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Emily Esfahani Smith explains that directly pursuing happiness often leads to dissatisfaction, while cultivating meaning through values and connection creates lasting resilience. She outlines how reframing goals around underlying values and prioritizing authentic belonging can help navigate life's inevitable transitions and suffering.
Actor and producer Yara Shahidi shares how she navigated the collision of her acting career and Harvard education by rejecting binary choices, instead embracing optimism as an active practice and defining her 'highest order' priorities to find purpose amidst uncertainty.
The TED Idea Search culminates in Amman, Jordan, where four finalists from the Middle East share powerful ideas about brain training, risk-taking, global inequality, and mental health, competing for a spot on the main TED stage in a 6,000-year-old Roman theater.
Anu Gupta shares his journey from a suicide attempt driven by racial trauma to developing 'Breaking Bias,' a framework that treats prejudice as a learned somatic habit curable through mindfulness and inner development rather than intellectual DEI training alone.
At the TED Idea Search in Buenos Aires, four Argentine speakers compete for a spot on the main TED stage by presenting ambitious six-minute talks on topics ranging from Gen Z "brain rot" as political diplomacy to the benefits of polarization, while navigating intense coaching, language barriers, and the pressure of the iconic red circle.
The TED Idea Search in Chicago follows diverse speakers as they rehearse and deliver six-minute talks vying for a single spot on the main TED stage in Vancouver, revealing the rigorous coaching and vulnerable preparation required to transform personal passion into global impact.
Former Wall Street trader Vivian Tu shares her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to becoming a financial educator, outlining three essential strategies for modern wealth-building: demystifying financial jargon, fostering open money conversations, and adopting technology-driven solutions.
The TED Idea Search in Lagos brings together African innovators competing for the main stage in Vancouver, showcasing how the platform amplifies underrepresented voices while providing rigorous coaching to transform raw ideas into global movements.
This behind-the-scenes look at the TED Idea Search in Athens follows selected Greek speakers competing for a spot at TED 2026 in Vancouver while receiving intensive coaching on memorization, stage presence, and idea clarity from expert curators.
Legendary songwriter Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd explores music's technological evolution from reel-to-reel to AI, arguing that while artificial intelligence serves as a valuable creative tool, the irreplaceable human soul ensures authentic artistry will always cycle back to analog warmth and live performance.
TED's global Idea Search lands in Mumbai where ten selected speakers compete for a single spot at the main TED conference in Vancouver, showcasing diverse Indian innovations from typography preserving tribal crafts to rock balancing as meditation, while receiving intensive coaching on storytelling and delivery.
This video documents the Sydney stop of TED's global Idea Search, where ten selected speakers compete for one spot on the main TED Vancouver stage by presenting game-changing ideas—from AI wildlife protection to neurotechnology ethics—while receiving coaching from expert curators on transforming passion into powerful, authentic delivery.