
Visualize stress as a beanbag chair, embracing emotions for personal growth. Learn practical tips to tackle anxiety, foster community, and transform struggles into strength.

Explore how emotional awareness can be a powerful tool for conflict resolution and building stronger connections with others, starting with a simple self-reflection question.

Explore the importance of emotional awareness and human connection in maintaining psychological balance, addressing the impact of technology on our well-being and relationships.

Explores wearable technology for sharing breathing biofeedback, evaluating visual, audio, and haptic modalities. Discusses design, development, and potential applications for increasing connectedness and empathy.

Psychologist Guy Winch offers practical advice for managing emotions during the holidays, including setting boundaries and healing heartache, emphasizing that emotional health requires both information and effort.

Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir discusses how intuition (innsæi in Icelandic) can help humanity face existential threats, drawing from her UN experience to outline three ways inner wisdom can guide essential change for sustainability.

This talk explores the transformative power of emotional intelligence in personal development, leadership, and meaningful human interaction. It highlights how young people can harness self-awareness, empathy, emotional regulation, and interpersonal skills to navigate challenges, build stronger relat

Inner leadership doesn’t start with strategy or charisma; it starts with taming the storm raging inside your own mind, something no school, boss, or mentor ever teaches us how to do. At 18, I was already burned out, crushed by the relentless pressure to be perfect in our loud, never-enough world. A

This formula is more than just words; it is a tool for building inner strength, cultivating willpower, and opening doors to opportunity. Those who practice it with determination will find that every obstacle becomes a lesson, every challenge an opportunity for growth, and every difficult experience

his talk shares three defining moments shaped by ambiguity, failure, and crisis. The speaker begins with dropping out of medical school, confronting identity loss and parental expectations, and discovering that exploration is not weakness but growth. At Temple University, an academic credit error le

Most people chase success through effort or intelligence, yet real success requires something far less comfortable: acknowledgment of and learning from being wrong. Dr. Hamid Haqparwar explores how repeatedly and openly being wrong becomes the path to better decisions, better leadership, and better

We live in an age of endless information and constant entertainment. Degrees are earned, careers are built, and screens keep us occupied — yet when it comes to understanding our own emotions, many of us feel lost. In this deeply reflective TEDxAMU talk, Dr. Sheetal Nair explores a powerful paradox

A powerful reflection on fear, ambition, and the courage to try. When we give ourselves permission to fail, we give ourselves permission to grow. Tamara Dokmaji is the Specification and Business Development Manager at Henkel. She specializes in bridging the gap between technical engineering requirem

This TEDx talk explores the skill of “reading the room,” where paying attention to the unspoken can help us connect, communicate and find our place in the world. Amélie Prudent is a Terminale student in the Chinese Section at the Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. She is French and

This talk aims to remind us that behind every composed face lies a story we may never fully see. In a world driven by visible success and silent endurance, it urges us to rethink how we look at one another. At the heart of this shift lies emotional intelligence—the critical need of the hour. By movi

We live in a world that feels more divided than ever. In this talk, Brandon Fink shares a simple formula for navigating disagreement, one that replaces assumptions with curiosity and helps people feel heard, even when they don’t agree. Brandon P. Fink, CFP®, AEP® is a distinguished Wealth Advisor at

In this talk, the speaker explores how unresolved experiences from our past continue to shape our present through a powerful Zen parable about letting go. Using the story of two monks at a riverbank, the talk illustrates how emotional burdens—such as trauma, inherited narratives, regret, and unfulfi

In this talk, the speaker reflects on absence, pain, and the search for life purpose, challenging the idea that purpose is something we find or achieve. Through poetic storytelling, they explore how unresolved wounds, silence, and longing shape identity over time. Central to the talk is a memory of

'The selfishness of helping' breaks down emotional intelligence as something everyone already has, but most people actively ignore. Using a recent public social blow-up as an example, it shows how overthinking, social paranoia, and bad assumptions turn normal interactions into chaos. The core messag

This talk contrasts Artificial Intelligence with Emotional Intelligence, arguing that while machines can replicate logic and productivity, they can never replace human feeling, empathy, and connection. Through a personal journey from engineering to people-centered leadership and scientific evidence,

In this talk filled with humor and energy, Lucas De Man shows us why we became the loneliest generation ever and how we can turn it around. What's the definition of hapiness in a world that is changing as fast as ours? This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independe