TED transcripts
Channel episodes with a summary, notes and chapters. Watch on YouTube
- Episodes
- 14
- Hours transcribed
- 4
- Latest
- 27 Sept 2026
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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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