By2026, I'm going to update my 940 articles!! It means I would read 2000 TED talks I like.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh·TEDWomen 2021 The dream of educating Afghan girls lives on Summary
I've completely forgotten about the previous story of the speaker. In Afghanistan, women who could go to school were rare, thus the speaker was fighting the situation. It has changed little by little, though, the Taliban are back. Schools were burned, girls had to stop to go to shool or go away. The speaker started making plans to bring students in SOLA overseas for a study abroad program.
The speaker ran a program where girls lived at SOLA to educate girls and to break barriers.
This was what they do at SOLA in Kabul in Afghanistan, though, you can't see it in Kabul now.
SOLA's girls now study different places. The speaker fights to be able to come them back to Afghanistan and all girls can go to school.
Ruchi Sinha·The Way We Work 3 steps to getting what you want in a Summary
This was an interesting and useful story, we must use it.
To be in my shoes means to be in my situation.
The 3 steps are to do your research, to prepare mentally for the negotiation, and to be in the other person’s shoes. The important thing is to create a win-win situation, not only your victory.
Kathryn Kolbert·TEDWomen 2021 The end of Roe v. Wade — and what comes next for reproductive freedom Summary
Roe vs Wade is the landmark1973 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that legalized abortion and established a woman's right to choose to end a pregnancy through abortion.
The speaker told us that it must end with the end of Roe v. Wade. It doesn’t mean to ban abortion!! She explains that opponents argue three things when they say that they want to ban abortion. It’s about religion, protection of fetal rights, and protection of women’s health.
However, religions already have a wide variety of views on abortion to HELP it. Fetal rights protect the rate of infant mortality and programs for children more. The protection of women's health is that abortion is already an extremely safe surgical procedure.
The speaker’s view is that opponents who want to ban abortion mean to be all about contributing women who are unable to operate. Women are unable to be equal participants in our society.
P.S. In Japan, abortion is strangely legalized, though, women feel to be controlled by men or society. The world says that in Japan, women can't be in higher positions. However, the Japanese birth rate is really low, though, the reason is not an abortion.
For having children, l don’t think that it’s easier to do something than worry about it, though, we have to create a society where people who want to have children can have it.
Jane Velkovski·TED Salon: UNICEF The life-changing power of assistive technologies Summary
The speaker is a 13-year-old boy and a passionate football fan. He told us that in addition to that, he’s a kid with a disability, though, he’s free to go wherever by being independent with his chair. It was a donation from another family overseas.
However, he knew that this assistive product isn't used by 90 % of people who need it and people only stare at it.
If you see a wheelchair user, rather than staring and wondering about them, look around and see if there’s something you can do to help. From small changes, be able to live with freedom and independence like him.
Don’t lose your dream.
He strongly believes that everyone can play all around the globe: men, women, abled, disabled, young, and old. He has a dream to be a coach of a football team. We need to make sure that everyone is able to play.
Is a vegan diet healthier than eating meat and dairy? - BBC
I found an interesting article, though, the result was that I didn't want to understand. And then, I thought that the title will be better how your body processes sugar than vegan vs meat. I like cookies and chocolates more than meat. Instead of usually meals, I eat sweets and bread. Even bread includes a lot of sugar. Recently, eating meat is a big problem, though, I thought that for our health, sugar is the worst.
In the video, Hugo sits on the right, and Ross sits on the left.
00:4
Hugo: We have been exploring adventuring for the last 10 years, and a big part of adventuring is preparing your body. For us, trying to keep our fitness interesting and trying to keep ourselves motivated. We tend to try and focus on these three months' segments of fitness.
Ross: Because we're genetically identical. We can compare various different foods, training regimes and find out what works for us. So we wanted to test plants v animals. What was the best? What were the benefits? What was the drawback? and uncover something new.
VEGAN VS MEAT An experiment with identical twins
0:45
Hugo: We dubbed ourselves as the adventure guinea pigs because over the years we've taken part in research at the Department of Twin Research at King's College London.
Dr. Tim Spector: We wanted to use the model of identical twins who are genetic clones in order to test the effects of diet and exercise on the way they respond to foods.
The Turner twins engaged in a 12-week experiment... in which Hogo turned vegan...and Ross continued eating meat. They were both getting the same number of calories per day and doing the same gym training. As a first-time vegan, Hugo's body struggled... to adjust in the beginning.
1:28
Hugo: I was on the vegan diet, and it does take a hit on your body. I think the first couple of weeks it was the craving of wanting meat and dairy and cheese. Love cheese. I was now having to eat fruit and nuts and alternatives that didna7t have any dairy and so that meant I was eating a lot more wholesome food which meant that my sugar levels were o lot more satiated during the day I felt like I had more energy.
Ross: Performance was up and down a little bit more for me on my meat diet I'd have a few days before I was very energetic in the gym and then I'd have huge lulls as well whereas Hugo is far more sustained and associated with energy levels.
It's not just the amount of sugar you're eating that matters. It's how your body processes sugar.
2:12
Dr. Tim Spector: I think the interesting thing is how they differ in their responses to sugars and fats despite being identical twins Ross was actually above average for the way he processed fats and sugars whereas Hugo was below average.
Professor Spector has found similar results. In other large-scale studies with identical twins.
Dr. Tim Spector: We believe that there's a big, non-genetic element that is driven a lot by our microbes.
Recent scientific studies have shown that ... trillions of different friendly microbes live in our gut.
2:51
Dr. Tim Spector: If you treat them right, they will produce thousands of different chemicals that will keep your body in the best shape. They will help your immune system to fight infections. They will go to your brain to make you not feel over hungry or not stressed or depressed. We find, on average, that most identical twins only share between 25 and 30 percent of their microbes with each other, and we think this is why many of their metabolism is different and they react to foods differently. And that's in a way, an example of why all of us react differently to foods.
Hugo: Being a vegan and going through that 12 week-period my diversity of gut bacteria severely dropped.
Ross: Whereas mine stayed the same, which meant that I was less susceptible to illness.
Dr. Tim Spector: It could be that the diversity he was getting from dairy products and those other fats in meats led to a slight reduction in the diversity. They're already in the top five percent of their gut microbiome health, so it's hard for them to push it further than that.
Hugo and Ross are healthy athletes. But for those starting from a low nutrition baseline...the recipe to better nourish your gut 'garden' is diversity.
4:05
Dr. Tim Spector: So the first thing is to give yourself a try and aim to have 30 different plants a week- to give it that diversity. The second is to always try and pick plants that have these natural chemicals called polyphenols in them which gives them bright colors or bitter tastes. Things like brightly colored berries or nuts or seeds, things like coffee, things like dark chocolate, and even red wine. Thirdly, probiotics- having foods that contain live microbes themselves like traditional yogurt, kefir, kombucha. And finally, it's cutting out ultra-processed food,
Ross: Watching Hugo eat all his vegan food. you do realize how much processed or, I say crap food, you do eat compared to a vegan. And you do because quite aware. You feel guilty the whole time when you're next to somebody eating very, very healthy food.
