dame Vivian Hunt : How businesses can serve everyone, not just shareholders

Dame Vivian Hunt·TED2020

How businesses can serve everyone, not just shareholders

Summary 

Shareholders mean owners of shares in a company. 

Stakeholders mean all the members or participants who are seen as having an interest in their business.

The speaker tells us that in the past, businesses were done for only shareholders, though it’s changing. Now, it should serve all stakeholders. It should be each other’s harvest, business, magnitude, and bond. 

For example, some companies started to produce more healthy food. It reduces volume, calories, and sugar. Other companies try to reduce CO2 emissions, clean rivers, mountains, seas, and sky. From now, businesses should be done not only for shareholders but for the health and welfare of employees, suppliers, even planet Earth. It’s not in a crisis but every day. 

Kevin Toolis : Our existential flight from death — and wisdom on connecting to grief

Kevin Toolis·TEDMED 2020
Our existential flight from death-and wisdom on connecting to grief
Summary

Recently, in our life, we must have too little opportunity to face the death of close people. Child mortality is quite low, Grandfather and mother live a long life. Many treatment ways of diseases are found and many people die after carrying to hospitals. However, in TV and games, much death is announced easily. You can choose death by one button in the game. Is it a good thing?

Not only children but adults must think that they can do the same thing in the game. People can’t have sympathy and grief.

Escaping from reality sometimes when we have a hard time is not wrong, though, we need to embrace our death because death is unavoidable.

The speaker tells us that individualistic societies lead to the fear and denial of death. However, living life fully means to know and embrace our death. And then, you can be strong, kind and it must create connections with others.

Kedra Newsom Reeves : How to reduce the wealth gap between Black and white Americans

Kedra Newsom Reeves·TED@BCG
How to reduce the wealth gap between Black and white Americans
Summary

The speaker is a wealth equity strategist and she tells us four ways to stop racial wealth inequality in the US.

Getting more people banked. 1)

Giving a credit file. 2)

Investing in black communities more. 3)

Opening more Black-owned companies for the fund. 4)

Leaving it is creating more gaps between Black and White Americans. The speaker’s family was working hard through many generations. We must know about there’s an inequality world and save them.

Ralph Nader : What it takes to create social change against all odds

Ralph Nader·TEDMED 2020

What takes to create social change against all odds

Summary

In the first place, l fixed the blame on older people because we were told that we should be awed by corporate and political power anytime and anywhere.

However, the speaker’s option is different because he fought against companies and political misdeeds which hoped to get only benefits, even if many lives were lost. His team was small and didn’t have enough money, though, with the words: Justice is the great interest of man on earth, he started to learn that we don’t know what to do and continued it. It has led to breaking through authorities and enabling to change histories a little. It’s the same as what young people do to stop climate change. It was really hard to work for women’s right to vote, antislavery, harmful toxic chemicals in the rivers, severe car accidents, regulate the tobacco, and etc. The speaker continued and humbly tells us that passing a law is only the first step, the next step is defending the law.

There are no permanent victories. If you’re willing to lose persistently, your causes can become winners in time. What the speaker did is to create social change against all odds. 

His Holiness Pope Francis : Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take

His Holiness Pope Francis·Countdown

Our moral imperative to act on climate change-and 3steps we can take

Summary

This was the suggestion from Pope Francis who is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State to transform the way we act. The global climate crisis requires it and it leads to addressing the world’s growing environmental problems and economic inequalities. Furthermore, we must solve how all of us work together, across faiths and societies, protect the Earth, and promote the dignity of everyone. If we know and learn about morals, yes, we must have it, and we can understand that environmental problems are linked to human needs. We have to promote it. 1)

We must focus on water and nutrition that is a universal human right. 2) And then, it’s important to think about the energy transition. In these 30 years, we have to change our all energy to clean energy. 3)

Monica Araya : How cities are detoxing transportation

Monica Araya·Countdown
How cities are detoxing transportation
Summary
Because of coronavirus, the lockdown has been tough, though, we couldn’t see the sky without pollution, the roads without congestion, and cities without noise. I think that so, too. Now, still, we can’t use airplanes, workers in airplanes must be suffering, though, we have to think about air pollution that kills people and leads to climate change for our earth. For the world’s goal that is zero carbon 2050, it’s important to change our transportation systems. The speaker explains how cities are detoxing transportation.

To ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030 and 2040. 1)
To overhaul city places where children can play, pedestrians can walk safely, and car spaces are reduced a little. 2)
To prioritize active mobility. It means that there try to be many things that people need within a walk or a bike ride and 15 minutes. 3)
Recently, many cities try to use LED lights, and using dry cells is reduced. Preparing must be important to change new energy. It must be for people-friendly, thriving economy, and clean air. We can choose for climate change and our health.

Words in this story
detox / treatment center or clinic where drug users and abusers try to free themselves from drugs, detox center

Kristin Jones : Sexual assault, shame and teaching kids to ask for help

Kristin Jones·TED@PMI

Sexual assault, shame and teaching kids to ask for help

Summary

The speaker explained strongly that sexual assault is never the victim’s fault and the society should be where perpetrators should be ashamed of what they’ve done. However, for a long time, victims couldn’t say and tell anything they were silent about but in society, perpetrators could live calmly and it’s repeating. It’s completely wrong.

What is a shame? Victims don’t need to feel guilty for being weak and don’t make them blame themselves. For stopping sexual assault, teaching kids to ask for help and protecting them is important and we have to create the community, cities, and world which can protect kids from sexual assault. The speaker overcame the experience with courage.

Myles Allen : Fossil fuel companies know how to stop global warming. Why don't they?

Myles Allen·Countdown

Fossil fuel companies know how to stop global warming. Why don’t they?

Summary

Fossil fuels include coal, petroleum, natural gas, oil shales, and etc. We use those as energy by burning, though, burning those, you know, emits a number of air pollutants that are harmful to both the environment and public health. We use it for a long time, however, it’s time to stop dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The world has a goal that is Net zero in 2050 to protect the earth.

Net-zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere.

And then, the speaker suggests decarbonizing fossil fuels. His decarbonize is not decarbonize the economy but decarbonize the fuels themselves. It’s to capture the carbon dioxide from industries, filter it, compress it, and re-inject it back underground. If we can’t capture the carbon dioxide at the time of occurrence, we recapture it!!, and take it back out of the atmosphere. The cost is high, though, we have to do it. Now, technology growing is great. Young engineers must do it well with our cooperation. It’s not enough to ban fossil fuels. Reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson : How we can turn the tide on climate

Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson·Countdown

How we can turn the tide on climate

Summary

This was a countdown campaign held last year to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, by spreading coronavirus, this year, on October 10th, 2020, they couldn’t gather like this video, though, a lot of new messages were posted. It’s because our actions can’t delay and it’s an emergency. 1.5 degrees Celsius will bring more extreme weather, rising sea levels, water shortages in some regions, threats to food security, biodiversity, and etc. It’ll spread all around the world. Now, changing our actions and customs is not sacrificing something but it’s about co-creating a much better future for all of us, thus we have to change. This understanding has to be known by all people. The event hopes that many people know about the reality, join, and act with them.

P.S. I was really glad that I could watch a Japanese man who is, Hiro Mizuno, introduced as the world’s largest pension found for the program with other great members who are Al Gore, Yuval Noah Harari, etc. Our earth should be beautiful forever for all creatures can live safely and securely and for this, it's needed our actions and money.

Words in this story

tide / a powerful surge of feeling or trend of events

initiative/ the ability to assess and initiate things independently

Colombe Cahen-Salvado : A global movement to solve global problems

Colombe Cahen-Salvador·TED2020

A global movement to solve global problems

Summary

This was a great message.

The words “No one does” that the speaker said in the last were strong and it has been running around in my head after reading this. It’s because the speaker is French and was devastated by the UK’s decision.

The speaker tells us that we need to change the way we think about the world. It’s still more global, 1) unite beyond borders, 2)and have courage. 3)

How is a global tax system?

Can you think about stopping global hunger for one year, giving vaccines across the world fairly, protecting Hong Kong, standing up meaningfully, and democratically to China? Those are urgent issues. Political parties cannot operate and collaborate with those globally and often.

On a global scale, we have to work together across borders. Create innovative new ways for the world to be truly one.

