Hey y'all, you're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hu.

Welcome back to our first podcast playlist of 26.

Today, we have dropped 10 talks from our archive onto the feed all at once to motivate you,

to keep you going when things are hard, to inspire you as the weather shifts, to help kickstart

that new project or idea, or if things are feeling good for you right now, just to offer a different

perspective. Whatever type of motivation you might need, we have a TED talk for that.

Next up, laundry.

It's a seemingly mundane task, but daily tasks like doing laundry, making lunch, brushing your

teeth can be a lot more emotionally fraught than they seem.

When you're burned out, taking care of yourself or your family can feel nearly impossible.

Therapist Casey Davis gets it, and she's got a message for anyone struggling with daily tasks.

You're not lazy.

In her talk from 2022, she offers creative shortcuts and workarounds for everything, from using wet wipes when you can't manage a shower,

to sealing dirty dishes and a giant Zipl lock until you feel up to washing them.

She reframes the conventional thinking about these tasks and shows how it can change the way we see ourselves.

Coming up right after a break. And now our TED Talk of the Day.

Shortly after I published my book, I got an email. It said, your book was the only thing

that saved me from suicide.

You saved my life.

Now, for a book about how to clean, that's sort of odd, yeah?

But what if a new approach to cleaning could teach us a better approach to treating mental health?

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