Dr. Tim Spector: On average, vegans are healthier than meat-eaters, but within that, there's a huge range and there are some very unhealthy vegans and vegan diets. And it does depend on the quality of the food. It’s not about whether you have meat on your plate or not. And many vegans often find themselves eating ultra-processed food, because of reformulating standard foods particularly dairy substitutes and meat substitutes- that are probably as unhealthy as eating processed meats.
Overall, Hugo and Ross' results were not that disparate.
5:36
Hugo: The medical and scientific research that monitors us all agrees that there's not a huge difference. if any between the two diets. It's just the small ones that we both have high cholesterol because we lose a lot of weight on expeditions.
Ross: Hugo's cholesterol dropped off the scale on the vegan diet, whereas my regular meat diet just stayed the same.
Hugo: My obesity level dropped. My resistance to type two diabetes also increased.
Dr. Tim Spector: They're looking for small incremental effects that athletes tend to look at. It's very much understanding how your body's working so you can tailor your nutrition optimally and athletes do it to improve performance. Normal humans would do it just to feel less tired, feel less hungry. Put on less weight over a year.
This all helps us to understand that there is no universal diet... that works the same for everybody. Even when they share the same genes.
6:36
Hugo: I've slightly changed my diet in the sense that I eat a lot more different things- eat the rainbow, eat everything in moderation.
Ross: You have a balanced diet- that's really the key, I think if somebody says 'Right, you need to do this certain diet with these weights to get the results. Question it a little bit, Just go and have fun with it. Experiment, find out what works for you.
Maria Van Kerkhove·TEDWomen 2021 How to end the pandemic — and prepare for the next Summary
I was depressed after listening to the article. I really wanted to know how to end the pandemic and how to prepare for the next. The speaker told us something, though, it was the same as we Japanese people did. We donated vaccines to other countries a lot, even homelessness was vaccinated with government support and there are no people who don’t wear a mask in Japan for a long time. Furthermore, she said that it prolongs and it depends on us. I think that we can't do it anymore.
Thanks, Whitney, and I want to meet Chris Anderson. He soon must tell us ending the pandemic. We have to continue to do all the things that we’ve been doing.
In Japan, infectious people are decreasing rapidly now, even omicron was found in Japan.
I haven’t been motivated to study English. I was laughed at by many English teachers. Thus, l decided not to write summaries of TED talks until I can speak English well. I use my time to practice pronunciation.
1. What did you learn about yourself from this year 2021?
What l learned this year in 2021 was that there was a huge difference between writing and reading English and speaking it. I wrote a lot, though, l couldn’t speak English at this rate.
2. Which relationship meant the most to you this year and why?
I don’t want to meet anyone, anymore. I couldn’t have the courage to do anything.
3. What was one of the biggest challenges you faced this year and how did you handle it?
The biggest challenge is that I continue to take lessons and practice pronunciation.
4. What was one of your proudest moments from this year and why?
This year, I thought that l filmed a video that I tried to speak English, though, the video completed was that I was dancing!!
5. What was one of the most meaningful compliments you received this year? Why was it so meaningful to you?
I thought that l successfully lost weight! However, I was warned by my trainer, I was too thin. He also told me that I had to eat a lot. OMG😂
6. What did you do for fun this year? What was one of your favorite memories?
This is our little secret, I started learning how to dance for fun this year. Because of COVID-19, l could make time to practice dancing. It makes me forget my sadness.
7. If you could change one thing from this year, what would you change and why?
Last year, I swore "Digital Dansyri", though, l always saw and watched SNS for a long time and without sleep this year...
I want to stop it and get up early like last year.
8. What was the most meaningful thing someone did for you this year?
English teachers, dance teachers, and trainers taught me a lot of things! Thank you so much!!
9. If you were to brag about one of your accomplishments from this year, which one would it be and why?
In Japan, the number of people who are infected with COVID-19 is now decreasing rapidly.
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 2022?
Just, l dread getting older. I won't get ready to welcome the new year.
The Core of Cool Japan: Sustainability vs. Stagnation | Roland Kelts | TEDxHaneda
Just, I unexpectedly found the TED talk. I thought that the story was the best to show about Japanese people who have spent by "Jisyuku" during COVID-19, however, it seemed to be told in 2015. I was really surprised about it. You can enjoy knowing about "Ganbaru", "Gaman" and "Jisyuku".
transcript
0:16
I'm going to depart a bit from my usual subject and talk a little bit about a very precious subject to me which is myself. My mom is Japanese and my dad is American and I was raised just north of Boston in a region called New England. And it was very white at that time, not just in the winter, it was a very white community. I didn't know anyone Japanese besides my mother and her family and certainly didn't know anyone who is half-Japanese which is my situation, "ha-fu".
0:59
So one time when I was actually playing hockey, I played hockey as a kid. I was sitting on a bench and my mother who never came to my athletic events came in with my father. And a guy down the bench looked down at me and said, "Wow, man, I didn't know your mom was Chinese!" I didn't correct him, I didn't see the point. Later, someone who knew slightly more about Asia said, "So that, you're Japanese that means you eat fish raw". And the picture in my heat was you know like holding a salmon, or bass or something from head to tail and trying somehow to know on the scales when it was fresh out of water.
1:41
I didn't think I could do it, but I did eat sushi when I visited Japan with my mother and I found at that time, even as a child that I thought Japanese culture was very strong that it had these fundamentals characteristics that made it a very strong and bonded culture. Later, when I moved to Japan, of course, it was many years after the Bubble had burst and so everybody was talking about Japan's stagnating economy. The amazing thing to me, however, having lived here now a number of years is that Japan's economy, seems to me to be quite sustainable, quite strong culture.
2:23
And so I've put up here the title "Coping with stasis" How a supposed sick man of Asia might be a model for us all. That's what a lot of economists would call Japan, the sick man of Asia as if the country was doddering along. And what I've decided to do was look at some. What I really think are very fundamental strengths of Japanese culture is the separate stasis from sustainability or stagnation from sustainability. So I've just isolated a few here, to think about what makes Japanese culture strong, and maybe for other cultures, especially in the developed world which is facing a similar situation declining populations increasing poverty, and so on. What makes Japan strong in the face of these circumstances.
