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TED Radio Hour

What can you control in this chaotic world?

1/23/202650 min

When it feels like the world is on fire, it's hard to know what's in your control and what's out of your hands. This hour, TED speakers explain ways you can reclaim your agency. Guests include financial advisor Matt Pitcher, sociologist Anindya Kundu, journalist Jennifer Wallace and design thinking professor Bill Burnett.

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Clips

Regretting A Lottery Win
The Best Investment: Time
Money Isn’t A Fix
Happiness Costs Less Than You Think
Ten Million Gone By Twenty-Nine
Challenging Grit, Changing Minds
Claiming Agency Through Community
You’re One Action Away

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [upbeat music] This week on Consider This, NPR investigates a Republican lawmaker from New Hampshire. He officially proposed a known Holocaust denier join a state commission overseeing history lessons in public schools. A story about extremism normalized and creeping into mainstream politics. This week on Consider This. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

  2. Manoush Zomorodi· Host0:23

    This [chime sounds] is the TED Radio Hour. [upbeat music] Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks- Our job now is to dream big ... delivered at TED Conferences- To bring about the future we want to see ... around the world.

  3. Bill Burnett· Soundbite0:37

    To understand who we are From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you- You just don't know what you're gonna find ...

  4. Manoush Zomorodi· Host0:46

    challenge you- We truly have to ask ourself, like, why is it noteworthy? ... and even change you. I literally feel like I'm a different person. [laughs] Yes. Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading from TED and NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. There is a fantasy that hundreds of millions of us each year indulge in.

  5. Bill Burnett· Soundbite1:09

    41, 54, and the power ball is- We buy lottery tickets.

  6. Anindya Kundu· Guest1:12

    These numbers could change your life.

  7. Bill Burnett· Soundbite1:14

    New York, we have 23.

  8. Manoush Zomorodi· Host1:15

    'Cause if you didn't have to worry about money- I just won 250,000.

  9. Bill Burnett· Soundbite1:19

    [laughs] Oh, my God!

  10. Manoush Zomorodi· Host1:20

    You could do everything you always wanted to do, be the person you were meant to be.

  11. Bill Burnett· Soundbite1:25

    I just won 250,000.

  12. Manoush Zomorodi· Host1:27

    Oh.

  13. Matt Pitcher· Guest1:28

    I think everyone plays

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