Lisa Jackson : Apple's promise to be carbon neutral by 2030

Lisa Jackson and Liz Ogbu·Countdown

Apple’s promise to be carbon neutral by 2030

Summary

Carbon neutrality refers to balance carbon dioxide emissions with carbon removal or simply eliminate carbon dioxide emissions (l can’t agree with carbon offsetting.)

Apple is on target to become carbon neutral across not only Apple’s entire business but the manufacturing supply chain by 2030. The company is already running on 100 percent renewable energy for its corporate campuses, stores, and data centers. And then, they started to try the energy change that their customers use to charge their devices to clean energy and recycle materials.

The UN says 2050carbon neutral, but Apple tries to challenge a higher goal.

We shouldn’t attack climate change. The center should be a discussion of the solution. It’s important to start it.

Jessy Kate Schingler : Civilization on the Moon — and what it means for life on Earth

 Jessy Kate Schingler·TED2020

Civilization on the Moon-and what it means for life on Earth

Summary

I was surprised at the title because on the Moon, people haven’t lived yet. Last year was the year when fifty years passed from hoisting the US flag on the Moon, A lot of things are researched and our technology is growing rapidly, thus the speaker tells us that in the next decade, we could see people starting to live and work on the Moon. And then, there has seemed to be the Outer Space Treaty since 1967. It’s the defining treaty governing activities in outer space, though, it says that a requirement for free access to all areas of a celestial body and the Moon and other celestial bodies are not subject to national appropriation. Well, what do those mean and how do we manage, for example, resources when the traditional tools of external authority and private property don’t apply? If there are no rules on the Moon, people must think that they can end up in a first-come ad first-served situation. However, if we use the same rules as the Earth, l think that wars and climate change will happen soon on the Moon. The speaker suggests that it’s easier to create something new than trying to dismantle the old. It must lead to a world where there are no borders and fight for territories.

I’ve heard that even on the Earth, the notion that this is our country will disappear in the future. People can cooperate and don’t fight for energies and territories.

John Biewen : The lie that invented racism

John Biewen·TEDxCharlottesville

The lie that invented racism

Summary

The expression: Racism didn’t start with a misunderstanding, it started with a lie was really new and surprised us, though, I was sorry that it didn’t make me refreshed. It’s because I think that people must want to know about a stronger solution that many people can take action.

The speaker is a white person whose parents worked with Martin Luther King to be able to have the civil rights for all people. However, the media recently seemed to tell that it’s strange and the reason that all white people were racists against black. It leads to that white people think that they don’t want to be racists and they don’t relate to racial problems. However, even among all white people groups, there are problems about themselves being divided. It’s by religion, tribal groups, and languages. People in the past had no notion of race, though, the world has swayed about white and black too much.

It’s just a lie, swayed, a tool, and invented. We don’t need to feel a lot of guilt, and history isn’t our fault or yours. As the same humans, we have a responsibility to do something.

To stop showing up grudgingly for the diversity and equality meeting and being a real accomplice to colors. Creating a society that is not built on the exploitation or oppression of anyone is important.

Xiye Bastida : If you adults won't save the world, we will

 Xiye Bastida·TED2020

If you adults won’t save the world, we will

Summary

This was a letter that the speaker wrote for her grandmother. When grandmother was born, there must have been a lot of nature around the world, though, oceans and sky are now polluted but we still use much energy. It leads to climate change and we cannot see that adults try to save the world. However, the speaker and students learned that the earth has the power of resilience. The speaker and children love not only the earth but parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends, they are appropriate for being born and all things that passed down to them. Thus she participated in the event and strikes to save the world. She said that she didn’t know what to do at first, the world is so big, and it has so many bad habits. However, she thought she had to try and she said when businesses turn sustainable, the power grid runs on renewable energy, people use a reusable bag, our consumption doesn’t harm the earth, and taking care of the Earth is part of our humanity, it should be our normal life and children and students can study without strikes.

She wants to sing, dance, study, and meet her grandmother more than being full-time climate activists.

For that, we who live in the world have to cooperate with her to save the world. This was the great letter to not only her grandmother but us.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries : Why we must confront hard historical truths

Hasan Kwame Jeffries·TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why we must confront hard historical truths

Summary

This story has a strong message. The speaker is a black man who is a historian and has children. Now, it’s spreading inequality in the United States. Furthermore, people are forgetting histories, are not teaching it correctly, and there are people who don’t do anything about it.