3:14
The first one many of you would be familiar with if you live here is "Ganbaru". You hear it all the time, right? It kind of means like "Fight hard" "Do you best in any circumstance", "Try your hardest to do well". And you can see here is a photo of volunteers in Tohoku after the disasters, the quake, and the tsunami, "Ganbaru" was like a call to action, a call to get together, and do their best in the face of adversity. But it can also be applied to a sort of lowly salary man who has to run off to work every day. You can see here his family, his neighbors, they're all cheering him on, "Ganbaru, Ganbaru". And if you've ever spent time with the salary man and tried to keep up with his schedule you really do have to "Ganbaru", it's hard work, it's a lot of late nights.
4:11
Another concept here is "Gaman". Basically to endure, to withstand, to persevere in the face of adversity. A very similar concept but as you can see it's the idea that you can withstand anything, you can take anything, and you can do so with whining or complaining. IT can be applied to be daily life especially to a city like Tokyo where you're stuffed into a train car and it's amazing how Japanese people are able to maneuver their bodies and shift their ”Keitai” (Mobile phone) and turn their rucksacks and put them on the floor and managed to get everyone in the train. In the States, in New York, or in San Francisco, if a really packed train car comes by people just don't get on. They just go "Ugh" they go up and get a taxi, they just give up. In Japan, people " Gaman" no matter how crowded the train is.
5:13
"Jishuku". some of you obviously know what it means the concept roughly of restraint or being able to restrain yourself and restrain desires. I think it's really quite remarkable. Now, there are massive exceptions in Japan, obviously, but that notion that you can, for example, turn off the lights and just use your computer screen for lighting in order to save electricity and that you can restrain desires for the betterment of everyone. You know, very different concept again, in the United States. you know, where they have "Go for it" "Live for the moment" this idea "Get what you want" "Take what you can". "Jishuku" is a very different concept I think. (Laughter)
6:00
I think these concepts are together and what I admire so much about Japan is that they are there to sustain stability and harmony in society. And I think it's quite effective if you look now despite Japan being stagnant unemployment is at a historic low. I think 3.4%, crime is declining. Again, Tokyo was named the safest city in the world, just a few months ago.
6:31
These kinds of things could, I believe, improve other cultures abroad facing the challenges of the future. I actually authored a book on the popular culture in Japan and its popularity overseas. And I still write about popular cultures such as anime, manga, and Cosplay, and so on and as you know, probably, the government has a Cool Japan campaign underway where they're trying to promote the coolness of Japanese culture through pop culture, images, and graphics. What I would call upon the government to do and those of you who live in Japan to do is to promote these characteristics to push the real deeper strengths of Japan and let people know how sustainable culture can be when harmony and stability are prized.
Fly away with me: Yoko Ishikura at TEDxTokyo 2014 Summsry
Today, I found a great talk held in 2014.
Finally, all people thought that it's too late though, the Japanese government decided to establish a NEW department that was dealing with digital matters on September 1, 2021: Digital Agency, and the speaker was elected its Chief Digital Officer. Japan is told that for women it's difficult to be in a managerial position but she is a woman who is now 72 years old!!!
In the talk, she was telling about her story like predicting that event. She told that her life was as a kite that can fly freely. I think that it's really her. When a string of the kite was cut, the tough situation came to her, though, by changing the kite, she has continued to fly. Now, she must use the kite with the motor because she is the first Chief Digital Officer.
English and Intercultural Communication | Ayame Mochizuki | TEDxGKA
Intercultural Communication is to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds or social groups as ours.
The speaker tells us the keys that we have to keep in mind when we think about English and Intercultural Communication.
Japan's English level is low and mainly due to our cultural backgrounds lack of opportunities. This situation can be proved by emerging ourselves in English. 1)
English is important for various reasons such as commonness and advancement in globalization and its importance will keep increasing as globalization advances. 2)
Intercultural communication is a crucial skill because it allows us to reach out across different cultures and acknowledge their value. 3)
The speaker summarized her speech. Having a second language has helped me greatly not as Japanese, not as an English speaker but as a person. Some people may be unwilling towards this change. Undoubtedly, having a second language should not change us it's a completely different person, however, that doesn't mean it won't make a difference in us. Having a second language should improve us and by preparing us for a globalizing world widening our view of the world along with deepening our understanding of the unique and different identities of others and ourselves by interacting with many different people from the various cultural background. We can combine all the good aspects of these cultures and build up our own one-of-a-kind unique identity that will make us a person free from the narrow views of a single nationality and make us global individuals.
Adam Grant·TEDMonterey How to stop languishing and start finding flow Summary
Languishing means to deteriorate, waste away, and suffer. It’s a sense of emptiness, stagnation, and ennui.
Still, a lot of limitations continue in the world because of COVID. We want to return to normal lives, and do something more productively. It must lead to forgiving our grief.
However, the speaker realized that the antidote to languishing does not have to be something productive, it can be something joyful.
Playing games with not only children but also adults, sleeping until the afternoon, and not being able to do your lists will be better now. Having fun must bring flow soon! Flow means to result, proceed, and arise.
When you’re ready, you can start finding the flow that lights a path out of the void.
Stop searching for your passion | Terri Trespicio | TEDxKC
Summary
The title must have surprised many people. Somehow, l understood what the speaker wanted to us, l knew that passion was not a job, l was often asked why l’ve worked passionately always, and it's because when I work hard, when I do what l have to do hard, my passion follows me.
Just start doing because to live a life full of meaning and value. You don’t follow your passion.
Let's design social media that drives real change Wael Ghonim • TEDGlobal>Geneva • December 2015 Summary
The story was told about six years ago. The speaker has already said that the Arab Spring revealed social media’s greatest potential, but it also exposed its greatest shortcomings.
A polarization is primarily driven by our human behavior, however, social media shapes this behavior and magnifies its impact.
Rumor is spreading among more people quickly, people can easily stop to mute and block a lot, they must forget that people behind the screen.
It becomes really hard to change our opinions even if new evidence arises. In our social media, could people truly discuss and talk with each other? Does it lead to solving something?
The speaker, in fact, stood on the TED stage in 2011, and said, “if you want to liberate society, all you need is the Internet.”
In 2016, the speaker in this TED told us if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the Internet.
In 2021, we now must use the Internet liberally too much without having civility and believe that the polarization in the world must be solved by using the Internet.
Could we build a wooden skyscraper? Stefan Al • TED-Ed • July 2021 Summary
Mjøstårnet is the world's tallest wooden building made almost entirely from the trees of neighboring forests in the Norwegian countryside. It was built in 2019, it started with the invention of glue-laminated timber called glulam, and engineers developed cross-laminated timber called CLT to battle powerful winds.
In fact, the timber can be shaped quickly using computer directed cutting machines,
engineered wood can be prefabricated in a factory, and
it’s biodegradable materials thus less waste.
