I hate waking up in the morning. Imagine it's earlier. Your alarm rings.You wake up just enough to hit a snooze button and say, "Mom, five more minutes." I think many of you may know this feeling. Something is telling you you need to do something. But unless you want to do it, you stay put.hide under the sheets and close your eyes for just five more minutes. Sounds lovely until you realize you're missing the bus to work, to school, to life happening outside your bedroom. I have experience with it.It's happe ...

Time keeping is the most basic premise of sentience.You are aware of a place and a time and plan accordingly.Being late, for everything, always - shows a distinct lack of not only respect, but basic cognition.If you do not understand cause and effect you can’t be trusted.I do not speak to anyone who’s late for things.We said 10.You arrived at 10:15.You then did it again.2nd strike you’re instantly exiled.Ex communicated.I can’t trust you.Do not message me when your kid is sick and you need to borrow money f ...

In his inspiring talk, Jakub Lacek explores the deep connection between how we spend our time and how we live our lives. He discusses the power of being present, setting priorities, and making each moment count. Jakub reminds us that time is our most limited resource—and that wasting it means wasting the potential we have to grow, connect, and create meaning. Through personal reflection and a powerful call to action, he encourages the audience to take ownership of their time, because in the end, valuing tim ...

[Music] [Applause] Have you ever thrown a stone in the water and watch the ripple spread out. It's mesmerizing, isn't it. The first time I saw a ripple effect was as a child growing up in Brazil.Together with my two brothers and sister, we would spend hours playing along the waterfront. Now picture this. It's a beautiful sunset, the water as smooth as glass, and me, a little kids, searching for stones, practicing that arm movement, aiming for the perfect angle.And when everything lines up, you'll see the sk ...

[Music] [Applause] Time. Time is what every teenager feels they can never get enough of. But yet we all have 24 hours in a day.From juggling our school life, our social life, our hobbies, and our never ending family obligations. It seems to be like time slips away too quickly. This talk explores how time is more than just constant ticking seconds, but a valuable resource we need to own and manage wisely.Is it me or is time an illusion or does time actually just get faster the older we get. Scientists say th ...

So in a room of this size typically 40% of you will be really excited about AI and the other 60% will be deadbeat pessimists. A year ago if you ask me the same question the stats would have been about 20% being excited about AI and 80% being entirely pessimistic about AI. What's also true is that 65 to 70% of the people in this room uh will have their marriage fail due to communication problems.So young people nowadays are finding ways to avoid marriage, fut life partners, cohabitation and everything in bet ...

Throughout Madalena’s TEDxYouth@DAA talk, she explores the abstract concept of time, investigating how our lives would look like 'If Only We Had More Time'. She challenges the common idea that "we don't have enough time", accentuating its power. Madalena claims that while the idea of having more time seems attractive in the short run, essentially, in the long-run, having more time would not solve our problems. Ultimately, she argues that the lack of time allows us to (1) work more efficiently, (2) value our ...