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As the host of the “TED Radio Hour,” Manoush Zomorodi explores fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions and new ways to think and create with the world’s most remarkable minds. Watch her full TED Talk:

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  1. Myself Mukul

    December 5, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    Thats the truth..!! and even rn you are doing this !!

  2. Help me reach 43k subs without any Videos

    December 5, 2022 at 5:06 pm

    Congrats to Everybody who is here in time to find this comment ????

  3. Brett

    December 5, 2022 at 5:23 pm

    Just, “Use your brain every now and then”. Ya never know what might be up there.

  4. Scott Johnson

    December 5, 2022 at 5:24 pm

    i check email about once a month.

  5. Prince Gray

    December 5, 2022 at 5:31 pm

    Can’t wait till I can check my email 74 times a day

  6. The Sauce Guy

    December 5, 2022 at 5:42 pm

    Who checks their email 74 times a day lmao?

    • Javier Montoya

      December 5, 2022 at 9:15 pm

      The average person.

    • KyleCorbeau

      December 5, 2022 at 9:24 pm

      ​@Javier Montoya who answered their survey, that is not necessarily the “average person.” Just remember there is a VERY large portion of the world that doesn’t even have an internet connection at all. There’s also a financial gap in many places that makes this amount of checking virtually impossible.

      Critically thinking about the information given to you, even when it’s presented as being researched by people in white coats, is extremely important when consuming information in studies (everyone has bias and it’s ESPECIALLY present in research were it’s publish or perish).

    • The Sauce Guy

      December 5, 2022 at 9:57 pm

      @Javier Montoya nice

    • The Sauce Guy

      December 5, 2022 at 10:00 pm

      @KyleCorbeau you also have to consider that there could be huge outliers that check very large amounts and they may not have accounted for those. I genuinely don’t know anybody who’d check that often, including psychologists working on grants etc lmao.

    • Steph Carder

      December 6, 2022 at 1:23 am

      She’s in 1997

    • Anthony Davis

      December 6, 2022 at 4:53 am

      ​@Javier Montoya lol

  7. Azamat Shomurodov

    December 5, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    Yep it’s true cuz if you alone in somewhere may be your felling isn’t good or bored therefore you need a person for listen you at this time I think the best listener this your mind

  8. HorseWaterDrink

    December 5, 2022 at 6:11 pm

    No actual person has e mailed me on years

  9. U Cannot Defeat My Shmeat

    December 5, 2022 at 6:12 pm

    “The average person who answers our questions”

  10. Vansh Thukral

    December 5, 2022 at 6:24 pm

    Last i checked my email was back in 2015

  11. Dan

    December 5, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    I checked my email only 5 times and that’s because I received notifications each times…

  12. James Mitchell

    December 5, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    I’m very creative then lol

  13. Alan Prime

    December 5, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    I check my email one time a month

  14. rub tyson

    December 5, 2022 at 9:49 pm

    Looking for a new stock or Cryptocurrency to invest in. Short or long term Gains. i was at a seminar and the host spoke about making well over $3.5M within a short period of time investing in Cryptocurrency. i need to know what coin to buy

    • Dan Graig

      December 5, 2022 at 9:51 pm

      Steve A Korduckia is really different from every other Brokers , his honest and pro, earned 52.3BTC from him. Thank God i stopped hodling, i would suggest you try him.

    • John Cris

      December 5, 2022 at 9:51 pm

      i agree, no doubt STEVE A KORDUCKI has really made a good name for himself. His reviews are so exceptional, he’s really a Pro. I was able to grow my account close to a million, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I’m buying again.

    • rub tyson

      December 5, 2022 at 9:51 pm

      @John Cris there’s a lot of money to be made in crypto. I been trying to stick with index funds. I feel this new interest rates hikes could crash this economy. I’m looking out for a better investing strategy, I have a lump sum that inflation is steady eating up. i need help. How do I reach him?