By earthquake and fire, cracked wood panels can be easily replaced, and the CLT gives enough time to evacuate from fires.
The timber is a renewable resource, and
it is easier to heat and cool buildings with less energy waste.
It couldn’t be told that CLT is not strong enough to support a 40-story building and requires vastly more lumber than traditional wooden construction, though, even if only buildings under 30 stories were built from wood, it would reduce the carbon footprint of those structures by more than 25%.
We have to know about technological advancement to protect our earth.
3 reasons you aren’t doing what you say you will do | Amanda Crowell | TEDxHarrisburg (transcripts) Summary
We always say that this week, we are going to go to the gym or have English classes three times, though, it’s difficult for us to start doing it.
The speaker discovered the reason that there are three powerful mindset blocks that are keeping you locked in a cycle of defensive failure.
YOU think that somewhere in your heart, you can’t do it.
You think that Your IDENTITY must not do it.
SECRETLY, you don’t want to do it.
Ironically, those defensive failures have protected you from real failure, thus you can't start doing what you want to do, so you have to change your mind to productive failure from defensive failure.
The speaker, it’s a funny and great story, just wanted to be a mother who can chase a child. She did a triathlon. She only got her head clear, and she began to take steps. If you will do the same, you’re doing those two things, nothing can stop you.
Dan Barber·TED2010 How I fell in love with a fish Summary
The story was taken about over ten years ago. Could we change our agricultural and business systems? I think that is why we had faced the pandemic strongly. Still, humans eat meat and fish too much without thinking about depleting resources.
To create better rotations must be the better business. Agriculture, fish, and animal industries also have to have such thoughts. Humans eat too much, and then other animals lose their food. It’s strange, isn’t it?
The speaker really likes to eat delicious fish, like falling in love with a fish. He wants to continue to eat it. For continuing it and our good food of the future, we have to stop the agribusiness model now. We have to raise fish more, plant vegetables, thus we need rich soil and oceans. Not only we but also all animals eat forever and to create a better cycle is our responsibility.
Crystal Rasmussen·TEDxLondonWomen A queer journey from shame self-love Summary
The talk is for anyone who is struggling with becoming exactly who they’re meant to be.
The speaker is a gay. His journey started not to find himself in the mirror, he lied, and then, he felt self-hatred because he couldn’t believe things that were objectively true. It means that he didn’t believe that he is a gay, though, it was his shame, but he chose to live safely and he realized that he didn’t need everyone to accept everything about him.
Khalil Ramadi·TED Fellows: Shape Your Future Electronic pills that could transform how we treat disease Summary
Electronic pills are called digital pills, smart pills, and ingestible sensors as well. By a small jolt of electricity, it can target and treat chronic diseases and it contains “bionuges”: bursts of electrical or chemical stimuli, light, and modulation, can control appetite, aid digestion, regulate hormones. lt leads to treating diabetes, obesity, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. It doesn’t need chronic drugs, drills, surgery, and hospital stay. People will avoid side effects, Furthermore, even happiness and reward can be controlled by it. This must be a new gold standard in health care.
Nina Westbrook·How to Deal with Difficult Feelings How to support yourself (and others) through grief Summary
This past year, because of the pandemic, has been full of both personal and collective grief. We’ve never experienced it but we have correlated the grief with the loss of a dream and we couldn’t embrace it.
However, the speaker suggests that you can give yourself permission to grieve and ask for help. Don’t ignore your grief. Even, in your grief moment, it’s okay to feel joy or pleasure and it’s important to set and plan a new goal. It’s also okay to take time, up and down your feelings. This is the process to live well.
Brian Kateman·TEDxCUNY How to reduce your diet's carbon footprint — without going vegan Summary
Recently, we often hear the words vegan, vegetarian, and diet’s carbon footprint.
A vegan means that a person follows the diet or philosophy of veganism which rejects the commodity status of animals.
A vegetarian means that a person believes in vegetarianism which is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat including fish, eggs and etc.
Diet’s carbon footprint is also called Food’s carbon footprint, or foodprint. It means that the greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing, transporting, storing, cooking, and disposing of the food you eat. Could we be a vegan or vegetarian for stopping greenhouse gas emissions? It'll lead to stopping climate change.The speaker asked us. Unfortunately, he wasn’t a vegan and vegetarian, but he suggests that we can be a reducitarian soon.
A reducitarian is someone who’s making the conscious choice to decrease the amount of meat they consume. You don’t need a drastic lifestyle change but you can set manageable and therefore, actionable goals to gradually reduce your meat consumption.
In fact, only 5% of Americans consider themselves to be a vegetarian, however, if the rest of all people would be a reducitarian who ate meat before try to eat it only on the weekends, it must reduce food’s carbon footprint dramatically and obviously!! We will save our planet, improve our health and save a lot of animals.
Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski The cure for burnout (hint: it isn’t self-care) Summary
The speakers are identical twin sisters and the coauthors of a book about burnout. They experienced burnout and one knew it, but another didn’t know it. You mightn’t know it.
Burnout is not spreading in the workplaces but expanding now. Decreasing sense of accomplishment, separating what you do and what you feel, though, working harder and harder. It leads to emotional exhaustion, physiological symptoms, huge stressors, and then, relaxing is not going to be an effective means of recovering from burnout.
There’s a lot of overlap between burnout, depression, anxiety, grief, and rage, though, if you feel exhausted, you could pass through the tunnel, find the cycle of stress, and be aware of what is going on in your body.
With kindness and compassion, you’re able to turn toward difficult feelings. Not self-care or autonomy, you need connection and love.
The speakers grow up in a household where feelings were not allowed and they were not close their whole lives. They were isolated because they’ve been told that it’s stronger to be independent, though, it doesn’t seem to be true. It’s not too late. Because of the pandemic, everyone who works hard alone possibly faces burnout. However, you deserve care and love.
Jessica Kerr·TEDxUWA Who judges the judges? Summary
This was a really difficult issue among not only judges but also among all businessmen. Each industry has a different way of advancement, just, it’s traditional.
The speaker is a lawyer. She was asked to hand down 12-year prison sentences in court in her first month on the job. It’s the right thing, isn’t it?
In fact, judges are just chosen in a confidential and traditional process that heavily relies on advice from senior judges. The legal elite has an obvious interest in maintaining the status quo, no one has responsibilities, though, they can get salaries.
The speaker suggests being able to say no against the situation, young lawyers and the diverse ones will be supported, and for public confidence, creating a trust that can be explained and justified. The speaker hopes to blow a new wind to choose the judges.
Learn to Travel – Travel to Learn: Robin Esrock at TEDxVancouver (transcript) Summary
After the pandemic, we have to TRAVEL! because we couldn’t do it for a long time. Thus now, we have to learn about how to travel and we have to travel to learn a lot of things that we’ve never experienced yet!!
