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The last day of February happens to be the fourth day of 12. According to TED, it is also meaningful to end February in this way. Let's introduce this cycle of TED. Partners can choose the TED they want to listen to according to the content.

Topic 1: Reading changes fate.

Reading changes fate, which is a phrase that people often hear, and it has also become one of the important reasons to motivate people to read. How does the speaker understand this sentence?

Born in the Arab world, a place where women's status is low, girls have to overcome many difficulties to receive education. After overcoming all kinds of difficulties, the speaker became a photographer. She wants to use photos to record those women who have been changed by education.

At first, many women were unwilling to explain the influence of this project on other women repeatedly through the speaker, and some agreed to shoot. Through this project, the speaker saw how education can make women more independent, more in control of their own lives and more free.

Reading changes your destiny. Today, this sentence is questioned. I think reading may not bring you money in return, but it can make your mind more independent and your heart richer.

Topic 2: How to make friends with stress?

It seems impossible for many people to make friends with people under pressure. In the eyes of many people, stress is something that needs to be avoided, because in our concept, stress will do harm to people's body and mind. Why does the speaker think that stress is a friend?

At first, the speaker also thought that stress was harmful. Later, the speaker learned about a study: people who are under high pressure but don't regard pressure as their enemies are healthier.

The speaker began to change her view of stress, and she began to change her cognition. She believes that the heart rate and sweating caused by stress are that the human body is actively preparing for the challenge. In addition, oxytocin will be produced in the process of stress, which will make people seek support and establish a strong intimate relationship, which is good for their health.

Correct cognition is very important. You will be healthier if you treat stress as a friend, not as an object to be suppressed.

Topic 3: the road to self-worth

The speaker pointed out straight away: people don't pay for your true value, but pay for what they think you are worth, and you can control their understanding. This view is very clear, which immediately aroused my interest in continuing reading.

We need to communicate our value with others. Whether looking for a job or communicating with customers, we need to clearly express what value I can create for enterprises and customers. The speaker believes that to get a salary that matches your own value, you must be able to define your own value and convey your own value.

Research shows that women will get lower salary than men at work, and women need to learn how to get a salary that matches their value more than men.

The speaker thinks you can think about the following questions:

1. What do my customers need and how can I meet their needs?

2. What special qualities do I have that will enable me to serve customers better?

3. What can I do that others can't?

4. What value can I create for my customers?

Many people underestimate their value because of self-doubt. By helping women express themselves more confidently and focusing on what value she can create for customers, the speaker is no longer afraid of meeting difficult customers.

This sentence truly shows that your value comes from the cognition of others, and you can control the cognition of others.

In addition, it is also important to focus on what value you can create for others in how to convey your own value. This will allow you to express your value objectively, without giving others a feeling of boasting, and you will gain recognition of your value from others.

Topic 4: Born to die.

Death is something that everyone will experience. Speaking of which, everyone will think it is a very heavy topic. Knowing more about death can make people live better.

The speaker has experienced a face-to-face experience with death, and he naturally has a deeper understanding of death than ordinary people. Through his own experience, he found that the original intention of medical institutions is to treat diseases, not to care about people themselves. He began to think about how we should return to caring for people.

The process of death itself is to experience a lot of pain. First of all, we should reduce those unnecessary pains. For example, loss and regret can bring people pain. Loss may be inevitable, but regret can be avoided. We shouldn't leave regrets in our lives. This requires us to know clearly what is important to us.

Live in the moment. Life lies in the present. Only by living in the present can you carefully experience the connection with the outside world through your senses. At this time, you will feel that you are really alive.

Make life more colorful. People's needs can be divided into material needs and spiritual needs. Starting from these two aspects, we can enrich our lives.

The speaker talked about how to design medical care from the perspective of death, so that dying people can leave with dignity. From this speech, we can learn how to live. If you don't know death, you won't know life. Only by knowing death can we live better.

