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Hello,

Hello there.

This is Chris Anderson. Welcome to the TED interview. So in this series of the

TED interview we're diving into generosity in all its aspects, I've come to believe this is the single most

important idea in the human arsenal because everything else depends on it. It's an idea I wrote a book about called Infectious Generosity.

And in the spirit of Generosity we're offering free copies of both the

ebook and the audiobook to Ted Interview listeners.

You can go to TED.com slash Generosity,

fill out the short form there to claim yours.

Now, Generosity can be expressed in so many different ways, and today we're focusing on one of the most beautiful

enchantment

The gift of enchantment is something that can be offered by an artist, by any musician or

photographer, poet, storyteller, filmmaker, and we're in an age where that gift can be shared online to an unlimited

number of people. Actually I think that fact sometimes blinds us as to how powerful a gift this is.

We're swimming in a sea of free content. We almost don't have time to reflect on the

enchantment it is capable of bringing us.

So I think it will be powerful today to step back from that frenzied online world

and instead meet someone who has devoted her life to spreading enchantment

to numerous communities around the world,

often in the most unlikely places,

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