[Music] This is my daughter Penny. And Penny loved this song, Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. Walking on Sunshine was Penny's mantra as well.Penny lived a big, bright, and beautiful life. She approached every day with laughter, dressing up, taking care of her hair and her skin. She loved to play tennis and do gymnastics.She played pranks constantly on her poor brothers, Henry and Frankie. She went to school dances and wore high heels. She adored her big circle of girlfriends. and they adored h ...

Good afternoon everyone. It's truly lovely to be here today. I'd like to thank the TEDex team for this stage and for this honor.I'm Shhagata Mittal. I'm 28 years old, born and brought up in Delhi. Before I walk you through what I'd like to call an ordinarily extraordinary life, I have a question to ask.How many of you have ever said or been told that everything happens for a reason. A lot of us, right, we say it when plans fall out, when life takes a detour. Sometimes to comfort others and sometimes to comf ...

Hello. My speech is about the butterfly effect and what is Everything we do has an impact. An embarrassing moment in public, an insult made out of anger, a small comment about someone's outfit, all affect us in some way.When you think about an embarrassing moment in your life, you always think about how it could have gone differently. What if I said something else. What if I did something else. What if I stayed home that day.The sad thing is we cannot go back in time and change anything. But we can change t ...

[Music] [Applause] I'd like to start by asking you to imagine a situation where a group of friends are at a park playing pickup basketball and on the sidelines is a individual with a disability watching the game. One friend notices the person and wants to invite them to join their game, but out of fear of saying the wrong thing or not knowing how it would impact their game, they decide against it in return to their friends. You may have seen diversity, equity, and inclusion campaigns with images related to ...

So there is an As ancient parable which in which six blind men go examine an elephant. The first one go touches tusk and say it's like a snake. The second one goes and touches tail and says it's like a rope. And the third one go touches leg and says it's a tree.The meaning of this parable is that we approach things with perception and limited knowledge in many ways than one. Sustainability is the new elephant in the room. Wherever you are, in whichever part of the world you are, sustainability, sustainabili ...