You know where I find peace. With yarn. It's safety. It's consistency that I control. Other days it's therapy.As my husband lovingly told me a few months ago, it's where I found my personal form of STEM. STEMI. I didn't always know what that word meant, but I knew the feeling.How the repetitive motion of knitting and crocheting grounds me when the world gets too loud. It's how I thrive, especially in chaos. It's how for the past 10 years, I have been able to firmly plant my myself in the eye of any storm an ...

I was born with a limb difference. The deck was stacked against me before I even took my first breath. And as as if that wasn't enough, life kept dealing me harder hands.My parents suffered from drug addiction. And then came the kind of loss that ripped the airs right from my lungs. See, most people are taught to run from adversity.But what if everything we learned about adversity was wrong. What if the one thing we were taught to avoid was actually the things that helped us get to our next level. Adversity ...

Hay una pregunta que me he hecho muchas veces y creo que se han hecho muchas veces los estudiosos del arte y es, ¿de dónde proviene la creatividad del artista. Esa pregunta tiene múltiples respuestas. neurológicamente, teóricamente, filosóficamente, pero hay una respuesta con la que he resonado muchísimo porque la he experimentado y es que la creatividad y las ideas muchas veces vienen de la contemplación.Es decir, el artista contempla un paisaje, contempla un ave, contempla una persona y se inspira para cr ...

You've all heard the phrase, "Put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others. " Now, I want you to be honest with me. If you were sitting on a plane next to mom, best friend, grandpa, and they were panicking in an emergency, do you really think you'd be able to do that? Honestly, me either, but that's why you're here today. The problem is is that most of us were raised and conditioned to be nice women, not kind women. We've been told to smile, say yes, don't make waves, but niceness often comes at ...

Now, raise your hand if you've ever had an identity crisis. Okay, not just me. There's a few hands raising here.Thank you guys for your honesty. Psychologists say identity crises happen when a person's identity is challenged. But what defines a person's identity.In this era of social media facades, identity has become this sorting game where a question like, "Who are you?" really means, "How can I categorize you quickly? What box can I put you in?" Boxes like race boxes, job title boxes. Are you more leftra ...

Hello amazing people. My name is Samantha and I'm in primary 3 at Nigerian Tulup International Colleges. Today I'm here to talk about our generation, our vision.You might think, what can a kid our age know about the future. I've got ideas that are big, bright, and sometimes a little bit silly. Because learning should be fun.Our generation, big ideas, small voices. A generation is not just about the toys we play with or the games we win. It's about the kind of world we grow up in.We're the generation that ca ...

You're probably wondering, is something wrong. Maybe the presentation broke. Maybe the mic was off.Maybe she's nervous. She's scared. She's terrified.Or could this be one of those dramatic Ted moments. Interesting, isn't it, that even silence demands interpretation. Now, if you knew me, you'd know that I was not always a loud person, and I'm not a silent person.When I started my career, I used to be very polite and nice and demure and proper. I did my job really, really well, but I didn't want to stir thing ...

When I was 12 months old, I pronounced my first word, mama. My mother made sure to keep track of my progress in a little notebook that she still keeps in a nightstand beside her bed. My first language was Russian.I was born in Ukraine. But the fact that I pronounce mama as my first words cannot be solely attributed to one language or to me. No, it's a universal phenomenon.People around the world start with the word mama simply because it's the easiest for humans being to pronounce. When I was four years old ...

Hey everyone, a quick check-in. How are we doing on those New Year's resolutions? [laughter] Don't worry, save space. Mine was learning Spanish this year. Well, that's about all I've got right now. I'm a student here and my name is Stephanie Sanz and today I'm going to take you on a journey and not throughout the world but through time because time is that one thing that we think we have enough of until we realize that's also the one thing that we cannot get more of. And I wasn't always thinking about time ...

So if you run a marathon, it makes sense to stay hydrated as much as possible, right. Not exactly. After successfully completing my first marathon, I almost died of drinking too much water.There is such a thing, water intoxication. So I had a bit of time to celebrate but then I got sick and the next thing is I woke up in the hospital people around me telling me I was waking up from a coma of 36 hours and then I spent another week in hospital and my life was in grave danger and if my wife hadn't been there t ...