The speaker created and hosted a TV show called World Travel. I watched his films: The Great Canadian Bucket List. He tells us his journey was crazy, there were beautiful countries, it’s too big to call a backyard, and he was inspired by the people, the places, and the creatures.
Don’t panic! Surround yourself with good people, you can know that people will rather help you than hurt you, Listen to your instinct, Smile, Pack the right state of mind, and don’t forget your toothbrush.
He says that he doesn’t believe that we ever stop traveling and he doesn’t believe that we ever stop growing. What he learned from travel keeps applying to the world that he lives about daily life. Our journey must definitely be a way to bring seduction into our life!
Robin Esrock : The Great Canadian Bucket List and blog
Naomi Shimada·How to Deal with Difficult Feelings Tips for reclaiming your peace of mind online Summary
The speaker seemed to be born in Japan thus her name was Japanese, but her English is not like Japanese, probably, she wouldn’t speak Japanese. She works as a plus-size model, but she seemed to be in trouble with her body and using SNS for a long time.
And then, she has just co-authored a book called “Mixed Feelings: Exploring the emotional impact of our digital habits”. In fact, her experiences were what all young people think about, so we wanted to be told how to untangle our self-worth from follower counts, likes, and the unattainable perfectionism perpetuated online.
Online excellently shows that our lives are shiny and perfect. The speaker called it “Optics”: it’s the branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light, so we care about optics too much. We feel fear of missing and anxiety. It becomes difficult to deal with feelings, worsen the human condition and there’s no “off” button.
The speaker told us that there are, again, more questions to ask ourselves. It’s not only to post or not to post, but it’s necessary to pay attention to your own life privately, work on and think about it or businesses deeply. We need to inhabit and act on these reflections. We can manage our relationship with our online worlds.
Sophie Williams·TEDxLondonWomen The rigged test of leadership Summary
The speaker explains about the glass cliff.
There are situations where a person only took a leadership role, though, the chances of success have been limited before the person has even begun and it has often happened among black women.
This is the rigged test of leadership. When underrepresented people have taken on most senior roles, the businesses have already been in trouble. And then, we have to change the situation, because it must lead to discrimination of race, gender, and color or discrimination must create the situation.
I think that the situation is not only among women but also among men. The solution is not to blame someone but to see the value in all people of the time.
Luis Vargas: Travel More & Buy Less at TEDxPortland (Transcript) Summary
I was really happy when l found the article! because we can’t travel now, and we can’t know when we will start to do it yet because of the coronavirus. We are truly looking forward to being able to travel and when it’ll start, the story must be famous, furthermore, our company’s products designed with flag patterns must sell well again!! What? The story explains “travel more and buy less”. Hahaha!
“I want to challenge each of us to invest in experiences instead of more stuff,” the speaker said. From traveling, you know, you must have opportunities to grow, learn, have fun that no one can’t explain. However, only less than 10% of the U.S. population will leave the continent in a given year, furthermore, only 35%of Americans have passports, they can visit over 174 countries without a visa or get a visa at the point of entry, though. (Japanese people who have passports with which they visit over 191counteies are only 25%. )
The speaker tells us that there are three reasons that we couldn’t travel: work, money, and fear. We are a nation of workaholics, but many people don’t like to work! We feel fear when we’ve heard some bad news from the media, but horrifying things aren’t happening! You think that you don’t have money, but you must have over 22 unworn items in your closet!
Thus those are not the reasons not to go!
If you’re young, it means go, if you’re older, it means go because you must have more resources than before. If you don’t have friends or a partner, it means to go, if you have friends or a partner, of course, it means to go. If you have kids, it doesn’t mean not to go! It’ll take a lot of work, but family travel can be extraordinarily rewarding!
Having meaningful experiences must truly transform you!!
Michael Levin·TED2020 The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life Summary
I was surprised at the two-headed worms which are highly regenerative. If you cut it into pieces, every piece will rebuild exactly what’s needed to make a perfect little worm. However, the speaker tells us that it’s not editing DNA. This is a mysterious bioelectric layer directing cells to work together to grow organ systems and bodies. It could be called the world’s first living robots known as a planarian. Cracking codes, not building what you would like them to build, it seems to lead to having communication with those, it means to be able to normalize tumors, repair birth defects, and induce regeneration of limbs and other organs. Furthermore, it’ll be able to take it into mammalian cells and really turn it into the next generation of regenerative medicine.
Tim Nevius·TEDxDayton The exploitation of US college athletes Summary
This story was surprising and there were huge differences between Japan and the US.
The speaker who is a Sports lawyer and former NCAA investigator told us that colleges and universities in the US make billions of dollars each year from sports, though, it makes compromising the health and education of athletes who are especially black.
In college sports, all athletes should be given a chance at meaningful education fairly.
I am not sure whether an Olympic event could be held or not at this time, though, l don’t want to lose hope and I want to believe that Sports give the world power.
Julia Dhar·TED Salon: DWEN How to have constructive conversations Summary
I want a lot of people, especially Japanese politicians to have constructive conversations. It’s because they just want to win and to choose no meaningful fights.
Constructive means helpful, useful, and promoting development, so all conversations have to be constructive.
The speaker explains that the conversation is willing to choose curiosity over the clash. 1) Conversations should be able to be expected about the development of your ideas. 2) It leads to moving ideas forward. 3) Constructive conversations that sharpen and strengthen your relationship.
My essay about the covid pandemic, any topic about it, how to fight it, and measures to prevent it in 2021, April 18.
In the world, a lot of people died because of the coronavirus. I would like to express my deep sorrow and heartfelt sympathy for them.
That started when orders disappeared. Last January, suddenly world traverses couldn't come to Japan. Shops had to close and our company did nothing. I felt that l couldn’t eat and might lose where I sleep. I was surprised, l lost my senses, l was taken to the hospital by ambulance. I felt that everything went wrong and l fought with you my English teacher. I wanted to forget about the spreading pandemic or didn’t want to think about it. TV news and SNS always gave us a lot of bad news. I felt that no one taught me measures to protect from it. Although l didn’t have work because shops were closed, l went to my office every day as usual and at the same time. I who was wearing a mask often, went the long way about. Ironically, the sky was really clear because there were no cars and people.
I thought while walking, l had time to do something, and this was the time when God gave us. For a long time, many people were busy, they must have wanted not to go to their office and they realized that for working from home, their long commuting time was not necessary. First, they were surprised at working from home with their family, though, and then little by little, a small ingenuity was born.
I thought that Japanese TV, media, and SNS should respect and admire Japanese people more, their efforts have been great, and praising must lead to more efforts, but they only told us companies. I’ve heard that some countries' leaders told people about their victory against coronavirus where people died more than in Japan.