    • John Cris

      December 5, 2022 at 9:53 pm

      @rub tyson check the web and you will find him, drop a msg

    • rub tyson

      December 5, 2022 at 9:54 pm

      @John Cris Ok, just found his website, impressive, Thank you

  15. B400

    December 5, 2022 at 10:24 pm

    What are….friends?

  16. KraZe Bombzy

    December 5, 2022 at 11:00 pm

    Bro cap. I literally play pc so much and ain’t no damn shot I’m clicking on different 500+ times a day

  17. arayia6girmay

    December 5, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    74? I checked my email once every 2 days and that’s if I’m feeling productive.

  18. Mindi B

    December 6, 2022 at 12:08 am

    She need to stop checking her emails and playing on the computer and start brushing her teeth

  19. 廖卫扬

    December 6, 2022 at 1:00 am

    Boredom leads me to have an urge to be productive. Not good.

  20. Steph Carder

    December 6, 2022 at 1:23 am

    Easy right? ????

  21. Gwydion Jadu

    December 6, 2022 at 2:35 am

    “boredom can truly lead to brilliance” lmao right like corporate feudalism, manipulation of the masses thru media deception, fake news, money grubbing stock swindling corporate crookism that control the government and decide who will become the next elected official

    “privatize the gains socialize the losses” < true brilliance

  22. Anthony Davis

    December 6, 2022 at 4:52 am

    74 times a day is like 3 times every hour. Assuming you sleep that’s more like 5 times every hour. That’s crazy. I check my email maybe 3-5 times a day if at all.

  23. Luci Luci

    December 6, 2022 at 8:41 am

    Here’s a fact, I know it’s a fact, because I said it’s a fact.
    All I do is switch tasks. 563 times a day. Because that’s all ANYONE does on a PC. no task, just switch.

  24. Dustin Farinha

    December 6, 2022 at 2:11 pm

    The average person checks their emails 74 times a day. Me over here like 6 months deep of unchecked emails.

  25. Victor Linares

    December 6, 2022 at 4:41 pm

    Its a really bad habit i have of bombarding myself with constant entertainment. It really kills my creativity as a musician if i spend half of my practice yime looking at menes instead of just sitting there and letting my mind rest

  26. 《¡ļļ¡ng Reaļ¡ty

    December 6, 2022 at 5:19 pm

    Wrong

  27. quintan bacchus

    December 6, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    Ahhhh don’t I believe those numbers

  28. StaticSkyTV

    December 6, 2022 at 8:41 pm

    “You will Do Nothing, and you will be Brilliant…” Where have I heard something like this before?

    • mso1ps4

      December 8, 2022 at 3:15 pm

      Winnie the Pooh?

  29. XMNX

    December 7, 2022 at 2:31 am

    I’m watching this on my phone.

  30. Kekhrie Metha

    December 7, 2022 at 10:59 am

    I don’t listen to no soccer mom

    • Brianna Corrigan

      December 8, 2022 at 7:32 pm

      What about soccer dads? Or is it just women you don’t listen too?

  31. John

    December 7, 2022 at 12:46 pm

    You guys check your e-mails?!

  32. Vapor 01

    December 7, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    My 12,473 unread emails have something to say to this lady.

  33. Mag

    December 7, 2022 at 10:51 pm

    It pains to consume these words, however it’s reliefing to know people are working hard to make people get better

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      December 8, 2022 at 12:41 pm

      ᴛʜᴀɴᴋs ғᴏʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ.
      ᴄʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴜᴘ????……..

  34. ö

    December 7, 2022 at 11:57 pm

    I wish she said touch grass

  35. net gnostic

    December 8, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Some of those young people checking their phones in that pic were using pretty old phones, I’m sure the guy had a Blackberry Curve 8910. I had one just like it.

  36. CB

    December 8, 2022 at 9:43 pm

    Nah

  37. infernokid450

    December 9, 2022 at 12:12 am

    I nod and listen as switch tabs. Welp…

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