How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas

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Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or
doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets
busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love
being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and
creativity.

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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.

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Manoush Zomorodi's passion and expertise lie in investigating how technology is
transforming humanity. She is the author of Bored and Brilliant: Rediscovering the Lost
Art of Spacing Out, which explores the fascinating side of boredom. In 2018, she cofounded
Stable Genius Productions, a media company aimed at helping people navigate personal and
global change. Its first project is ZigZag, a show about the changing culture of business and
[Link]Â is also the creator and host of Note to Self, "the tech show about being
human," which is a coproduction with WNYC Studios. The show was named "Best Tech
Podcast of 2017" by the Academy of Podcasters. She’s won numerous awards, including
two Gracies for Best Radio Host. She has two kids who still enjoy her company. For now.

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addiction, brain, cognitive science, creativity, communication, entertainment, social media,
personal growth

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America's forgotten working class

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J.D. Vance grew up in a small, poor city in the Rust Belt of southern Ohio, where he had a
front-row seat to many of the social ills plaguing America: a heroin epidemic, failing schools,
families torn apart by divorce and sometimes violence. In a searching talk that will echo
throughout the country's working-class towns, the author details what the loss of the
American Dream feels like and raises an important question that everyone from community
leaders to policy makers needs to ask: How can we help kids from America's forgotten
places break free from hopelessness and live better lives?

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Former Marine and Yale Law School graduate J.D. Vance writes about how upward mobility
really feels.

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J.D. Vance grew up in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of
Jackson, Kentucky. He enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served in Iraq. A
graduate of the Ohio State University and Yale Law School, he has contributed to the
National Review and is a principal at a leading Silicon Valley investment firm. Â He is the
author of Hillbilly Elegy, a number one New York Times Best Seller. Vance lives in San
Francisco with his wife and two dogs.

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addiction, children, capitalism, community, cities, family, economics, history, social change,
identity, personal growth, United States, poverty, TEDNYC

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Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one

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Only one in nine people in the United States gets the care and treatment they need for
addiction and substance abuse. A former Director of National Drug Control Policy, Michael
Botticelli is working to end this epidemic and treat people with addictions with kindness,
compassion and fairness. In a personal, thoughtful talk, he encourages the millions of
Americans in recovery today to make their voices heard and confront the stigma associated
with substance use disorders.

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As Director of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli led the Obama
Administration’s drug policy efforts to diminish the consequences of substance use
through evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery support services.

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Michael Botticelli was sworn in as Director of National Drug Control Policy at the White
House on February 11, 2015, after being unanimously confirmed by the Senate. He joined
the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) as Deputy Director in
November 2012 and later served as Acting Director. He is currently the Executive Director
of the Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine at Boston Medical Center and also a
Distinguished Policy Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in
[Link] Director of National Drug Control Policy, Botticelli led the Obama
Administration's drug policy efforts, which are based on a balanced public health and public
safety approach. The Administration advanced historic drug policy reforms and innovations
in prevention, criminal justice, treatment and [Link] response to the national opioid
epidemic, Botticelli coordinated actions across the Federal government to reduce
prescription drug abuse, heroin use and related overdoses. These include supporting
community-based prevention efforts; educating prescribers and the public about
preventing prescription drug abuse; expanding use of the life-saving overdose-reversal
drug naloxone by law enforcement and other first responders; and increasing access to
medication-assisted treatment and recovery support services to help individuals sustain
their recovery from opioid use [Link] has more than two decades of experience
supporting Americans affected by substance use disorders. Prior to joining ONDCP, he
served as Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services at the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health, where he successfully expanded innovative and nationally
recognized prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery services for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He also forged strong partnerships with local, state and
Federal law enforcement agencies; state and local health and human service agencies; and
stakeholder groups to guide and implement evidence-based [Link] has served
in a variety of leadership roles for the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Directors. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the National
Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. He has also co-authored many peer-reviewed articles
that have significantly contributed to the [Link] in Upstate New York, Botticelli holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Siena College and a Master of Education degree from St.
Lawrence University. He is also in long-term recovery from a substance use disorder,
celebrating more than 28 years of recovery.

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addiction, communication, humanity, community, disease, government, identity, policy, law,
public health, social change, self, society, TEDx, HIV, LGBT

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How to fix a broken heart

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At some point in our lives, almost every one of us will have our heart broken. Imagine how
different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotional pain.
Psychologist Guy Winch reveals how recovering from heartbreak starts with a
determination to fight our instincts to idealize and search for answers that aren't there --
and offers a toolkit on how to, eventually, move on. Our hearts might sometimes be broken,
but we don't have to break with them.

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Guy Winch asks us to take our emotional health as seriously as we take our physical health
-- and explores how to heal from common heartaches.

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Guy Winch is a licensed psychologist who works with individuals, couples and families. As
an advocate for psychological health, he has spent the last two decades adapting the
findings of scientific studies into tools his patients, readers and audience members can use
to enhance and maintain their mental health. As an identical twin with a keen eye for any
signs of favoritism, he believes we need to practice emotional hygiene with the same
diligence with which we practice personal and dental [Link] books --Â Emotional First
Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts;Â The Squeaky Wheel:
Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-
Esteem; and How to Fix a Broken Heart have been translated into 26 languages. He also
writes the popular "Squeaky Wheel Blog" on [Link] January, Winch
partnered with TED to launch Dear Guy, a science-based advice column for TED's Ideas
blog. His new podcast, premiering in 2020, will be cohosted with fellow TED speaker Lori
Gottlieb and executive produced by Katie Couric. He has also dabbled in stand-up comedy.

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Reading Guy Winch's excellent new book "Emotional First Aid" proved to be a surprisingly
powerful experience for me. … I feel deeply appreciative for his astute observations on so
many common causes of emotional distress and their cures, and especially for the chapter
on loneliness.

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addiction, compassion, humanity, depression, identity, love, personal growth, social change

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