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Teddy: What If Your Phone Could Hug You Back | Esmee Ho | TEDxYouth@YCYWShanghai
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-08 15:28
Imagine [Music] [Applause] carrying a tiny therapist, a diary, and a cheerleader in your pocket. One that never judges, never forgets, and always listens. That's what I dreamed of when I created Teddy, a lifestyle well-being app designed to make self-care as easy as breathing.Teachers, parents, and fellow students, my name is Esme and I am a year 10 student from YCISHK. And the idea I am presenting to you all is an app I designed named Teddy which focuses on building small daily habits with the overall goal ...
Flexing beyond Mental Limits | Claudia Wong | TEDxEdUHK
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-03 14:58
[Music] Good evening everyone. Um, I'm Claudia W. I'm an assistant professor from the department of health and physical education at at UHK.I do research on psychological well-being and mainly on self-compassion. Before I began my academic career, I was a Hong Kong elite swimmer um specializing in marathon and long-distance swimming. And even though I didn't get into a full-time career, so I still trained twice a day, six days for weeks and also attend school after every training session.And after I retired ...
Rebuilding Concentration: How Can Schools Help? | Michelle Lee | TEDxLANNA Intl School Youth
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-23 15:39
8.25% seconds. That's the apparent average attention span of humans today. Evidently shorter than that of a goldfish.Don't tell me I've lost you already. Maybe I'll have to snap every 8 seconds to make sure I've got your attention. Social media is a massive and obvious cause of such a decline in the global attention span.But how so. It's this thing called the dopamine reward loop. Dopamine release creates a sense of pleasure and satisfaction when we experience or expect something rewarding.This trains our b ...