Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities

TED 2012
Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities (script)
Summary
This is the talk that Japanese people must listen to. It's because the speaker is a mayor of Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil where was chosen as the 31st Olympic and in Japan, Tokyo is chosen as 32nd Olympic. He said in the talk that you don't always have to be rich or powerful to get things done. You can find original ways to get things done with some basic commandments. You can really get cities to be a great place to live.
Firstly, what his city did was creating a place where people could meet. From now, a city of the future has to be environmentally friendly. Green is really needed.
Secondly, it's important that people can move easily. Among rising population, it's thought that transportation is spending lots of lots of money though the Bus Rapid Transit is spending much less money and moving much faster.
Thirdly, you can remove a problem of favelas and change it to completely urbanized. Favela means a city in Brazil where it is very poor and crowded though you bring in the basic services which are education and health. By using high -quality technology, a city can be socially integrated.
Fourthly, you can use like the operations center with technology that is the system which you can know and administrate the city but you don't need to be there anymore.
The beautiful city has been left and by using technology, a city can integrate socially its citizens and care about its all citizens. This is a city of the future.
In Japan, old buildings were demolished without fixing because workers can get the benefit but the government only think how they use the budget that is tax we citizens paid...
Words in this story
integration / synthesis, unification

BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life

TED 2015
BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life (script)
Summary
The most important thing for the end of our life is a shift in our perspective to all sorts of things.
The scariest thing about death isn't being dead but it's about dying and suffering.
Even in the natural and essential part of your life which is death, you can see suffering that you can change.
Even if some systems of your body are broken, you can feel primal sensorial delights until the end.
Then you don't ask too much of your hospital. You should design your end of life because the hospital is not a place to live and die.
The speaker said, "We have to make a space in our minds to agree with our death."
It's not about being able to solve death but to live out our lives. We can learn a lot to live well from small things and our usual day.
We can always find a shock of beauty or meaning in what line we have left. To realize them leads us to designing our whole life even our death.
Words in this story
repugnance / intense disgust.
sterility / the quality or condition of being sterile.
trauma / physical injury. a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. injury, damage, wound, cut.

Karen Armstrong2 : Let's revive the Golden Rule

TEDGlobal 2009
Karen Armstrong2 : Let's revive the Golden Rule (script)
Summary
Compassion is the centrality in all the major religions of the world. It is worth the Golden Rule that is the source of all morality. It is not somethinf only religious people believe in.
However, it seemed to be only emphasized. People are in the center of their world now. They do their good deed for the day, and then they return to a life of greed and egotism. People want to be right one but they seemed not to want to be compassionate. Even religious leaders argue about abstruse doctrines with hatred. Religious teaching is not believing abstruse doctrines. It should be the thing that always leads to action.
So compassion is not simply feeling sorry for somebody and you don't understand compassion if you'er just going to think about it. You always have to do it.
When all people have compassion, they can be considerate of all people, and they can gather, cooperate and work beyond religion, we can get over many problems and change the world. We have to learn amity and to live together more.
The talk is thought to be about all religions though I want especially Japanese people who will be a member of no religion to watch the Talk. It's because compassion is the source of all morality which is needed for all people.
And then, one accident that the speaker just told us lacking compassion in this TED talk occurred.
One customer was dragged off from a plane and he got injured. The reason was that the company had to suddenly move four people by using that plane.
However, if among four people who have to take an airplane or among passengers, someone could say that he/she gets off the plane, or if someone could say that he/she would take on the next flight or if the company could give up four people to move, the accident wouldn't occur.
All people didn't have compassion. We have to be considerate of others, irrespective of being yellow, white, or doctors.
The accident is our reality.
This is the reason why all we have to revive our compassion.
Words in this story
considerate / careful not to cause inconvenience or hurt to others. having a warm heart. being considerate. being wise and compassionate. having a feel for ～
be considerate / He is a very considerate person. That is a very considerate deed. They are polite and considerate. He is considerate in everything
be considerate of / He is considerate of old people. She is considerate of others.
centrality / cen・tral・i・ty /sentrˈæləṭi/

