The Quiet Rebellion of Being Yourself | Ryan Benz | TEDxCapeMay

[Music] [Applause] What if you've never actually been yourself. Not fully, not truthfully, not out loud. It's not your fault.You've been shaped, smoothed, edited, taught who to be in exchange for love, praise, acceptance, survival. Most of us don't grow up asking, "Who am I?" We grow up learning to be who the world wants us to be. We learn to belong before we learn to be. We learn to perform before we learn to feel.And at some point, we stop asking ourselves, "Is this even me?" We live in a world that rewar ...