You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hume. On today's show, politician Stacey Abrams presents a helpful three-part gut check we can all use. Her archive talk from TED Women 2018 is a really inspiring and sometimes humorous take on what happens after things don't go your way,

what to ask yourself as you're picking yourself back up.

And pick herself back up, she did.

She drove a giant voter registration effort that could now play a role in key runoff elections

for the U.S. Senate in Georgia on January 5th.

When I was in high school at the age of 17, I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia,

as valedictorian of my high school.

It's very proud of myself.

I was from a low-income community.

I'd grown up in Mississippi.

We'd moved from Mississippi to Georgia so my parents could

pursue their degrees as United Methodist ministers. We were poor, but they didn't think we were

poor enough, so they were going for permanent poverty. And so while they studied at Emory,

I studied at Avondale, and I became valedictorian.

Well, one of the joys of being valedictorian in the state of Georgia is that you get invited to meet the governor of Georgia.

I was mildly interested in meeting him.

That was kind of cool.

I was more intrigued by the fact that he lived in a mansion

because I watched a lot of general hospital

and dynasty as a child. And so I got up that morning ready to go to visit the governor. My mom

and my dad, who were also invited, got up and we went outside. But we didn't get in our car.

And in the south, a car is a necessary thing.

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