Elizabeth Diller : A stealthy reimagining of urban public space

 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 : The joy of shopping — and how to recapture it online

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 : What a cactus taught me about prickly emotions

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 : What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds?

 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 : My journey mapping the uncharted world

 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 : How a strong creative industry helps economies thrive

 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.

Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala : 6 essential lessons for women leaders

 Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala·TEDWomen 2020
6 essential lessons for women leaders 
Summary 

Two big women leaders gave us strong lessons. When they worked as leaders, it was hard because of women. However, it’s still continuing. 

1, There’s no right way to be a woman leader. Be true to yourself. 

2, Even now, women leaders face sexism and stereotypes. 

3, To know talking about gender stereotypes and debunking them.  

4, To also know that there are structural barriers between family life and work. It should be fairly balancing. 

5, Don’t take a backward step and assume. 

Bas Sudmeijer : How carbon capture networks could help curb climate change

 Bas Sudmeijer·TED@BCG
How carbon capture networks could help curb climate change
Summary 

The speaker’s suggestions are to build a global waste disposal service for carbon. It means not only to reduce releasing CO2 but also to use CO2 in chemical processes to make and to bury the CO2 underground. To create those systems and infrastructure is called a carbon capture network. 

It’s high cost, though, it’s not enough only to continue doing something with existent speed. 

Now is the time to cooperate with governments, local governments, and companies to create a new infrastructure. It must lead to stopping climate change, creating employment, and sustainability. 

Betsy Kauffman : 4 tips to kickstart honest conversations at work

Betsy Kauffman·TED@PMI
4 tips to kickstart honest conversations at work
Summary

Actually, it’s difficult to have honest conversations at work because we feel fear and we think that everyone doesn’t agree with an idea. 

However, by training you and workplaces which don’t value openness and honesty, we’ll become more productive, less fearful,  and happier at work. The speaker suggests four tips. 

Having confidence.  
Intent means to be about having a purpose and a reason to speak up
Delivery means to be about how you frame the actual message. 
Seeking a solution always. 

The speaker experienced that when a small child who was only ten years old spoke up with big confidence honestly, the situation turned dynamically. This must be the workplace where we want to work. 

Karen Eber : How your brain responds to stories — and why they're crucial for leaders

Karen Eber·TEDxPurdueU
How your brain responds to stories — and why they're crucial for leaders
Summary 

I thought that in this story, the most important part was that if we couldn’t use data with a better story, it would let people fall through the cracks. We should do better, so currently, about coronavirus and financial assistance for the needy, something doesn’t work well. It mightn’t use data and stories well. 

A good story has three attributes. It builds tension, releases it, and must be done this over and over through the story. It’s because our brains are created to forget 50 percent of the story right after you hear it, and love to anticipate. We also love to anticipate and fill in gaps in what we’re seeing or hearing with our own knowledge, experience, and bias. It means that my understanding of data is going to differ from yours, it’s going to differ from yours, and we’re going to have our own interpretation. Thus we need ways to guide us through. Only data isn’t to do well.

The story should make our brain light up. It leads to three attributes of the speaker. 

Words in this story
interpretation / the action of explaining the meaning of something. explanation

Jamila Gordon : How AI can help shatter barriers to equality

Jamila Gordon·TEDWomen 2020

How AI can help shatter barriers to equality 

Summary 

The story moved me!! It’s because the speaker was born in a family who was a nomad, because of drought and a war they moved Ethiopia to Somalia, and because of a civil war, she arrived in Kenya and came to Australia. And then, in Australia, a Japanese couple helped her by hiring and teaching English. Furthermore, not only my teacher who is Filipino and l who am Japanese are reading the story but also people in the world can read it. What an amazing thing happened in this generation! It’s global. 

However, there are many people who are left behind. They don’t have food, they can’t read, write, and even speak a normal language. Of course, they won’t have work. 

The speaker has plans with AI. By using AI, she strongly believes that it can do more than her experiences. She thinks about creating hiring in food industries, and training systems that people who don’t speak the same language can work with. Everyone in the world is safe at work. 

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This might be the Japanese Restaurant that the speaker told us.

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Renee Montgomery : How to turn moments into momentum

 Renee Montgomery·TEDWomen 2020
How to turn moments into momentum 
Summary 

In basketball games, the single moment of scoring must give you power, and it can change everything. If we don’t underestimate what we can do, we can turn the moment into momentum like basketball games. 

The speaker was a WNBA champion but she quit it and decided to participate in the protest of killing some black people by police. For the reason that she was the athlete, she thought that she must do something for racism and no person can do that, thus the speaker joined it. By joining, it turns moments into momentum. 

Soraya Field Fiorio : A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Soraya Field Fiorio·TED-Ed
A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Summary

I was shocked because l thought that the story showed that since over 3,000 years ago, businesses have been against women!

The woman of the main character never married, it’s difficult to continue working, and women couldn't receive properties from their father. 