To know about the history of white and black is difficult and painful. People want it to be turned into nostalgic memories.

It doesn’t mean to rationalize, avoid or forget about slavery, James Madison, Jim Crow, and etc. People might think that not remembering it is not repeating it.

The speaker suggests that it’s wrong. If people don’t remember the past, they will continue it. It creates inequality and injustice in the first place. He tells us that what we must do is we must disrupt the continuum of hard history. It’s seeking and speaking the truth, confronting, magnifying, and teaching hard history to children. Acting on truth to create a fair and just society seriously.

Words in this story

enslaved / held in slavery

confront / face

emancipated / e·man·ci·pate / liberate, free, release, unshackle

quintessential /quin·tes·sen·tial / typical, prototypical, stereotypical

marginalized / keep a person or something away from the center of attention or power, isolate, cut off, shut out

Kiah Williams : You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills

 Kiah Williams·TED2020

You shouldn’t have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills

Summary

I had strongly believed that people were overdosing, though, it might be wrong.

The speaker tells us that many people die every month because they don’t take the medicines that they need. The new system that the speaker started paying attention to is that prescription drug prices is too high. 1) There are many surplus pills thrown away in some companies and it can be used yet. 2) By using smartphones, patients can register and access prescriptions for those medicines quickly, 3) and it's directly delivered to customers. They don’t need to go to hospitals and stores. 4) It leads to reducing prices.

To change the existing health care system is difficult and complex and the speaker’s new system does not pretend to have all of the answers to fix all of the problems in the health care system. Just people who are busy, give up getting medicines, but who need it to live.

Barry Schwartz : What role does luck play in your life?

 

Privilege/Class/Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race - Please Watch to the End. Thanks.

Somehow, the speaker’s face this time reminded me of a video that l couldn’t watch through to the end. I thought that this must be the relation between luck, justice, and the lottery. I’ve heard that when we were born in Japan, it’s just by lottery.

With this, I think that what l have to do always.

Barry Schwartz·TED2020

What role does luck play in your life?

Summary

The speaker said that he told about luck and justice and the relation between them this time and he told that people hate the idea that really important things in life might happen by luck or chance. People also hate that really important things in our lives are not under our control, but it simply is the way things are.

College admissions, having this job, your marriage, and etc already is a lottery.

Acknowledge the importance of good fortune almost every one of our lives and we can see what we have to do. All people deserve meaningful and satisfying lives.

John Maeda : Designing for simplicity

Designing for simplicity

Summary

This was a little bit old story.

The speaker is Japanese-American with American by nationality. He is an artist, a designer, and published the book “The Law of Simplicity”. Every day, you must feel that the world is getting very complicated, however, when you can find simplicity, you will be really comfortable. He was used to stand the stage, he seemed to participate in four times, and his story was getting a laugh many times. Somehow, l was really glad that he grew up in a Tofu factory in Seattle. Tofu is Japanese healthy food made of Daizu-beans, though, it’s not famous more than Sushi. When the speaker explained his ten laws of simplicity, the sample was sushi, and it would be better because not only Americans but all people were interested in Sushi. However, many people seemed not to know about Tofu, unfortunately. I think that Tofu should be more famous because Vegans don’t eat fish, people want to be slim, it’s quite healthy food, thus Tofu is simple food.

In the dictionary, simplicity means the absence of complexity, and lack of sophistication, though, in his design and his book, it’s wrong. Simplicity isn’t created from absence and lacking. Simplicity is pursuing innocence, honesty, and sincerity.

The speaker seemed to teach design at University in Japan sometimes. Simplicity is not changing forever, isn’t it?

