TED transcripts
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- 27 Sept 2026
- Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring | TED
YouTube · 41 min
Elon Musk talks with TED's Chris Anderson about his tunneling venture, The Boring Company, Tesla's electric cars, solar roofs, the Gigafactory, and SpaceX's Mars plans. He argues that a 3D tunnel…
- The power of introverts | Susan Cain | TED
YouTube · 19 min
Susan Cain argues that Western schools and workplaces are designed for extroverts, marginalizing the third to a half of people who are introverts. Drawing on personal stories, history, and research…
- How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED
YouTube · 14 min
Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal explains how she changed her mind about stress after research showed that believing stress is harmful, rather than stress itself, increases the risk of death. She…
- What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness | Robert Waldinger | TED
YouTube · 13 min
Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, shares findings from a 75-year study tracking the lives of 724 men. The clearest lesson is that good relationships keep us…
- The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED
YouTube · 9 min
Bill Gates argues that the biggest global catastrophe risk in the coming decades is not nuclear war but a highly infectious virus. Using the Ebola outbreak as an example, he shows that the world had…
- The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor
YouTube · 12 min
Shawn Achor uses a childhood story about his sister to introduce positive psychology, arguing that science focuses too much on the average and on negativity. He explains that 90% of long-term…
- The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink | TED
YouTube · 19 min
Dan Pink argues that traditional carrot-and-stick incentives fail for creative, conceptual work and often make performance worse. Drawing on the candle problem, studies by Sam Glucksberg, Dan Ariely…
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED
YouTube · 6 min
Angela Lee Duckworth describes leaving a management consulting job to teach seventh grade math in New York City, where she noticed that IQ did not distinguish her best and worst students. She became…
- How to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED
YouTube · 10 min
Julian Treasure explains why people don't listen when we speak, listing seven habits to avoid—gossip, judging, negativity, complaining, excuses, exaggeration, and dogmatism—and four positive…
- Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TED
YouTube · 14 min
Tim Urban, writer of the blog Wait But Why, humorously explains procrastination through his own college thesis disaster and a mental model of three characters: the Rational Decision-Maker, the…
- The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED
YouTube · 20 min
Brené Brown, a qualitative researcher-storyteller, shares how her research on connection led her to study shame and vulnerability. After six years and thousands of stories, she found that the only…
- How Great Leaders Inspire Action | Simon Sinek | TED
YouTube · 18 min
Simon Sinek explains why some leaders and organizations inspire while others don't, arguing that inspiring leaders like Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers all think, act, and…
- Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED
YouTube · 21 min
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains that body language shapes not only how others judge us but also our own thoughts, feelings and hormones. She describes experiments showing that two minutes of…
- Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
YouTube · 19 min
Sir Ken Robinson argues that creativity is as important as literacy in education and should be treated with the same status. He contends that children are naturally creative and unafraid of being…
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