TED transcripts
Channel episodes with a summary, notes and chapters. Watch on YouTube
- Episodes
- 14
- Hours transcribed
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- Latest
- 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 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…
- 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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