Topic 5: The Last Pure Land in the World

Bhutan, a country with a population of only 700,000 and a gross national product of US$ 2 billion, can achieve negative carbon emissions. How did it do it?

First of all, this country has achieved free basic education and medical care, greatly reducing the burden on a family, and the damage to the natural environment caused by the pressure of education and medical care has also decreased accordingly.

In addition, the government has done the following things: providing people with free clean electricity; Government departments strive to realize paperless office; The government encourages the use of clean means of transportation. These measures have reduced carbon emissions.

In addition, Bhutan's constitution stipulates that the national green coverage rate is not less than 60%, but in fact it has a forest coverage rate of 72%.

Nowadays, environmental problems have attracted the attention of all countries. If people used to doubt global warming, now people have agreed that the world is warming and seen its harm.

The problem of global warming needs the joint efforts of all countries. Unlike other problems, such as local wars, it is regional. No country is immune from the effects of global warming. As the speaker said, although Bhutan has made great efforts in carbon emissions, it also has to bear natural disasters such as floods and mudslides caused by climate warming.

Although Bhutan is a small country with a low gross national product, this has not become an excuse not to undertake environmental protection, which is very worthy of recognition. Our country also pays more and more attention to environmental protection. The weather in Beijing this winter is very good, which shows me that as long as environmental governance is taken as an important problem to solve, we will certainly find a way.

Topic 6: The myth of personality-Who are you?

It is not easy to know yourself. Although I live with myself day and night, few people really know themselves. What do you think of "who are you" in this speech?

The speaker is a personality psychologist. He will classify people from five dimensions:

1. Open and closed

2. Conscious but not enthusiastic

3. Extroverts and introverts

4. Please and naysayers

5. Neuroticism and emotional stability

The people we are most familiar with here are extroverts and introverts. Extroverts often need stimulation from inside and outside. They will like to drink coffee and go to busy places. Introverts like to stay in a quiet place and can't sleep at night after drinking coffee in the afternoon. This is not to say that introverts don't like socializing, but that they realize that they can perform better when there is less stimulation.

On the one hand, the speaker classifies people, on the other hand, he thinks that everyone is unique and cannot be simply classified. Everyone values different things, and it is these differences that make you unique.

"Who are you?" This is a philosophical question. Although it is not easy to answer, it is worth our serious consideration. A lot of distress is caused by a lack of understanding of oneself. For example, choosing the wrong job and person. Knowing more about yourself will make it easier to make the right choice.

Topic 7: fearless, there is no end to learning.

The speaker was a very confident boy since he was a child. He thinks he is the Hulk. Until he was seven years old, he attended a summer camp and was dragged down by a partner. Although he was finally rescued by a teacher, his fear of water has been bothering him. How did he overcome his fear?

A friend who needs to drink six cups of coffee every day told the speaker that as long as he can swim one kilometer in open water, he will not drink coffee for a year. The speaker accepted the challenge. To this end, he tried various methods: to find triathletes to train themselves; Use skirting board; Join the swimming champion class. But these are useless. Until one day he heard a friend's suggestion: Try Terry Labrin's "total immersion" swimming.

This method enabled the speaker to enter a brand-new swimming method, through which he learned to swim and successfully swam one kilometer. This made him realize that the best results would be dragged down by those wrong concepts and untested assumptions.

The speaker found that materials are more important than methods from language learning. The speaker was afraid of learning foreign languages for some time. A study experience in Japan changed his view of language. Studying in Japan made him realize that he must learn Japanese well. He looked for different books and CDs, all to no avail, until he found the list of 198 1 commonly used Chinese characters stipulated by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

He is absorbed in studying this material. After six months, he can read newspapers, and his Japanese has risen from 1 to 4/. In this way, I learned twelve languages. He realized that effectiveness is more important than efficiency. Doing the right thing is more important than efficiency. The latter only pays attention to doing well, and does not pay attention to whether what is done is correct.