Brothers didn’t cooperate with her and they disturbed her business, but they only got benefits, but when they faced trouble, they asked her for help. Finally, when she was older, she had to choose a priestess who couldn’t marry as well. It seemed to continue again and again.

I hope that business means not to get only benefits but to help people, to create a better world, and men and women should have equality of opportunities. 

Is that what the story wanted to tell us?

Niro Sivanathan : The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive

 Niro Sivanathan·TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive 

Summary 

Counterintuitive means to oppose your intuition or common-sense expectation.  You must think that by increasing the number of arguments, you do strengthen your case, though, it’s wrong. You actively weaken it. 

It’s because the speaker’s study tells us that this is the dilution effect that is a cognitive quirk. 

We have to be careful because our strong messages will be weakened often. In our world, there are many advertisements and opportunities that we can see them. Unconsciously, our discussion will be diluting but our world knows that influence power is a quantity 💢 more than quality. Is it right?

You cannot increase the quality of an argument by simply increasing the quantity of your argument. You have to be careful with the delivery of your message. 

Guy Winch : Initiative How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

 Guy Winch·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative

How to turn off work thoughts during your free time 

Summary 

Ruminating about work is dangerous. It’s that you think about work when you are not at work, and it’s replaying. It leads to sleeping disturbances, eating unhealthy foods, and piling much stress. 

The ways to convert a ruminating through into a productive one are to stick to your guardrails, to ritualize the transition from work to other than work, and to train productive forms of thinking. 

Banishing ruminations must enhance not only your personal life but also the joy and satisfaction that you get from your work. 

Yes, l think so. When l have time to study English well, it means that my free time is perfect, to be able to avoid ruminating and l get satisfaction from my work! 

Christine Carter : The 1-minute secret to forming a new habit

 Christine Carter·TEDxMarin

The 1-minute secret to forming a new habit

Summary 

It’s too short to run for only one minute at a time, though, people want to do more, they will be tired and they won't continue doing anything. 

Doing something is better than doing nothing. Starting something is the hardest. Try doing one better-than-nothing behavior. It can stop abandoning our grand plan and ambitions. Take the first step from a tiny shift. 

Tilak Mandadi : 3 ways companies can support grieving employees

 Tilak Mandadi·TED@BCG

3 ways companies can support grieving employees 

Summary 

People think that after experiencing big grief, they couldn’t work. The speaker lost his daughter, though, he suggests that for most of us, our lives mean to get up and get back to work while living with the grief.  Work might start for just productive, however, it will evolve to being truly therapeutic and meaningful for not only the person but also colleagues and employees. 

When you lose the most precious thing in your life, you gain a lot of humility and a very different perspective free of egos and agendas. 

For that, companies have to create a culture of empathy in the workplace. It’s not sympathy and not compassion. It’s not only to be able to support a grieving employee but also to inspire a great deal of loyalty for all people in the workplace. 

The ways are to have policies that let an employee deal with their loss in place 1), to provide return-to-work therapy to the employee as an integral part of the health benefits package 2), and to provide training for all employees on how to support each other 3).

This is one thing that increases productivity that we didn’t realize. 

Lucy Hone : 3 secrets of resilient people

Lucy Hone·TEDxChristchurch

3 secrets of resilient people 

Summary 

We want to really believe the speaker’s words. She tells us that it’s utterly possible to make yourself think and act in certain ways that help you navigate tough times. Actually, in our world, many people are struggling with the pandemic. 

The three strategies are to know that suffering is part of life 1), to focus on the things that only you can change and you have to accept the things that you can’t 2), and to ask yourself that what you are now doing is helping or harming. 

When a situation that is awful beyond imagining happens, what people need most must be hope. It’s not advice. It might take much time, though you can think again with the speaker’s strategies. She lost her children, though, she lives and grieves at the same time with gratitude. 

Words in this story 

adversity / misfortune, adverse fortune, hardship; distress, suffering

Margaret Heffernan·TEDxDanubia The dangers of willful blindness

 Margaret Heffernan·TEDxDanubia

The dangers of willful blindness

Summary 

This was a great story so we sometimes misunderstand about freedom and freedom doesn’t exist if you don’t use it. 

The willful blindness of the title means that it’s a legal concept, if there is information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you’re willfully blind. You have chosen not to know and it’s not freedom. However, many people are willfully blind under certain circumstances. They say that they’re afraid of retaliation, nothing’s ever going to change and it's waste, the side of whistleblowers is crazy, but it’s mythology. Whistleblowers are loyal and conservative, they are dedicated to their institutions that they work for and the reason that they speak up is that they want to keep it healthy heartily with pride. 

There was a story of asbestos in Japan also. Many people died because of asbestos, though, of course, companies, governments, and people who are victims didn’t want to understand. They were willfully blind. 

The person who can change it is you who is ordinary, you should not be willfully blind and you being able to speak up is true freedom. 

Words in this story

mor·tal·i·ty / the state of being subject to death

fa·tal·i·ty / an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease

willful / adj wilfully / adv blind / adj blindness / noun