How I found myself through music | Anika Paulson

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🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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"Music is everywhere, and it is in everything," says musician, student and TED-Ed Clubs star Anika Paulson. Guitar in hand, she plays through the beats of her life in an exploration of how music connects us and makes us what we are.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features student and musician Anika Paulson,
0:04.0	recorded live at TED 2017.
0:09.0	The philosopher Plato once said,
0:11.0	Music gives a soul to the universe,
0:14.0	wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
0:18.0	and life to everything.
0:21.3	Music has always been a big part of my life.
0:23.6	To create and to perform music
0:25.8	connects you to people countries and lifetimes away.
0:29.4	It connects you to the people you're playing with,
0:31.7	to your audience and to yourself.
0:34.6	When I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I'm bored, when I'm stressed,
0:38.3	I listen to and I create music.
0:43.3	When I was younger, I played piano.
0:45.3	Later, I took up guitar, and as I started high school,
0:48.3	music became a part of my identity.
0:50.3	I was in every band.
0:52.3	I was involved with every musical fine arts event. Music surrounded me.
0:57.2	It made me who I was, and it gave me a place to belong. Now, I've always had this thing with rhythms.
1:04.5	I remember being young, I would walk down the hallways of my school, and I would tap rhythms to myself
1:08.9	on my leg with my hands or tapping my teeth. It was a nervous habit, and I would tap rhythms to myself on my leg with my hands or tapping my teeth.
1:13.0	It was a nervous habit, and I was always nervous.
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