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And this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was really just a different way of being social.
But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, "Why are you being so mellow?"
It's different from being shy.
And this turns out to have a special power all its own, because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm not because they enjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at; they were there because they had no choice, because they were driven to do what they thought was right.
And they featured role models like Abraham Lincoln, who was praised for being modest and unassuming.
But introverts, you being you, you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase.
And being here at TED and seeing the stimulation, hearing it, has been very, very energizing to me.
In poor communities, in communities of color there is this despair, there is this hopelessness, that is being shaped by these outcomes.
Our system isn't just being shaped in these ways that seem to be distorting around race, they're also distorted by poverty.
In many communities, people had to worry about being lynched.
They had to worry about being bombed.
You don't acquire the kind of wealth your uncle commanded by being like the rest of us, huh?
A well told promise is like a pebble being pulled back in a slingshot and propels you forward through the story to the end.
An example would be in "Finding Nemo," in the short tension, you were always worried, would Dory's short-term memory make her forget whatever she was being told by Marlin.
Yet, there was something more being said.
When it's tapped, the affirmation of being alive, it reaches you almost to a cellular level.
Whatever I ended up being good at, I would strive to be worthy of the second chance I was given.
But while our instrument was being built, I became involved in calculations of the greenhouse effect here on Earth, because we realized that our atmospheric composition was changing.
That's not being politically active, that's being bureaucratically active.
My father's currently being wrongly incarcerated for 12 years.
They don't recognize the human beings that are being affected, and they don't feel enough to care.
I was constantly being teased by everybody, especially my two older siblings.
In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family, and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited ... in the most dramatic, American way possible.
After he got over his surprise at being, you know, turned down, he concluded he'd had a narrow escape from marrying an irrational person.
In your heart of hearts, you know why, and I'm being deadly serious.
I mean, the theory's been proven true beyond all doubt, but interpreting it is baffling, and some physicists think you can only un-baffle it if you imagine that huge numbers of parallel universes are being spawned every moment, and many of these universes would actually be very like the world we're in, would include multiple copies of you.
Conspiracy theorists claim that UFOs are visiting all the time and the reports are just being covered up, but honestly, they aren't very convincing.
And here on Earth, amazing experiments are being done to try to create life from scratch, life that might be very different from the DNA forms we know.
They're being wheeled out onto deck.
It's just a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.
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