How to find creativity and purpose in the face of adversity | Suleika Jaouad

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How can you find strength during life's most difficult moments? Author Suleika Jaouad's experience detailed in the documentary "American Symphony," an intimate portrait of her life as she grapples with illness, is a testament to finding a pathway to healing through artistic expression. In this sweeping conversation with TED's Susan Zimmerman, Jaouad reveals how following curiosity can lead to inspiration — even when it feels like there is none to be found. (Visit ted.com/membership to join TED today and access more exclusive events like this one.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	Coming up, it's Oscar's weekend,
0:14.4	and today we've got a special treat.
0:17.2	The writer and activist Suleka Jawad,
0:19.4	whose documentary is nominated for Best Original Song. Jawad is incredibly inspiring. is
0:23.0	incredibly inspiring.
0:25.0	She's known for writing unflinchingly about her creativity and growth
0:29.0	amid super challenging life circumstances.
0:32.0	In her 2024 conversation with Ted's
0:34.0	Susan Zimmerman for a Ted membership event, Jawad shares how a cancer relapse
0:38.9	led to a reckoning with both grief and to new inspiration after a sponsor message.
0:48.0	Welcome, Suleika.
0:50.0	Hi Susan.
0:51.0	I'm gonna dive right in with American Symphony. I would love to first say thank you for sharing your story with us in this gorgeous documentary. Can you share a little bit more how this project came to be?
1:04.0	So the director of American Symphony, Matt Heineman, who is an extraordinarily
1:11.5	brilliant filmmaker
1:13.0	and a dear friend of ours,
1:16.4	says that if you end up with a project that you started with,
1:22.2	you're not doing your job, because you weren't listening along the way and that
1:27.1	proved to be true in ways that we couldn't possibly imagine.
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