TEN LAWS

1 REDUCE The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

2 ORGANIZE Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

3 TIME Savings in time feel like simplicity.

4 LEARN Knowledge makes everything simpler.

5 DIFFERENCES Simplicity and complexity need each other.

6 CONTEXT What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

7 EMOTION More emotions are better than less.

8 TRUST In simplicity we trust.

9 FAILURE Some things can never be made simple.

10 THE ONE Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

THREE KEYS

1 AWAY More appears like less by simply moving it far, far away.

2 OPEN Openness simplifies complexity.

3 POWER Use less, gain more.

Michael Sandel : The tyranny of merit

Michael Sandel·TED2020

The tyranny of merit

Summary

For me who is Japanese, it was a difficult story. The title means, l think, that the tyranny is the UN political system and it has huge merit, though, it creates polarization, disparity, and inequality. It’ll become more widely. The money people make is the measure of their contribution to the common good, though, it’s a mistake because of coronavirus. We should renew the dignity of work.

The speaker tells us that the spirit of humility is necessary and it’s the civic virtue.

P.S. Japanese people are always said that they are humble and it’s their virtue. In this coronavirus situation, the death rate was quite low. Although many Japanese people complain to the governments, Japanese people should have more national pride with courage and tackle to create a better world.

Words in this story

tyranny / cruel and oppressive government or rule

Debate practice 2

 Debate practice 2

Today’s topic is about office love, my side is a con, and I’m lucky. It’s because people who know me definitely say to me that l can marry my job. I love my job. That kind of me must be able to tell you correct negative answers.

Love is to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone and something. The office is a room, set of rooms or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic WORK. Work is an activity involving mental and physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result to get income. Income is money received, especially on a regular basis for work or through investments, so your love should be for work, result, and income when you are in your office. 1)

In the office, work should be done efficiently to make a profit. Your love should be for efficient work and profit. 2)

Of course, you have to create better products, services for our customers. Your love should be for better product services and our customers. 3)

In the office, even if men approach you, they definitely approach women in order to win their love also!!

It’s not true love Just they want to hear something. You will be deceived and tricked by them. You will be broken-hearted by them and you won’t be able to be there. It’s impossible and difficult to love each other in the same office. Okay!? 

And then, you know that during the lockdown. Many mothers and fathers have to work at home. They were really in big trouble in the world !! like the picture. Babies and children must be treasured more than lovers, however, in the world, no one worked with them well in the same place.

Conclusion.

It’s difficult to keep a good balance of working and being children or lovers. It doesn’t exist work and love balance in the same place. Children will go to school soon after all you and lovers have to quit soon. Office love is impossible. In the office, your love should be for work and do love outside, please.

P.S. Debating means that I have to have both side answers, though, l can’t think about the pro side this time. Hahaha

Debate practice 3

 Debate practice 3

Social media has improved human communication. My side is the False side. I’ve read a lot of books to know about current situations about communication, and l understood it. I think that people including you who say that the false side is difficult to answer is wrong!!

Let’s get started.

☆Communication means to exchange of information or ideas.

☆Improving means, you must really know, to make better, increases quality, and become better something. Already, the answer is here. BETTER!!

Can you say that our ways are better in other words improving?

Here are the details.

1)Just increasing in information volume is increasing.

2)It’s also that you can feel that your knowledge might increase.

3)It’s because you can see Wikipedia soon and think that Wikipedia is your skill, but it’s not yours. A lot of students use the wiki as their skill and knowledge and just cope as their report. It’s so bad.

4)Furthermore, you don’t need to go to liberties, thus only reaching information speed is quickened.

5)The world is completely divided by SNS and social media. Not only people who use it but also Twitter, Facebook, other Companies are criminals that create bad situations, problems, slanders, and smears. It leads to suicide, disparity, and wild inequality.

6)To tell a marriage message by using social media is not good communication!! We lose that important communication not only face to face but also having compassion!!

Conclusion

Without having it, we can’t say that it’s better communication and it’s improving.

I’ll show you pictures.

If you research about the exchange. It has a connection. Telling marriage message is changing. It doesn’t have a connection, so bad and sad. People only gather information, though, they are not connected. If you research about social communication. People are soon sick. Many people use social media, but they don’t know even their names. The word: Communication doesn’t show smartphones. For good communication, it’s not used yet.

Last example that the world understands.

Japanese people including me are said that they don’t speak English!! They have studied hard, even for nine years in schools. They use the internet and social media a lot, they might speak English, though, the world says that it’s not communication.

The answer is social media has not improved human communication.

How do you like it?

P.S. Actually, I hit upon the Joke that must get a laugh.