He even concluded that as long as the following six sentences are translated into the past tense, present tense and future tense of native speakers, we can understand the grammatical structure of this language (the order rules of sentence components in a sentence).

1. The apple is red.

This is John's apple.

I gave the apple to John.

We want to give him apples.

He gave it to John.

6. She gave it to him.

Besides, the speaker used to be afraid of ballroom dancing. In a dance class in Argentina, he just wanted to see it, but he was encouraged to sign up for a month. In order to motivate himself to study, he used Parkinson's law (the complexity of the task is related to the time you give it). He signed up for a competition, which is only four months away.

During this time, he first hired a female coach to teach her dance steps. Then I studied the ability and characteristics of champions in different competitions and interviewed these people. He noticed that in addition to the obvious things mentioned by these people (they suggested practicing), there were some hidden things (common things that they didn't say, but could be discovered through observation).

He summed up these hidden things and found that these champions have three things in common:

1. Long steps

2. Different types of pivots

3. Changes in rhythm

He decomposed the dance process through video, and after five months and two weeks, he created a world record by practicing these externals.

If you just listen to his achievements, you will think that this is a very powerful person. After listening to his learning process, you will feel that all this is natural. Mastering the correct learning method, coupled with constant practice and persistence, success is inevitable.

Theme 8: Gospel of Doubt

199965438+February 3 1 It was predicted that the world would end and God would come to earth for the second time. On this day, the speaker and others were in the church, waiting for God to save them. However, when twelve o'clock struck, people found that what they expected did not happen.

This 12-year-old speaker, like others, feels cheated like never before. When the speaker came home with mixed feelings and saw the Millennium blessings sent by people from different places, he suddenly realized that the time in different places was different. Is it mainly coming to this world again and again? This makes the speaker feel ridiculous.

This incident made the speaker realize that doubt is possible. The answer is wrong. Maybe the problem itself is wrong. From then on, under a big mountain, suspicious springs began to flow out. The speaker began to look for something to believe.

At first, he thought that a good education could save him. /kloc-at the age of 0/8, he left the slum to study in Cambridge, making him think that he could put all his misfortunes behind him. But when he found himself pinned to the ground by a thief with a gun to his head, he found that the best education could not save him.

When he became an intern at Lehman Brothers in 2008, he thought he was still far from poverty. However, he witnessed the collapse of this financial building and realized that even the best job could not save him.

When he entered Washington as a young reporter, he heard the voice that "America will change", but then Congress stopped and the country fell into a crack. He realized that the new politics could not save him.

Although his belief in "God of success, God of money and God of strength" died after midnight, just like the experience of 12 years old, the speaker did not give up looking for a new god. He thought he would either keep looking or die.

He found Harvard Business School. In 20 13, during an 8000-mile road trip, the speaker met different people and worked with some people. Inspired by this experience, he set up a non-profit organization. This organization has become an influential organization because of the author's efforts, people's pursuit of meaning and countless entrepreneurs.

Researchers believe that they make people believe that we can solve the problems of this society. But in the process, the speaker got another gospel. At the Harvard Business School alumni conference a year ago, hundreds of people donated $500 billion. Two days later, the speaker was on a city farm, listening to the story of a man named Tony. Some children will take part in one of his projects just to eat only one meal a day. It was a project that Tony carried out with his own pension, in which he had no salary. Although the project was successful, he lacked resources and needed help.

The sharp contrast between the two makes the speaker realize that he is not the savior, and he needs to consider those who want to stand on their own feet. He closed his organization and shared his organizational model with those who thought he was capable of doing it well for free. This freed the speaker from the pressure of the savior, and he realized that time was limited and the gap was too big, and miracles would not happen. He needs everyone's strength.

This speech is very deep and difficult to understand, especially in the second half. I think it's good for him to share the good model for free. Chinese charity can do this. I think this can not only reduce personal pressure, but also make the rescued person have dignity.

Topic 9: Give back to the earth with our last temperature.

