Hidden Potential

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Are grit and perseverance enough to succeed? Or does someone need to give you a chance? This hour, TED speakers explore why some are overlooked despite their talents, and how that can begin to change. Guests include recovering politician Jeff Smith, human resources expert Regina Hartley, sociologist Victor Rios, arts curator and activist Malika Whitley, and middle school principal Pearl Arredondo.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:07.0	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:10.0	Ted.
0:11.0	Ted.
0:12.0	Technology.
0:13.0	Entertainment.
0:14.0	Design.
0:15.0	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:16.0	I've never known the delivered at Ted conferences around the world.
0:18.0	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:19.0	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:22.0	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
0:26.0	Those talks.
0:27.0	Those ideas.
0:29.0	Adapted for radio.
0:32.0	From NPR.
0:34.0	I'm Guy Ross.
0:38.0	So back in 2004, Jeff Smith was a state senator representing St. Louis in the Missouri Senate.
0:45.0	When he decided to run for the U.S. Congress.
0:48.0	I did.
0:49.0	My first campaign I ran for the U.S. House.
0:51.0	I was in a 10-way primary.
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