People have to protect themselves, overcome it by themselves, they could do many things, but we couldn’t realize it.
Even during the coronavirus, l must be able to do something that I want to do. I started to study English again and could update my blog pages as far as one thousand. I started doing weight training to have dance class but l haven’t told it to anyone yet. (A TED speaker told in the past that a person who studies other languages tries to practice dance somehow.) When coronavirus is over, l am going to surprise my friends who would gain weight because of the coronavirus. You can start something from today because it’ll take a little more time until the end. I really love my job, though, it might not be needed by everyone now so I wait for a chance with being ready completely.
By the way, in the morning, l sometimes saw a father and his son jogging when l went to my office. The father seemed to be good at it, though, the son’s form and breaths were not good. I wanted to tell the son that and if it’s fixed, the son will catch up with the father or l hoped that the father taught the son about it, however, it continued for several months.
However, only a few days ago, l just saw two people jogging alongside with smiles!! The son has grown up greatly and it must deserve to overcome the pandemic.
To change your thoughts, to enjoy having time, and for me, not to watch TV were important. I believe that humans could grow up anytime and anywhere.
"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" Steve Jobs said.
Meditations in the intersection of humanity and technology
Summary
Actually, we must have thought that the intersection of humans and technology has a clear line, though, it changed to the blurring line by evolutions.
The speaker is a photographer who takes gait pictures of humans and amputees. Now, creating a set of legs can walk, run and even jump without seeming to be mechanical at all. Of course, the prostheses don’t move on their own. The sensors read pulses from the amputee’s muscle to tell the limp how to move. We can see Ibuki, a Japanese word, that is to breathe new life into it, and feel more human.
When the blurring lines are erased, is it by humans or technology, and what happens?
In the article, l was happy somehow because Japanese hesitation words, “eto” and “ano” appeared. “Um” and “uh” are American’s and it’s called a kind of hesitation phenomenon. In fact, it doesn’t seem to be just a habit. This is a sign for others to start speaking, a signal that you’re not finished, a time for your speech to catch up with your thoughts, or to find out the right words. And then, listers are more likely to remember a word after your hesitation and they can follow, interpret and predict what you’re trying to say easily.
Furthermore, the second-language learner can signal their new found fluency by using the appropriate hesitation phenomenon, I think so too because I who am learning the second-language feel that to be able to use it well means to speak well!!
A conclusion is that seemingly, we think that “eto” “ano” “Um” and “uh” are senseless sounds, however, it can convey a world of meaning.
The speaker is the youngest inaugural poet in US history. She who was asked from the wife of Biden delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.
When Biden’s wife met the speaker for the first time, she wore a yellow shirt. Thus they thought that yellow must bring them luck, and chose a yellow coat this time.
Now, she is thought by many people that she might be President of the US in 2037.
The speaker never reached here easily. She had a speech impediment, she is the daughter of black writers who broke their chain and changed the world, and she was asked by a white man that doesn’t make her poems political. It’s because people are terrified of her poems that have the phenomenal potential to connect the beliefs of the private individual with the cause of change of the public, the population, the policy, and the political movement. It’s especially her poems. Thus, she writes a story right, no matter what anyone says.
How to be fearless in the face of authoritarianism
Summary
This was a powerful story. In the last of the article, you should watch the speaker's yell: “You become invincible”. It moved me.
Authoritarianism is a belief to claim the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom. Defeating it is difficult, furthermore, the speaker was a normal mother and wife in the small country, Belarus. When she had a little courage to help her husband, citizens realized a lot of injustice. It created solidarity, it made her fearless, and next, it appeared for them. Their courage was born from unity and their solidarity was their strength. It grows in progression and they are tens of thousands, and they become invincible.
To create a justice world, normal people can fight.
4 lessons the pandemic taught us about work, life and balance
Summary
We are suffering because of the pandemic, and we always ask about when we could go back and if we want to go back soon. Working from home is especially tough for not only employees but also employers.
The speaker asked us if we didn't go back to the office. Her answer was surprising. The answer is that we can go forward and rethink the way we work and it’s good to become better.
The way we learned during the pandemic were really great things that we didn’t realize for a long time.
The keys are that employers have to understand that employees are the members of the company like the family and employees’ families become also the members of the company. We have to work as a team. 1)
Those members have responsibilities as family members and they should be adults. 2)
The team needs to practice. The result doesn’t appear soon, though, it should be clear. 3)
Working well needs to have conversations. 4)
Think about what worked and what didn’t work at the end of the day.
You know what?
We don’t need to go back to the office. The way we used to do it not only is not the way of the future but we’re discovering so many wonderful things right now.
Per Espen Stoknes·TEDGlobal>NYC How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming Summary
Solving global warming must be the complete final destruction of the world, and the biggest obstacles to dealing with climate disruptions lie in our brains. Thus the word “Apocalypse” will be used.
There are five inner defenses when we think about it.
Distance: when we hear about climate change, we hear about something far away in space. Doom: we feel it doom. Dissonance: Dissonance occurred because we couldn’t agree on it. Denali: thus we want to deny it. iDentity: we try to deny even identity.
And then the speaker explained how to flip these five defenses.
Social: we have to think about the problem of global warming as the things that we feel near. Supportive: we have to think that we can support it. Simple: We can start even a small and simple thing. Signal: make sure of signals of your results. Story: we love stories that we want to go and it leads to doing something easily.
Our small actions can change the world. It’s just our thoughts. We can protect our earth and we have to do it.
Shi Heng YI TEDxVitosha 5 Hindrances to Self Mastery (transcript)
Summary
The speaker is not a native speaker of English, though, everyone must listen to his English easily. It was a slowly impressive low voice. Furthermore, the TED was held at Vitosha which is a mountain massif on the outskirts of Sofia and is one of the symbols of Sofia where the capital of Bulgaria, so the language of Bulgaria is not English.
When the speaker thought that what was important in this lifetime, the answer was to learn something about himself. It’s to train and develop yourself. To enjoy your time even doing nothing, to find a way and to do the things you like to do.
There was a man who listened carefully to travelers on how to travel well, though the man never went on a journey, unfortunately. It must be impossible to understand all by only listening, no one tells you which way to go, there is no need to believe anyone or anything. Just, investing the right effort and avoiding hindrances to see clearly and to have the right decisions.
5 Hindrances that you have to avoid are sensual desires, Ill-will, loss and torpor, restlessness, and skeptical doubt. The speaker hopes that those hindrances don't stop you and you have practiced.