Death is inevitable for anyone. What should the body do after death? We know that customs vary from place to place, such as burial, tree burial, water burial, cremation and so on. Different customs also reflect different understandings of death. Like Egypt, corpses are mummified because they believe that the soul will not disappear after death. Even if the world is dead, as long as the body is well preserved, it can still be resurrected in the underworld.

How will the speaker answer the question of how to deal with the remains?

The speaker comes from a medical family, so she is not afraid to talk about death at the dinner table, but she has no choice of medicine. She chose to study the design of the School of Architecture. However, during her study, she became interested in how to deal with her body.

Through her understanding, traditional treatment will waste a lot of resources, and American cemeteries are not enough. Cremation is favored by people because of its simplicity, cheapness and environmental protection. Think about it, if we turn the remains into ashes with torches, it will produce carbon dioxide and cause damage to nature.

The speaker thought: Why did we choose such a way to harm the earth when we finally left?

A friend's phone call inspired her. She thought, "Since animals can be composted after death, why can't people?" By cooperating with experts in many fields and doing some experiments, she described a scene for us: in a funeral home, we held a funeral ceremony, then transported the body of the deceased to the main equipment, covered with sawdust, and after several weeks of microbial decomposition, the body became fertilizer. We can plant a tree with fertilizer and then pay homage to the dead under it.

This is really a good idea. People come from nature, and eventually people return to nature, and the living remember the dead through trees. This reminds me of a sentence I once read: Did the seed turn into a tree and die? It didn't, it just turned into a form of existence. If we dispose of the remains in this way, even if our relatives leave us and see the tree, we will feel that he is still with us.

Topic 10: Prison or Children's University?

This is a speech reflecting the current judicial situation in the United States. I have heard reports of conflicts between African-American youths and the police before, but I didn't expect these reports to reflect the serious problems in the American judicial system. What we see may tell us not to ignore the visible signs, which may be just the tip of the iceberg, and there are huge problems hidden below.

The speaker is now studying at the University of Pennsylvania. There is an African-American community with a long history near the university, but another group of people live a different life track: they are not facing teachers, but probation officers; Go to court for trial instead of attending classes; Go to a reformatory instead of traveling; When I was in my twenties, I got a criminal record instead of a degree.

In the past 40 years, the prison sentence rate in the United States has increased by 700%. 7 16 out of every100000 people served their sentences. When the speaker was teaching a sophomore girl in college, she met her brother, 15 years old, who had just returned from juvie. Since then, she has been committed to studying the judicial situation in the United States.

After her sophomore year, she moved into an African-American community and spent six years trying to understand the problems faced by local young people when they grew up. In the first week, she saw children often playing police games. In the following time, she saw how the police searched, how to enter the house, how to hit people, how to take people for questioning, and how to chase them in the street.

What impressed her deeply was how a 18-year-old boy went to prison step by step because of a school fight, and in one incident, his1/kloc-0-year-old brother was also sentenced to three years of discipline. If he goes to the high school where the speaker attends, his incident will only be regarded as a school fight, which will be solved at school and will not rise to a crime.

I've heard of the polarization of American society before, but I haven't understood it in detail. After watching this movie, I know more. It can be seen that people living in different classes of this society face different justice.

What the speaker said was quite shocking, to the effect that we ask those children who live in communities where violence occurs every day, who have the least family resources, attend the worst schools and face the most severe labor market, not to make any mistakes in their growth.

A country will have all kinds of problems, and it is unrealistic to solve all the problems at once, but the order of solving the problems needs to be considered. In my opinion, problems related to the next generation should always be given priority.

Topic 1 1: Dreams we dare not have.

What dreams are we afraid of? Let's listen to the speaker together.

At the age of eight, the speaker saw a photo of Armstrong landing on the moon. Before and after this, the speaker has never seen such a picture again.

