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My Secret to Creating Real Magic | Christina Tosi | TED

This talk may make you hungry — but it’ll also leave you a resonant message about how breaking the rules and challenging your assumptions can make for a sweet life. If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: Follow TED! Twitter: Instagram: Facebook:…

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This talk may make you hungry — but it’ll also leave you a resonant message about how breaking the rules and challenging your assumptions can make for a sweet life.

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42 Comments

Baroness Elsa von Freytag- Loringhoven

March 23, 2022 at 3:37 pm

Love this. I was lucky to be raised by amazing women and accidental magic has permeated my life. Now I was thinking about deliberate magic and this popped in.

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Arep

March 23, 2022 at 3:43 pm

She deserves the standing ovation. What a great talk and a great speaker. But what the most amazing thing is that she never stop smiling through out the talk

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- B Z
  
  March 23, 2022 at 5:21 pm
  
  Arep,
  
  Its female pride. Its a woman’s world
  
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Scott Perry Magic

March 23, 2022 at 3:43 pm

Tricks are an illusion but cakes are magic, huh?
Well that coin behind your ear is real and now I’m not giving it to you.

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TennesseeJed

March 23, 2022 at 3:46 pm

????

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Emmet Brown

March 23, 2022 at 3:51 pm

No, you don’t create magic. You create diabetes. Nature creates magic, but you bypass it. You misslead it. Feeding is about health and pleasure. Not only pleasure.

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clara voyant

March 23, 2022 at 4:03 pm

Baking is magic you have the same ingredients but the cake my sister makes from a box or even her experimental seasalt icecream cake was amazing because we share a birthday. I had a bashing twin because my mom wanted to fit in to her size zero wedding dress while two months pregnant. My sister came in the middle of my fifth birthday. All my friends were sent home I was alone . I loaded up my presents to see the new sister at the hospital. Every present. They are for her it’s her birthday now. And she is the greatest present I ever got. She is the sam to my Dean. And I ate that experimental seasalt icecream cake. Because she made it with love spent days experimenting. I had always wanted an ice ream cake but dairy was forbidden because my mom was intorent of lactose and so we ordered pizzas with no cheese. They say smell is most associated with memory. Like I used lavander oil to study for the SATs. But I can’t get that seasalt ice cream taste outofmy mouth or that memory that makes me cry because she is the most magical person I know. Keep fighting Sammy.

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B400

March 23, 2022 at 4:26 pm

Baseball boots never lose their cool.

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eyaltb

March 23, 2022 at 4:34 pm

Longest commercial ever

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Jessica C

March 23, 2022 at 4:42 pm

A diabetics worst nightmare ????

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Kazakh

March 23, 2022 at 4:46 pm

Assel????

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Peggy Harris

March 23, 2022 at 4:47 pm

Any diabetics enjoying this video?

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Kazakh

March 23, 2022 at 4:49 pm

Ты хорошая девушка

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Home Wall

March 23, 2022 at 4:58 pm

Do you REALLY remember that event, or do you only recall it after the story has been retold repeatedly?

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MrZacchery

March 23, 2022 at 4:59 pm

We need many more magical people in many other fields; they have always been out there, but they could be more common.

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Russell Todd

March 23, 2022 at 5:18 pm

Christina I like the cereal as well!

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Ligia Sommers

March 23, 2022 at 6:38 pm

I don’t eat sweets but she is inspiring ????????????✨

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Auntie D

March 23, 2022 at 7:11 pm

That was a long advertisement.. Nice that they share recipes though.

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Marcius Turbo

March 23, 2022 at 7:48 pm

Nothing kills more people than sugar, I hope she knows that.

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- Lasergun
  
  March 24, 2022 at 7:27 am
  
  Wrong, it’s not sugar, it might be excess sugar consumption, but not sugar itself. Blame the bad habit of eating too much, not the healthy reasonable enjoyment of one of the most important nutrients.
  
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خوله البركاني

March 23, 2022 at 8:02 pm

great video

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James Willing

March 23, 2022 at 8:14 pm

I think her mother might have accidentally dosed her with LSD

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- sawan solanki
  
  March 24, 2022 at 4:26 pm
  
  ????
  
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- Astrid Hansen
  
  March 26, 2022 at 3:39 pm
  
  Hahaha I was thinking the same ????????
  
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Jim Cockburn

March 23, 2022 at 9:18 pm

Excellent Speaker. Life is magic!

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Antoine Roberts

March 23, 2022 at 10:31 pm

Rockin w her

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AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة

March 24, 2022 at 12:05 am

Maybe yes! TED.
It is our secret.
????

This worldly life is nothing but an amusement and play, and the Last Abode is the real life indeed. Only if they know!

— the # HolyKoran. —

Thank you, TED.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for everything!.

Thank you.
And may God’s peace be upon you | TED ✓.

We love you.
☺️☺️☺️
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AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة

March 24, 2022 at 12:05 am

secret.
????

This worldly life is nothing but an amusement and play, and the Last Abode is the real life indeed. Only if they know!

— the # HolyKoran. —

Thank you, TED.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for everything!.

Thank you.
And may God’s peace be upon you | TED ✓.

We love you.
☺️☺️☺️
.

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Windy Gomes

March 24, 2022 at 12:45 am

She got a wiggily brain

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Tim Chau

March 24, 2022 at 1:43 am

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Pro720HyperMaster720

March 24, 2022 at 2:47 am

Good talk over all, that I enjoy but 10:55 would be better to decide your organization heads based on their value as employees instead of based/excluding by gender, that’s definitely not a thing you should copy or be inspired by

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He Sanaz

March 24, 2022 at 7:42 am

Wonderful

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Invox

March 24, 2022 at 10:28 am

This entire talk is: “Candy and Cakes are awesome!”
Yeah, I KNOW RIGHT!? ????

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clothearednincompoop

March 24, 2022 at 10:54 am

Real Magic?

_”Im writing a book on magic, I explain, and Im asked, Real magic? By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. No, I answer: Conjuring tricks, not real magic. Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.”_ – philosopher Daniel C. Dennett

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- clothearednincompoop
  
  March 24, 2022 at 10:59 am
  
  “Tosi” in Finnish means “real” as a side note. ????
  
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Redd White

March 24, 2022 at 12:51 pm

It’s called real love. And women are too scared, unless it has money.

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Natalie Platero

March 25, 2022 at 12:54 am

I see Christina tosi doing a Ted talk… yeah of course I’ll click.

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alisson estefanski

March 25, 2022 at 6:15 pm

bosta

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Weazy TV

March 26, 2022 at 5:08 pm

2.
INFORMAL•BRITISH
wonderful; exciting.
“what a magic moment”

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YUNJIE CAI

March 27, 2022 at 4:01 am

She is so inspiring. All of us can brake the rules and create a ‘real magic’.

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Enzo Sica

March 27, 2022 at 4:16 am

I get chills every time I hear Christina talking about food

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rasheed alhouni

March 27, 2022 at 1:58 pm

I liked this story Because she talks about the difference in life

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