David Brooks2 : Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

TED 2014
David Brooks2 : Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy? (script)
Summary
People work hard every day to achieve their goal. They have ambitions and they are constructive and creative. They can create companies and they have the power to innovate. They are built by building on their strengths. Their motto is "success".
However, is it better to pursue them only and to live their life like a game?
For us, there are two sides of our nature. Even if you are humble or you live in an introverted monner, they are very important. You'll have the depth of conviction and an emotional sonorousness. Your internal side of nature can be an inverse logic. You can give to receive, or you can surrender to something outside yourself to gain strength within yourself. You can conquer the desire to get what you want, or you can forget yourself to fulfill yourself and you can lose yourself to find yourself.
You are built by fighting your weaknesses and sin.
A depth of character is constructed by suffering. Recognizing the sin in yourselves and giving forgiveness are not written on your resume but you are not taught about them.
We have to think about them before they become part of our eulogy.
Words in this story
creativity /noun/  creative / adj
conviction /noun/   belief, opinion, view, thought
sonorousness / ringing, sonority

David Brooks 1: The social animal

TED2011
David Brooks 1 :The social animal (script)
Summary
We and politicians are the same jouman, and we are the social animals who live on earth. Human nature is created by reason and emotion.
However, in our current society, reason is not only separated from emotions but also suppressed to develop society. It is the success that we can see and it doesn't need the concepts of the ancient morality of virtue, honor, and goodness. This such shallow view is shared by the society currently. It leads to all things espcifically politics and education.
However, our emotion has two aspects that are conscious part and the unconscious part. In fact, when we do something, the unconscious part always works but it can't be suppressed and its influenceand is contagious. It leads not only to bad things but also good things, furthermore, it can be interpenetrated. So the speaker tells us that if we discover a more accurate vision of our deep unconsciousness, our policy failures might be changed.
Something inherited is that a view of human nature must be wonderful.
Words in this story
reason / the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgments by a process of logic.  rationality, logic, logical thought, sense
suppress/control, calm, appease, son
interpenetrate / mix or merge together

Don Tapscott 2: How the blockchain is changing money and business

TEDSummit 2016
Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business (script)
Summary
Bitcoin is a digital currency that means a cryptocurrency.
A blockchain works as distributed ledger globally. It is available to everyone without powerful intermediaries and it can record transactions safely and permanently. Its block creates a chain to avoid hacking.
However, it's not utilized well. The internet brought us wealth but it's not shared prosperity. Social inequality is growing.
The speaker tells us five new approaches to solve this problem. The approach is to redistribute wealth which doesn't mean to spread tax people around but to change the way.  The ways are that wealth gets created in the first place by democratizing wealth creation, wealth is pre-distributed, people can engage more in the economy, and they can surely get fair compensation.
1) Land titles are rightly put on a blockchain. It becomes immutable and can't be hacked.
2) Not only sharing but aggregating services more and directly bring people who want it.
3) Reducing remittances cost and time. It births a big opportunity.
4) Creating only the data which can protect your privacy.
5)  Receiving fair compensation for all creators of various content and protecting the rights of them.
Nowadays, the world looks like wealth people create is engaged in the technology.  The blockchain has the power to change money and business must be used to give wealth to all of us
Words in this story
transfer /  move, shift, remove, displace
utilized / make practical and effective use of.
engaged /  busy, occupied,

Don Tapscott 1: Four principles for the open world

TEDGlobal 2012
Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world (script)
Summary
The technology revolution is opening our world.
Openness has a number of different meanings, and there are corresponding principles for the transformation of civilization.
They are about collaboration, transparency, sharing, and empowerment. They really worked for the institution of the Industrial Age. Our world dramatically changed.
However, it' s passed but it started failing.
Openness should be used to birth consciousness on a global basis and we have to attack some big problems in the world. Openness gives us empowerment and freedom.
We have to think about what happens in the world and we can do this if we can connect ourselves beyond just not only sharing information and knowledge but also beyond an individual, a group, and a team.
Words in this story
transparency / clearness, clarity
corresponding /  matching, answering, coming under
transformation / change, alteration