Resilience isn't built in a moment —it's trained over time. Explore the mindset, commitment, and science behind performing under pressure.
What does it take to endure when the odds—and your own body—say stop? In this TEDMED Conversation, Diana Nyad reflects on the mindset behind extreme endurance and why learning to reinterpret failure can be the key to moving forward.
Years before completing her historic Cuba-to-Florida swim, Diana Nyad came to the TEDMED stage to share the mindset behind pursuing an audacious goal. In this 2011 Talk, she declares the commitment required to face repeated setbacks, and keep moving forward.
Why do capable people sometimes falter when the stakes are highest? Cognitive scientist Sian Leah Beilock explains how pressure changes the way our brains work—and how understanding that process can help us perform at our best.
Stanford professor, athlete, and psychologist Alia Crum investigates how our mindset can affect health behaviors and outcomes. In her 2016 TEDMED Talk, Alia shares her research on placebos…
Breath is life, a fact we take for granted all too often, as Charity Tillemann-Dick discovered. The soprano tells of re-learning to breathe, one gasp at a time.
From the beep of cardiac monitors to the blare of alarms, hospitals are often jarring places to be from an auditory perspective. And for patients, the combined dissonant…
Thirty years ago, Creative Gerontologist Anne Basting experienced a moment in time that would change the course of her life forever. Since then, she has been on a…
We all know that hate plays a demonic role in today’s society, but did you know that hate directly impacts health? Wellness Epidemiologist, Sandro Galea, studies how hate,…
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