Kevin Roose·TED@BCG The value of your humanity in an automated future Summary
For a long time, we believed that robots steal our jobs and we’ve competed with them, though, it’s wrong. Even the jobs of lawyers, accountants, engineers, doctors, programmers, or bookstores are not robbed, we should be trying to improve our human skills, the kinds of things that only people can do, things involving compassion and critical thinking, and moral courage. We have to create a community where humans can learn and grow like more humans. It’s impossible to replace robots.
Anil Seth·TED2017 Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality Summary
Billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience that includes tasting, seeing, smelling, hearing, and touching. You, for example, smelled something in reality, though, it couldn’t be touched by you, though, it’s reality. Hallucinations mean delusions, illusions, and figments of the imagination. We’re all hallucinating all the time and stopping to think that reality is physical that is easy to understand. The brain doesn’t hear a sound or see light. What we perceive is its best guess of what’s out there in the world. To agree about hallucinations and we call it “reality”.
Wendy De La Rosa·Your Money and Your Mind Why talking to your friends can help you save money Summary
Humans’ thoughts are really strange. Even if someone focusly explains about saving money to reduce energy consumption, it’s not effective. The most effective message was “The majority of your neighbors are undertaking energy-saving actions every day.”
You mustn’t want to pay taxes, though, you will pay willingly, and soon after you hear that your neighbors pay their taxes on time.
Around us, it’s taboo to talk about money, especially saving money, though, like examples, if we hear that your neighbors save money sometimes, you must feel that you might be able to do that and you can start it easy soon. It must be really easy because we want to do the same things that our neighbors do. Like when your friend bought a pretty cloth, you will buy it. This time, your neighbors are saving money effectively.
Ari Wallach·TEDxMidAtlantic 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term Summary
The speaker explains three ways of thinking for every major decision that you’re working on.
Transgenerational thinking 1) is to set your children up to how they’re going to interact with their kids and their kids and their kids.
Futures thinking 2) is that we have to really think deeply, it’s not to look at the future in one way but it’s diverse and vast.
Telos thinking 3) shows ultimate aim and ultimate purpose clearly.
Simply, try to think about not the next three and five years but pushing past your own life. It leads you to doing things a little bit bigger than you thought were possible. Look at the word of the title, “Very”, and it doesn’t mean to postpone solving our problems more but to change our thoughts. The speaker means that short-term thinking that we think is just right now, and long-term thinking that we think now becomes short-term thinking. It’s because our future is not the point but it’s futuring. In fact, our future is continuing next to our future like the speaker said that he has been futuring for about 20 years 〜〜and it’s continuing forever.
Tom Griffiths·TEDxSydney 3 ways to make better decisions — by thinking like a computer Summary
The speaker’s three ways are to explore, exploit, and trade-off.
Explore means to gather some information that you might be able to use in the future.
Exploit means to use the information that you’ve already gathered, you already know, or is pretty good.
Trade-off means, of course, to exchange or to try something new.
And then, thinking like a computer means, in fact, not to consider ALL of your options and to settle for a pretty good solution. This isn’t the concession that we make when we can’t be rational but this is rational like computer algorithms that are about doing what makes the most sense in the least amount of time and removing constraints.
'Gbenga Sesan·TED Salon: UNDP Technology can’t fix inequality-but training and opportunities could Summary
The information that there are 40 students in a classroom, though, there are only two computers there is often announced even in Japan.
In the article, the speaker tells us that fairness is not about giving every child a computer and an app. Fairness is connecting them to access, training, and support equally, especially men and women have to have equal opportunities.
Now, a lot of adults use computers, though, inequalities between men and women or white and black and etc. are not solved. The story also shows that a father thought that girls were not worth having a job.
Not only children but also adults have to think about inequalities to pass children the baton and to change children’s lives. Is your country working to have equal opportunities?
Wendy De La Rosa·Your Money and Your Mind 3 sneaky tactics that websites use to make you spend Summary
You must be struggling because you always spend and use much time and money on the websites, though, in the article, the speaker tells us that websites are created to make you spend. She shows about three website's tactics to attack YOU!! (or attract you.😂) Please be careful!!
Sites are gamification to intentionally lure you back to the site! 1)
Sites show scarcity deliberately. Scarcity is, again and again, tempting YOU purposely 2) and you will be allowed to pay in installments! It’s dangerous!! 3)
Don’t startup applications, leave the site for at least an entire day, and do not use payment installment plans!!
Evan Zodl·TED-Ed The unexpected math of origami Summary
I’m Japanese and For me, this is a scientifically unexpected math story but it is the Origami of Japanese. Origami means to fold a single square sheet of paper. It can be transformed into almost any shape by only folding. For children, the rule of Origami was only not to cut the paper.
However, it seems to have four mathematical rules. It has areas that never touch,1) of course, the next mountain fold is a valley fold, and 2) angles add up 180 degrees. 3) However, when we were children, we didn’t know that, but we could make cranes!
By folding the crease pattern into the flat base, it means by narrowing, bending, and sculpting flaps, the 2D base becomes and shows some parts like 3D! For example, you can create a mouth of a crane or a movement of wings, right?
When we were children, we imagined a lot of crease patterns in our brains, though, in this generation, in computers, it can show beautiful crease patterns. We can’t think that this is the Japanese Origami from the 17th century, it leads to using airbags, solar arrays, self-folding robots, and even DNA nanostructures. Furthermore, I've heard that it prevents you from Alzheimer's disease because you can use your hands a lot. Enjoy Origami and you must design incredibly complex shapes!
Bill Burnett·TEDxStanford 5 steps to designing the life you want Summary
The article reminded me of an old speech. About 15 years ago, a famous man who was an American businessman and CEO of Apple Computer, gave a speech for graduates in the finest university to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks. His name was Steve Jobs and he never graduated from college.
His first story was about connecting the dots. Not only his life but his biological mother and his parents’ lives were hard, he often thought that something that he did might be wasted, though, the dots somehow connected in the near future.
We can’t connect the dots looking forward. We can only connect them looking backward, so we have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in our future. We have to trust in something.
In this TEDtalk, the speaker’s first idea was about connecting the dots.
He gives us five steps to design the life we want. By using design, we can reframe our life anytime and anywhere.
Trust about connecting the dots, 1)
Continue having curiosity, 2)
Know that a lot of choices trouble you, 3)
Think your luck, and 4)
Try it. 5) We can’t design a well-lived joyful life!!
Qiuqing Tai·TED@BCG Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat-and the rise of bite-sized content Summary
I thought that In the past, we were very excited by Facebook and Twitter. Next, not only we but also companies now seem to be excited by TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. Those short videos have huge potential to change our learning, education, businesses and etc. it’s even the status quo as well.
The speaker who is Chinese tells us that there are concerns in the context, though, the positive outcome of short videos will outweigh its downsides. Economically and socially, this must be a new way to benefit from young people.
