Helen Walters
speaker
630 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 7 Sep
Helen Walters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And in fact, he was really reluctant to put himself in the talk in any way.
Like we really fought about that quite a lot.
But what I liked about the talk was that it was both advice for parents and for adults and advice for people starting out.
So there was kind of a dual nature of the talk that I thought was interesting.
And frankly, the job market, the world in which we work at the moment feels so different.
so tenuous.
It feels so fragile.
Hearing from someone who is so thoughtful about how to thrive in this moment felt really important for TED 2026 and for where we were in the world and for what we're talking about.
And a big theme of the conference this year was like, how are we going to thrive in an age of AI?
Now, AI isn't really front and center in
Bill's talk, but it's certainly there.
And I think it's certainly something that we're all thinking about is what's going to happen to jobs in the future and how are we going to thrive?
But what I really, really liked about the talk was that it wasn't about capitalism so much as humanity.
When he talks about chasing curiosity, not passion, I love that because, you know, everybody talks about follow your passion, follow your passion, you know.
It resonates, and also I think it leaves people really cold sometimes where they're like, oh, I don't know.
I don't know what I'm passionate about.
But curiosity really is innate in everybody, and I think everybody relates to the concept of curiosity.
I'm the mom of an 11-year-old, and so curiosity,
He helped me to reframe the way that we talk about things in this house.
Now, obviously, he is not thinking about his career.
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