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I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to TED Talks Daily.

Today, a case for prioritizing our own individual

curiosities. In her inspiring talk from the TED 2023 stage, actor and producer Yara Shaheidi shares how she's learned a

superpower we all need right now and how she put it to youth in her own life after

the break.

Do you remember how big break.

Do you remember how big the world felt when we were younger? Because my childhood was filled with time travel and adventures.

I sat in awe of how flowers grew from a simple seed.

I remember looking up at the sky and wondering, was the earth moving, was the sun moving, or was I moving. And I felt the rest of the time by reading books

about fantasy lands, but slowly the time travel and adventures of my youth became using my GPS to figure out how much traffic

I'd inevitably be sitting in. The flowers became the screen saver to my laptop I

spent way too much time on.

I only saw the sunrise when pulling all nighters to get work done.

And those fantasy lands, well, those became essays and articles from underfunded newspapers. And yeah, some of this is just... and

yeah, some of this is just a part of growing up, necessary even.

But I realized the imaginative and creative forces that drove me

had less and less space to thrive in my young adult life.

And in being forced to look at the world as it is, I was missing out on the opportunity

to look at the world as it could be.

Now, more than ever, we live in a world that requires of us

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