I think that the important point is that the speaker is Chinese. While ago, in the US, news that TikTok might be banned was announced and Facebook and Twitter are said that they harm many people. For her, now is a good chance!
Jack Dangermond·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future Summary
First, we have to know about GIS which is a geographic information system.
It provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data. Furthermore, it allows the users to create, edit, analyze spatial information output and share the results of those.
It’s attached to various operations, numerous applications, engineering, planning, management, transport, logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and businesses like maps or spreading nerves in your brain!! Thus, the title called it a geospatial nervous system.
The key is to be able to design holistically. It has physical, environmental, demographic features and can look at the whole, not just make money, not just conserve something, not just measure and not just analyze something.
By using this, we must better understand the world’s biggest challenges simply and holistically when we look at the maps.
The speaker is a pioneer in GIS and tells that we can see unifier, integrators of the individual systems into systems of systems that can talk to the world and transform the world. (What? and Hahaha!)
Juan Enriquez·TED2020 How technology changes our senses of right and wrong Summary
The speaker suggests that right and wrong is something that changes over time, because of technology and exponentially. Thus in this polarized time, humility and forgiveness are important. Our notions and understanding of right and wrong change across time and to build communities, you have to allow space.
P.S. I think that people already know that time changes right and wrong thus, the side that was told wrong strongly moves to change it, though, another side has humility, forgiveness, and spaces. Then it'll be changed by the opposite side, it repeats and continues forever but it’s impossible to stop because time can’t be stopped.
Angela Francis·TEDxLondonWomen How a green economy could work for you Summary
People think that it’s going to cost too much to save the planet and to sacrifice something that they do or have.
However, the speaker suggests our thoughts change first. It means that it’s not to degrade people’s life but by using investment and policy to reward people and businesses for the decisions.
How a green economy could work for you is to improve our health, our well-being, our quality of life and to have better jobs. When it’s shown, all people can join to save our planet without worrying and unjustifying.
Yen Pham·TED-Ed Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “ Beloved “? Summary
The book, “Beloved”, was written by Toni Morrison and won the Pulitzer Prize. The story is about a woman who escaped enslavement, though, sadness and suffering are continuing.
It shows that all humans have a desire to find love and be loved even when it’s painful. Love challenges social conversations. However, people didn’t agree with it for the only black.
By listening to the past voices, we have to see and know our actions, and responsibilities. Reading books has a power that is including with the redeeming power of love.
Elizabeth Diller·TEDWomen 2020 A stealthy reimagining of urban public space Summary
Stealthy means to be staying secretive and to be being secret, so in your city, there are a lot of commercial architectures and buildings. The privatized buildings are becoming older and it couldn’t gather people and urban change.
The speaker suggests that for gathering people again, it should democratize those privatized cities progressively. It should create open spaces and landscapes for all public to enjoy and give back spaces to the public to reimagine old infrastructure, 1) to make us realize the environment and shrinking resources, 2) and to have sustainable ways. 3)
The speaker tells us that public spaces can grow the city again and by creating a great landmark, the city can invite a lot of tourists from the world. She is a famous person who planned the High Line in New York and Zaryadye Park in Moscow. Those pictures are really beautiful in the video.
Words in this story re·lent·less·ly / in an unceasingly intense or harsh way
Nimisha Jain·TED@BCG The joy of shopping-and how to recapture it online Summary
Some Asian areas, India, China, Thailand, and Southern Asia seem to feel impersonal and unsatisfactory about internet shopping.
It’s because joyful things are less than real shopping. It’s a treasure hunt to discover something new, a negotiation to get a great deal, and a time when sharing something with friends and family is really fun.
Thus the speaker suggests that shopping apps should change to have conversations, good digital experiences, and human interaction more.
Those must be important from now and it’ll threaten the Amazon platform that is the best one now.
P.S. After reading the article, l felt huge differences between countries in the story and Japan which was even lactated in Asia. Probably, it’s because the Japanese market is already mature and products are too much at the real shops and on the internet thus people can’t choose them. We don’t need to ask and share what we buy because we can read so many reviews, comments, and companies’ information before we buy something. It sometimes makes us dislike shopping!!! I think that people started to find other pleaser things that are not shopping in Japan, unfortunately. The reason that people leave Amazon won’t be impersonal in Japan.
Jessica Woods·TED@PMI What a cactus taught me about prickly emotions Summary
If you are able to regulate your emotions well today, your performance must be the best, though, it’ll be difficult.
It’s because there are many external factors that impact you, our brains are highly susceptible, furthermore others emotions often jump and attach to you. You are not related, though, the speaker suggests that everyone has to control such emotions by sending back the other people’s emotions.
You recognize that there is a prickly emotion to avoid it. To repeat recognition, appraisal, acceptance, and control to avoid it.
Shari Davis·TED2020 What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds? Summary
In your community, only the government must decide how to spend public funds, though, it couldn’t solve real problems close to your home. The speaker suggests the idea that is called participatory budgeting. It means a process that brings local residents, especially young people, and governments together to develop concrete solutions to real problems close to home.
It brought young people from marginalized areas, allocated computers for high school students to increase technology access, it also allocated money to renovating parks more accessible for all people of all bodies. The actions of young people reduced corruption and increased trust in governments. It must lead to changing democracy that is almost breaking. To participate must change old systems.
Tawanda Kanhema·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative My journey mapping the uncharted world Summary
There are not only areas but also many problems that are still left behind. Actually, mappings can show those.
Thousands of displaced people in unmapped areas. It was difficult to bring food because of unmapping. It is possible not to be able to find people from a national disaster. By mapping, communities can change and get better impacts. Researchers can understand how our build environment influences health outcomes, teachers can teach reality and virtual reality in the classroom, so using maps can help many people who are left behind.
It leads to filling gaps and building a more connected world together.
an important tool but no longer just about cartography. It changes and affects communities,
Words in this story uncharted / unexplored, undiscovered, unmapped, untraveled, unfamiliar
Mehret Mandefro·TED@BCG How a strong creative industry helps economies thrive Summary
This was a great story and l was really moved by this new thought.
Now, in the world, technology is growing and coronavirus is spreading, thus there is no job, though, our governments said that employees have to be protected and people should not enjoy amusements. However, an increasing economy is important. The story solved all of them!!
The speaker explained that the arts are often overlooked. However, the creative sector has the power to promote economic growth and by addressing large social barriers, like racism, gender inequalities, health disparities, and etc, to promote democratic ideals as well. It means that sectors can create young employment, it can train them, they can create great films that can go around the world, and it helps tourism markets also. The governments should cooperate with them.
The current generation, arts, and culture in all of their forms are indispensable for a country's economic and democratic growth.