At the age of eighteen, when the speaker realized that he was gay, he felt the strangeness from this country. After people's desperate struggle, gay marriage was finally recognized by Congress. At the age of eighteen, he couldn't believe that he could form a gay family.

This is a great progress, but at the same time, the speaker saw a huge gap in many aspects: marriage, gay groups and AIDS groups. If the abyss between people is not eliminated, what can you get by sending people to the moon?

Radical and overworked people can't keep a peaceful mind and live in the present. The development of communication technology has not brought about the improvement of listening ability. Convenient access to information does not bring happiness. What we need is to create a society where we can be honest and care about others.

We can boldly dream of the rapid development of science and technology, but dare not dream of human development. The speaker believes that we should be curious about human nature, learn to get along with others, and dare to create such a world: instead of asking others what to do, we should ask others what their dreams are.

After listening to a speech recently, I saw that the misunderstanding between Americans has reached a very serious level, and some people are aware of this problem. In our country, I don't feel so strongly. In China's traditional culture, people pay more attention to human nature, and people will pay attention to other people's feelings, which is different from the western over-emphasis on individualism, which makes me see the advantages of China culture. Recently, I began to study Zhouyi, and I feel that these ancient wisdom can still shine in the new era.

Topic 12: "Boxer" in the workplace

Seeing this topic, you may be curious about what a "boxer" is in the workplace. Let's see how the speaker explains it.

The speaker first creates a situation: facing a 985 college graduate with excellent grades and perfect resume, and an ordinary college graduate with many job-hopping experiences and some strange work experiences, such as singing in a bar and working in a restaurant. If two people were both qualified for the job, who would you choose?

The former is called "silver spoon" by the speaker. They have absolute advantage and are doomed to success. The latter is called the Boxer Rebellion. They need to overcome great difficulties to succeed in the former. Their experience sounds like a patchwork quilt.

The latter's incoherent work experience may imply that they lack concentration and cannot concentrate. But it may also imply that they are constantly struggling with setbacks. So we should give these people an interview.

Compared with the latter, the former has also made efforts and sacrifices on the road to academic success. However, their academic success may also lead to their inability to face difficulties at work well. Moreover, their work contents will be different, and some work contents are simply not worth doing in their eyes.

The speaker himself comes from a father with paranoid schizophrenia, and their life is a combination of "madhouse, awakening and beautiful mind". Ranked fourth at home, living in a family without its own house, car and washing machine. But these did not defeat her, and she had a strong motivation to understand the relationship between business success and the Boxer Rebellion.

She met successful business people and read a lot of profiles of leaders with great power. She found some commonalities. Many of these people suffered great setbacks in their early years: poverty, abandonment, early death of their parents and so on.

Research also shows that people will grow up after experiencing trauma. In one study, 65,438+0/3 children experienced trauma and eventually lived a healthy and successful life. This is the case with Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. He was adopted, didn't graduate from college, went to India for a year, and was dyslexic, but these didn't prevent him from succeeding.

In the face of setbacks in life, the Boxers believe that their fate is in their own hands. If the result is not good, they will think about what I can do to bring good results, and they will not give up on themselves. When they overcome all kinds of difficulties, the difficulties they encounter in the future are no longer difficult for them. Just as a person has been able to solve an extremely difficult problem at that time and challenge himself to succeed, then he will be more likely to accept problems that are beyond his ability in the future.

In addition, it is also essential to get help from others on the road of growth. They can bring out your good side and provide advice and help for your success.

I have heard what the speaker said before. The "silver spoon" mentioned by the speaker is the person our education is devoted to cultivating, but we also know that not everyone can be such a person. In order to cultivate such a person, some families will clear all obstacles for their children. In fact, this is unnecessary. Obstacles are good for children's growth and can cultivate their resilience. Some people deliberately set up obstacles. I think if you think about it carefully, if you set obstacles properly, it will cultivate his tenacity. If not, it may hurt his confidence in overcoming difficulties and make him feel powerless in the future. When you don't know what must be right, you'd better choose nothing.