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 in our motivation playlist, how to use our voices to speak uncomfortable truths with love

and the profound implications that can have on our lives.

Writer, activist, and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker Lovie Ajay Jones isn't afraid to speak

her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd.

And neither should you. Your silence serves no one, she says. In this talk from 2017, Lovie shares three questions to ask yourself if you're teetering on the edge of speaking up or quieting down and encourages all of us to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable. Coming up right after a short break.

And now our TED Talk of the Day. I'm a professional troublemaker.

My job is to critique the world, the shoddy systems, and the people who refuse to do better.

As a writer, as a speaker, as a shady Nigerian,

I am the person who's looking at other people like,

I need you to fix it.

That is me.

I want us to leave this world better than we found it.

And how I choose to affect change

is by speaking up, by being a first and by being the domino.

For a line of dominoes to fall, one has to fall first, which then leaves the other choiceless to do the same.

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