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Hailey Hardcastle: Why students should have mental health days

School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout -- but there's often no formal policy for students who need to prioritize their well-being. Hailey Hardcastle explains why schools should offer mental health days and allow students time to practice emotional hygiene without stigma. Follow along to learn how she and a team o...
https://www.ted.com/talks/hailey_hardcastle_why_students_should_have_mental_health_days

Playlist: Build Back Better - Education (6 talks)

Build Back Better features thought leaders and change agents evaluating our pre-pandemic systems and practices in an effort to create a more sustainable, efficient and just world. (Made possible with the support of Qatar Foundation)
Curated by TED · 6 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/build_back_better_education

Mary Bassett: Why your doctor should care about social justice

In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that m...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_bassett_why_your_doctor_should_care_about_social_justice

Wendy Troxel: Why school should start later for teens

Teens don't get enough sleep, and it's not because of Snapchat, social lives or hormones -- it's because of public policy, says Wendy Troxel. Drawing from her experience as a sleep researcher, clinician and mother of a teenager, Troxel discusses how early school start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they ne...
https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_troxel_why_school_should_start_later_for_teens

Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.
https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work

Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals

The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting." Learn more about how this practice can help you th...
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals

Why we need to take emotional pain as seriously as physical pain

If we did, we’d all be kinder and more compassionate, both to each other and to ourselves when our hearts get broken, says psychologist Guy Winch. I have worked with scores of heartbroken people over the past twenty years, and I remember many of them vividly. This is not surprising, as the ease with which we recall events is heavily influenced ...
Posted February 13, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/why-we-need-to-take-emotional-pain-as-seriously-as-physical-pain

The Do’s And Don'ts Of Returning To The Office (Transcript)

The Do’s And Don'ts Of Returning To The Office Tuesday, June 7, 2022 Adam Grant: It's been more than two years since offices shut down, many people were sent home, and meetings turned into video calls...And now leaders want people back to the office! But many people have mixed feelings about that. [MUSIC] Thalia: What do I think about going b...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/worklife/the-do-s-and-don-ts-of-returning-to-the-office-transcript

Exploring the boundaries of legacy at TED@Westpac

Legacy is a delightfully complex concept, and it's one that the TED@Westpac curators took on with gusto for the daylong event held in Sydney, Australia, on Monday December 11th. Themed around the idea of "The Future Legacy," the day was packed with 15 speakers and two performers and hosted by TED's Cyndi Stivers and TED speaker and monster p...
Posted December 14, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/12/14/exploring-the-boundaries-of-legacy-at-tedwestpac

Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers: How to fix two of the most broken systems in the US

In an engaging, insightful conversation, criminal justice reformer Nick Turner breaks down the ways the US criminal legal system perpetuates centuries-old racial and economic inequality. He joins TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers to outline why the best way to actually deliver justice and safety is to shrink the system and r...
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_turner_and_whitney_pennington_rodgers_how_to_fix_two_of_the_most_broken_systems_in_the_us

Imagine the future of ourselves: Notes from TED Fellows Session 1 at TED2017

This morning, we kick off TED2017 in the new Community Theater with a program of fresh ideas, music and dance from the TED2017 Fellows and Senior Fellows. These Fellows are change-makers from many fields -- design, tech, education, business, science and many more -- offering a peek at the future us. Stanford Thompson opens the TED Fellows...
Posted April 24, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/24/imagine-the-future-of-ourselves-notes-from-ted-fellows-session-1-at-ted2017

Taken for Granted: John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention (Transcript)

Taken for Granted Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Welcome back to Taken for Granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. I’m an organizational psychologist. My job is to think again about how we work, lead, and live. Today, I’m talking to one of my favorite authors... John Green: I'm John Green and I ...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/taken-for-granted-john-green-wants-you-to-pay-attention-to-your-attention-transcript

What we need to understand about opioids (Transcript)

