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The key to life? Recognize and use the freedom you already have. #TEDTalks

The real lever of a meaningful life isn’t intelligence or hustle — it’s personal agency, says Cate Hall, former Supreme Court attorney and once the world’s top-ranked female poker player. Sharing her journey from the throes of addiction to leading a multibillion-dollar foundation, Hall shares tactical wisdom for increasing your ability to see and act…

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The real lever of a meaningful life isn’t intelligence or hustle — it’s personal agency, says Cate Hall, former Supreme Court attorney and once the world’s top-ranked female poker player. Sharing her journey from the throes of addiction to leading a multibillion-dollar foundation, Hall shares tactical wisdom for increasing your ability to see and act on life’s hidden degrees of freedom, showing how even the most trapped among us can discover a path to fulfillment.

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  1. @punnaroothsrimongkolsilp1543

    October 27, 2025 at 2:09 pm

    Do you all want to really learn something to improve your life? Watch TED.

  2. @KiloFeenix

    October 27, 2025 at 2:15 pm

    I tried, then California made my freedom illegal

  3. @Demetriuismayworld

    October 27, 2025 at 2:16 pm

    I agree ❤❤❤

  4. @BabliRaj-o2v

    October 27, 2025 at 2:21 pm

    I agree ❤

  5. @backseeder

    October 27, 2025 at 8:39 pm

    I think it’s very important, even imperative as you watch this video, that you’re also aware of how much of a hypocrite Cate Hall is these days.

    Cate Hall used to reply to a lot of my replies to her tweets when she was playing poker, several months before her drug habit went out of her control, then slid into my DMs in July 2018. I have what I think is an open mind. This made me believe the slightly crazier and more delusional things that Cate Hall was saying in replies and DMs at the height of her addiction to psychedelics.

    In a post on her blog, she gives an extremely inaccurate version of this story and describes the very seemingly okay plan executed by her “incredible” husband. That plan was to use his “friend Govind” to illegally embark on a reciprocal stalking campaign, by bribing law enforcement officials in jurisdictions she had no business talking to directly, then getting her country’s consulate to file a criminal complaint about me. Even mentions a “fake kidnapping” and extortion which I have no idea about.

    Cate Hall pinned all of this on me because she stayed addicted to drugs for more than 3 years, damaged her brain and lost all of her memories from that time. She continues to lie about all of this to this day.

  6. @backseeder

    October 27, 2025 at 9:08 pm

    You need to be aware of how much of a hypocrite Cate Hall is these days. She used to reply to a lot of my replies to her tweets when she was playing poker, slid into my DMs in July 2018. When I tried reaching out to her again, got her country’s consulate to file a criminal complaint about me, and continues to lie about all of this to this day.

    • @oliviao2238

      October 27, 2025 at 9:13 pm

      “Although she may express resentment, she should be valued and appreciated.”

  7. @zodayn

    October 28, 2025 at 6:05 am

    What bothers me is that I college we had a whole course on “professionalisation” and we got advices like “you should learn to be more optimistic”. But never any training that actually causes that. And I’ve never seen any course or training succeed in teaching these social skills since college kids are very willing to lie in self reflection to get a passing grade and in corporate settings employees fear that they are either judged on it in their performance reviews or they think it’s a waste of time instead of “real work”.

  8. @Chethakmp3

    October 28, 2025 at 9:34 am

    Thanks for your great advice. I think you are very beautiful and smart

  9. @mikeymike6417

    October 29, 2025 at 12:43 am

    Bot message

    • @backseeder

      October 29, 2025 at 9:16 am

      She’s not YOUR bot, bot!

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