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A thousand bathtubs of water per household, per year.
And in that first year, I tried to figure out how could I make this pain go away.
Turns out, it's not a great idea to hit a five-year-old in the head 500 times each year.
In a year's time, it could be two extra steps.
In another year's time, three extra steps.
Women, for the first time this year, became the majority of the American workforce.
I first started thinking about this about a year and a half ago.
It was purchased the year I was born, and it was extraordinary, because I did not have to wait to go to the library to get to the information.
My students produced these info-graphics as a result of a unit that we decided to do at the end of the year responding to the oil spill.
And when we do another round of this in my class this year, they will do better this time, because learning has to include an amount of failure, because failure is instructional in the process.
They find their twins, they stay with them for the whole year.
Maybe people are initially uncomfortable with those roommates, but the amazing thing is, at the end of a year with those students, they're able to overcome that initial discomfort.
A few years ago, I had a very eventful year.
That year, I managed to lose a job, I managed to get a dream job overseas and accept it, I had a baby the next month, I got very sick, I was unable to take the dream job.
It also changed our lives in many unexpected ways, and those unexpected ways we later reflected on, that eventually spawned a business idea between the two of us, and a year later, we launched Babble, a website for parents.
But I think a lot of men do go through this sense in the early months, maybe their first year, that their emotional response is inadequate in some fashion.
Just because I said I liked something a year ago, doesn't mean I have to like it still.
And now, fast-forward a year and a half into this regular exercise program and I noticed something that really made me sit up and take notice.
The average car costs 8,000 dollars a year to run.
My husband left me a year ago.
And in the last year alone, more than 30,000 people received treatment on the Friendship Bench from a grandmother in a community in Zimbabwe.
And by the year 2050, there will be 1.5 billion people aged 65 and above.
And he said, "No, we've been here about a year."
And I said, "Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year?"
When I was in college, my senior year, I took a course called European Intellectual History.
Currently, taxpayers spend about 60,000 dollars per year sending a person to jail.
And I tell you, being on the TED stage and winning a MacArthur in the same exact year gave everyone the impression that I had arrived.
When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, "Here's the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist."
I'm going in, I'm going to figure this stuff out, I'm going to spend a year, I'm going to totally deconstruct shame, I'm going to understand how vulnerability works, and I'm going to outsmart it.
My one year turned into six years: Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups.
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