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Dr. Jen Gunter: Hi everyone, I wanted to give you a heads up that we mention substance abuse and suicide in this episode. Please keep that in mind as you’re listening, and think about who might be listening with you. I was 40 miles into a 60 mile bike ride, and feeling GREAT, representing t...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/body-stuff-what-we-need-to-understand-about-opioids-transcript

Investigating the root causes of the global health crisis: Paul Farmer on the TED Book "The Upstream Doctors"

By Paul Farmer At the end of almost a decade spent in teaching hospitals and clinics, most (we hope all) physicians have honed their clinical acumen by focusing on the care of the patient who is right in front of them. Perhaps this is as it should be: as patients, we don't want our doctors (or nurses or social workers) distracted by "outs...
Posted June 5, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/05/investigating-the-root-causes-of-the-global-health-crisis-paul-farmer-on-the-upstream-doctors

Games that launch companies, games that heal: Q&A with Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is a game designer with an apparently simple idea: some of the billions of hours we spend playing games can be used to solve real world problems, and it can be done by playing games. Her new book, Reality Is Broken, explores the power of games to change people's lives. It's just out this week. The TED Blog caught up with her in th...
Posted January 21, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/01/21/games-that-launch-companies-games-that-heal-qa-with-jane-mcgonigal

Scenes from a pandemic: Firsthand stories of life in 23 countries, from the TED Fellows

The current coronavirus pandemic is a truly global one; in fact, Antarctica is the only continent with no cases (although that could change). Most nations have responded with similar measures -- stay-at-home advisories, shutdown of non-essential businesses, social distancing -- but the scope of these changes has varied and so has the human impac...
Posted April 10, 2020
https://ideas.ted.com/scenes-from-a-global-pandemic-heres-what-life-is-like-in-23-countries-from-the-ted-fellows

Taken for Granted: Daniel Kahneman Doesn't Trust Your Intuition (Transcript)

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Season 4 is right around the corner, but today I wanted to share a special conversation in our “Taken For Granted” series. I’m talking to Daniel Kahneman. Danny won a Nobel Prize in Economics. He’s been named one of the most influential economists in the world. But he’s not o...
https://www.ted.com/podcasts/taken-for-granted-daniel-kahneman-doesnt-trust-your-intuition-transcript

101 books to dive into this summer: a massive reading list

Here's a huge list of TED speaker-recommended books, with all the diversity of titles and topics you might expect. No matter your mood, preference or occasion, we’ve got you covered. When you’re lying in the sun Any book by Isaac Asimov I have stacks of collections of science-fiction short stories. I grab these before getting on a long f...
Posted June 21, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/101-books-to-dive-into-this-summer-a-reading-list

88 books to enjoy this summer: the TED reading list

Whether your weeks ahead contain travel, vacations or just longer and lazier days than usual, our list of recommendations from TED speakers has books for all moods, activities and tastes. When you want to understand why we humans do what we do Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (TED Talk: Our buggy...
Posted June 5, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/88-books-to-enjoy-this-summer-the-ted-reading-list

Gift guide: Biographies and memoirs

A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia by Sandra Allen In college, Allen’s uncle sent her his autobiography in the mail -- the story of a man suffering from schizophrenia. The autobiography was written in all capital letters on a typewriter, and Allen’s vicarious memoir, which places her uncle’s story in context, is wri...
Posted November 20, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/gift-guide-biographies-and-memoirs

Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil

Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_psychology_of_evil

WorkLife with Adam Grant: The real reason you procrastinate

You procrastinate because you're lazy, right? Wrong. The truth is more complex -- and far more interesting. Learn how to stop putting off important tasks ... with a little help from master procrastinator Margaret Atwood. (Audio only) Listen to more of WorkLife at TED.com/podcasts
https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_the_real_reason_you_procrastinate

Jane Goodall: What separates us from chimpanzees?

Jane Goodall hasn't found the missing link, but she's come closer than nearly anyone else. The primatologist says the only real difference between humans and chimps is our sophisticated language. She urges us to start using it to change the world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_what_separates_us_from_chimpanzees
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