Hey everyone, you're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hu.

Welcome back to our first podcast playlist of 26.

Today, we have dropped 10 talks from our archive onto the feed all at once to motivate you,

to keep you going when things are hard, to inspire you as the weather shifts,

to help kickstart that new project or idea, or if things are feeling good for you right now,

just to offer a different perspective.

Whatever type of motivation you might need, we have a TED talk for that.

Next up is a hilarious and profound treat from pop culture queen, Bevy Smith.

Our culture loves to celebrate youth, but Bevy blew up her comfortable life while she was

young, which taught her an optimistic lesson.

Things can get better for us later in life.

In her 2022 talk packed with wry wisdom,

she encourages late-blooming by embracing authenticity at any age,

urging people to stop settling and instead excavate their true selves,

shifting from a curated persona to a more vulnerable, messy life.

She shares hard-earned lessons about authenticity, confidence, mature success, shifting from a curated persona to a more vulnerable, messy life.

She shares hard-earned lessons about authenticity, confidence, mature success,

and why, if you put in the work, as she puts it,

life only gets greater later.

Coming up after a break. And now our TED Talk of the Day.

I am a late bloomer.

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